Overview
- Uses current gut microbe research to give readers a different view on nutrition and human health
- Gives context to the recent explosion of “microbiome”-related information
- Compiles the most important information from this vast field, in a way that every interested reader will understand
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Given the at times confusing new information concerning the human microbiome released over the last few years, this book seeks to put the research field into perspective for non-specialists. Addressing a timely topic, it breaks down recent research developments in a way that everyone with a scientific background can understand.
The book discusses why microorganisms are vital to our lives and how our nutrition influences the interaction with our own gut bacteria. In turn, it goes into more detail on how microbial communities are organised and why they are able to survive in the unique environment of our intestines. Readers will also learn about how their personal microbial profile is as unique as their fingerprint, and how it can be affected by a healthy or unhealthy lifestyle.
Thanks to the open and easy-to-follow language used, the book offers an overview for all readers with a basic understanding of biology, and sheds new light on this fascinating and importantpart of our bodies.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Harry Flint obtained his BSc and PhD in Genetics from the University of Edinburgh and subsequently held lectureships at the Universities of Nottingham and the West Indies. Following a fellowship in molecular biology at Edinburgh, Harry joined the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen in 1985 with the goal of applying these approaches to the microbiology of the ruminant gut. More recently, his research has focused increasingly on the human intestinal microbiota and their role in health and disease, in particular the impact of dietary fibres on our gut microbial community and its metabolic products. Harry is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen and is the author of more than 250 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters. He is happily married and has three grown-up children.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Why Gut Microbes Matter
Book Subtitle: Understanding Our Microbiome
Authors: Harry J. Flint
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43246-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43245-4Published: 19 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43248-5Published: 19 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43246-1Published: 18 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 163
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Food Microbiology, Human Physiology, Popular Life Sciences