{"product_id":"your-body-is-mostly-strangers-the-microbes-living-inside-you-outnumber-your-own-cells-they-have-opinions-about-your-mood-9798253780794","title":"Your Body Is Mostly Strangers: The microbes living inside you outnumber your own cells. They have opinions about your mood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nora Veltman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Sciences - Microbiology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are not alone in there. You never have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe human body contains roughly as many microbial cells as human ones. Your gut alone houses approximately thirty-eight trillion bacteria, performing work your own biology cannot do without them. The skin on your hands carries a microbial community as unique as a fingerprint. Eight percent of your genome was put there by ancient viruses. The protein that makes mammalian pregnancy possible was originally a tool a retrovirus used to invade cells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Body Is Mostly Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the microbiome told not as a health problem to be solved, but as one of the most extraordinary relationships in the natural world. Part evolutionary history, part cellular biology, part genuine philosophical inquiry, it is a book for anyone who has ever suspected that the universe is stranger than it first appears and wanted to look more carefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in the gut and moves outward: through the skin and its quietly teeming ecosystems, through the two-way conversation between the intestines and the brain that turns out to run mostly in the direction you would not predict, through the ancient viral sequences woven into the genome, through the immune system's lifelong negotiation with the trillions of organisms it has learned to accommodate rather than destroy. It follows the microbiome across a human life, from the first microbial encounters of the minutes after birth through the decades of shared living that gradually, invisibly, make the people who love each other more biologically alike. It ends by asking a question that the science has raised and not yet answered: if so much of what you are is not strictly human, what exactly is the self that all of this is happening to?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with warmth, precision, and a persistent refusal to pretend that any of this is simple, \u003ci\u003eYour Body Is Mostly Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is science for readers who find the textbooks alienating and the headlines insufficient. No formulas. No protocols. No exam at the end. Just the genuine, slightly vertiginous pleasure of understanding something true and strange about the body you have been living in your whole life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience without the anxiety. Wonder without the exam.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775554076823,"sku":"9798253780794","price":1034.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798253780794.webp?v=1777991086","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/your-body-is-mostly-strangers-the-microbes-living-inside-you-outnumber-your-own-cells-they-have-opinions-about-your-mood-9798253780794","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}