Toxic Microbiome

The gut microbiome is a community of microbes that is always changing, and its makeup differs from one population to another and over the course of a person's life. In Western societies, a harmful change in the metabolic activity of gut microbes is thought to drive many noncommunicable chronic diseases, and it is often underestimated as a risk factor.

The book sets out to pinpoint the root cause of these damaging microbial changes. It links them to a rise in the consumption of animal products over recent decades, a trend that has coincided with and correlates with global climate change.