Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs

Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World Jessica Snyder Sachs ebook
ISBN: 9781429923293
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 304
Format: pdf

€But,” says Wackett, “in fact there are only a handful of disease-causing bacteria as compared to millions that do good in the environment. Now, new science tells us we should embrace bacteria. €We use five trillion cubic feet of gas in the process that makes fertilizers world-wide,” explains Larry Wackett, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota's Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. You know you want to!) This week, I finished the book Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs. €Without it Bacteria, meet silica sponge. 27th, 2008 at 5:31 PM She reaches well back into the 19th century, and around the world (and not just to other English speaking nations, either) to describe in detail how we have learned about and interacted (consciously) with the microbial world (it says bacterial and that's the focus, but virii and phages and so forth are also covered). Good Germs Protect Us From Bad Germs: The good germs that live in and on us protect us from the bad germs, similarly to the way good plants in a garden help prevent weeds from growing. However, this distorts our understanding of this relationship and helps promote some of the very ideas that foster beliefs that deny the germ theory altogether. Prevents illness and increases our chance of survival (think of cooking food to decrease the chances of food poisoning from harmful bacteria), but the idea that microbes, bacteria, and germs can also be good for us has only recently begun gaining momentum. Mention bacteria, and most people think of germs and disease. Any part of your body that comes into contact with the outside world—your skin, mouth, nose and (especially) digestive tract—is home to bacteria, fungi and protozoa that outnumber the cells you call your own by 10, or perhaps a hundred, to one. _Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World_, Jessica Snyder Sachs. Corrie Moreau, an Assistant Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, studies the evolution and diversification of ants (as well as the special relationships they have with gut bacteria).