The Microbiome: How our Inner Ecosystem Controls the Immune System and Prevents Inflammation

This book unravels in an easily understandable way the exciting molecular connections between our gut microbiome, i.e. the collective microorganisms that we carry in our digestive system, nutrition and the immune system, and how an imbalance can lead to the development of inflammatory diseases. The totality of these gut microorganisms forms a complex ecosystem within us, consisting of hundreds of different species of bacteria.

The author, microbiologist Professor Richard Lucius, introduces...