Good Sh*t

Our microbiome - the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes inside us - is critically important to our health and wellbeing. It is gifted to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods and appetites, determines how fast we run and even affects who we choose as a partner.

In this ground-breaking book, surgeon and expert on the microbiome, James Kinross, takes us on a guided tour of our extraordinary inner universe, showing how our relationship with microbes may hold the key to why we are increasingly succumbing to diseases and conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's, autoimmune conditions and allergies. He highlights how hyperglobalization and our addiction to antibiotics has transformed our internal ecosystems and why this matters so much to our future health and happiness.

Drawing on cutting-edge research and years of clinical experience, Kinross shows how to optimize the microbiome to protect your health, boost your immunity and safeguard your mental wellbeing. We are now experiencing an internal climate crisis - Dark Matter reveals that if we work with, not against, our microbes, we can live better, healthier lives.

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'A spellbinding story
of microbiology
that will help you get to
the bottom of
health and happiness'

JOHN VINCENT, Founder of Leon

'A fountain of
knowledge and sense'

RHIANNON LAMBERT
Registered Nutritionist and
Sunday Times Bestselling Author

'Totally addictive
and illuminating '

DR. SALIHA MAHMOOD AHMED
Gastroenterologist and
bestselling author of The Kitchen Presciption

About the Author

Dr. JAMES KINROSS, PhD, FRCS

Dr. Kinross is a senior lecturer in surgery at Imperial College in London.

He is also a practicing colorectal surgeon in the NHS with a clinical interest in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. He leads a team of amazing researchers working to better define how the microbiome causes cancer and other chronic diseases of the gut.

He is increasingly interested in how the gut microbiome develops in newborn babies and the implications on our long-term health.

DARK MATTER is his first book, and he is incredibly excited to introduce the growing world of good shit.

DARK MATTER:
The New Science of The Microbiome
by
Dr. JAMES KINROSS

To join the Community

'A spellbinding story
of microbiology
that will help you get to
the bottom of
health and happiness'

'A fountain of
knowledge and sense'

'Totally addictive
and illuminating '

The Guardian Article

“Ready for your crapsule? Faecal transplants could play a huge role in future medicine”

BBC Interview

“Allergies and the Microbiome”

DARK MATTER: The New Science of The Microbiome by Dr. JAMES KINROSS

To join the Community

'A spellbinding story of microbiology that will help you get to the bottom of health and happiness'

'A fountain of knowledge and sense'

'Totally addictive and illuminating '

The Guardian Article

“Ready for your crapsule? Faecal transplants could play a huge role in future medicine”

BBC Interview

“Allergies and the Microbiome”

DARK MATTER:
The New Science of The Microbiome
by
Dr. JAMES KINROSS

'A spellbinding story
of microbiology
that will help you get to
the bottom of
health and happiness'

'A fountain of
knowledge and sense'

'Totally addictive
and illuminating '