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ou would expect an endocrinologist to focus on hormones, and Dr Max Nieuwdorp’s book is indeed called The Power of Hormones — but some of its content is unexpected. We learn that he performed the first faecal transplant in the Netherlands, dissolving the main ingredient in a food mixer. The influx of gut bacteria, donated by the patient’s son and delivered via colonoscopy, vanquished her infection of Clostridium difficile, a nasty bug that had caused chronic diarrhoea.
This anecdote is not a diversion. The book’s subtitle is The new science of how hormones shape every aspect of our lives — everything is connected. (Nieuwdorp also discovered that a change to our gut microbiota composition can increase insulin sensitivity. The gut is not just about
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