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    Personal Science Guide to the Microbiome

    free online book on personal microbiome experimentation by Richard Sprague

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    Personal Science Guide to the Microbiome is a free online book on human microbiome biohacking and tracking written by citizen scientist Richard Sprague. It details the results of the author's 600 daily microbiome sequencing tests and their relationship with diet, sleep, travel, and more.

    Content

    • Intro
    • 1 What is Personal Science?
    • 2 The Science of the Microbiome
      • 2.1 Microbes everywhere
      • 2.2 Microbes and you
      • 2.3 Microbes and health
      • 2.4 Obesity
      • 2.5 Microbe technology
    • 3 My Experiments
      • 3.1 Summary of My Experiments
      • 3.2 Kefir and the Microbiome
      • 3.3 Traveling to China
      • 3.4 Exercise and the microbiome**
      • 3.5 Do Probiotics Work?
      • 3.6 Experiment: Gut Cleanse*
      • 3.7 Kombucha
      • 3.8 Hacking my sleep
      • 3.9 Other foods and my microbiome
      • 3.10 Diet Change
      • 3.11 Collection methods
      • 3.12 My Skin Microbiome*
      • 3.13 My Oral Microbiome*
      • 3.14 My Nose Microbiome
      • 3.15 Are my Dialister levels normal?
      • 3.16 Omega-3 and the microbiome**
      • 3.17 Soylent
      • 3.18 Conclusions
    • 4 Case Studies
      • 4.1 Healthy People
      • 4.2 Family members
      • 4.3 Alzheimers and the microbiome
      • 4.4 Colorectal Cancer
      • 4.5 Ketogenic Diet
      • 4.6 Parkinson’s Disease and the Microbiome
      • 4.7 Lyme Disease
      • 4.8 Gut Issues
    • 5 Getting Started
      • 5.1 Raw data for your microbiome
    • 6 Using Personalscience.com
    • 7 Microbes to Watch
      • 7.1 Phylum
      • 7.2 Genus
      • 7.3 Species
    • 8 Go Further*
      • 8.1 Microbes and genes
      • 8.2 Beyond Bacteria
      • 8.3 Fermented Food
      • 8.4 Annotated References
      • 8.5 My favorite books about the microbiome
      • 8.6 Best Academic Papers
      • 8.7 Other Resources
      • 8.8 Coming Soon
    • 9 Appendix
      • 9.1 Gut Microbiome
      • 9.2 Healthy ranges
      • 9.3 Mouth Microbiome
      • 9.4 Skin Microbiome
      • 9.5 Nose Microbiome
      • 9.6 Lab Tests Compared
    • References
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    Nathan Cheng

    Nathan Cheng is the founder of Biohack Stack -- an online community dedicated to exploring ways to hack human biology. Follow my radical longevity journey on Twitter @realnathancheng

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