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A Silent Fire
- The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
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Hidden inflammation lies behind many modern diseases. Shilpa Ravella, an expert in nutrition and the gut, explains why our immune systems are turning against us and what we might do about it.
'Controlling Inflammation is the key to good health and this beautifully written and researched book is the best way to understand it' TIM SPECTOR, #1 bestselling author of Food for Life
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Inflammation is the body's response to injury and foreign microbes. But as our environments and diets have changed, low-level inflammation, simmering quietly and undetected, has been identified behind everything from heart disease and cancer to mysterious autoimmune conditions.
Shilpa Ravella is a doctor at the forefront of this field, specialising in gut transplants, nutrition and the microbiome. In A Silent Fire she interweaves the latest research with unusual case studies from her own practice to explain what we know about this elusive phenomenon and the simple ways in which we can reform our relationship with food and our microbiomes to benefit our health.
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'As gripping as a mystery story and as useful as a self-help book' BEE WILSON, author of First Bite
'Compelling, thoughtful and rigorously researched' The Times
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- Bradly
- 16-03-23
A deep dive into inflammation
A Silent Fire takes a deep dive into the history of inflammation up to that of present-day understanding.
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- Jeremy Bee
- 05-01-24
Scattered and badly read
There's some interesting information but the book lacks focus or coherence, jumping between scientific discussions, potted biography, and rather weak philosophical and sociological commentary. Ultraprocessed people covers much of the same ground in a much more focused manner.
The reading is one of the worst audible performances I've heard. It's completely mechanical, not even pausing to signal paragraph endings, much less inflecting or stressing sentences in any sort of plausible way. This highlights the book's lack of coherence and makes it even more difficult to follow the threads of what arguments there are, As another reviewer suggests, it really does sound like it's been AI generated.
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- Maria
- 10-02-23
Fascinating topic tediously executed
I had to give up even though the topic of inflammation fascinates me. A boring book read by a robot. The bot delivery means emphasis is often put on the wrong words rendering the phrase confusing or meaningless. And I don't understand why authors include long, dull passages about the history of hospital buildings or medical people from the past when they're only fleetingly relevant.
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