The author of this book, James Kinross, is a reader in colorectal surgery and consultant surgeon working at St. Mary’s Hospital campus of Imperial College London. His prime clinical focus is on minimally invasive colorectal cancer surgery, an interest that led his group to investigate the involvement of the gut microbiome.
We are all starborn in the fundamental sense that all our atoms heavier than hydrogen were produced in stars that exploded many billions of years ago and scattered their ashes, thereby seeding new stellar systems and planets like ours.