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“Around 75 per cent of the wet weight of faeces is bacteria; plant fibre makes up about 17 per cent.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“A twin study revealed that when physical activity was conducted outdoors it resulted in significantly lower rates of depression than when exercise occurred indoors.”
― Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind

“Far from each person harbouring a replicate set of microbes, very few strains of bacteria are common to everyone. Each of us contains communities of microbes as unique as our fingerprints.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“Regular exercise is associated with greater hippocampal and overall brain volume. Since the brain naturally starts to shrink by 1–2 per cent per year starting around the age of 40, regular exercise can, in effect, reverse brain ageing. For the moment, exercise is the closest thing we have to the fountain of eternal youth.”
― Kimberley Wilson, How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain