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The Prolongation of Life

by Elie Metchnikoff

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Élie Metchnikoff won the Nobel Prize for discovering phagocytes, then turned to ageing itself. The Prolongation of Life argues that senility is a disease of intestinal putrefaction — and proposes the lactic-acid bacteria that made him the father of the probiotic idea.

Brilliant, eccentric and enormously influential. Download the free EPUB.

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