The Secret Language of Cells

What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself

By: Jon Lieff MD

Narrated by: George Newbern

Your cells are talking about you.

Right now, both your inner and outer worlds are abuzz with chatter among living cells of every possible kind - from those in your body and brain to those in the environment around you. From electrical alerts to chemical codes, the greatest secret of modern biology, hiding in plain sight, is that all of life’s activity boils down to one thing: conversation.

While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave.

In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer. He explains the surprising science of how very different cells - bacteria and brain cells, blood cells and viruses - all speak the same language. This overarching principle has been long overlooked because scientific journals use impenetrable jargon that makes it hard to be understood across disciplines, much less by the general public.

Lieff presents a fascinating and accessible look into cellular communication science - a groundbreaking and comprehensive exploration of this biological phenomenon. In these pages, discover the intriguing lives of cells as they ask questions, get answers, give feedback, gather information, call for each other, and make complex decisions. During infections, immune T-cells tell brain cells that we should “feel sick” and lie down. Cancer cells warn their community about immune and microbe attacks. Gut cells talk with microbes to determine which are friends and which are enemies, and microbes talk with each other and with much more complicated human cells in ways that determine which medicines work and which will fail.

With applications for immunity, chronic pain, weight loss, depression, cancer treatment, and virtually every aspect of health and biology, cellular communication is revolutionizing our understanding not just of disease, but of life itself. The Secret Language of Cells is required listening for anyone interested in following the conversation.

©2020 Jon Lieff. Published by arrangement with BenBella Books. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Absolutely mind-blowing insights

Wonderful discussion on a level never before imagined. A real key go understanding biology and life itself. Thank you!!

Secret Language of Cells

Fascinating and interestingand. Well narrated, and also easy to understand. I would recommend it to

Detailed but very understandable.

Great book, am going to purchase a hard copy for my library. I am going to start exploring some of the references. Completely updated my information held in biology and neuroscience. Very well written!

Slipstream narration, all signal, no noise.

Chemicals enter through the Neural pore via microbes. Platelets and everything else communicate and create just about anything we need.

New great science for the info audicted.

Good 'go back' chapters, info subject hubs.

Excellent

This is packed full of really interesting facts. Your cells talk more than you ever will, and the close cooperation and communication between them -- even when the cells are from different species and forms of life! -- is astounding. Narration is perfect, with a conversational tone that was easy and enjoyable to receive particularly with so many facts one after the other. Thankfully little jargon and molecular labeling.