Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health Fasano Alessio
Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health Fasano Alessio Why the microbiome--our rich inner ecosystem of microorganisms--may hold the keys to human health.We are at the dawn of a new scientific…
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Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health Fasano Alessio
Why the microbiome--our rich inner ecosystem of microorganisms--may hold the keys to human health.We are at the dawn of a new scientific revolution. These microbial hitchhikers may hold the keys to human health. Our understanding of how to treat and prevent diseases has been transformed by knowledge of the microbiome--the rich ecosystem of microorganisms in and on every human.
In Gut Feelings, Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty show why we must go beyond the older, myopic view of microorganisms as our enemies to a broader understanding of the microbiome as a parallel civilization that we need to understand, respect, and engage with for the benefit of our own health.Recent advances in understanding the microbiome and its role in human health dovetail with the development of personalized or "precision" medicine to create treatments and prevention programs targeted to