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Well, it's literally seen as a medical revolution. "There is increasing evidence that the microbiome and its output (our interactome) touch many, if not most,
by woodchuck64 10y ago
Well, it's literally seen as a medical revolution.
"There is increasing evidence that the microbiome and its output (our interactome) touch many, if not most, pathways that affect health, disease, and aging. It is reasonable to propose that the composition of the microbiome and its activities are involved in most, if not all, of the biological processes that constitute human health and disease, as we proceed through our own life cycle"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191014/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191014/
- refurb 10y agoDon't get too ahead of yourself. Sure we have a lot of evidence that your microbiome is important in things like C. difficile infection, but I've only seen very tenuous evidence supporting any impact on things like aging. Not to say it might be discovered in the future. But it also stands a good chance of being a dead end.
- woodchuck64 10y ago> Don't get too ahead of yourself. That quote about aging is from Blaser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser