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GUT FEELINGS - ALESSIO FASANO SUSIE FLAHERTY KA...

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. 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. These microbial hitchhikers may hold the keys to human
health. 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 the molecular imprint of an individual. Fasano and Flaherty
explore the microbiome's part in such diseases as gut inflammatory disorders  obesity 
neurological conditions  and cancer  and they explain new research in prebiotics  probiotics 
synbiotics  and psychobiotics. They also discuss the microbiome and immune function  including
a possible role in COVID-19 treatment. By simultaneously expanding our perspective to encompass
large datasets and multiple factors in human health  and narrowing our focus to identify the
individual communities in the human microbiome  we will enlarge—and perhaps reinvent—our
understanding of how to combat disease and maintain health.

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