The Great Gut-Microbiome & our Health
The Great Gut-Microbiome & our Health “All diseases begin in the gut.” ‐ Hippocrates Hippocrates said ,"Death sits in the bowels and bad digestion is the root of all evil." in 400 B.C. showing the importance of intenstine in human health, which seems to be ignored in modern medicine. However, there has been recently considerable increase in studies of effect of commensal microbes in human gut (stomach to intenstine). The term Gut-microbioata refers to total number of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, viruses etc but majority of tham are bacteria. Sometimes the microbiome and microbiota are used interchangeably, these two terms have subtle differences. The microbiome , refers to the collection of genomes from all the microorganisms in the environment. Microbiota , on the other hand, usually refers to specific microorganis...