The Critical Role of Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease

A few years ago, I was writing about how manipulation of the gut microbiome may likely alter (in a very good way) the course of many diseases associated with gut dysbiosis.

Dysbiosis is when the gut bacteria become unbalanced toward more pathogenic disease-promoting bacteria generally seen in sick people with a disease. This would include a rather lengthy list of ailments.

At the time, I concluded that the easiest, fastest, least expensive, and simplest way to prove or disprove this idea was to use a Fecal Microbiota Transplantation ("FMT") on people who have a disease that is well noted for having gut dysbiosis, such as Parkinson's disease.

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