Influencing the microbiome

Since the microbiome has been linked to so many different diseases and health outcomes, the next logical step is to identify how we can change the microbiome to prevent or cure these diseases.
So how can we change the gut microbiome? There are 2 ways: either you feed certain nutrients to the gut to promote growth of beneficial microbes, or you introduce new microbes to the gut. The first one can be done with diet or prebiotics, the second one can be accomplished with a fecal microbiota transplant or with probiotics. In the articles below we will discuss how these interventions work, and if they actually do work.

                                                                                                                                          By Pepijn Gossink