Your Microbiome And You: What Clinicians Need to Know

Your Microbiome And You:  What Clinicians Need To Know by Scott Peterson, PhD.   Medscape.  December 20, 2013.

An excellent and brief presentation of the microbiome.

(1)  What is meant by referring to humans as a metaorgnism?

(2)  What are the aims and limitations of the Human Microbiome Project?

(3)  What are some of the direct effects of disruptions of the homeostasis between humans and their microbiotal counterparts?  Indirect effects?

(4)  What are two key practical questions raised by research on the microbiome?

(5)  What are some of the harmful gut impacts of fructose?

(6)  The link between the microbiome, obesity, and diabetes is thought to be related to ____________________.

(7)  The interplay between _____________________ opens a wholly new avenue of research into oncogenesis.

(8)  What is TMAO and how can it promote heart disease?

(9)  Infectious disease can be conceived of as an extreme___________________ between microbe and human.

(10)  Pharmacomicrobiomics examines how ______________________ affect _______________.

(11)  How can imbalance in microbiota lead to skin disorders?

(12)  How is a link between genetics and alterations in the microbiome perhaps related to ankylosing spondylitis?

(13)  How does gut microbial species perhaps lead to imparied memory and increased anxiety-like behaviors?

(14)  What are three needed areas of future research?