Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden (18 Jun 2012)

For a century, doctors have waged war against bacteria, using antibiotics as their weapons. But that relationship is changing as scientists become more familiar with the 100 trillion microbes that call us home.

Perhaps the doctors of the future will become "Medical Ecologists", seeking to manage our microbial wildlife but, for the time being, this is still a fringe interest of a minority of scientists.

Fortunately, however, those "citizen scientists" who wish to improve their health TODAY already have access to a very wide range of proprietary probiotics, many of which can provide benefits to health right now.

We can also already obtain that particularly beneficial microorganism, the helminth, and use this to treat our autoimmune, inflammatory and allergic conditions.

Helminthic Therapy | Gut Buddies

And we already have access to perhaps the best probiotic of all - the faeces of a healthy donor, which can easily be transplanted into a less-healthy gut with often spectacular results.

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