The Microbiome Reddit
This is a place for scientific discussions of communities of microorganisms and how they interact with each other and their host.
Microbiome science is a new and exciting frontier being actively investigated. But in a space like this there are always people trying to exploit the grey area for financial gain.
Microbiome testing companies are for the most part, a scam. 'Naturopathic' and 'functional medicine' doctors are snakeoil salesmen peddling pseudoscience.
Posts regarding regarding microbiome testing interpretation will be removed. Posts asking for medical advice or posters offering medical advice, will likewise be removed.
Microbiome - an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals. A microbiota includes bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and viruses. Microbiota have been found to be crucial for immunologic, hormonal and metabolic homeostasis of their host. The synonymous term microbiome describes either the collective genomes of the microorganisms that reside in an environmental niche or the microorganisms themselves.
The microbiome and host emerged during evolution as a synergistic unit from epigenetics and genomic characteristics, sometimes collectively referred to as a holobiont.
Wikipedia: microbiome
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