- What is a microbiome?
Your microbiome is a collection of microbes (microscopic organisms) that live in groups in your body. They specifically inhabit a human’s skin, nose, mouth, digestive tract and vagina.
- What do microbiomes do?
Human microbiomes play an integral role in health. There is a lot of research underway currently to explore the roles that microbiomes play in not only gut health, but mood, anxiety, the immune system, digestion, protection against some cancers and more.
- What is microbiome’s role in disease prevention?
This expanding body of knowledge on the role of microbiomes is revealing that a healthy microbiome in an individual is related to decreased incidence of diabetes, obesity and other diseases.
- Factors that negatively impact a person’s microbiome:
- C-section birth
- Antibiotic use
- Stress
- Surgery
- Illness
- Trauma
If you are interested in learning more about microbiomes, how they affect you and your families health, and how to improve the health of your gut microbiome please join us for a seminar at Highlands Health and Wellness July 8th at 9 am on microbiomes. To learn more about the upcoming class, click here
We also offer testing at our clinic that evaluates your gut health in detail and helps us come up with a treatment and wellness plan together.