If I was the head of funding agency, I would be most interesting in funding the research that more related to increasing public health as whole in the population. One of the most interesting I had read in the class is the research from Martin J. and Blaser and Stanley, “What are the consequences of the disappearing human microbiota?”. In this research they state that without the microorganism in our body, the possibility of obesity and asthma will increase. Nowaday, we have been over protecting ourselves from germ and bacteria that actually lowering the diversity of our microbes community, also our immune system. In the conclusion, they announce that, they would intersting in distinguish the different between pathogens and amphibians with the microbes in our body, to provide a better prevention and treatment on disease and public health education.
Writing Exercise #14
- Brain cancers
- heart disease
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Skin diseases
- Celiac disease
- Cystic fibrosis
Comparing to the writing exercise #1, there are more non-indirections disease that I can list out, and what I take away from this course is that even though the disease I listed is not infection disease, some of the disease might still be affected by the microbes activity in our body. For example, if you have a wealthy diverse microbial community on our skin, it actually could increase the ability of our immune system and decrease the possibility of cancer development.