Celiac disease, Diabetes, Asthma, Cirrhosis, Alzheimer’s, obesity, Rheumatoid Arthritis, cystic fibrosis, gastric cancer, alongside many other auto immune diseases.

Reflecting back to my initial post, I think I was somewhat on the right path with the ideas that I had but was not for certain, now with more understanding microbes play a much larger impact on disease than I initially thought. Initially I thought that a disease might have been caused directly by the influence of a microbe but its much more complex than that, a microbe can play a crucial role in disease development with more than just direct impact as I learned while doing research on both celiac disease and diabetes. I think some of the most important topics that I will take away from this class are those associated with dietary changes, such as the Mediterranean diet, and especially learning that bacteria can impact weight gain, as the gut microbiota in a household would be around the same meaning that one person who is dieting could be impacted by the others who are not.