My list: Heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, obesity, IBS, other GI diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, oral disease which leads to other issues, Crohn’s disease, some mental illnesses.
I was able to list more diseases than in the first week of the course. I never realized how much the gut microbiome community can affect one’s overall health. For me personally, I found that the IBS and oral health were the most interesting for me. As a pre-dental student, of course it’s interesting to me to see how oral health can affect the whole body. Most people don’t realize how important it is to have good oral hygiene. The IBS and fecal transplant therapy relationship was just an interesting topic in general. Who would’ve thought that you could just add good bacteria and that could solve a lot of problems that antibiotics couldn’t do in the long run.
