If I were the head of budget or funding for a large corportaion in charge of fund distribution I would focus on a few important areas of research that I think would be most beneficial. My first area of research would be microbial influence on young children, and the best way to expose them to healthy microbes. Since children get most of the microbes before they are 3 years old it is extremely important for parents to know how to best set up their child. Not exposing your child can affect their whole life so I would like to figure out how to best set up children and give them healthy and diverse microbes. The second project I would like to focus on would be how microbes affect diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. I think brain degenerative diseases are some of the worst diseases you can get and there is no cure. I would hope that in researching this, we could come up with certain diet, behaviors, or something else to decrease the risk of the disease.
