Some choices that I personally make about my consumption of food/nutrition/product that may impact my microbial communities is that I try to make intentional choices by eating things like fiber that improve gut health overall as well as eating things like yogurt that have been shown to increase gut biome diversity. An unintentional choice that… Continue reading Writing Exercise #5

(1) In his Harrington Prize Essay entitled “HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer and other HPV-associated disease: from basic science to effective interventions” (2016), Douglas R. Lowy discusses the development of the HPV vaccines and the efficacy and mechanism of action of virus like particles (VLPs) in these vaccines. (2) Lowy provides evidence that HPV… Continue reading Writing Exercise #4

Three behaviors that could impact gut microbiome could be: Diet: changing diet to increase healthy microbes in the gut has no negative effects, unless it conflicts with another eating restriction (i.e. eating yogurt helps increase beneficial microflora, but someone who is lactose intolerant or vegan cannot eat yogurt). Medication use: Antibiotics decrease gut microflora, but… Continue reading Writing Exercise #3

Due to the relatively high-risk nature of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) types 35, 39, 51 and 59, effort should be focused on creating treatment for those. The HPV vaccine that is currently distributed in the USA immunizes against HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58 (CDC). This vaccine is useful… Continue reading Writing Exercise #2

A few diseases that I know that are impacted by microbes are: some forms of cancer, asthma, and bowel disease. These diseases are not directly caused by our microbiome, but they are impacted by it.

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