Microorganisms in your gastrointestinal tract play an integral part in your health, affecting everything from body weight and nutrition, to chronic diseases of all kinds.

What is Microbiome?

The microbiome is a complete, dynamic, ever-changing ecology, with genetic variations according to which niche in the body is being populated. On the skin alone each bodily area has a differing local microbiome.

Though some may not realize it, human cells are currently thought to be outnumbered 10 to one by microorganisms that share space with the human body.

Although it only weighs 1-3% of our body weight, the microbiome contains a vast number of cells.

By some estimates the body has between 35 and 100 trillion cells with only 1 in 10 belonging to tissues and organs and the rest belonging to the microbiome.

Some of the most archaic microorganisms on Earth survive today in our microbiome.

The microbiome has a major impact on every person's state of disease and wellness.

The mode of delivery affects the infant's microbial profile. This is one argument for having a vaginal birth, opposed to a C-section, as your baby is “seeded” with microbes as it goes through the birth canal.

Children raised in microbially rich environments—with pets, on farms, or attending day care—are at lower risk of allergic diseases.

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The Path to Vibrant Health is a Healthy Inner Ecosystem: A world of bacteria living in our bodies can make or break our health.

Called one of the top scientific discoveries of the 21st century, the human microbiome—the collection of microorganisms living in and on our bodies—is as important to human health as the human genome.

Your #gut flora plays a large part in defending your body against disease. The most powerful way to increase the good bacteria in your gut is to eat more fermented foods, raw, #organic, grass-fed yogurt and kefir.

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What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? The human body has more microbial than human cells, but this rich diversity of micro-helpers that has evolved along with us is undergoing a rapid shift--one that may have very macro health consequences

Anxious mice calm down when they get an infusion of gut microbes from mellow mice. That has scientists wondering if gut microbes play a role in the human brain, too.

Research on that is only just beginning. But it's intriguing to think there could be a real truth to the phrase "gut feelings."

New Study Shows How Gut Bacteria Affect How You See the World.

1. Mouth

Calcified dental plaque from ancient skulls tell us that mouth microbes became less diverse as we switched from varied hunter-gatherer diets to carb-heavy agricultural ones—and the bugs that thrive on all this sugar cause gum disease and cavities. Mouthwash, which wipes out beneficial and halitosis-causing bugs alike, could do more harm than good.

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2. Gut

Most of the human microbiota lives in the warm, moist confines of the gut. These gut microbes do everything from digesting otherwise indigestible fibers to guiding the development of the immune system to altering your metabolism.

In fact, changes in gut bacteria can disrupt the hormones, such as insulin, that regulate appetite and energy.

A healthy, balanced gut community is vital, which is why fecal transplants, as gross as they might sound, are all the rage in certain medical circles.

The influx of microbes from a healthy person's feces can cure antibiotic-resistant C. difficile and possibly even reset obesity-associated metabolic problems.

If other people's poop grosses you out, then one Belgian biologist suggests healthy people freeze their own poopsicle for future use.

3. Vagina

In the birth canal babies encounter their very first bacteria, one of which is Lactobacillus johnsonii.

This milk-digesting microbe, only common in women's vaginas when they are pregnant, likely enables babies to metabolize breast milk. Missing L. johnsonii and other vaginal bacteria is linked to a whole host of health problems for babies born C-section, including susceptibility to skin infections, allergies, and asthma.

4. Skin

The surface of the skin is teeming with bacteria, all duking it out for the privilege of living on you. Some bacteria bring weapons to the fight; Staphylococcus epidermidis, for instance, makes anti-microbials that keep harmful critters at bay. It also interacts with the immune system to heal wounds. Hand sanitizer, which is used to kill nastier skin microbes like the infamous staph infection-causing Staphyloccus aureus, wipes out benign and friendly bacteria too.

5. Lungs

A trio of bacteria in babies' respiratory systems is associated with higher rates of asthma later in life. Another study suggested that Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that causes ulcers in the gut, may actually protect against asthma in children by suppressing inflammation.

6. Brain

The brain/gut biome feedback loop isn't just about hunger and energy regulation hormones.

Bacteria may affect neurotransmitters too: Germ-free mice have higher brain levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is often discussed in the context of depression. Indeed, it's thought that 95 percent of all the body's serotonin is made in the gut

Our personal human genome also determines the composition of our microbiome, which in turn can influence metabolism and propensity for weight gain.

This varying ecosystem isn't populated by foreign invaders and pathogens but by colonies closely connected to human evolution.

The microbiome interfaces between the human body and the outside world in complex ways, but the gist is that human DNA has evolved in cooperation with microbial DNA. This fact is more important than the interactions that cause diseases created by invading bacteria and viruses.

The organelles in our cells that provide energy like a battery, called mitochondria, were once bacteria inhabiting our cells and were adapted for use by them. Mitochondria actually have their own genomes inherited from the mother without change.

The Human Microbiome Project has published an analysis of 178 genomes from microbes that live in or on the human body. The researchers discovered novel genes and proteins that serve functions in human health and disease, adding a new level of understanding to what is known about the complexity and diversity of these organisms.

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