The theory of disappearing microbiota and the epidemics of chronic diseases

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 461 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.77 Author: Martin J. Blaser In recent decades, the incidence of many apparently unrelated chronic diseases has markedly increased. Here, I theorize that losses of particular bacterial species of our ancestral microbiota have altered the context in which immunological, metabolic and cognitive development occur in early life, which results in
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