The Gut Microbiome in Sickness and In Health
Arturo B. Rotor Memorial Lecture, 23rd PSAAI Annual Convention
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Hippocrates, who is considered as the father of medicine said, “All disease begins in the gut.” In the absence of the modern microscope in his lifetime, one would wonder if he was thinking about the bacterial milieu in our gut when he wrote this quote.
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