An industrialized lifestyle, including antibiotic use, may lead to a deteriorated gut microbiome, driving inflammatory diseases.

“And so we started to think a lot about like how can we get out in front of this? How can we think about like preventative ways of dealing with this crisis of metabolic and inflammatory diseases? And this tremendous beautiful body of literature started to come forward in the field that showed that the gut microbiome is absolutely critical to modulating our immune status.”