And while she is an obvious proponent of skin probiotics — having founded a product line and working to
advance skin microbiome research with her company's parter AOBiome — this is a pretty exciting area of study, since uncovering the precise benefits of our skin bacteria will help us understand what might be happening when these same bacteria become unbalanced (think skin disease).
By better understanding a person's
microbiome (gut, oral,
skin, lung, and other body sites), the company anticipates developing improved probiotics and other
advanced diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to improve health and wellness.