With my patients, I often discuss diet and food sensitivities, investigating gut
microbial diversity, evaluating adrenal function and stress response and testing for
exposure to
environmental toxins.
«The remarkable changes in home
microbial content across differing levels of urbanization raise the possibility that the reduced
microbial exposure to
environmental bacteria seen in modern homes contributes to immune and metabolic disorders, from asthma to obesity, which have become the new disease paradigm in the industrialized world,» adds Dominguez - Bello, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone.