What Does Healthy Microbiome Development Look Like? State of the Art and Beyond
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The three concepts expressed in the title – “health,” “microbiome,” and development” – are critical to how we shape the future with nutrition. Health describes how individuals survive, feel, function, and develop; the microbiome describes the ecosystem of micro-organisms in a specific environment, here the human gut; and development trajectory describes the rate of change from the past to the future. In early life nutrition, we predicate our actions on the principle that what we do now brings future benefits. This review will describe the current state of our knowledge on how early life microbiome development can influence health, how nutrition might play a role, and on-going work to bring new insight in the years to come.
