What does healthy microbiome development look like? Giles Major

The three concepts critical to how the future of nutrition is shaped include health, microbiome, and development. Health is how individuals, survive, feel, function, and develop. The microbiome describes an ecosystem of microorganisms in a specific environment and development implies progress from the past at an ideal rate. It has been postulated that early life microbiome can influence overall health and that there is a preferred rate of development of the microbiome or a healthy trajectory. Various cohorts around the world are attempting to collect the necessary data to identify associations between nutrition, trajectory of microbiome maturation and relevant markers of health such as growth or infectious events. Hence the importance of promoting practices that can help build and keep the microbiome in good shape.