Microbial ecology in health and disease
The content of this article, although not easy to read, is of fundamental importance as it explains in detail the mechanisms by which the microbiota determines states of health or disease. As already mentioned, the article is not easy to understand but its real intent is to make people understand what the microbiota can do and not exactly how it does it.
Figure 1
In the graph of figure 1 the authors show how the state of the microbiota determines the state of health or disease, and how the final result depends on:
– an intimate conversation between bacteria and our cells
– an intimate conversation between bacteria and the environment
– an intimate conversation between our cells and the environment
Subsequently, figure 2 shows the various “connections” more clearly:
