Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering

The is a sequential article to an initial review suggesting that Microbiome First medical approaches to human health and wellness could both aid the fight against noncommunicable diseases and conditions (NCDs) and help to usher in sustainable healthcare. This current review article specifically focu...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ce4a30a2a14748bb8125f99189fe21452021-11-25T16:49:14ZMicrobiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering10.3390/biomedicines91115812227-9059https://doaj.org/article/ce4a30a2a14748bb8125f99189fe21452021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/9/11/1581https://doaj.org/toc/2227-9059The is a sequential article to an initial review suggesting that Microbiome First medical approaches to human health and wellness could both aid the fight against noncommunicable diseases and conditions (NCDs) and help to usher in sustainable healthcare. This current review article specifically focuses on public health programs and initiatives and what has been termed by medical journals as a catastrophic record of recent failures. Included in the review is a discussion of the four priority behavioral modifications (food choices, cessation of two drugs of abuse, and exercise) advocated by the World Health Organization as the way to stop the ongoing NCD epidemic. The lack of public health focus on the majority of cells and genes in the human superorganism, the microbiome, is highlighted as is the “regulatory gap” failure to protect humans, particularly the young, from a series of mass population toxic exposures (e.g., asbestos, trichloroethylene, dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls, triclosan, bisphenol A and other plasticizers, polyfluorinated compounds, herbicides, food emulsifiers, high fructose corn syrup, certain nanoparticles, endocrine disruptors, and obesogens). The combination of early life toxicity for the microbiome and connected human physiological systems (e.g., immune, neurological), plus a lack of attention to the importance of microbial rebiosis has facilitated rather than suppressed, the NCD epidemic. This review article concludes with a call to place the microbiome first and foremost in public health initiatives as a way to both rescue public health effectiveness and reduce the human suffering connected to comorbid NCDs.Rodney R. DietertMDPI AGarticlemicrobiomepublic healthchronic diseasesmicroimmunosomeeating disorderssubstance use disorderBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENBiomedicines, Vol 9, Iss 1581, p 1581 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
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topic microbiome
public health
chronic diseases
microimmunosome
eating disorders
substance use disorder
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
spellingShingle microbiome
public health
chronic diseases
microimmunosome
eating disorders
substance use disorder
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Rodney R. Dietert
Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering
description The is a sequential article to an initial review suggesting that Microbiome First medical approaches to human health and wellness could both aid the fight against noncommunicable diseases and conditions (NCDs) and help to usher in sustainable healthcare. This current review article specifically focuses on public health programs and initiatives and what has been termed by medical journals as a catastrophic record of recent failures. Included in the review is a discussion of the four priority behavioral modifications (food choices, cessation of two drugs of abuse, and exercise) advocated by the World Health Organization as the way to stop the ongoing NCD epidemic. The lack of public health focus on the majority of cells and genes in the human superorganism, the microbiome, is highlighted as is the “regulatory gap” failure to protect humans, particularly the young, from a series of mass population toxic exposures (e.g., asbestos, trichloroethylene, dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls, triclosan, bisphenol A and other plasticizers, polyfluorinated compounds, herbicides, food emulsifiers, high fructose corn syrup, certain nanoparticles, endocrine disruptors, and obesogens). The combination of early life toxicity for the microbiome and connected human physiological systems (e.g., immune, neurological), plus a lack of attention to the importance of microbial rebiosis has facilitated rather than suppressed, the NCD epidemic. This review article concludes with a call to place the microbiome first and foremost in public health initiatives as a way to both rescue public health effectiveness and reduce the human suffering connected to comorbid NCDs.
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title Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering
title_short Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering
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title_fullStr Microbiome First Approaches to Rescue Public Health and Reduce Human Suffering
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