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Microbiota - Coggle Diagram
Microbiota
How do we affect it?
Hygiene Hypothesis
By decreasing our interactions with microbiota and making our immune systems bored, we're increasing rates of allergic reactions and autoimmune diseases
Dr. Gulig says he'll eat stuff off the floor cuz unlikely there's pathogens and you're not likely to get sick, plus it's good to get exposure to microbes
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Definitions
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Microbiome - Summation of all the microbiota's genomes (sequence based, culture independent - what's detectable)
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Composition
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Effectors
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These factors only explain like 10-15% of this diversity - we don't have any actual idea what's going on