The Microbiome: Potential for Cancer Detection and Treatment

The gut is comprised of numerous types of bacteria, fungi, protists, and viruses. The complex of all these is coined as the microbiome, which has been long overlooked as a key for the treatment of certain physiological ailments such as cancer, psychological disorders, and other diseases for a long time. However, recent research has aided in the understanding that the microbiome holds many secrets to many different questions pertaining to physiological healing. In a paper by Martha Hotz Vitaterna and research associates, improvements in sleep recovery were found through alterations of the microbiome with the use of a prebiotic diet including galactooligosaccharides and polydextrose. One bacteria, Parabacteroids Distanosis (PD), is known as a marker for quantity sleep. Their experiments included exposing the animal subjects to stress during sleep, increasing sleep deprivation which then decreased levels of PD. They found through implementing this prebiotic diet increased levels of PD fiv...