How diet can affect your health
The microbiome helps us digest our food, regulates the immune system, protects against other, disease causing bacteria, and produces vitamins (among other things).
Our microbiome is affected by our every day activities, including the foods we eat and other things, like taking antibiotics when we are sick, or by antibiotics present in the animal products we consume.
For your first project, we will be putting some of this knowledge to use to analyze how what we eat affects our microbiome and may contribute to things like antibiotic resistance.