How do our microflora affect us?
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Professor Instructions
Go to http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/index and learn about Human Microbiome Project. Go to the link publications/news on the website and listen to the BBC radio program on Human Microbiomes.
Read these articles:
•http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/studies-of-human-microbiome-yield-new-insights.html?emc=eta1
•http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?pagewanted%3Dall
Based what you have learned from the website, article about microflora, write a two paragraph discussion on how microflora influence our health and what can we do to sustain a healthy microflora in our body.