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WSJ.com - The Body as Bacterial Landlord

online.wsj.com — In ways mysterious to medicine, this microbial menagerie of fellow travelers in and on us is controlling our health, affecting obesity, cancer and heart disease, among others. At this scale of biogeography, we are the world. Bacteria are crucial to our well-being.

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  • liuite, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1It is important for people to note the importance of friendly bacteria. This article states that there is a cause effect relationship between antibiotics and rise in rates of asthma, hay fever, allergies, gastric reflux, stomach and esophageal cancer. Taking probiotics might only help restore gut flora, but who knows what other friendly bacteria in the body isn't being replaced.

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