Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases.

Abstract

The advent of new sequencing technologies has inspired the foundation of novel research to ascertain the connections between the microbial communities that reside in our gut and some physiological and pathological conditions. The microbiota, defined as the full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, and viruses, among others) that naturally exist within a particular biological niche, is estimated to contain 500–1000 species