Download or read book The Human Microbiome in Early Life written by Omry Koren and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Microbiome in Early Life: Implications to Health and Disease presents recent research advances that have highlighted the significance of early life, possibly beginning before birth, in the establishment of both the microbiome and its role in health and disease. The book reviews current knowledge on the origins of the human microbiota in early life, presents exposures which may disturb normal microbial colonization, and covers their implications to the risk of disease. Finally, emerging means to modify the early human microbiome to improve health are discussed.