The summer season is traditionally associated with vacations, fresh fruit and outdoor recreation. However, it is during this period that epidemiologists and gastroenterologists record a sharp surge in patient visits. Summer food poisoning and acute intestinal infections are becoming one of the most common causes of hospitalization. For decades, classical medicine has explained this phenomenon exclusively by external factors: high ambient temperature and improper food storage.

Modern 4P medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive, patient-centered) has fundamentally changed our understanding of human health. It has been proven that the human body is a giant symbiotic ecosystem. According to scientific estimates, the number of human cells in our body is about 30 trillion, while the number of bacterial cells reaches 38 trillion. In fact, in terms of the number of cells, we are less than half as human.

On June 27, World Microbiome Day, the scientific community and doctors around the world draw attention to the most important but invisible part of our body - the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit our bodies. For decades, we considered bacteria exclusively enemies that need to be destroyed with antiseptics and antibiotics. However, the modern biomedical revolution has proven the opposite: we are a complex "superorganism", and without our microbial helpers

Humanity has made great strides: we have explored space, landed on the moon, and developed artificial intelligence, but until recently we knew almost nothing about the universe that exists inside our own bellies. We used to think of ourselves as completely autonomous beings, but science has proven a startling fact: we are colonized.

You’ve probably heard the phrase: “We are what we eat.” But modern science says it more precisely: we are also those who live in us. Until 2016, it was believed that there were many times more bacteria in our bodies than our own cells.