With ever-increasing population,
governments across the globe keep feeling the pressure of ensuring availability
of food to their masses. Malnutrition has been plaguing a large part of the
world population, particularly in the developing and under-developed world.
Malnutrition also makes the victims more susceptible to different infections
and physiological disorders.
There are large scale social,
economic, and political implications of failure of governments in tackling the
problem of malnutrition. This problem is related to both quantity as well as
quality of the food.Microorganisms
in the human gut are intimately associated with digestion and absorption of
the food. The human gut microbiome has now been well demonstrated to have a
strong connection to our health and disease.
There are approximately 1014
microbial cells inside human gut, which weigh approximately 1 kg. These
organisms provide a large array of benefits to their human host, such as
protection from the allocthonous pathogens, synthesis of vitamins (e.g. vitamin
K), aiding the host in breakdown of complex polysaccharides, etc. The gut
microbiome is also able to communicate with the brain
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