The microbiome: saviour or not?
Antibiotics continue to be embraced on a global scale by doctors who persistently overuse them without due concern for the consequences, patients who steadfastly demand them for coughs and colds and an agricultural and livestock industry driven by the bottom line.
When the world’s premier scientists assembled in Sydney towards the end of 2018 to discuss their findings and set an agenda for the future of microbiome research, this is a conference I would not have missed for all the vitamin C
