Diabetes, obesity, cancer, mental health: what if everything was linked to the microbiota? Since its discovery around ten years ago, this new organ has been the subject of new scientific studies every year. Point J evaluates its therapeutic potential with Benoit Guery, infectious disease specialist at CHUV.
“There aren’t a lot of things that are safe and well-documented.” If the microbiota reveals immense therapeutic potential, the head doctor in the infectious diseases department at CHUV remains cautious. “At the moment, there is only one infection that is associated with the microbiota, that of clostridioides difficile.” A disease, which can now be successfully treated by fecal transplantation, in the only dedicated Swiss center, at the CHUV.
However, the microbiota could play a key therapeutic role in numerous health problems such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, or even certain neurological and dermatological diseases. These questions currently remain at the clinical study stage.
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