WHCC “Microbiome: Nourishing Your Inner Bug(s)”

This educational video is content from the UVM Cancer Center’s 27th Annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference, held on Friday, September 20, 2024, at the Dudley H. Davis Center at the University of Vermont.
WHCC “Microbiome: Nourishing Your Inner Bug(s)”
Shahid Ahmed, M.B.B.S., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
We are more microbe than human. The majority of these microbes help maintain health, but modern life can result in imbalances in the microbial composition. We are now learning how these imbalances can result in a host of diseases including cancers. Our expanding knowledge on this topic is also helping develop interesting new ways of treating and preventing cancer.