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Real estate agents always advise: location, location, location. The microbes that inhabit the mouth are different from those found in the stomach, the small intestine, and the large intestine. Therefore, if microbes are to be studied in terms of their communication with the brain and body, researchers must first determine which bacteria and which gut area to target in any given therapy.

By inserting one type of bacteria to knock out another, what else is being destroyed or affected? The human gastrointestinal tract is a bacterial ecosystem with a genetic makeup almost 100 times the size of the human genome. We are therefore an amalgam of both our human genes and microbial “selves.” And the interaction of the two is largely unexplored territory. Probiotics are an exciting area of research but should be ingested with great caution.

There are 3 billion base pairs of nucleotides in the human genome engaged in a vast and complex dance that makes us who we are. We need to be awfully careful when we start to change the choreography, especially given our current lack of precision. When you try to move one dancer with a bulldozer, you’re pretty darn certain to scoop up more than one Rockette.

—DR. SHARON MOALEM, SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST