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Learn how a healthy microbiome can combat disease.
The microbiome – the microbes that live within the human body – can have a huge impact on human health. As such, it’s vital to understand the complexity of the microbiome, and how it can impact on disease and wellbeing.
On this course, you’ll go on a fascinating journey into the human body – down to the gut – where the ecology and roles of the human microbiome will be narrated. You’ll explore how your microbiome changes throughout your life, reflect on the role of food in its modulation, and explain the functions the microbiome has in the gastrointestinal tract in daily life.
This course is for anyone interested in subjects related to the human microbiome, how food can influence it, and how this resultantly impacts on human health.
Advantages
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
Describe how the human microbiome changes throughout the human life
Reflect on the role of food in the modulation of human microbiome
Explain the functions that human microbiome has in the gastrointestinal tract
Reflect on the links between human microbiome and diseases
Discuss the topics of the course and their relationship with daily life
Assess the complexity of the human microbiome communities
Duration & Dates
Flexible
Audience & Eligibility
Anyone interested in subjects related to the human microbiome
Just want to express my sincere and honest thanks for this wonderful course. Enjoyed the course from start to end. Thanks to all teachers and coordinators to make this course so informative and interesting.
Eileen Gilpin, Course Participant
I've learned so much about the relationship between food and our gut. This course has inspired me to eat more of certain food and less of others.
Programme lead
Luca Cocolin
Professor of Food Microbiology Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at the University of Torino
