Online course : The Human Microbiome

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.

The course focuses on:

• The human microbiome, role in human health and how it changes during life
• How can we determine our gut microbiota
• The role of food and lifestyle in the modulation of human gut microbiome
• The human microbiota and prevention of diseases through microbiota-directed foods