Writing for 5 minutes on what I’ve found most interesting/want to learn more about:
I think the most interesting topics we’ve covered are how different compositions of the microbiota are correlated with certain diseases... we’ve talked about obesity, asthma, now stuff with the heart, and I think that the disease component on the microbiota is really interesting. I also thought this week’s information regarding pregnancy and infants and development of the child was pretty crazy. It makes sense that we get our bacteria from somewhere, so it’s cool to see that it’s literally caused by the environment and things we interact with. It reminds me of that movie boy in the bubble or whatever it’s called. What else… probiotics and antibiotics are of course really interesting and so prevalent with society today. I hear about antibiotic resistance all of the time, so it’d be cool to delve into that more— especially because I feel like I focused mostly on the probiotic portion of that module and didn’t get to learn too much about the antibiotic portion.
Step 2: Underline
Step 3: Write bout what you bolded
Antibiotic resistance: I hear about this all of the time, and it is scary. I remember doing research on it and it said something like 30% (I think) of antibiotics prescribed are unnecessary. I think this is a huge problem, and it’s really relevant in the field I’m persuing– medicine. I remember learning about plasmids in microbiology class and this class talked about how plasmids can actually transfer antibiotic resistance, so it was really cool to relate the two classes.
Diseases and the microbiota. I think that there is probably so much information on this topic. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least a small correlation between almost every disease with the microbiota. I think this is super interesting because I think if doctors were to educate their patients and look more into the gut microbiota, it could help a lot of people with things such as weight loss. After learning about how different the gut microbiota differs for obese people, it scared me into wanting to eat healthier and lose some weight. Obesity leads to bigger issues such as health problems, etc, and I wonder if this is partly to do with the microbiota as well and not just the visceral fat.
Step 4: Reflection
I definitely want to write on diseases and the microbiota. I think I might even emphasize on obesity. I’m going to start my research tomorrow and see if it’d be too much information to talk about several diseases, and if it is, I’ll focus solely on obesity.
