Rejoining the Wild: Food, Poop, and Worms in the World of IBD

The trillions of microorganisms in your gut form a beautiful and staggeringly complex ecology that we are just learning how to see. This new learning affects our understanding of how our separation from the wild has set us up for the epidemic of hyper-inflammatory conditions which we're facing. This presentation explores new and old therapeutic interventions for inflammatory bowel disease, including food, probiotics, fecal transplant, helminths, and antimicrobials; all ways to influence the forest of the gut.