You are what you host: microbiome modulation of the aging process.
The critical impact that microbiota have on health and disease makes the interaction between host and microbiome increasingly important as we evaluate therapeutics. Here, we highlight growing evidence that, beyond disease, microbes also affect the most fundamental of host physiological phenotypes, the rate of aging itself.
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Caroline
C
Heintz
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: wmair@hsph.harvard.edu.
William
W
Mair
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D054892:Metagenome; D064307:Microbiota; D023421:Models, Animal