[fibbra]

There is need for research into what is happening in the gut, what the microbiome looks like and how it is influenced by food and stress.

This research money can either come by government funding (ideal for basic research) or by private funding (focused, to produce top medicines).

As it looks now, the private funding may not work because any remedy in the form of a medicine, would be applied a couple of times and that's it. There may not be enough money to make.

[kmonad]

And there is, tons of it. Though I do agree that private investments need to find a niche beyond yoghurts.

https://www.broadinstitute.org/hmp/human-microbiome-project https://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/topics/microbiome-infla... http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/

[yourapostasy]

I would like to see what folk medicine traditions from around the world thought of and how they treated the stomach. They might not have known about bacteria, but given enough time some of them might have established some cause and effect of symptoms and treatments (typically herbal). We might learn from them hints to speed up or microbiome research.

Right now, the information is very scattered and siloed, and very difficult to survey.