The Flemish Gut Flora Project
The Flemish Gut Flora Project
What does your gut flora say about your health?
Previous studies have shown that there is a correlation between the composition of the gut flora and, for example, overweight or disorders like gut inflammation and diabetes. Such results naturally make us dream of the possibility of remedying conditions or alleviating their symptoms through interventions on the gut flora. We hope this Gut Flora Project allows us to make strides toward unraveling the relationship between an individual and his or her gut flora.
So you think you’re human?
Professor Jeroen Raes is a world authority when it comes to deploying genomic technologies to study the role of gut flora in health and disease. Among other things, Jeroen Raes discovered that people can be classified into three types, according to the composition of the gut bacteria in their colon: the so-called “enterotypes”.