skin

Like your gut, your skin hosts many different microbial residents, including bacteria, fungi and other microbial communities – it is known as your skin microbiome/microbiota.

When the composition of this ecosystem changes, it can manifest in conditions, like atopic dermatitis (aka eczema).

so, what has this got to do with your gut microbes?

Changes to and activity of your gut microbes can impact your microbiome. We aren’t there yet but soon scientists might discover how to manage conditions by looking at the gut. we wait in hope!