Reset the Microbiome, Redefine Infection Prevention
If you work in health care, invest in it, or are simply curious about where medicine is heading, join us on December 3 for a conversation about where infections actually come from.
Hundreds of thousands of people a year develop infections while being treated for something else. And for decades we have fought them from the outside, by cleaning hands, surfaces and rooms. Those tools do what they were intended to do, but they don’t reach the gut, which is where many of the infections that matter most begin.
The organisms that cause those infections live in the gut already, held in check by beneficial microbes. Antibiotics save lives, but they also wipe out that protective community. What follows is a cycle. Another infection, more antibiotics, and more resistance to antibiotics.
Many of us have watched someone we love fight an infection that was never supposed to happen.
We know how protection from infection gets built in newborns, through a pairing of a specific bacterium and a sugar that only it can use. What if the same biology could reset the gut microbiome in adults, where it has already been shown to take hold?
Dr. Chloe Collins is a human milk scientist with more than twenty publications in the field, and researched the immune-protective role of these complex sugars. She started KeepBio with co-founder and CEO Dr. Gregory McKenzie, a pioneer in microbiome therapeutics. Together they are working to make this approach available at scale to protect the people at risk from gut sources of infection.
Chloe will discuss where the evidence is strong and where it isn’t, and why gut microbiome protection belongs in modern medicine.
Limited guests, by approval.