Part One: The Wisdom of a Microscopic Species
Chapter One: Evolutionary Biology Explains Bacterial Adaptability
Chapter Two: The Ancestral Microbiome
Chapter Three: Early Factors Influencing the Microbiome
Chapter Four: Cracking the Codes: From Human Genome to Human Microbiome
Chapter Five: Those Other "Omes"
Chapter Six: The Epigenetic Pressure of the Cross Talk
Part Two: The Microbiome's Role in Disease
Chapter Seven: The Microbiome and Gut Inflammatory Disorders
Chapter Eight: The Microbiome and Obesity
Chapter Nine: The Microbiome and Autoimmunity
Chapter Ten: The Microbiome and Neurological or Behavioral Disorders
Chapter Eleven: The Microbiome and Environmental Enteropathy
Chapter Twelve: The Microbiome and Cancer
Part Three: Manipulating the Microbiome to Maintain Health
Chapter Thirteen: From Association to Causation: A New Approach to Microbiome Compostion and Function in Disease Development
Chapter Fourteen: Preventive Medicine: Monitoring the Microbiome for Disease Prediction and Interception
Chapter Fifteen: Treatments for Disease: Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics
Chapter Sixteen: Microbiome Research in Gut-Brain Axis Diseases: Psychobiotics
Chapter Seventeen: Artificial Intelligence and the Microbiome
Chapter Eighteen: Maintaining a Resilient Microbiome Through Old Age
Epilogue: Beyond the "Ome" Revolution.