Importance of Gut Microbiome

Importance of Gut Microbiome

Introduction

This assignment is designed to give you an opportunity to develop and practice academic skills such as researching a topic, selecting and referencing reliable sources of information, scientific writing, paraphrasing and synthesising information. This topic is very current and has a wide range of areas you could choose to focus on such as the fact that the gut microbiome starts to form at birth and a disturbance in its development can cause immune diseases such as food allergies, dermatitis and asthma. Also, each individual’s microbiota can vary greatly from one another and can be positively and negatively affected by many factors such as diet, stress etc. As background to this assignment, it is important you read ‘Gut: The inside story of the body’s most underrated organ’ by Giulia Enders. This will help you choose the area of interest you wish to focus on. You should then do further research to find other reliable sources of information for your essay. All your ideas in your essay should be supported with specific examples including some scientific studies.

Title:

There is growing evidence showing that our gut microbiome is extremely important in supporting human health both mentally and physically.

Discuss the importance of the gut microbiome on either mental or physical health and explain one or two possible consequences of neglecting it.

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Importance of Gut Microbiome

 Instructions:

Essay Length: Approximately 1500 words

Your essay should be word processed in Arial 12 point and be double spaced.

It should have a cover page with your name and group and the title of the essay.

It should be referenced using at least 6 sources, one of which must be ‘The Gut Book.’

It should be submitted as an email attachment to your English teacher.

You must include this declaration on the front cover of your essay: ‘By submitting this assignment, I certify that this is my own work, based on my own intellectual efforts, all sources are correctly attributed and the contribution of any artificial intelligence software is fully acknowledged.”