AUTHOR=Dogra Shaillay Kumar , Doré Joel , Damak Sami 

TITLE=Gut Microbiota Resilience: Definition, Link to Health and Strategies for Intervention

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.572921

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2020.572921

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=The gut microbiota is a new frontier in health and disease.  Not only many diseases are associated with perturbed microbiota, but an increasing number of studies point to a cause-effect relationship.   The gut microbiota is an “organ” with frontline exposure to environmental changes and insults.  It is therefore legitimate to postulate that maintaining a resilient microbiota may be important for health.  Here we review the concept of resilience, what is known about the characteristics of a resilient microbiota, how to assess microbiota resilience experimentally and how to possibly intervene with nutrients and/or biotics to improve it.  We finally discuss some open questions and knowledge gaps.