I found this issue’s cover story on the role of the microbiome in eye health and disease quite interesting.
A normal microbiome contains a stable population of core commensal microbes with a symbiotic relationship, sustaining themselves and enhancing an individual’s general health or the health of a tissue or organ, including the eye. An abnormal microbiome, called dysbiosis, is characterized by an altered composition of the normal microbiome, reducing the ability of the body or eyes to maintain health, which can induce disease. I must admit that in my 5 decades of practice, I never placed the
