Same human mind (collective sum of all of our thinking and scientific progress) who is destroying biodiversity outside (trees, plants, microbes, animals, weather patterns), also working on similar goal within internal universe i.e. our body.
Each one of us has responsibility to nurture and protect microbial biodiversity in our cellular complex or body. Recent research shows that we carry a small number of highly abundant species of bacteria and a large number of much less common ones. For example, you may carry trillions of Bacteroides in your colon and only a thousand cells or fewer of other species. That means, each one of us is a carrier of biological legacy from our ancestors. Not only genes and mental habits but also bacteria that we attract by our early habits and interaction with environment.
Even short-term antibiotic treatments can lead to long-term shifts in the microbes colonizing our bodies. Sometimes major loss of great biodiversity.
It is not just about avoiding antibiotic abuse (misuse of antibiotics) anymore. We as a society, including esteemed medical fraternity, must find alternative, radical, root cause driven approach towards general sicknesses, instead taking risky path of considering nature as enemy.
