Background According to Hippocrates, the ancient Greek Physician and the father of modern medicine, “All diseases begins in the gut”. We know that this quote is not 100% true because certain disease such as genetic diseases do not start in the gut. What we do know to be true is that many diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease do start in the gut. We have between 300 and 500 different kinds of bacteria with almost 2 million genes. Along with over 100 trillion other tiny o