Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: The Wisdom of a Microscopic Species -- Chapter One: Evolutionary Biology Explains Bacterial Adaptability -- Chapter Two: The Ancestral Microbiome -- Chapter Three: Early Factors Influencing the Microbiome -- Chapter Four: Cracking the Codes: From Human Genome to Human Microbiome -- Chapter Five: Those Other "Omes" -- Chapter Six: The Epigenetic Pressure of the Cross Talk -- Part Two: The Microbiome's Role in Disease -- Chapter Seven: The Microbiome and Gut Inflammatory Disorders -- Chapter Eight: The Microbiome and Obesity -- Chapter Nine: The Microbiome and Autoimmunity -- Chapter Ten: The Microbiome and Neurological or Behavioral Disorders -- Chapter Eleven: The Microbiome and Environmental Enteropathy -- Chapter Twelve: The Microbiome and Cancer -- Part Three: Manipulating the Microbiome to Maintain Health -- Chapter Thirteen: From Association to Causation: A New Approach to Microbiome Compostion and Function in Disease Development -- Chapter Fourteen: Preventive Medicine: Monitoring the Microbiome for Disease Prediction and Interception -- Chapter Fifteen: Treatments for Disease: Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics -- Chapter Sixteen: Microbiome Research in Gut-Brain Axis Diseases: Psychobiotics -- Chapter Seventeen: Artificial Intelligence and the Microbiome -- Chapter Eighteen: Maintaining a Resilient Microbiome Through Old Age -- Epilogue: Beyond the "Ome" Revolution.