Innovation in the Human Microbiome: Prebiotics, Probiotics, and the UK Experience

Pharmacy Leaders of Tomorrow (PLoT) is a health innovation exchange platform dedicated towards pharmacists and allied health. PLoT promises to inspire, motivate, and help drive your pharmacy operation's success and growth.Vision:Participants will share and learn pharmacy business management and leadership skills necessary for personal and business success.Mission:We believe in helping pharmacists achieve leadership, professional practice, and business success. At at a macro level, equipping new practitioners with these skills and tools is critical for the development of strong profession that is truly reflective of the value added services and care pharmacists can provide for patients.Get in touch: info@leadersofpharmacy.com

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A conversation with Nigel who will be joining us from the UK exploring how advances in our understanding of the microbiome and emerging role of pre and probiotics and what pharmacists should know.  Does 100 billion CFU really work? You may have heard about probiotics and their role in digestive health. But what about prebiotics? What innovation do we see in this space as it relates to patient care and therapeutic formulations?
The human microbiome provides 10 times the cell numbers, and 200 times the genetic diversity of the human host and it is only recently that this complexity together with its implications on health is being fully recognised.
Dr. Plummer will explore of the characteristics, structure, role, and diversity of the human microbiome, as well how it becomes a key driver to our health status following birth, and continues as a critical, lifelong contributor. The microbiome is unique in being a part of our physiology that can be manipulated and potentially optimised by use of probiotics and prebiotics. Clinical evidence of the effects of these nutritional factors on health and disease will be briefly discussed, including original, new, and exciting published research by Dr. Plummer and his research team. 
About Dr.Nigel Plummer
Nigel Plummer PhD has his doctorate in microbial physiology and has worked at Pfizer in antibiotic research and development. His research on the use of normal flora in the prevention and treatment of genito-urinary candidiasis has won him numerous awards. Dr. Plummer continues his solid commitment to research throughout his career in collaboration with research institutes and universities within the UK and Europe, developing an extensive knowledge specializing in probiotics, natural antimicrobials and fish oils. Dr. Plummer lectures extensively in North America and the UK/ Europe and has developed an interest in the concept of fetal disease programming, the controlling factors involved and the potential to influence programmed events as a means of prevention of chronic disease development.

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