Professor Luke O'Neill

So we may end up with live bacteria

in the mix here with the immunotherapy, you never know, and that might be the way to go with this.

But you can see the excitement this is causing.

And the other thing you might do, though, and one of these three papers, there was a great summary of them, eat fibre.

A good diet will get the right bugs to grow in your gut.

Now, we know fibre is good for us anyway.

It turns out one reason fibre is good for us is it gets the right bacteria to dominate in your gut.

And what is fibre?

Well, it's vegetables, really, you know.

Lots of things have fibre in them, you know, grains and potatoes and

you know, cruciferous vegetables are very rich in fibre.

They will change the microbiome, we know that already.

And so therefore, they're now wondering what a dietary intervention in combination with chemo or immunotherapy, would that boost everything by getting the right species of bacteria in your gut?

And that's a very active area.

There's over 90 studies now linking all of this to the gut bacteria.

So there's a lot of good evidence for this.

And with the faecal transplant, there's loads of other studies as well out there, a bit smaller than the ones that were published.

all suggesting that faecal transplant could be really beneficial here.

So again, very active, very research and who knows where this is going to go.

And it just shows you how active certain areas can be.