Interesting philosophical questions on how oneself views oneself, especially if you go back to the source paper at http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour... rather than the linked extract. “[W]e have never been individuals...”

Microbiome is one of the things we're including in the Arivale program. Early days on the research front, but fascinating stuff - our clinical team have written up two less philosophical, more scientific articles re. correlations of microbiome to health at https://www.arivale.com/gut-microbiome-tmao-heart-heath/ and https://www.arivale.com/gut-microbiome-crohns/.