to talk, and talk a lot. And I just wanted to make the point that the microbiome research is something that not only has been with us for a while, but interest in it, it seems to expand every year. To bookend things, there's just a couple of reviews and references I pulled off from the net. Both of these are open access, both of which I have, that give very good defining primers of the human gut microbiome and its implications for clinicians. And the reference map, in other words, the genome has been worked out now in fair detail. And it really seems like, as I said, every year there's new research, and the anticipation that more and more we're getting closer to not only the actual clinical applications of what we're doing, but the translational aspect of it, and using them to help our critical care patients. Next slide. And to bookend this remark, I couldn't resist going over and posting something that the Institute of Medicine pulled together a little over 10 years ago. And if you notice, it was a food forum from the Food Nutrition Board, because they were gathering the research of what was known as the time. And the thought process was this would be informing not just the care of our patients, but they're also looking at how they would make recommendations to the food manufacturers and the people who put out the products that we all eat. So I would just kind of make the point that what we're doing here may actually have importance just beyond the actual care of our patients, beyond the critical care aspects of it, but may actually kind of influence policy of the country and perhaps of the world as a whole. And finally, I would remind everybody—next slide, please—we got the text. I didn't quite copy the headline, but this is from that peer-reviewed, highly impactful journal, the New York Times, the Well section, about the microbiome. And they had a fairly prominent section on it where they talked a little bit about this. And so that means that it's penetrated into the consciousness, if you will, and the knowledge of the educated lay public. And so I think because of that, this is also something that we're going to hear, and really, if you don't mind me saying, underscores the importance and the relevance of what we're doing today. Anyway, those are my thoughts. So again, as I said, I thank everybody for doing this. And so I think then we can turn it over.

microbiome research

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translational applications

policy decisions

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