Is Helicobacter pylori a myth or the missing link?

What is required, overall, is a new paradigm in the way people think about disease. Rather than a view that sees humanityʹs relationship to the microbes as a historically linear one, tending over the centuries toward ever-decreasing risk to humans, a far more challenging perspective must be sought, allowing for a dynamic, nonlinear state of affairs between Homo sapiens and the microbial world, both inside and outside their bodies