Thus the Financial Times today. “Scientists have grasped the importance of the microbiome just as modern lifestyles are ravaging it,” elaborates the newspaper. The article is actually a review of three books about the microbes in human guts and the impact of contemporary diets on them. The microbiome is billed as the human body’s most underrated organ. Hundreds of species populate the inner world and play a very important rôle in human lives. As the article puts it, the key point made by all three books is that a healthy diet is inconceivable without an understanding of its impact on the gut microbes. The microbes and humans depend on each other for survival. The microbiome is with us from birth, and especially if the birth is natural rather than surgical. And so on, and so forth. Now add all the microbial organisms that live symbiotically with all the other species surrounding us, and you will understand that thousands upon thousands of microbiomes depend on the survival of each other. The whole world is thus one in terms of myriad invisible species of microbes. Scientists will grasp the importance of all the intertwined microbiomes just as modern lifestyles will be ravaging the planet that these tiny organisms share since birth. Alas, science is always late!