Former Naval medical officer Peter Pressman, MD, FACN, is director of medical operations at PolyScience Consulting in California. Active in internal medicine and surgical education, he has focused on special topics in nutritional support for more than 30 years. Pressman is a reviewer for the Journal of Food Science and the Journal of Food & Chemical Toxicology, and serves on the editorial board of Toxicology Research and Application. In addition, he serves on the Food Additive Task Force of the International Special Dietary Foods Industries (ISDFI), a group of experts developing a science-driven framework for the safety assessment of technologically justified food additives during early life. Pressman co-developed and co-instructs Global Nutrition program at the USC Keck School of Medicine. He can be reached at drpressvm2@gmail.com.
Consumers are now regularly exposed to the idea of a dietary approach targeting the microbiome. Increasingly, they are becoming aware that the maintenance of digestive health can be the path to an improved state of health and well-being.
