Questionnaire

What is your reason for attending this course (pease select all that apply)?

Interest in Whole Body Health Interest in Skin Health Interest in the Skin Allergy Epidemic Interest in the Skin Microbiome I have skin problems I know others with skin problems and would like to help them Interest in educating others Other (please specify below)

In this section, you will have the options ‘agree’, ‘disagree’ or ‘don’t know’ to choose from in response to statements. Please answer in relation to what you have learnt on the Foundation Course.

Q1: You are only 40% Human. The other 60% is Microbes.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q2: The human microbiome (or human microbiota) is the collection of microorganisms which live in and on us. These are bacteria, fungi, viruses and others. They reside in the gut, on the skin and places like the oral and nasal cavity.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q3: The skin is the largest organ in the body and is host to probably the most diverse range of microbes in the human body (the skin microbiome).

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q4: Your skin microbiome defends you from disease and is not just important for your skin health but whole body health too.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

In Section II and Section III there are two types of statements:

There are statements you should answer with ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, or ‘don’t know’ depending on what you’ve learnt in the course.
Secondly, there are statements which have a phrase or word missing. It is your job to choose what you think is the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence from the options. Q1 is a good example of this.

Q1: Across many fields of biology and ecology, (_______) biodiversity corresponds to increased healthiness and functionality within an ecosystem.

High Low Don’t know

Q2: A healthy gut microbiome is one high in biodiversity.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q3: Just as for the gut, healthy skin is high in biodiversity too.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q4: A catastrophic microbial diversity (______) observed in the human gut microbiome in developed countries has been attributed to exposure to Western world practices.

Increase Loss Don’t know

Q5: The skin of tribespeople, untouched by modern civilisation, showed unprecedented levels of microbial diversity.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q6: The exposure of normal, Western skin to twenty-first-century cosmetics, soap, antibiotics, and steroids, does appear to have altered the natural skin microbiome of humans.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q7: The less exposed communities were to western practices, the (______) the skin biodiversity.

Lower Higher Don’t know

Q8: A low diversity of microorganisms is associated with a plethora of diseases including allergies, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases and even neuropsychiatric disorders.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q9: A (______) skin microbiome, (______) in biodiversity, has been associated with all common skin problems: eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, acne, athlete’s foot, and many more.

Depleted, low Healthy, high Don’t know

Q10: Creating the right conditions is thought to be the most effective way of restoring a depleted skin microbiome.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q12: Microbes in the right proportions (______) your skin.

Look after and protect Damage Don’t know

Q13: Just like a healthy biodiverse rainforest, a highly biodiverse skin microbiome keeps all the microbes acting in a mutually beneficial way to the human body.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q14: At current levels of understanding, probiotics - the act of adding normally just a single or very few species of microbe to the skin - can (______) biodiversity.

Decrease Increase Don’t know

Q15: Introducing probiotics that are designed for the gut (eg. lactobacilli) on the skin have the potential to be even more dangerous: they are introducing an alien species to the skin in such large numbers that may overwhelm the immune defences.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q1: To maintain whole body health, your skin microbiome is just as important as your gut microbiome.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q2: Recent research suggests that a damaged skin microbiome may be a leading cause of food allergies.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q3: A damaged skin microbiome can damage the gut microbiome and vice versa.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q4: The skin and gut microbiome are part of an integrated ecosystem that plays an important role in overall health.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q5: There’s a skin allergy epidemic in the Western world. This means there has been a 500% (______) in conditions such as eczema in the last 80 years.

Decrease Increase Don’t know

Q6: Everyday cosmetic products (including soaps) and long term use of modern topical medicines have been shown to have a profound detrimental influence on the skin barrier functions.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q7: Everyday cosmetics - that usually contain many artificial chemical ingredients - are one potential major cause of the decline in skin health in the developed world.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q8: All cosmetics labelled as ‘Natural’ contain only genuinely naturally extracted ingredients.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q9: Food preservatives have been linked to obesity and gut disease. Artificial preservatives in cosmetic products are also having a similar damaging effect on the skin microbiome too.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q10: The first step in improving your skin microbiome is (______).

Stopping exposure to everyday cosmetics with artificial chemical ingredients Using products with harsher synthetic ingredients Don’t know

Q11: Latest generation cosmetics should use techniques that help strengthen the skin microbiome by recreating the conditions for biodiversity to flourish.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q12: Restoring your damaged skin microbiome is a short term process with a quick fix solution.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q13: Once your skin microbiome biodiversity has been restored to an optimal level, you can go back to the same lifestyle you had before, including using cosmetics with synthetic chemical ingredients.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

Q14: Once your skin microbiome biodiversity has been restored to an optimal level, you need to keep avoiding all those things in the Western world that caused the problem in the first place.

Agree Disagree Don’t know

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