Metchnikoff

Metchnikoff’s innovation shifted the primary locus of medical intervention from the collective to the individual.

One of the first to envision such use of microorganisms was the 19th-century zoologist Elie Metchnikoff.

“Metchnikoff passes away; failed to achieve the allotted century and a half,” ran the headline in the Los Angeles Times.

In the early 1900s, the Nobel Prize winner Elie Metchnikoff found that certain “healthy bacteria,” like those that produce lactic acid, can have a positive effect on digestion and the immune system.

The iatro-chemical system is the prototype of Metchnikoff’s theory of longevity.