Are BIOFILMS Good or Bad for the Body?

Biofilms are created anywhere in a system where there's moisture. It's usually the respiratory system, the mucosa there, the digestive system, and then some inside of the vascular system. The next thing you want to think of is just like we have normal bacteria that are good for us in our digestive system, we have normal levels of biofilms. And so you want to think of biofilms on a spectrum. And if we went from the left side where we had normal biofilms, no problem, but then we get stressors, on our immune system, stressors on our digestive tract, respiratory system, et cetera. And we might start to make biofilms. And then you can think of them going from normal and okay to thicker and more pathological, more potentially damaging, to really thick and very potentially damaging pathological. I tend to break these up into what we call physiologic or normal, and then phase 1 versus phase 2 biofilms.