Is there a universal definition of gut health in pigs?

Many companies and institutes speak about it, but it isn’t that easy at all to find a universal definition for ‘gut health’ in pigs. Dr Charlotte Lauridsen, senior researcher at Aarhus University, Foulum, Denmark, suggests to take a dynamic view of the gut. She emphasises the importance of ‘resilience’. What a healthy gut is, depends on whom you ask. A pig producer, for instance, will define ‘gut health’ in terms of ‘good pig performance’, where a veterinarian may be defining