We can save just about anybody in the ICU from just about anything and get them out of the hospital. But the reality is these patients are so depleted, they’re never able to go back to their lives as normal. Many of them, because of their weakened state and the other things we’ve done to their bodies and microbiomes, will die within a year, never having held their grandkids again, never having walked down the street with their spouse again. With all of our advances in critical care, we must ask ourselves, are we creating survivors or are we creating victims, people who will never really go home and back to the quality of life they had before? Now that we’ve gotten good enough to save people from severe disease and injury, we need to work on ways of restoring health and life and normalcy. By creating effective methods of restoring the microbiome, together with nutrition and exercise, we hope we can begin to give people their lives back.