Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And so there's a lot of, um,
energy let's call it that in this idea that for sure you know for sure they're making just let me start with facts like you cannot digest plant food whenever you eat a vegetable or a salad or anything like that you your human genome does not have the enzymes that allow you to digest that food and get the calories nor the nutrients so the bacteria in your gut
provide the enzymes to do that and that's how why a salad is so healthy you should thank your microbiome right so they give you that right and so they do all kinds of things like that like whether a person some people like take a medicine and they might have a microbiome bacteria that that
that degrades the medicine.
You know how some people, a medicine works on some, doesn't work on others, somebody gets a side effect, somebody else doesn't.
There's a lot of evidence, and I mean data, that shows your microbiome's playing in that.
Whether they can affect your mood,
And people think that's a possibility.
That is, to my knowledge, not proven yet.
But whether I'm a funny person, I'm a happy person, there's ideas that maybe if you're a better, depending on your microbiome, you might be a better athlete, that's way out there.
But it's not crazy.
Right.
Given that these bacteria make a gob of molecules, there's 10 times more of them than your human cells.
And these molecules are definitely, you know, we know they're in our body.
We just don't, it's just such a huge new horizon for scientists.
And then again, remember Sean, your microbiome is different than my microbiome, you know, and what you eat, how you live, every medicine you've ever, not every medicines you've taken that I have, you know, all of those have affected you.
your microbiome and your own human genome throughout your life, right?
And so it's a problem of enormous complexity and excitement, right?
And so the sort of simpler things like, okay, I digest your plant food, you know, like that we know.
The more exotic questions like you're asking, right?
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