Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Right.
So the world is microbial and it's mostly bacterial.
And I guess I was going to say, and I guess you see my bias, right?
So, yeah.
But I'm right.
There is no life on Earth without the bacteria.
And again, to your point, right, it's not – so we can say – so we – every –
other organism on Earth lives in this magical, wonderful consortium with microbes in you and on you.
And they are contributing their genes and their proteins to keeping you alive and healthy.
So first of all, they take up all the real estate, in and out of bad microbes.
If you eat them, the real estate in your gut is taken up by what we call your microbiome.
Your skin is covered in a biofilm of your microbiome that keeps, like a suit of armor, that keeps bad microbes from being able to get a toehold.
You know, they do all these functions that our own genes and our own bodies can't do to keep us alive.
Comma, to your point, we do have this – it's changing now.
Like, people are starting to understand the magic and the health benefits of the microbiome.
But, of course, you only feel – and I mean that in – not my emotional feel, like your physical – you feel –
your microbes when you're ill.
It's not like you get up every morning and you thank your microbiome for helping you digest your breakfast, right, or for keeping you alive.
Like, the only time you noticed that microbes are part of your existence is typically when you get sick.
And of course, if you think back to 150 years ago when, you know, Pasteur and all these people were trying to figure out microbes, how could they possibly know
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