Dr. Eric Topol

I mean, that's kind of a new frontier that we don't know enough about.

So whether we can manipulate the bacteria in our gut or their metabolites, the stuff that they make while they're in our gut, residents in our body,

We don't know how to do that yet.

There's a lot of work being done.

We only have one disease that they can help with, that manipulation with prebiotics and basically changing our constituents.

And that's this pseudomembranous colitis bacteria caused by Clostridium difficile.

But other than that, we are in the dark.

And so we don't know.

I do think that's going to be another.

We were talking, Katie, earlier about the gut hormones talking to the brain.

But the gut microbiome is another way that is central to our immune system.

So we're learning how to engineer that.

I mean, you know, Jennifer Doudna is trying to do editing of our gut.

Yeah, CRISPR to prevent asthma.

Wouldn't that be something?

But our gut microbiome and the things it makes are critical to our immune system and inflammation.

We just don't know how to control it yet.

And so the things that are out there now that, you know, call it prebiotics and antibiotics, we don't know how they work and they don't have any data evidence that they're really doing anything yet.

Well, plant-based foods, fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, these are things, fiber.

These are all anti-inflammatory.