Dr. Eric Topol

I mean, this is just so concerning.

We're doing nothing about it.

And this is where, you know, going back to RFK Jr., he talked about doing this stuff.

But at the same time, we're getting rid of the EPA and doing everything we can to take a

away any chances to get on top of this, whether it's with big food or with the environment.

But it's hard to come up with another explanation, at least as far as I can see, for these young people getting cancer, diverse types of cancer, without somehow invoking one of these environmental triggers.

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.