Dr. Logan Spector

bacteria in our guts all right uh we call it the microbiome you know the microbiome is actually uh the the bacteria that live anywhere on you but you know usually we say microbiome people understand that to mean in the gut and um uh e coli you've probably all heard of it because uh sometimes uh

Stuff gets into Bademikaska and they have to close it off to swimming, right?

Because there's E. coli and you don't want to catch anything from swimming in there.

But E. coli comes, we all have it in our gut, but some versions of it produce a toxin.

All right.

And I mean, just the word toxin sounds bad, doesn't it?

It directly mutates the DNA.

And, you know, the fact that we find a high proportion of these mutations in early onset colorectal cancer is a gigantic factor.

clue to the to the cause here it really suggests that whatever people are eating uh you know um we are pretty sure there's a role for obesity because of course that's um rising um

You know, it really suggests that the throughput, the reason that that's happening is it's changing the microbiome and tipping it to a worse one.

But, you know, that's great to know, because now we have something to, you know, attack or manipulate or improve, you know, intervention.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, uh, every cancer is, uh, got kind of the, uh, a theme, if you will.

Right.

Uh, it's cells that grow out of control.

All right.

Um, and you know, in, we, we talk about, uh,

like a car analogy.

Okay.

You, you have to have mutations in a cell that do two things.