Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So just to frame this, our first episode, if you haven't listened to it, go back and take a listen.
But just to quickly frame, we have a gut microbiome.
mostly in our large intestine or colon with 38 trillion microorganisms.
Okay.
Microscopic.
We can't see them, but they actually outnumber us.
That's more than we have human cells.
Wow.
Yeah.
So there's more gut microbiome than we have human cells.
100%.
You are less, you're definitely less than 50% human.
And if we were to line you up as your genetic code, like if we were to like basically have a football field, okay?
And every single yard represented, like where does your genetic code come from?
All right, one yard would be the genetic code that you inherited from your parents.
And 99 yards, actually 99 and a half yards,
would be the genetic code that you have from your microbiome.
Really?
Yes.
99.5% of your genetic code comes from these microbes.