Dr. Zach Bush

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2529 - Zach Bush · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's a little tiny methane-producing bacterium that was swallowed by an archaea, a big bacteria.

And they started collaborating in a big innovation that was respiratory energy production.

So we suddenly added oxygen and hydrogen to the process that used to be fermentation.

So now we have respiratory energy production in the form of mitochondria.

And that was a 10x improvement in

energy, light energy per cubic centimeter.

And then we suddenly got multicellular life.

And so it was protozoa into parasites, into nematodes, into worms, into everything we have.

So life has been stacking in complexity with direct relationship of how much energy per cubic centimeter exists there.

The energy is predicting the outcome.

It's not some organism comes along and says, well, I'm going to take over because I'm smarter and more connected.

Every time we've seen an innovation in nature, it's because preceding that moment, there was an innovation in increasing the amount of biosis, the amount of interconnected relationships inside a single organism.

Eventually, you get to a human.

A human has more life within it than any other niche of nature of this planet, Amazon jungle, coral reefs, any other mammal.

The human colon and the body systems around it contain more biodiversity, more interconnected relationships than any other system on the planet.

This is more biosis, more life, more energy per cubic centimeter.

And what we get to start to recognize now as our neurobiology of the gut starts to work

through our levels of understanding, we're starting to realize there is no such thing as human intelligence.

There's a human brain that is an antenna for all of nature to speak to.

And so we have the most complicated antenna system of any organism on earth.

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