Guruduth Banavar

And we see that you can improve your heart health and brain health once you detect what's going on in your mouth.

Well, microplastics are still a new area and we haven't dug that deep into it, to be honest with you.

But, you know, there's so the first thing we do in our science is to measure all the expressed genes.

Right.

So what we would have to do soon is to to measure the impact of microplastics on the expressed genes, which we plan to do in the short in a short while.

And we'll publish that data as well.

Yeah, toxins from the environment, right?

Microplastics are one of the biggest things, but also pesticides, right?

Right.

Also fungi in your house, right?

Yeah, mold.

There can be lots of things in your, yeah, mold, exactly, in your household.

And all of these toxins, environmental toxins, are impacting your microbiome.

and your microbiome is impacting your overall health, which impacts your chronic disease status, right?

That's the science that we're building step by step.

Hey, this might be a good time to say that we have, in Viome, collected more than a million samples now.

Wow.

And that is from about a half a million individuals from more than 100 countries around the world.

So we are getting data from everywhere, from all different demographics, all different geographies, all different disease types and so forth.

So the phenotype data, meaning the disease symptoms, the lifestyle, the medications that people take, all of that information is in the