Your Microbiome: The Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
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========== [SHOW OPENING MUSIC] This episode was sponsored by Audible. [OPENING SHOW MUSIC] Teleport every one of your cells into the
next room, and you’d leave a strange shadow behind. A ghostly cloud of single-celled creatures
that live on and inside your body. Your microbiome. Zoom in and we can see this cloud is made
of bacteria, fungi, and others… Like these in the gut, that digest fiber and
give us nutrients we can’t make ourselves. Or these, that munch our skin oils and give
off our characteristic body odors. Even the film of plaque we brush off your
teeth was put there by microbes. You’re teeming with microscopic life. Or rather, you were. Without you to sustain and contain it, your
microbiome is rapidly dying, and without it, over in the next room, so are you. From your first ...