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Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood — and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.
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This was actually pretty intresting
How it just came out 2 minutes ago
@TheSkillDead it had come out 10 seconds before i started watching. And i wasent actually done watching before i comented.
True it may affect lifelong health but it doesn’t mean that with a healthy nutritional diet effects can’t be reverted.
Gotta eat yogurt to keep that good gut bacteria. Jamie Lee Curtis told me so
The spice… she knows
How do the heavy metals that the government is spraying us with, affect our health?
They kill us slowly
They take care of our overpopulated world.
@Survival Farm Coach Yup, Agenda 21/30
Just dropped in to check how heavy the Finnish accent is. Not bad. Proceed.
Also torille.
Nyt viimeistään sinne torille!
Jees veri interesting
I love her passion. She’s doing great work.
gotta move to finland asap
Yeah…10 minutes to say we can now make some HMO’s in the lab?
What about the mother not having the right biome to begin with? How different are gut biomes for individuals?
wait?? finnish name? finnish accent??
TORILLE! SUOMI PERKELE!!
I have seven grandchildren, with 2 requiring C-section birth. So wish we had tis knowledge so many years ago. Thank you.
Everyone asks “How do the gut microbes I’m born with affect my health.” Nobody asks “how does my health affect the gut microbes I’m born with!”
@cjgoeson Your mother’s decisions… your grandmother’s decisions horribly impact these perfectly innocent angelic little microbes. Lets not forget the victims here!
Joe Rogan gonna pull himself off to this.
You mean I worked all these years to perfect my gut and now there is scientific order to it? I thought it was just a landslide from my once muscular chest.
1:11
Sorry, but I had to enable captions for that
Based on the thumbnail…a talk about guy microbes, or Tie Fighters???