There are about a hundred trillion microbes living inside your gut — protecting you from infection, aiding digestion and regulating your immune system. As our bodies have adapted to life in modern society, we've started to lose some of our normal microbes; at the same time, diseases linked to a loss of diversity in microbiome are skyrocketing in developed nations. Computational microbiologist Dan Knights shares some intriguing discoveries about the differences in the microbiomes of people in developing countries compared to the US, and how they might affect our health. Learn more about the world of microbes living inside you — and the work being done to create tools to restore and replenish them.
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Interesting times we are living in!
Dan studied football field microbes in college. Then he got drafted and is now playing in the Pro Biotic League.
Badum—tsch!
Hypothesis: if you investigate the microbiome of Italians in Sardinia (or vegetarians) you’ll find a healthy diverse microbiome.
The USA is in grave danger with a large part of the population being overfed yet undernourished. (It affect the ability to think clearly…)
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype/
That is why most of the front end breakthrough research happens in the USA.
The heathiest gut bacteria come from eating a diverse diet of homegrown unwashed organic vegetables and fruits. This is because they have elevated microbiotics on their surface which will diversify your gut and keep you healthy. You can test this yourself. Test your gut before and after and you will see an enormous positive change as well as much better digestion. It is common for people from small villages in other countries to grow their own food but once they come to America, they eat processed food and lose their gut diversity.
Sage L sources or stop talking – what you said just reads like guessplanatory waffle
aullik no, washing DOES spoil the health benefits as what you call “dirt” SHOULD be ingested… btw water also takes away the water soluble vitamins and other nutrients… you should take your sterile “hygenic” logic to the toilet, maybe there it will get the much needed contamination of understanding of the matter… solong
“you should take your sterile “hygenic” logic to the toilet” You are completely missing the point. If you rinse your vegetables in water they are NOT sterile. Believe me I live on the land. If you have non-organic food you wanna wash that very thoroughly as they put soo much pesticides on that that you won’t get any bacteria either, only what is left of the pesticides.
mssummerrose1 yeah what about tetanus? What about the fact that dirt is literally dead organic matter?
aullik I don’t eat non-organic foods… btw washing fruits that have pesticides on them doesn’t get you any nutrients either, as these fruits are already worthless and all these pesticides can’t be washed off with water, either… because then the farmers would have to spray them after every rainfall… I mean you should learn from ppl who are into this topic and not spread your half baked “wisdom” here… organic earth is full of minerals, predigested nutrients and microorganisms and is essential to building and maintaining health… it is a commonplace that children who play and eat earth and natural diets are never sick, while the poor ones kept away from nature develop severe allergies and health issues… these overly caring mother’s don’t know what they’re doing, they just want a spare time hobby which is “playing mom”… intervening and micromanaging their children’s lives without having a clue…
If I could I would have legally changed my name to dan knights
I would go for Dank Nights, rather.
Erald Ylli that’s why
Animals live far longer and older in zoos compared to their wild peers. Thanks to the good and abundant food, and to the medical care provided by the zoo staff and vet doctors.
and this changes his point how? If they get sick more often than in the wild, we have something to improve that we humans could benefit from greately aswell.
Not all animals :).
Go vegan!
The futur is vegan for sure!
Go vegan! Eat more highly processed foods as meat supplements! Yey!
not everyone is healthier when they go vegan
Never go full vegan.
HALL NO
want to better your gut? try plant based
Not telling us how to replace the current gut microbes we have living in our guts with what should be there was a big fail on the part of this speaker. He really missed a big opportunity in this talk which I am not used to in a TED talk.
Rickbearcat totally agreed. He missed a huge opportunity in such a big channel as TED.
Eating lots of organic whole foods will allow good bacteria to thrive, but it’s a lifestyle change and hard to do. You can also eat fermented foods like Kimchi and Sauerkraut which grow helpful bacteria in an anaerobic environment. You can buy them at some health food stores. You can also take probiotics, but they only contain a small number of strands and are temporary.
People of America, your microbes are very unhealthy! Right?
You can change the predominance of your microbiome from bacteroides to prevotella in just a couple weeks eating a whole foods, plant based diet.
Doble Rollo
Source?
L A David, C F Maurice, R N Carmody, D B Gootenberg, J E Button, B E Wolfe, A V Ling, A S Devlin, Y Varma, M A Fischbach, S B Biddinger, R J Dutton, P J Turnbaugh. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature. 2014 Jan 23;505(7484):559-63.
The other way round. From Prevotella to Bacteroides with plant-based diet. If you want Prevotella, then get your cured meats out and binge away.
Very very important topic!
I was hoping he would give me a cure for me ibs
that’s SAD! (standard american diet)
I love that everyone is getting into gut health now!! So beneficial for overall knowledge of health
Now whenever you have a Gut feeling trust it! There’s a lot of biomes backing it up!