CARTA: Human Microbiome Evolution with Christina Warinner
Humans have a deep and complex relationship with microbes. Beyond disease, microbes also profoundly shape human health and behavior through...
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Microbiome (Video)
You have up to ten times as many microbial cells in and on your body as you have human cells. Discover how the cells that make up our microbiome can impact everything from mood, weight, slee...
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16 episodesCarbohydrates Are Not Your Enemy
In this program, Dr. Sean Spencer explores the healthy way in which carbohydrates are digested throughout the body. To understand this conce...
A High-Fiber Diet Boosts Health
Dr. Sean Spencer talks about the vast microbial world that lives within our guts — known as the gut microbiome — and how it supports our hea...
Decoding the Dark Side of the Human Genome: How Ancient Viruses Shape Aging
Michael J. Corley, Ph.D., explores groundbreaking research on aging, the role of ancient viruses in our DNA, and the impact of the gut micro...
The American Diet is Critically Fiber Deficient
A healthy microbiome can prevent disease and obesity. Dr. Sean Spencer discusses how a diet rich in fiber supports our health in various way...
Developing Microbiome-Directed Therapeutics for Treating Childhood Undernutrition
In this program, Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, Director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at Washington University and...
Feeding Your Microbiome: Dietary Strategies for Wellness and Disease Prevention
How can a healthy microbiome prevent disease? In this program, Dr. Sean Spencer talks about the vast microbial world that lives within our g...
Food Poisoning: Seafood and Bacteria
Human activities can increase levels of harmful microorganisms and pollutants in our water systems that have the potential to make us sick o...
From Pollution to Protection: Safeguarding Our Water Health
Water on Earth sustains and connects us, but human activities can increase levels of harmful microorganisms and pollutants in our water syst...
The Microbes Upon Us: How the Cutaneous Microbiome Promotes Skin Health
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...
Microbes and Mental Health – Mood-Enhancing Effects of Gut Microbes
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...
The Gut-Brain Axis - Gut Microbiome Influences on Neurological Disease
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Large-scale Human Modification of the Planetary Microbiome with Rob Knight
Through the Earth Microbiome Program and complementary efforts, we have sampled a broad range of microbiomes from across the planet. All mic...
They Are What You Eat - How Food and Drugs Interact with the Gut Microbiome
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...
Can Big (Microbiome) Data Save the World? – Using AI and Microbiome Data to Predict Health Outcomes
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...
How to Build a Microbiome – Early Life Microbiomes and Their Implications for Children’s Health
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping huma...