Food Episode 3: Go with Your Gut

What does it mean to have a "healthy gut?" Is it worth drinking kombucha or taking probiotics? What about that gut-brain connection? PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal explore how "good" bacteria help us to break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies. Love this episode? There are more stories about Harvard scientists' research into microbes on the podcast Proof, from America's Test Kitchen. Full Transcript The Veritalk Team: Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert Sound Designer: Ian Coss Logo: Emily Crowell Executive Producer: Ann Hall Special Thanks to: Cary Allen-Blevins, Vayu Maini Rekdal, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

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Food Episode 3: Go with Your Gut is an episode from Veritalk by Harvard University.

This episode is 00:18:15 long.

This episode was published on May 2, 2019.

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