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Epigenetics, Microbiome, Mental and Physical Health with renowned physician Zach Bush

The Happy Pear Podcast

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How to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome

The American Gut Project is kind of misnamed now because most of the work is being done in Africa. Jeff Leach started this in 2001 and by 2006 was one of the very first people to be really decoding or putting together a library of the genome of the human gut. The hotsaw tribe have somewhere around 40,000 mappable bacterial genomes compared to 10,000 for Americans. So we've lost 75% of our microbiome just as a general gut population,. working and being in an industrial separation from nature kind of environment. And what are basic things that we can do, like practical things that people can do? Touch nature is the easiest thing.

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