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Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya

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The Microbiome Is a Symphony of Bio Diversity

There is an association between a lack of bio diversity inside your microbium, inside your gut, and a range of inflammatory diseases. It's the case that when you live in cities, particularly in the global north, you are much less diverse. And there is a way of operationalizing and stealing, once again, indigenous knowledge in this, in this particular moment, incapulated poop. What you would do is swallow the pill of indigenous hit and all of a sudden yourmicrobium would be re wilded in a fully automated and luxurious way. But it's not clear that the way you solve that is by bottling the forest or bottling the poop of indigenous people and carrying on

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