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How to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome for Brain & Overall Health

Huberman Lab

CHAPTER

The Microbioda of the Digestive Tract

The structure of the digestive tract turns out to be very important in terms of gut brain signalling. And it was strongly impacted by who handled you when you came into the world, literally the hands that were on you and how much skin contact you had. You have loads and loads of these little microbioda, these bacteria. In fact, right now you are carrying with you about two to three kilograms, so that's more than six pounds of these microbes. About 60 per cent of your stool is made up of live and dead micro bacteria. We will talk about what that signalling looks like and how that's done and accomplished in just a few moments.

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