Anti-Viral Gut: Maximize Your Immunity | Dr. Robynne Chutkan Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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The Effects of Genetic Predisposition on the Microbiome
The vast majority think 80 to 90 percent of the composition of the microbiome is built rather than born right you inherit your founding species from your mother if you have the good fortune of passing through that birth canal but then it is really your environment and diet. We are also exchanging microbes with the people who live with us in fact I read a study two days ago that said that 25 percent of we share about 25 percent of the viruses with the people we live with we have close contact with. The loneliness isolation can mean for the microbiome because one of the things we know with aging is that to have decreased frailty to be more robust as we age we need diversity in the microbiome.
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