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#109 Making Illness Optional with Naveen Jain and Momo Vuyisich

The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

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The Microbium in the Colon

The colon is home to one and a half kilograms of bacteria. Microbes can process food into something useful that we cannot, because our geans are very limited. The microbium has the ability to digest food in a much more profound way than we do. We use yeast to make beer - if you ate unfermented barley, people would say it's nasty; but when you drink beer with malted barley your body says this is amazing. So viom uses machine learnt models to understand what microbial functions are healthy and which ones are harmful. To find such a person they must first identify their 'microbia funct', then measure how well these functions work.

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