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Using Microbes of Elite Athletes to Heal the Gut with Jonathan Scheiman, PhD of FitBiomics

The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome

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Metagenomic Sequencing on Stool of Marathon Runners

60% of stool is actually bacteria. We could extract their genetic material to understand what's going on in someone's body and how that changed over time. The other 40%? Probably debris unprocessed food. I guess things we don't even really want to know what it is. But there's some yeast in viruses and phages and our chaos, of course.

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