gut microbiome

“Fecal transplants have been used, they, their claim to fame is by treating Clostridium difficile infections... You indeed transplant stool into these people, and that transplant works mainly because their microbiome is so depleted and it's like, you know, cult…”

“They looked at carnitine, which is a compound that is found in red meat. This carnitine is metabolized by the microbiome to form TMA. It's a compound. TMA is then oxidized in the liver to form TMAO, and TMAO causes a reduce in reverse cholesterol transport and…”

“And this, these microbes have a 150 times more genes than are in the human genome. They have about three million genes.”

“You get this distribution of bacteria in your gut. That even when you go someplace else, it changes in abundance, but it doesn't change in presence or absence, so it bumps us back when you get to a different place.”

“They took pairs of twins that were discordant for obesity. One twin obese and one twin was... And they transplanted their microbiome into germ-free mice. Germ-free mice are mice that are born and raised in sterile conditions, and they don't have a gut microbio…”