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Slavin: Travelers get sick because their microbiome is tied to origin cities

Kevin Slavin · There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator · Dec 6, 2017 · at 36:39

Kevin Slavin, Chief Science and Technology Officer of The Shed and former MIT Media Lab professor, discusses urban metagenomics and microbiomes.

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“You are effectively in exchange with that city. This is why, it's why you get sick when you travel, right? You know, it's like, it's why you eat the food That, you know, in some city that you've never been to, you eat the food that everybody else there can eat with no problem, and it causes a problem. It's because you are literally carrying your country, your city of origin with you, and it's incompatible, lightly incompatible with the city that you're in, right?”

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