Season 2, Ep. 5: Fungal Biomes | Prof. Marie Claire Arrieta
When you hear the phrase ‘gut microbiome’, you most often think about bacteria. However, a huge proportion of your intestinal microbes are viruses, archaea and fungi. These other microbes however, hav...
24 Helmi 202140min
Season 2, Ep. 4: Cancer Biomes | Prof. Wendy Garrett
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers and cancer deaths worldwide and its rates are increasing in many countries around the world, especially in younger adults. Emerging evidence points ...
17 Helmi 202144min
Season 2, Ep. 3: Fermented Food Biomes | Prof. Paul Cotter
Kombucha, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi… fermented foods such as these have suddenly appeared on the shelves and menus around the world. Much of this is due to our increasing knowledge about our gut micro...
9 Helmi 202141min
Season 2, Ep. 2: Building Biomes | Prof. Jack Gilbert
Did you know that humans emit about 37 million bacteria every hour? Your entire surroundings, from the air you breathe to the walls of your house, are populated by a vast mixture of microbes. But to w...
3 Helmi 202140min
Ep. 7: Allergic Biomes | Prof. Susan Lynch
In this final episode of the series, I speak to Prof. Susan Lynch from University of California San Francisco. We discuss the hygiene hypothesis, which suggests that early life exposure to infections ...
14 Heinä 202044min
Ep. 6: Evolutionary Biomes | Professor Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello
Through our diets, hygiene practices, overuse of antibiotics and other aspects of our Westernised diets, we are losing much of the vast diversity of our gut microbiomes. In this episode for World Micr...
27 Kesä 202055min
Ep. 5: Baby Biomes | Dr. Lindsay Hall
In this episode I speak to Dr. Lindsay Hall to studies the gut microbiomes of babies. She examines how preterm babies are more prone to infections and how we may be able to optimise their gut microbes...
1 Kesä 202033min
