Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon. And today on the podcast, we are interviewing

Kieran Krishnan. He is a medical microbiome expert. He's a renowned research microbiologist with

17 years of experience dealing with microbiome, diet, nutrition. He's been a researcher in

molecular biology and microbiology at the University of Iowa.

And he's done over 50 private label nutritional products.

And I'm so excited because he's going to teach us how our biology, our bacterial biology,

impacts our brain health, our skin health, our body health, and our GI health, right?

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you so much for having me, Dr. Gay.

I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, we did a panel together at The Aesthetic Show a couple years back,

and I thought you were such a great speaker and very eloquent,

so I'm excited for you to teach me in my audience.

What do we need to know about the microbiome?

Yeah, well, to define the microbiome for the audience,

the microbiome is defined as the totality of microbes

and all their genetic elements as it relates to the host.

And of course, we are the host.

Now that genetic elements part to me is actually a really critical part,

because when we look at our system, right,

we all know that we have genes within our cells and our chromosomes,

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