610: Bill Sullivan | Pleased to Meet Me
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Bill Sullivan (@wjsullivan) is a professor of pharmacology and microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, an award-winning researcher, teacher, science communicator, and author of Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are.
What We Discuss with Bill Sullivan:- What we're just now learning in the field of epigenetics -- the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
- Why twins who are genetically identical look less alike as they age -- or if they've been raised apart from one another.
- How the overabundance of plastics and other endocrine disruptors in our environment are affecting not only our bodies on a molecular level, but the physical and mental development of generations down the line.
- How kids -- even the unborn -- are epigenetically altered by the social and economic status of their parents.
- What we're learning about the role of the teeming millions of microorganisms that live inside of us -- collectively known as the microbiome -- on our overall mental and physical health.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.6 | If you take a microbiome sample of intestinal bacteria from a depressed person and put it into a |
| 0:10.4 | germ-free mouse, that mouse starts to exhibit symptoms of depression. It won't be interested in |
| 0:17.7 | treats, it won't socialize with other mice, and if you drop it into a bucket of water, |
| 0:23.3 | it won't even try to swim out like a normal mouse would. So this was a huge discovery |
| 0:29.2 | that links for the first time. Something about the human microbiome is linked to depression. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, |
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| 0:59.4 | practical advice that you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works and |
| 1:03.9 | become a better critical thinker. If you're new to the show or you want to tell your friends about |
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| 1:20.9 | that'll help you get started or help somebody else get started and of course I always appreciate |
| 1:25.2 | it when you do that. Today, how much of our makeup is because of our genetics? And how much is |
| 1:29.8 | because of our environment? This isn't just nature versus nurture, but how nurture affects what's |
| 1:35.1 | already in our nature. I know it's a little confusing, but we'll get through that today and we'll |
| 1:39.3 | explain exactly why our environment interacts with our genes to make us who we really are. Also, |
| 1:44.6 | some things we touch or spray on ourselves might mimic hormones and change the way our body |
| 1:49.4 | and brain works, sometimes in scary ways, and our gut biome and what's in our digestive system almost |
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