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We're all born with about 200 very important microbes, and they're starting to go endangered.

Now we're lucky to get a handful. We're missing a lot of them.

And I think as soon as the public starts to learn about how important these are,

there's going to be a massive race to try to save them.

The ways that we were working with the microbiome for the last few decades,

they're not effective anymore. The probiotics that we get from foods, they're certainly good.

They don't replace the birth microbes, nor do the dirt and soil microbes. There's not technically

a way to get them back once they're lost, and that is what I've spent most of the year working on,

how we can stabilize these, how we can get these replanted and back to people. Not telling anyone here to change their

diet, but the diet for the birth microbes is very different than what I'm seeing around. It is

more similar to what I see in a lot of the tribal regions and kind of across the globe. Glyconutrons

are pretty amazing and there's something that you can incorporate into your diet or you can buy as a supplement. There's eight different medical ones, and it's possible that we'll find more. Think of them like sugars that heal. These are sugars that are not sweet. They regulate the immune system, block certain infections, pathogens, not opportunistic, from the body. And the more and more we learn

about them, the more important they are. Mary, in our world, when it comes to the microbiome,

the gold standard when assessing it is diversity. You're a huge fan of the microbiome. You work

with a lot of people.

How much weight do you give that metric?

What really matters when we look at the microbiome is not diversity, but what we have in there.

You're going to have very different microbes based on what you've eaten throughout your life and what you're eating now.

So different medical diets can shift your microbiome. traditional diets do. We're all born with about 200 very important microbes and they're starting

to go endangered and we can go into that if you like. It's a big topic and one that I'm pretty

passionate about. But the assumption that we need a diverse microbiome was based

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