How's it going friends? Welcome to another episode of The Genius Life. I'm your host Max

Lugovira Filmmaker, health and science journals, and the author of The New York Times Best

Selling Book Genius Foods. In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce

you to my friend, Raja Deer. Raja is the co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbial

sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental

health. He's an expert on the microbiome and is able to speak eloquently on a number

of topics related to gut health. In this episode, we discuss the gut microbiome and its

impact on the whole body. What does gut health really mean? And what is the microbiome? How

to optimize the health of your body through the gut? We also discuss how to harness the

gut to improve cardiovascular health with a certain type of commonly available supplement

more typically used for constipation. Everyone is obsessed with microbiome testing. We're

going to definitively answer the question, does the science currently support consumer

level microbiome tests? And of course, how diet impacts the gut? We cover sugar and sugar

alternatives, different types of dietary fibers, and meat and fat. There is so much that

we discuss over the course of this next hour and 15 minutes that you are definitely going

to want to have a pencil and paper ready to take notes. I also just want to mention briefly

that at around the 13 minute mark to the 20 minute mark, there was some raking going

on outside of my apartment window. So for that brief period of time, you're going to

hear some background noise. I sincerely apologize for that. There was nothing that we could

do about it. But it only lasts about three to four minutes. So if you can bear with it,

I promise you that the rest of the episode is worth getting through that. Before we

get into it, I want to go shout out to the sponsor of this episode of the show. For

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