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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 27th, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, there appears to be what we

call a missing microbiome. And in those individuals with the missing microbiome, they appear to be

much higher at risk for these autoimmune and these other immune diseases that present early in life.

That's Ben Wiegand. He received a doctorate in physical chemistry from Harvard.

You may have seen bumper stickers that say honk if you pass P-Chem.

Weigand is now the global head of the World Without Disease Accelerator, the WWDA, at Jansen,

the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson and Johnson, where he's involved in multiple efforts

to prevent disease or identify it in its earliest stages for more effective treatments.

We spoke by phone.

What is the WWDA?

So the WWDA, or we would call the World Without Disease Accelerator, our focus is trying to positively affect the future of

health care. We realize that today, as people get older, they're living longer, but unfortunately,

almost half of people that are 40 years or older have multiple comorbidities, and by 65, 95% of Americans will have two or more

comorbidities. So while they're living longer lives, we have what I call passengers along

the ride with us, whether it's diabetes or Alzheimer's or hypertension. And so our idea and our vision is that we would, you know, if we had

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