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🗓️ 27 July 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp.j. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute? |
0:39.7 | I've been given an opportunity as one of the only players, the only one at right now, to be inducted in the Hall of Fame with Tommy John surgery. |
0:46.2 | The great Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz at his induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, yesterday, July 26th. |
0:53.7 | He was 34 when he had the procedure |
0:55.8 | in which a damaged ulnar collateral ligament in the arm is replaced by a tendon from another |
1:01.8 | part of the body. It's an epidemic. It's something that is affecting our game. It's something that |
1:07.0 | I thought would cost me my career. But thanks to Dr. James Andrews and all those |
1:11.1 | before him performing the surgery with such precision has caused it to me almost a false |
1:15.8 | read like a band-aid you put on your arm. |
1:18.8 | I want to encourage the families and parents that are out there to understand that this is |
1:23.0 | not normal to have a surgery at 14 and 15 years old. |
1:26.3 | Smoltz then talked about why he thinks so many kids and early career pros wind up needing |
1:31.9 | Tommy John surgery. |
1:33.4 | Every throw a kid makes today is a competitive pits. |
1:37.1 | They don't go outside. |
1:38.4 | They don't have fun. |
1:39.4 | They don't throw enough. |
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