Welcome to the Doctor Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Berg.

So I want to talk about the relationship between the friendly bacteria you have in your gut and around your body,

as well as the friendly fungus.

And so I want to talk about this relationship because people think that your microbiome,

all your microbes are just primarily bacteria when you have a lot of different species going on.

You have viruses, you have different types of funguses like yeast.

And so they're all supposed to live together in harmony.

But any time you learn a new topic, it's very important to define the words within that topic

to really understand the definitions of these basic words.

So let me go through a few things.

And so all the bacteria in your gut, the friendly bacteria is called the microbiome.

And all the friendly fungus is called the microbiome, one of the challenges with studying fungus,

in which by the way, it's not very studied because it's very hard to culture fungus.

And so the friendly bacteria and the friendly fungus remain friendly

until the environment changes.

They have the potential to become pathogenic.

So they can actually morph into pathogenic strains and create a lot of problems in center bodies.

Now the three new words I'm going to define.

And this basically relates to the relationship that you have with these microbes.

You have mutualism, which you have two organisms, two different species that are benefiting from each other.

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