Gregory Kuehn – Metabiomics – Non-invasive Detection and Prevention of Colon Cancer Via Microbiome Analysis

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Gregory Kuehn is the co-founder and COO of Metabiomics, a company that has been developing tools and techniques for analyzing the human gut microbiome for the last 15 years. Their primary focus is on the early detection and prevention of colon cancer through the identification of colonic polyps, which are precursors to colon cancer.
With the combination of carefully-controlled clinical trials and machine learning methods that view the entire microbial community in a stool sample, Metabiomics has developed a non-invasive test to predict the presence or absence of polyps in any given patient.
Since analysis of the gut microbiome can also be used to characterize the general health of the lining of the gut, these tests will also be used as diagnostic tools for IBD and IBS. Metabiomics is developing several tests that will be available to patients through their primary care or gastroenterologist’s office. “It’s an exploding field, it’s kind of a paradigm shift in that we are looking at human health differently and we are starting to take the health of the microbial communities inside us and on our skin a lot more seriously,” says Kuehn.
Kuehn also addresses how the gut microbiome is affected by diet, and how this correlates to high levels of colon cancer in certain regions of the world, and the complete absence of colon cancer in other parts of the world. Press play to learn more, and visit metabiomics.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies
0:08.0	Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these
0:14.8	technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for
0:19.6	Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.0	Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and
0:38.8	a future check expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people.
0:44.4	We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications.
0:47.4	We're going to be talking about quantum computing,
0:49.6	cyber security, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised
0:55.6	to and actually changing our lives as we speak.
0:59.4	Here's why you should attend.
1:01.1	As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited
1:05.2	from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet
1:11.2	boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real
1:16.6	estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now. They don't wait till later.
1:25.4	They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest gold nuggets.
1:30.3	If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference.
1:37.5	Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data,
1:41.5	how we send money around the world, how we bank and more.
1:46.0	But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cyber security will play a pivotal role in
1:51.0	our lives as well.
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