Gut Bugs: Friend or Foe?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Naked Scientists, Medicine, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Technology, Science, Health & Fitness, Science Radio

4.6 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Naked Scientists go on a tour of the intestine, from top to bottom, in search of the good and bad germs that lurk there and what they mean for our health. Plus, why touchscreens may be harming toddlers' sleep and why scientists all over the world are putting down their pipettes and picking up placards. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	This week a top to bottom tour of the intestine.
0:20.0	Why we need more dirt in our diet, how to avoid food poisoning and how to treat IBS, irritable bowel syndrome.
0:26.0	Plus, why the prospects of finding life in outer space just got a lot hotter and evidence that
0:31.8	touch screen devices are affecting the sleep of children.
0:35.0	I'm Katani and I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:40.0	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. The quest to find planets in
0:43.0	UKfast.co. UK.
0:45.0	UK. The quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars that resemble the Earth
0:56.4	and could be habitable has been going on for decades. But most of the early candidates
1:01.1	are what we call hot Jupiter's.
1:03.2	These are massive gas giant planets that are orbiting very close to their parent star and they're
1:07.0	no way capable of supporting life.
1:10.0	But techniques and technology are improving very rapidly and they're now sufficiently good
1:14.0	that we can spot much tinier worlds and even, it turns out, analyze their atmospheres.
1:19.9	And John Southworth from Kiele University has done just that for a star about 40 light years away.
1:25.0	The star is G.J. 1132 and the planet is G.J. 1132 B.
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