How to Take Care of Your Gut

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We're talking fecal transplants, probiotics, gut flora and more this week. Do bacteria in your GI tract affect your moods? How does your microbiome affect your overall health? We visit the lab of computational biologist Dr. Jose Clemente where he and his team study the efficacy of fecal transplants in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:19.8	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor and chief of
0:21.7	Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're exploring the human gut.
0:27.7	That's right, your gut, which people are totally obsessed with these days. Their gut flora is all
0:33.6	messed up, or they're taking probiotics they got at Whole Foods to balance their gut bacteria.
0:38.6	And it turns out we're right to be obsessed with the gut because it's really so important.
0:42.7	You know what's also important, Alice? I think I know what you're going to say. It's our 100th episode.
0:48.4	Woo-hoo! So how do you feel about us making it to 100?
0:55.3	I can't believe it, actually.
0:57.6	100 is a large number.
0:59.3	Yeah.
0:59.6	And I can't believe we have sat across from each other 100 times.
1:03.7	And yet, each time it feels like the first time.
1:06.1	Feels like number one.
1:07.4	Numero uno.
1:09.3	So true.
1:10.4	I feel exactly the same. Yeah? Yeah. I feel like every day is the first. How does 100 make you feel? I'm very impressed with us. Yeah. I'm impressed that we've come this far. Who knew? I thought we'd make it to 30. Really? Peter out. No, I knew we'd keep going.
1:28.9	But I didn't think what it would, 100 would come this quickly.
1:31.3	It really seems like it's come fast.
1:33.8	Soon it'll be 1,000 and we'll be interviewing Obama.
1:37.5	That's right.
1:38.2	It's going to happen.
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