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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about how studying the eye micro biome can improve human health

with help from Dr. Tony St. Ledger. You'll also learn why old-timey bikes

had one giant wheel and how to avoid the dangers of dating app addiction. Let's

avoid the dangers of some curiosity. There's true. Killing cats man for sure. Let's

satisfy some curiosity. Researchers can do some pretty amazing things by

learning more about the eye microbiome.

And we've got an expert to help you learn about those things.

Dr. Tony St. Ledger is an assistant professor of ophthalmology and immunology at

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and he recently published a piece in the conversation to help you learn about

the eye microbiome. You already know that studying it can help us find treatments for

pink eye and other conditions.

And now here's what Tony told us when we asked why he thinks studying the eye

microbiome is so important.

We have a general idea of how it works in a mouse, and we're trying to understand how this response works in a human.

And if you think about the humans microbiome, if it's dysregulated, we can then start to identify factors or microbes that push your immune system

in a more healthy way.

So can we target those microbes, add them to patients that don't have it, or take the bad

microbes from patients that do have it, sort of restructure the microbiome landscape into a more healthy one.

And then you might be able to leave some symptoms of auto-immunity from Shogun

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