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Visit Houston and visit Fort Worth. If you'll know that our bodies contain trillions of microbes, bacteria, viruses, fungi,

that play a crucial role in every part of our lives, but that we're only just beginning to understand.

It's your kind of sixth sense, literally your sixth sense, it interacts with everything in your environment.

To me it's the key to absolutely everything.

One area that scientists are very excited about, but remains shrouded in mystery, is the vagina

microbiome.

So when we talk about the vagina, that's this muscular tube that is between the outside and the outside is the vulva, and then the inside is the vagina that connects to the uterus and then to the

other reproductive organs like the ovaries. Anyone who has a vagina will know

they can be a bit of a problem area. Thrush, bacterial vaginosis, urine retract

infections, but now researchers are learning just how big of a player microbes are in women's health.

When we come to women's health in general there is very little research

and we know much less about these mechanisms than we know about other parts of human biology.

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