Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast. Your relationship with your microbiome is a very critical

component to understanding your health outcomes and your resilience that an individual tends to have.

But given that your microbiome has such a massive influence on your health outcomes, it actually

becomes really exciting to think that you can change your microbiome at any given point in your life.

You're not stuck with it. It's not like your genes.

So your genes, you're born with certain genetic capabilities and certain genetic tendencies.

Now you can affect which genes are on and off, which is great through the environment.

But nonetheless, you have those genes.

And you can't change the genetic

profile of your system. The microbiome is a pure ecosystem. And like any other ecosystem,

depending on the forces at play, you can absolutely adjust that ecosystem one way or the other,

in a beneficial or a negative manner. Hello, hello. I'm your host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so honored to have on my friend, Kieran Krishnan,

a famous research microbiologist that you may be familiar with if you know anything about microbiome labs or the product,

Megaspor. I have Kieran on to talk today about all your microbiomes. Turns out you have more

than just the microbiome in your GI track. But you've probably heard of the microbiome in your GI

tract if you're having gas or bloating, constipation, struggling with hormones, trying to lose weight,

fertility. We're going to talk about all of it. In fact, as you know, more than 50% of your body are microbes? Yes, more

than 50% of your body are microbes. That means a lot of the symptoms you're having may have

everything to do with your microbiome and not just the microbiome in your gut. He's going to tell

us all the latest research that there is out there on the microbiome,

which is a lot in the last decade.

We've just been flooded with it, so we have a lot to cover.

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