Hi. Hi folks this is Rob Wolf with another edition of the Paleos Solution

podcast today I have a guest whose curriculum vitae I could spend the hour covering so I'll just do a very short

treatment of that we have Dr Martin Blazer who is the director of the NYU

human microbiome program he's the former chair of the NYU Human Microbiome Program.

He's the former chair of the Department of Medicine

and Professor of Microbiology

at New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Blazer has also recently published

the book, Missing Microbes, how the overuse of antibiotics

is fueling our modern plague stock docked a huge honor to have you on the show my great

pleasure you know I get a lot of questions from folks who are trying to figure out a career path and

frequently medicine related, research related,

could you maybe give folks a little bit of your background?

And you know, you went to medical school,

why did you choose microbiology

and kind of an epidemiological kind of orientation.

I think that that's really helpful for people to understand,

you know, why some folks who have just reached the pinnacle of success in a particular area of what drove you in that

direction? Well thank you I appreciate that I sometimes talk about it and I can

summarize my career trajectory in one word, accident.

And that's kind of important for people to understand, especially young people, that there is no script. Things happen. And in my case, I was, I went to medical school. My goal was to become a doctor. When I was in my last year of

medical school, I did research. It was completely a failure and I was sure that I was never going

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