We continue with the foundations of our physical well-being.

And now we touch upon another foundational aspect of our physical well-being.

The gut microbeying. The gut micro are also known as the microbiome, which is a result of the 2 million

extra genes that we acquire as we come out of our mother's womb into the world.

So as the baby comes out of the mother's birth canal, it swallows, inhales, breeds in, and is covered

by the vaginal secretions of its mother. And then, of course, as it enters the world comes into contact with the father, siblings, other people,

just physical contact and especially as a baby kissing and cuddling and cooing and breastfeeding and touching and

licking all these things introduce two million extra genes in your body and so as genetic information you have 150 times more

bacterial genetic information in your few human

few human,

few human cells hanging on to a bacterial colony.

These bacteria provide the bulk of the metabolic products in your body, which of

course interact with the metabolic products of your human genes as well.

And there is a back and forth flow of information

between your bacterial genes and your human genes.

So I never thought much of nutrition in the past, but when

patients came and told me that once they changed their diet,

their asthma went away or their arthritis went away

or their inflammation went away.

I didn't know what to make of that how could food do that but today we know that

when we put food into our body that's the first thing that food encounters is microbial genes in our gut.

If these genes are inflamed, they reduce the likelihood of healing,

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