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I want to talk about why harmless bacteria can turn bad.

So there's all sorts of different relationships that we have with bacteria.

If you have good bacteria that exchange with us, we provide a home for them to live in.

They give us vitamins and immune protection.

Then you have another relationship with bacteria, which is commensal, in which one organism

benefits with another without hurting them or necessarily helping them.

So in this relationship, they're just living there, they're just neutral, they're not

causing us any harm.

And then sometimes they will flip in the relationship with us and turn pathogenic, which they can

cause disease.

And there's a handful of these bacteria that can do this, a certain types of strep bacteria,

E. coli, Candida, that basically is harmless, and then something happens and they flip

and they start creating harm.

In fact, some of these bacteria in a 30-day cycle can go through 500 generations and

morph into something very harmful to our bodies.

They can go from harmless to actually killing us.

Now the key factor that changes this relationship is the environment that they live in.

It's the environmental pressures.

So when this environment changes in pH, oxygen levels, oxidative stress, temperature, chemicals,

and this can all occur with what you put in your body, what you expose your body to in

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