I think that the dirt bacteria aren't that important.

I think what's important are the bacteria you get from your mom,

the bacteria that are on your skin, the ones that humans have had for a million years

that are disappearing. I think those are the important ones.

Okay, welcome to today's show. I've got a special correspondent doing the interview

one of my close friends, Dr. Hermann Garcia Fresco, who is a molecular neurobiologist,

and he's going to be interviewing today's guest, Dr. Blazer.

It's pretty fascinating. I listen to it afterwards, and I think that

I always say in life, there's three outcomes of everything you do. The first one is

because, as expected, the second is things go worse than expected.

And the ideal, the third is things go way better than expected. And you'll find that in anything,

in a job interview, you know, in a date you have with somebody in a business partnership.

And in this interview, we're expecting to be good, and everybody was like, wow, it was amazing.

So have fun listening. So we're really a partnership between microbes and us.

So the human microbiome project is to try to understand that. Let's figure out what's going on.

Is it an accurate statement to save without microbes we wouldn't be able to be alive?

Yes, it is an accurate statement. There are some exceptions where you can raise animals without microbes,

but it's very artificial. Basically, it's a partnership without microbes we would not exist.

Cool. So what got you to write this book?

I've been thinking about the ideas in this book for at least 10 years, but I was always too busy.

And finally, some editors contacted me, they said, you know, we've read about your work,

we think you have a book there. And finally, I just decided I was going to do it. I did it.

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