Eating Yogurt Is Not Enough: Rebalancing The Ecosystem Of 'The Microbes Within Us'

[frog_in_the_fog]

Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes, says someday we might be able to improve our health by taking probiotics, but "we are still in the very early stages of working out how to do this."

npr Fresh Air - August 18, 2016

I found these interviews quite interesting, as this research into microbes could lead to a better tomorrow for us all.

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out all the pages that dealt with beneficial microbes, I could just about give someone a nasty paper cut. The narrative of disease and death still dominates our view of microbiology.”

Excerpt From: Ed Yong. “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life.”

 

[JaimeS]

This whole conversation is soooo cool

....and surprisingly funny.

 

[Little Bluestem]

I heard the Fresh Air broadcast and found it very interesting.