Human Microbiome Project

You know, I...

When I was in school to become a dietician and I was in my, you know, kind of traditional medical training, it was never taught, 'cause the Human Microbiome Project kicked off in 2007, right? I mean, this was...

So I was already in my studies and stuff, so it really wasn't.

You know, I find it interesting, like, I got into some, like, sort of out there nutrition early on, enzyme therapy and, or enzyme nutrition and, and so I actually got into food fermentation in college.

And so something very significant happened in about 2007.

The National Institutes of Health launched the Human Microbiome Project, and that project told us more about the gut than we ever knew before.

And, you know, there was...

It was similar to the Human Genome Project that told us more about our human genes.

It was symptom and treatment.

There was never a focus on getting to the root cause of an issue.

And that is really what we've now found out, thanks to the Human Microbiome Project, is that the gut is really the cause of so many of our health issues right now.

Again, we thought of it as only being digestive, and it is certainly digestive.

The activated actinobacillus mastodontic, urobiome versus sterobiome, and you get the picture.

For decades, urine was commonly assumed to be sterile, and urinary tract was not included in the original human microbiome project.

Whoopsie.

DHA is a steroid naturally produced by the human body.

This led to new understanding of animal biology.

To further our understanding of these independent relationships, the National Institute of Health created the human microbiome project so it's an actual thing this happened only about 19 years ago examining microbial communities

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i'm mike matthews did the cat eat the hey kids gopher it's me don't rate me the clown cat eat him i don't know So it's important that ever, more than ever, for pet parents to understand how the bacteria in the gut influence an animal's digestion, immune function, skin health, longevity, and other aspects of their well-being.

Let's get back to the topic.

So NIH human microbiome project scientific concept of the human microbe.

Scientists weren't just asking how many bacteria are inside us.

They began asking a much bigger question.

We still don't completely understand which microbes are beneficial in every individual.

Exactly how microbiome influence specific diseases.

Which changes cause diseases versus simply accompany diseases? How much individual microbiome differ? What's a healthy microbiome actually mean for every person? The NIH Integrative Human Microbiome Project You know, it studied dynamic relationship between human and microbes in condition, including pregnancy, inflammatory bowel diseases, and pre-diabetes.

You know, pre-diabetes is rising, you know.

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first learned about the microbiome in 2015 while looking into the Human Microbiome Project.

It was a landmark initiative by the NIH to better understand the microbes living in and on the human body.

As human beings, we are an ecosystem that is made up maybe in larger part by the microbial cells in our body.

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first learned about the microbiome in 2015 while looking into the Human Microbiome Project.

It was a landmark initiative by the NIH to better understand the microbes living in and on the human body.

As human beings, we are an ecosystem that is made up maybe in larger part by the microbial cells in our body.

Is that right? Could you talk to me a bit more about that pathway and what people originally thought and what we understand now about it? Because it's...

We've started to understand a lot more since 2007 because the human microbiome project was launched by some health system in America.

I can't remember the name.

Whatever their big, people started researching the microbiome a lot more.

Now remember, for years, we could not figure out why polyphenols were so good for us because all the research showed that we don't absorb polyphenols well.

And it wasn't until the Human Microbiome Project was completed in 2017 that we realized that polyphenols are actually incredibly important prebiotics for your gut microbiome.

And your gut microbiome loves them, ferments them, and then the fermentation of polyphenols allows you to absorb those fermented polyphenols.

So it's a win-win.