Microbiome

So that's just another factor to be aware of.

Another factor is the microbiome.

Microbiome is definitely involved in helping you make amino acids and other factors in helping you make protein in general.

And so if someone had a lot of antibiotics, many times they start having all sorts of problems with They're muscles, building muscles and maintaining muscles.

So consuming more probiotic foods, like fermented foods, like sauerkraut, things like that, that are very, very good.

Ice is the cleanest thing we have on this planet.

But in our first paper we published in Microbiome, we found 32 genera of viruses 28 of them were novel, not seen before.

And we currently have a paper in a review in Nature where we take the history of microbes back on this very old core, which is over 500,000 years.

And the microbes in the bottom of that core are totally different than the microbes in the top of the core.

And we have those kinds of examples in microbes.

We don't understand those systems well enough Microbiome work really created a lot of excitement.

I personally, I was very happy to see the application of those tools to, if you will, the understanding of how these are working.

But I believe we're probably at least a decade, if not several, away from understanding how we may manipulate that situation to the benefit of growers.

And that's approximately how many bacteria researchers estimated could be transferred during a just 10-second French kiss.

Now, where does that number come from, you might ask? Well, in 2014, researchers in the Netherlands published a study in the scientific journal Microbiome.

They recruited 21 couples and investigated the relationship between intimate kissing and the bacteria living in their mouths.

Specifically, they wanted to know whether people who kiss regularly develop similar oral microbiomes.

I think, yeah, I think that's it.

I don't think there is a clean answer and, and part of the reason for that is in 2012, that's when the, approximately when the Human Microbiome Project ended, and before that point we didn't really have an idea about the genetic makeup of the bacterial population in the human gut.

Mm-hmm.

So if you go pre-2012, th-this was not really a, a field of research.