Microbiome (Audio)
You have up to ten times as many microbial cells in and on your body as you have human cells. Discover how the cells that make up our microbiome can impact everything from mood, weight, sleep patterns, allergies and more.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Carbohydrates Are Not Your Enemy
In this program, Dr. Sean Spencer explores the healthy way in which carbohydrates are digested throughout the body. To understand this concept Dr. Spencer discusses the difference between digesting s…
00:09:11 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
A High-Fiber Diet Boosts Health
Dr. Sean Spencer talks about the vast microbial world that lives within our guts — known as the gut microbiome — and how it supports our health. Dr. Spencer emphasizes the importance of a high-fiber …
00:09:58 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Decoding the Dark Side of the Human Genome: How Ancient Viruses Shape Aging
Michael J. Corley, Ph.D., explores groundbreaking research on aging, the role of ancient viruses in our DNA, and the impact of the gut microbiome on longevity. Corley discusses how stress, diet, and …
00:46:32 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
The American Diet is Critically Fiber Deficient
A healthy microbiome can prevent disease and obesity. Dr. Sean Spencer discusses how a diet rich in fiber supports our health in various ways. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science…
00:08:43 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Developing Microbiome-Directed Therapeutics for Treating Childhood Undernutrition
In this program, Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, Director of the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at Washington University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's 2024 recipient o…
01:10:06 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
Feeding Your Microbiome: Dietary Strategies for Wellness and Disease Prevention
How can a healthy microbiome prevent disease? In this program, Dr. Sean Spencer talks about the vast microbial world that lives within our guts — known as the gut microbiome — and how it supports ou…
01:25:13 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Food Poisoning: Seafood and Bacteria
Human activities can increase levels of harmful microorganisms and pollutants in our water systems that have the potential to make us sick or threaten our food supply. Join microbial ecologist Dr. Sa…
00:08:52 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
From Pollution to Protection: Safeguarding Our Water Health
Water on Earth sustains and connects us, but human activities can increase levels of harmful microorganisms and pollutants in our water systems that have the potential to make us sick or threaten our…
00:50:18 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
The Microbes Upon Us: How the Cutaneous Microbiome Promotes Skin Health
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superp…
01:18:40 |
Sat 06 Aug 2022
Microbes and Mental Health – Mood-Enhancing Effects of Gut Microbes
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superp…
01:16:30 |
Fri 29 Jul 2022
The Gut-Brain Axis - Gut Microbiome Influences on Neurological Disease
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superp…
00:58:43 |
Sat 23 Jul 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Large-scale Human Modification of the Planetary Microbiome with Rob Knight
Through the Earth Microbiome Program and complementary efforts, we have sampled a broad range of microbiomes from across the planet. All microbiomes that have been studied are impacted by human activ…
00:23:36 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
They Are What You Eat - How Food and Drugs Interact with the Gut Microbiome
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superp…
01:28:29 |
Sat 16 Jul 2022
Can Big (Microbiome) Data Save the World? – Using AI and Microbiome Data to Predict Health Outcomes
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are just beginning to understand the s…
00:58:24 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
How to Build a Microbiome – Early Life Microbiomes and Their Implications for Children’s Health
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superp…
01:25:57 |
Sat 02 Jul 2022
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