9: Jessica Richman: Quantifying the Microbiome and the State of Crowd Science

The Quantified Body

A couple of cutting edge and very relevant quantified body topics today- quantifying the microbiome and the state of crowd science We’re looking at the microbiome, which you probably have seen is the big new topic in the health media and news the last few years. Research is increasingly relating differences in our microbiomes to a range of disease conditions, primarily chronic and gut related ones. If you’re already buying the probiotics or prebiotics in the health store - the reason you’re doing that, is for the microbiome. But what, if anything, do the probiotic and prebiotic products do for us? ...