Peter Attia· MD
so um I just tell you a funny story early on when I started this company I met a guy who was really interested in hyena mouth microbiomes and the reason is because the hyena is one of these bizarre animals that can eat a carcass of an animal after it's been dead for a extended period of time you know a week two weeks no other animal go near an animal that's been dead for that amount of time because of the bacterial overload this is just going to kill you and so it's so-called rotten meat that these hyenas are able to eat and he had this big question of why are they able to do that and it turns out if you look at the microbiome of a hyena they make an incredible amount of antibiotics and so um he had this whole theory that if you could understand you know what antibiotics are being generated in that Hyena's mouth microbiome it might be a new source of antibiotics for us and he was so extreme in this belief that the hyena had such a clean mouth that in the context of doing this job of trying to get microbiomes he got bit by a hyena he went to the emergency room and they're getting ready to give him antibiotics and he he said no I don't want antibiotics it's going to it's going to decimate my microbiome furthermore I know that because I got bit by hyena I'm not going to get an infection they have the cleanest mouths and they assign all these waivers and apparently he never got an infection but um you know the the mouth microbiome is a source of potentially you know bacteria but but maybe other sources of new science