Andrew Huberman· PhD
And the vast majority of these are in our distal gut and in our colon, and so this is the gut microbiota or gut microbiome.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And the vast majority of these are in our distal gut and in our colon, and so this is the gut microbiota or gut microbiome.
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microbes are not just in our gut, but they're all over our body. They're in our nose, they're in our mouths, they're on our skin. And so basically anywhere that the environment can get to in our body, which includes inside our digestive tract, of course, is colonized with microbes.