Spilling Our Guts: Decreased Diversity in the Human Microbiome
17:17 minutes
Diversity is the key to happiness…when it comes to your microbiome. Gut bacteria diversity varies in each species and can be influenced by different settings, and not always for the better. Surgeon John Alverdy discusses how a stay in the hospital can affect your microbiome, and Andrew Moeller explains how the evolution from apes to humans may have caused us to lose a few gut bacteria along the way.
Segment Guests
John Alverdy
John Alverdy is Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor and executive vice-chair of the Academic Affairs Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
Andrew Moeller
Andrew Moeller is a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, Austin in Austin, Texas.
Meet the Producer
About Alexa Lim
@AlexaLim22Alexa Lim was a senior producer for Science Friday. Her favorite stories involve space, sound, and strange animal discoveries.