Microbiome (Audio) Podcast
1) 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 d...Show More
2) 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 ...Show More
3) The Human Microbiome: A New Frontier in Health
Microbiome expands the genetic and functional capacity of its human host. Susan Lynch explains that human microbiome develops early in life and that gut microbes shape immune function and relate to di...Show More
4) Shaping Our Dynamic Microbiomes For Lifelong Health - Exploring Ethics
Our lifespans are ever-increasing, but our healthspans are not, leading to long periods of unpleasant and expensive suffering with chronic conditions. Many of these conditions have recently been linke...Show More
5) Your Microbiome Your Health
UC San Diego Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering Rob Knight illustrates the enormous presence of the microbiome in humans. Knight is presented by the Library Channel at UC San D...Show More
6) On Beyond: Hi-Tech Farming 2015 Vilcek Prize Building Quadcopters Lawrence Berkeley Lab Geysers
Learning computer science and engineering by building remotely controlled quadcopters, groundbreaking research into the human microbiome, understanding geysers, high-tech approaches to sustainable agr...Show More
7) The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes with Rob Knight -- Sages and Scientists 2016
The microbiome has great impact on your health. But as Rob Knight of UC San Diego demonstrates, the good news you have the power to alter it. Learn more about microbiome discoveries, synthetic microb...Show More
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes with Rob Knight -- Sages and Scientists 2016
04:50 | Nov 25th, 2016
8) What Gut Microbes Can Teach Us About Sustainability
Renewable chemicals derived from plant biomass are attractive alternatives to those made from petroleum. To make them on the necessary scale chemical engineer Michelle O’Malley is looking at the diges...Show More