About 10 years ago scientists sequenced the first human genome and we started to unlock
some mysteries about our health, our development, what makes us look the way we do, act the
way we do, feel the way we do.
And now we’re realizing that we’re outnumbered by thousands-fold with bacterial genes. Our
whole bodies are a super-organism.
The Secret World Inside You tells a story of the microbiome; that is the kinds of microbes
in and on you.
It turns out that a grand majority of the cells in our bodies are actually microbial
cells that have co-evolved with us for millions of years.
They are doing things for us; important things for us like helping us digest our food and
training our immune systems so that we can be healthy throughout our adult lives.
And that change in our way of looking at microbes has been one of the most fundamental shifts
in biology.
It really is going to change the way we think about ourselves and our health in the generations
moving forward.