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And the microbiomes that have a lot of microbes in common are close to each other.

So for some of these animals, having the right microbes living inside them may be a matter of survival.

And what we found is that when people come to the USA from these groups, they lose a large fraction of their microbiome, somewhere around 20 percent, and those who come to the USA and become obese lose about a third of their microbes.

Are these microbes actually causing the obesity, or is the obesity causing a change in the microbes?

Unlike your own genome, it's a living, breathing thing, and there's a broad front of research happening right now to better understand how we can restore our microbiomes when something goes wrong, using diet, using live microbes.

And in fact, one of the next steps for us is collecting and preserving microbes from healthy people around the world so that they can be kept as cultural assets for those groups to potentially protect them as they adapt to modern society, and to protect future generations who are currently growing up to have increased risk of these diseases with every generation.

I mean, you can think of clothes constructed form renewable biobased sources, cars running on biofuel from engineered microbes, plastics made from biodegradable polymers and customized therapies, printed at a patient's bedside.

This view is sometimes called panpsychism: pan for all, psych for mind, every system is conscious, not just humans, dogs, mice, flies, but even Rob Knight's microbes, elementary particles.

But as you go down to worms, microbes, particles, the amount of phi falls off.

Well, it turns out that we do have something just like that: our gut, or rather, its microbes.

But it's not just the microbes in our gut that are important.

Microbes all over our body turn out to be really critical to a whole range of differences that make different people who we are.

For example, I seldom get bitten by mosquitos, but my partner Amanda attracts them in droves, and the reason why is that we have different microbes on our skin that produce different chemicals that the mosquitos detect.

Now, microbes are also really important in the field of medicine.

And, if you're a fruit fly, at least, your microbes determine who you want to have sex with.

So microbes are performing a huge range of functions.

With microbiology, it's kind of the same, although I've got to be honest with you: All the microbes essentially look the same under a microscope.

So instead of trying to identify them visually, what we do is we look at their DNA sequences, and in a project called the Human Microbiome Project, NIH funded this $173 million project where hundreds of researchers came together to map out all the A's, T's, G's, and C's, and all of these microbes in the human body.

Each point here represents all the complex microbes in an entire microbial community.

And what it turns out to be is that those, as the different regions of the body, have very different microbes in them.

And we've just over the last few years found out that the microbes in different parts of the body are amazingly different from one another.

So if I look at just one person's microbes in the mouth and in the gut, it turns out that the difference between those two microbial communities is enormous.

It's bigger than the difference between the microbes in this reef and the microbes in this prairie.

But that's not true of your gut microbes: you might only share 10 percent similarity with the person sitting next to you in terms of your gut microbes.

So these different microbes have all these different kinds of functions that I told you about, everything from digesting food to involvement in different kinds of diseases, metabolizing drugs, and so forth.

Well, in part it's because although there's just three pounds of those microbes in our gut, they really outnumber us.

So where do our microbes come from in the first place?

So just like we can match you to your computer equipment by the microbes you share, we can also match you up to your dog.

So babies that come out the regular way, all of their microbes are basically like the vaginal community, whereas babies that are delivered by C-section, all of their microbes instead look like skin.

And this might be associated with some of the differences in health associated with Cesarean birth, such as more asthma, more allergies, even more obesity, all of which have been linked to microbes now, and when you think about it, until recently, every surviving mammal had been delivered by the birth canal, and so the lack of those protective microbes that we've co-evolved with might be really important for a lot of these different conditions that we now know involve the microbiome.

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