Quick one. My team tells me we actually have very few reviews relative to the weekly audience

numbers. This is no doubt my fault, as I've always felt a little weird about asking you

to do something for me. But clearly, if you don't ask, you don't get. So if you're enjoying

the show, if it's providing you value, please take 30 seconds and leave a review on Apple

or Spotify. In doing so, you'll help the show rank higher, which means we can continue

to attract the brightest and most trustworthy people in science. My team and I have big

plans for the show where we want to be in 24 months and we need your help to make this

possible. We have 100 trillion of these microbes. They live in our skin, in our mouth. They

basically carpet the entire body and that includes the gut. That, believe it or not, is the

highest concentration of bacteria on literally the entire planet. They play a critical role

in the processing of our food. They are deeply involved in our metabolism. So let me give

you an example. If you take an obese mouse and you transplant the gut bacteria from the

obese mouse into a skinny mouse and the skinny mouse is going to become obese, simply because

you changed the gut bacteria. They control the vast majority of our genetic code. One

percent of your genes are human. 99 percent are your gut microbiome.

That's Dr. Will Balsowitz or Dr. Bay. And this is episode 17 of the Perth Podcast.

Hi friends. Welcome back. Great to be here with you again. Hope you're doing well for

first-time listeners. Thanks for joining us. I'm Simon Hill, the host of this show, author,

nutritionist and physiotherapist. In today's episode, I sit down with Dr. Will Balsowitz.

Will's credentials certainly speak for themselves. It's really no wonder he is a leading global

voice on all things gut health. He graduated medicine at Georgetown University as a master's

of science in clinical investigation has published several scientific papers and is a board

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