Q&A - The Microbes Within Us - with Ed Yong

[@pprehn5268]

Looking forward to reading this one, am reading your second book right now. Your knowledge is inspiring me totally rethink the universe

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

Ed Yong is a great communicator. I really enjoyed the main presentation and Q&A session.

[@joppadoni]

Excellent lecture. Great speaker, will look to watch more of Ed.

[@KemptonLam]

18:38 Amazing co-dependence of this one bug, bacteria and another bacteria inside it!

[@pavlinka.p]

This is interesting because I come from Eastern Europe, from a village & orphanage; I remember eating pine cones, pine needles, bugs, rose petals, etc… I 100% have issues with my GI system still having h.pylori that hasn’t been treated.

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

@ 33:35 Nice comment!

[@RonJohn63]

I *knew* someone would comment on that...

[@marcoglara2012]

This guy is a goddamn genius

[@MrCGangsta]

can some1 tell me how those microbes that seam to be very simple lifeforms have the most complex genome on earth ?

[@Maxander2001]

They do not have the most complex genome on Earth, do they? Together if you count all bacterial species variation into one unit, possibly.

[@vinceanthony7046]

We are composed of specialized microbes cooperating together.

[@olomad6722]

Commercial probiotics have max. 20 strains. We can have 10000 different strains. We know 80 pathogenic strains.

[@fotoviva123]

24:29 Very 2016 behavior :-)

[@chillydoog]

2018 now. Do you still hold this opinion?

[@olomad6722]

So, habitat and food create our microbiome. Poor habitat - concrete town, means poor microbiome and sickness.