Do you look after your personal flora? Doing so might be crucial to living a healthy life! In this episode, Ash explores the human gut microbiome—what it is, what it does for us, and how to take care of it. In our SNPit, Rosie discusses a recent study that combined biology and physics to explain the mystery behind how egg cells get so large.   

Episode Sources:

• Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health. 
• The Nutrition Source: The Microbiome. 
• Antibiotics alter the gut microbiome and host health. 
• The gut microbiome in health and in disease. 
• Dynamics of hydraulic and contractile wave-mediated fluid transport during Drosophila oogenesis. 
• Study reveals how egg cells get so big. 

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Music:  

AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). 
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