What’s In Your Gut? Lessons From The Microbiome
SXSW 2015 talk Alexandra Carmichael
Director of Community at uBiome
let’s start with stretching for a sec
that’s better. now who am I?
director of QS for 3 years, growing it to 92 cities
co-founder of CureTogether, acquired by 23andMe
now at uBiome (red pants!)
why study the microbiome?
100 trillion bacteria dancewith you
you have as many as 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells
we haven’t known much about them until 2012…
… when the human microbiome project
sequenced all DNA from the human microbiome
uBiome started the same year
we make microbiome testing available to everyone
5 test sites: gut
mouth skin nose
genitals
warning: I’m a data nudist
why is my gut actinobacteria 7x more
than average?
good guys
they’re anti-inflammatory good guys
maybe because I drink so much kombucha?
why is there no actinobacteria on my skin?
acne
on skin, these guys can contribute to acne
thanks mom?
I’ve always had pretty clear skin
but enough about me…
what else are we learning?
1. is there a difference between male and female
gut microbiomes?
uBiome data says they’re the same!
2. meet a real-life microbiome hacker
he hacked his sleep with potato starch and uBiome testing
3. do gut and mouth microbiomes have a
signature?
here are 1000 mixed up gut and mouth samples
and here they are separated
pretty cool, right?
4. helping teenagers with crohn’s
9 teens with Crohn’s had fecal microbiome transplants
(gut bacteria from a healthy donor)
7 of them were in remission after 2 weeks
5 were still in remission after 12 weeks
so much still to discover
what will you learn?
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thanks for reading! hugs, alexandra