genetically modified organisms and how to really with our to our health i'm obsessed with microbes i love fermentation and cinder cats as one of my heroes sander has written a wonderful book fermentation where microbes and their little cultures that they in communities that they make together are spoken of our and their in relation to their health for our bodies and in relation to the health of their communities so standard talks about supporting our own microclimate with microbes and fermentation that you can do at home and he also speaks about how all these microbes help our own life so that's one of my obsessions and i also love food food i amazing and keeps us going every day it's every time we need it's a choice to live and i choose to live not only because i love the taste of good quality food but because i love the way it makes me feel and through the art of fermentation and experimenting with all these different fermentations i've seen how my body reacts to different foods and humans earth's microscopic inhabitants are no different and my heroes are not so different and microbes our bodies harbor different but very important ecological niches for its micro habitants in order to keep our bodies thriving we rely on complex prevents we may take for granted like you and breathing processes which are contingent upon microbes it is evident that these small organisms are vital to our daily functioning with all the lethal anti microbial agents out there could be the culture is cultivation but it is not an isolated act it is by definition part of the cyclical ongoing process passed from generation to generation we use this word culture like any other culture microbial cultures must be supported in order to survive in order to create a culturally friendly environment we must understand that pathogens can stem from the destruction manipulation of biodiversity we've heard microbes mentioned throughout the worst of time a whole year of infection there or perhaps something drastic like strep throat these encounters carry over to our beds when we hear of tomato like it's really fungus in the usual scenario we end up blaming some random virus or bacteria and are prescribed a round of antibiotics or in the fields we spray our soils with pesticides and that's that microbes are single celled organisms together they make up the oldest forms of life on her and maybe hard to believe that the descendants of earth's first inhabitants are still alive and well today even more surprising is the sheer number of microbes that exist in the human body alone there's an estimated one hundred trillion microbial an average and considering these organisms have been around for billions of years we are relatively a new home for them microbes exist on most of able to live in such drastically different climates they continually monitor their xterm and internal environments and are readily able to adapt to any changes bacteria have multiple system and i have a membrane that cases everything and protects it keeping things out and keeping things in and then it also has other small organelles and the important t their genes are not fixed like you carry audience and it just gives them a lot more leeway he can adapt it's like a children in a child's game on the playground need this gene thank you so and no i don't from an evolutionary perspective microbe seen someone in that simple a small number of microbes get all the attention relatively fixed you know microbes could certainly view be perceived as threatening we just don't often hear about all the good things they do for us every day allow me to indulge you the trillions of microbes its energy balance sheet expression and immune response are indigenous micro biota are passed down some are likely heirloom from other jobs spring through the birth canal indigenous or not microbes c report sixty nine point two percent of adults over the age of twenty and canada and us are overweight or obese could most could missing microbes be to  blame in more microbial search published in nature on the twenty ninth of may three teams of researchers illustrate that patients with type two diabetes have been altered got micro mentality working with micro is like being at war with ourselves unfortunately pathogenic bacteria are very resilient and indigenous bacteria are only good at working off the gens if they are present you compete as we continue to kill good bacteria with incessant use of antibacterial soaps pastors ation antibiotics pesticides undersides all designed to protect us to help microbial biodiversity with in our bodies is suffering more than ever recent analysis indicated that conventional food in our cultural practices may be influencing the current state of our research published from u c l a on the twenty eighth of may indicates that regularly consuming beneficial bacteria appears to alter brain function most of the natural  kill each application kills both back and good bacteria roundup was introduced in the one nine hundred seventy s and continues to be the most often used herbicide in the united states some estimate that more than two hundred million pounds are in your lead in the u s glad to say that active ingredient around that kills pretty much any green growing thing unless it's specifically resistant to it either by design roundup ready or genetically modified crops or by newly evolving super weeds the use of this chemical causes shifts of different  chemical and environmental toxins according to their reveal glad to save inhibition of this enzyme is instrumental with most of the diseases and conditions associated with the western diet slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body although the pathway of life to say hit is not present in animals were humans it is present difficult to determine whether changes in the gut microbes drive or to contribute to health problems or whether the poor help itself triggers those changes around or is closely tied to the invention of genetically modified organisms or g m a the first g m o crops were genetically engineered specifically for roundup resistance allows this allow artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal for an genes may come from bacteria or viruses insects animals or even human genetic engineering is a complex process scientists in the u k reveal that the process of genetic engineering results and widespread mutations within the insurgency in near its insertion and in hundreds of meanwhile our whole evolutionary partners are shifting in both numbers and diversity the choice is ours julie continue to practice agriculture under the unsustainable methods currently in pla monoculture upon monoculture with synthetic chemicals all of potentially damaging the microbial cultures in our story at least in our soils and in our stomachs do we continue to consume foods with or in t n a our bodies may not even recognize as food creating the framework for super bugs and who knows what else or is it time to team up with micro and re store the many large equal leashes that we both call working with nature and not against it standing for responsible technology for the people for the planet so our children can continue living with micro brains ok so the question heads what are the alternatives to synthetic synthetic chemicals or ar to answer that i have to say working with microbes teaming up as i said is actually what we need to be considering because all chemistry i us and with people don't understand the the pastor's ation completely kills microbes so anytime you're eating a pasteurized food which is most processed foods it's devoid of life all of these foods that we used to be eating filled with all these microbes is what has supported us for so long now they are not eating because of pesticides because of pastors nation where else are we going to get them so now people have to consciously look out and seek and make their own fermentations like he believes to do which is not nothing i think it's great that people are starting to get for a lot of our internal processes not its approach to activities a process that otherwise would so so that's one creates our sacred story that is our d n a our unique story they can only be sa from one mother and one father creating a sacred unique structure that is you and me and the possibility of horizontal transfer damaging our structure this is was so scary and without being