Why is the microbiome so important?

Dr. Christopher Gardner is a nutrition scientist and the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. For 27 years at Stanford he has studied what to consume and to avoid for optimal health, and how best to motivate individuals to achieve healthy dietary behaviours.In this episode, Dr. Gardner tells us why the microbiome is so important for our health and shared with us astonishing results of clinical trials conducted with groups of people who added prebiotics and probiotic...