Microbiomes: The billion little creatures living inside us

Luke and Jarod are back at it in the second year of Unprompted. They talk about the biology of the human microbiome. Is the microbiome an integral part of the human body and where do we draw the line at what is part of our microbiome and what isn't. They also discuss possible ways that we could use our microbiomes to improve our lives.

• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life: Yong, Ed: 9780062368591: Amazon.com: Books
• Current understanding of the human microbiome | Nature Medicine
• Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: An Update on Clinical Practice - PMC (nih.gov)
• The mystery of the lost Roman herb - BBC FutureI was going to do a history fact about a roman spice that they drove to extinction. I mentioned that I thought it was asafoetida, which is actually a spice that grows in Iran. I was incorrect there. The Roman spice was silphium and asafoetida was the closest substitute that existed when it went extinct in the Classical era and still is the best substitute we have today.
  Asafoetida - Wikipedia
• Some details on the Columbian exchange: The Columbian Exchange: How the New World Affected the Old | Panoramas (pitt.edu)