

TED Talks
Henna-Maria Uusitupa: How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health
2019 • E294 Dec 16, 2019 11m
Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.