But you're actually outnumbered by even more bacterial cells.

And these little bacterial critters that air inside you are unique to you.

They're kind of like your own little bacterial fingerprints, and you can learn a lot about how these bacteria affect your life.

By examining your poop, we found a company that actually examines your feces to tell you your gut health, and then we're going to take probiotics for 30 days and see if it can have an impact on our microbiome.

A little thing to put on the toilet, to poop on, to scoop a sample from.

And then we're good to go way that they make the shit looking this it's perfectly swirled like a soft ice cream.

Kind of just.

I don't know if that's gonna happen for me, but we'll find out gonna poop on that.

I'm not going to show you that part, and it's going to make its way into this tube.

I'd like to think that we've been in a relationship for long enough that I could shit in front of you, but I don't know I'm a little nervous.

I just don't think I'm ready to take that step.

And based on my farts, it is definitely a biohazard.

We pooped in all the appropriate places, Good on us.

It was a really challenging feet, and we did a great job.

We also made some of our other friends do it as well to make our sample size bigger.

And we wanted to talk to everyone and find out if off the bat anyone had some sort of digestion issues or concerns they might be thinking about with the bacteria in their bodies.

I did have EIB's.

It's a lot better now.

Thankfully, I don't know that other people have the same problem, but I feel that I have a low tolerance for spiciness, both on the way in and on the way out to bloated.

I feel bloated a lot, not a lot.

Sometimes, like I have a very sensitive stomach, a bit or whatever.

It is not necessarily upset, but I like it, sings often.

I don't really have a digestive issues, just like if I eat Popeye's like, yeah, I think my digestion is pretty normal.

The first thing we wanted to analyze with our poop samples was how diverse our microbiome waas and the way that you look at diversity in someone's microbiome is was something called the Simpson's Diversity Index, with zero being no diversity that's bad and one being infinite diversity, which is actually impossible.

But 0.99 for example, would be a very diverse good number.

So looking at The Simpsons Diversity Index for your first sample, the score that you got with 0.72 0.750 point 820.850 point 850.88 you are above average.

No, you mentioned that you did have I B s, which could be why your score is a little bit lower.

Diet is a huge when your diet throw your entire life.

Not just the day that you took your samples is really important.

I need to eat better, and I just don't.

So I'm not totally surprised.

To be honest, I know this is a very small sample size, but it was really interesting to see that the people who had the most digestion issues also had the least diversity within their gut someone like Mitch, who had a lower diversity score.

Not all hope is lost.

He can feed that good bacteria with prebiotic food and prebiotic food is hate to say it.

It's things like vegetables, leafy greens, artichokes, garlic.

Some things are delicious.

The more you eat, the more your bacteria eat and the more diverse your gut can become to snack on fruits.

I got my desk during the day, but then on the weekends I think I go like a little crazy.

And mhm, I eat McDonalds lunch.

I'll do like a protein and a vegetable and grain.

Same thing for dinner.

In general, you have a pretty healthy microbiome.

This can continue toe.

Nourish those bacteria by eating lots of prebiotic foods like garlic onions.

Eat so much garlic.

There you go, because I mean I'm gonna live longer, Not necessarily another way toe.

Also help increase your microbiome.

Diversity is to take probiotics or eat probiotic food like yogurt or kefir.

I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but I think it is.

So the next thing we did is we actually took probiotics for 30 days, and then we analyze our poop again.

Yes, we pooped in a cup twice.

We are champions.

We wanted to see if those probiotics actually affected our microbiome and the diversity in our gut.

Initially, we saw that your diversity index was 0.72 and your second sample.

After taking probiotics, it was 0.738 point 74 So pretty much to say.

Okay, so then that means that the probiotics didn't have a major impact on like increasing the diversity or without looking at the exact species that increased in decrease.

It's difficult to see if the probiotics really had an impact.

However, there's so many other factors as well.

So your diet throughout that time period, even your amount of sleep and exercise that you get impacts your microbiome diversity.

It was 0.8.

There was a little bit of a dip there.

But there's lots of factors that can affect your microbiome diversity.

The sample might have been early in the week.

Maybe that weekend was rough.

A rough weekend.

I don't know.

Your second sample your score was 0.91 whoa.

0.770 no.

So there was a little quite a significant drop in your two samples.

You want to say it was pop ized e?

I'm like a two week bender.

Oh, no, not definitely impact.

I remember to take the bills.

What probably happened is, if you weren't eating very well over that time, period was probably with probiotics.

Probably weren't doing much for you.

They're probably just going in and out the other end.

Your second sample was Point eats it.

Okay, so it went down a bit slightly lower.

Maybe it's cause I pizza the whole time.

It didn't need anything but pizza.

I hope not.

There's no necessary dose for probiotics.

Let's say you're taking three times the amount of probiotics, but you're not eating well, then the bacteria aren't going to colonize your gut.

Anyway.

You have to get right.

You gotta get it right.

We have now learned that you can't just go to the grocery store or pharmacy and buy probiotics and then expect that your microbiome is just gonna be all good.

That's because many things affect your microbiome.

For example, your health, your sleep, how much alcohol you take clearly, how much Popeye's you're eating clearly or things like whether or not you're vaginally birth or C section birth, it doesn't mean that probiotics are useless.

What it means is that if you're taking probiotics, you also need to be eating healthy, that prebiotic food that's gonna feed the bacteria.

And just remembering that there's all different types of factors that will be affecting your microbiome so millennials you can't just drink a kombucha and assume everything's gonna be okay.

There are way too many factors at play here and just get some good sleep.

Stop drinking booze and exercise.

This is a new topic in science, and we're still learning a lot.

But what's important to know is that the trillions of bacteria within you do affect your brain and your body.

In fact, there are toilets that microbiologists are designing so that they will scan your poop and send your smartphone and analysis of your feces in order to tell you what to eat, how to be active and how to keep your microbiome healthy in the future.

After you take a dump or a poo poo instead of just flushing it away and not looking at it and pretending it didn't happen, we're gonna be wanting to dissect it.

Get in there and find out more about our bodies.

Okay, I'm done talking about poop.

We can move on now.

Thank you so much for watching the company that helped us analyze our samples.

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It's been a good day because we were able to contribute to scientific research on something we wish we could do every day.

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