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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- The microbiome
- The broad influence of the microbiome
- Phenotype transfer
- Lifestyle and the microbiome
- Host-microbiome biology and evolution
- Host-microbiome co-evolutionary history
- Common descent
- Natural selection
- Selection for specialized niches in the body
- Microbiome affects fitness
- Microbiota of each person affects their fitness
- Mitochondrion and mutualism
- Multicellularity
- Enforcing cooperation with the microbiome
- Microbiome archaeology
- Microbial immune evasion
- Brain remodeling by toxoplasmosis
- The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis
- Gut microbiota control behavior
- Gut microbiota can induce anxiety in mice
- Bacteria produce 'human' neurotransmitters
- Bacterial mimicry of appetite peptides
- Can bacteria control our oral intake?
- Social behavior
- Continuum of fitness alignment
- The adaptive immune system
- Secretory IgA
- Immune selection
- Intergenerational microbial feeding
- The domestication of microbes
- The promotion of mutualism
- Loss of biodiversity
- Stand replacement
- Microbiota source of virulent pathogens
- Proton pump inhibitors = conflict?
- Humans as medical vectors
- Probiotics reconsidered
- Protective probiotics
- VSL#3 prevents fat mass gain
- Can probiotics influence our mood?
- The universal goal of science
- Thanks
Topics Covered
- Phenotype transfer via the microbiome
- The association between the microbiome and host fitness
- Influence of the microbiome on behavior and mood
- The adaptive immune system selectively controls microbiota
- Domestication of microbes
- The effect of modern life on our microbiomes
- Probiotics and the microbiome
Talk Citation
Alcock, J. (2018, November 4). Evolution, the microbiome, and human health [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 5, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/SZMQ4653.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. Joe Alcock has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
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Transcript
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0:00
I'm Joe Alcock. I am a Professor of Emergency Medicine
in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico.
Today, I'll be talking about evolution,
the microbiome, and human health.
0:15
When you're listening to me you may think that I'm a human and a mammal,
and you'd be at least partially right.
Recent work has shown that my body and your body, too, is inhabited
by as many as 30 trillion microbes, so these
are microscopic organisms living in and on your body,
mostly in your gut, numbering this vast number of 30 trillion,
which is equivalent to the number of human cells in your body.
If an alien came down and sampled a gene at random from my body,
there's a good chance that it would sample microbial gene because our genes are actually
outnumbered by 10 to 1 by microbial genes.
So, in some ways, we may be more microbial than human.
But, the very least we are more complicated than we thought before,
and these microbes have an important impact on our bodies and on our health.
Some have suggested that we humans are
better thought of as being a meta-organism or, a superorganism-
a complex combination of both mammal and microbe.
There's a variety of microbes in our guts,
and if one took a microbe at random from
our intestine would probably fall into either the Firmicutes or Bacteroides.
1:24
So, I like this quote by Rob Knight,
he's at UC San Diego,
and he has said that,
"Just over the last five years,
it went from being crazy to think that microbes were involved to now being
crazy to think that microbes aren't involved in human health and disease."
You can fill in the blank with just about
any condition that you can think about; there's been an avalanche of recent findings
that suggest that microbes are
involved in just about every health condition that you can think of.
But, these fall into the three main categories that I'm going to talk about today.
The three major organ systems and functions of the body
that have received a lot of attention recently are the brain:
cognition, memory, behavior seems to be impacted by the composition of the microbiota.
Pictured on the right is an immune cell,
and the immune system is markedly affected both in terms of
its development and its function by which microbes are present and what they're doing.
It seems like a major function of the immune system is to pay attention
to signals from the microbiota and, in some ways, to respond.
Then, thirdly, we have the gastrointestinal tract.
That's one seems like it is a no-brainer that microbes affect
the GI tract because that's where they're found- mostly in the colon or the large bowel.
Both gut development and certainly gut function and a wide variety of GI diseases,
things like inflammatory bowel disease,
are also affected by the composition of the microbiome.