Human microbiome
Subject in Life Sciences
Human microbiome has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Michael PollanJournalist and author of How to Change Your Mind
Pollan counters that humans also exploit gut bacteria to produce needed metabolites, making the relationship mutual.
“So we're manipulating them at the same time they're manipulating us. I think it's a two-way street”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 37:25
Andrew HubermanAmerican neuroscientist, professor at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast
Huberman confesses worry that humans may simply be vessels serving the spread of their microbiota.
“I just worry that perhaps Sonnenberg's theory is right, which is we're literally just vessels”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 34:21
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanHuberman Lab · Sep 28, 2026 · 2 h 3 min
Andrew Huberman and author Michael Pollan discuss consciousness, plant intelligence, the microbiome, psychedelics, food politics and Pollan's experiment quitting caffeine.