- it all of a sudden hits you, like they re inside you right now. today s scientists are blazing a trail to this very future. - you re actually more microbe than you re human. - [julia] i want to know what breakthroughs are being made. - bio-augmenting our bodies will have a fundamental impact on modern day plagues. - that will forge the future to- for me, that was like, whoa. a disease free world. (intrepid music) (computer beeping) my name is julia ravey. i decided to become a neuroscientist because my nan and several great aunts developed alzheimer s disease. this loss has made me determined to find a cure by any means. i m fascinated by recent research that links diseases of the brain to microbes in our bodies. and i think this is an avenue that is just coming into its own in terms of research. microbes are tiny living things, smaller than the eye can see. inside the body microbes like bacteria, parasites, and viruses can cause any number of infectious diseases. so what w
- it all of a sudden hits you, like they re inside you right now. today s scientists are blazing a trail to this very future. - you re actually more microbe than you re human. - [julia] i want to know what breakthroughs are being made. - bio-augmenting our bodies will have a fundamental impact on modern day plagues. - that will forge the future to- for me, that was like, whoa. a disease free world. (intrepid music) (computer beeping) my name is julia ravey. i decided to become a neuroscientist because my nan and several great aunts developed alzheimer s disease. this loss has made me determined to find a cure by any means. i m fascinated by recent research that links diseases of the brain to microbes in our bodies. and i think this is an avenue that is just coming into its own in terms of research. microbes are tiny living things, smaller than the eye can see. inside the body microbes like bacteria, parasites, and viruses can cause any number of infectious diseases. so what w
- [futuristic narrator] in the future, many people perform health checks by profiling their microbiomes at home. in real time, toothbrushes sequence the dna of billions of microbes in the digestive tract. the data is networked with appliances, allowing individuals to receive automatic daily food deliveries that are personalized for optimal health. this data also syncs with medication dispensers, which fine tune prescriptions to diversity the microbiome and boost the immune system. - since studies have shown that microbiome transplants can be used to transfer diseases from one animal to another, i wonder if this same technique could be used to cure disease as well. i m outside boston to meet carolyn edelstein. her openbiome organization is combating a notorious bacteria, c. dficile or c. diff. openbiome is helping fight this life threatening gut infection with a radical treatment, human fecal transplants. - c. diff or c. difficile is the most coon hospital incurred infection i
- [futuristic narrator] in the future, many people perform health checks by profiling their microbiomes at home. in real time, toothbrushes sequence the dna of billions of microbes in the digestive tract. the data is networked with appliances, allowing individuals to receive automatic daily food deliveries that are personalized for optimal health. this data also syncs with medication dispensers, which fine tune prescriptions to diversity the microbiome and boost the immune system. - since studies have shown that microbiome transplants can be used to transfer diseas from one animal to another, i wonder if this same technique could be used to cure disease as well. i m outside boston to meet carolyn edelstein. her openbiome organization is combating a notorious bacteria, c. difcile or c. diff. openbiome is helping fight this life threatening gut infection with a radical treatment, human fecal transplants. - c. diff or c. difficile is the most comm hospital incurred infection in