You can find the episode here on YouTube, but it will only be free for 24h. So save it before it is gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhe0PmUIGI&feature=youtu.be …
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The documentary so far consists of a series of interviews with microbiome scientists, MDs, and people with degrees that look like they might have invented themselves. Some patients and writers of self-help books as well.
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Episode one introduces the microbiome, the communities of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on our bodies. It also tells how we are colonized from the moment we are being born, and how the gut microbiome is associated with many chronic diseases. So far so good.
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But there are some factual errors. Several "experts" in the documentary tell us that the microbiome members outnumber our cells 10:1. However, this is been debunked over 2 years ago. Current estimates are closer to 1:1. See the Sender paper:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533 …
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At about 6 min in, we are told that Élie Metchnikoff coined the word "Dysbiosis". Again, incorrect. Although Metchnikoff described the concept of harmful bacteria, he never used that word. See this piece by
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At 36m, we hear that breastmilk is full of fructo-oligosaccharides. Not correct. FOS can be found in infant formula, but human milk does not contain fructose oligomers. See this piece by
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I am not an expert on sugars and breastmilk, so pinging
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The farther we get into episode 1, the more wild the statements are getting. At 53 min we are told that "The heart disease rates we think are normal in the modern United States, in the Modern World, are completely optional."
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This is overstated. Although the majority of heart diseases are prevented, that number is not 100%. Several forms of heart disease are congenital, or happen in people who live a healthy lifestyle.
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We are also told that "We know for a fact that 90 percent of cancer cases are caused not by genetics, not by bad luck, but by lifestyle, environment, and food." The correct number is lower, around 40-50%. See e.g.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21440 …
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As a side note, I lost my sister 3 years ago to cancer. She did not smoke or drink, and regularly exercised. If someone tells me that all cancers and other chronic diseases are preventable, it makes me cry. It was not her fault.
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At 54m, there is this: "There are 10 times more bacteria than human cells. For every message from the brain going down to the gut (...) there are 9 messages from the gut going up to the brain, telling it what to do. (...) So who is running the show? It's the microbiome."
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Two errors here. 1. Ratio bacterial:human cells is now estimated to be 1:1. See above. 2. Ten times more bacteria does not necessarily mean 10x more bacterial messages to the brain. Completely extrapolated BS.
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This is followed by this pearl: "We are going to get through the next 3 decades - a completely different species is coming out at the other side. Because it can't be our species. Our species is poof! going down, fast. "
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I have no words here. This doctor, an MD for goodness sake, is claiming that 30 years from now, the human species will have morphed into another species. That is not how evolution works. Not in 30 years.
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We are now 1 hour in, and the founder of the "Theranos of Microbiome Companies" (coined by
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NJ: "Pancreatic cancer is caused by the gut microbiome. Breast cancer is caused by the microbiome. Research from just 2 weeks ago shows that liver cancer is caused by the gut microbiome."
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There are some recent studies that show that gut microbiome from pancreatic or liver cancer patients appears to interfere with anti-tumor activities
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But it is a big extrapolation to say that the gut microbiome causes those cancers in humans. These mouse models are bred to get cancers at a very high rate, and it is not clear how this is related to the human forms of these cancer types.
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Oh, here is a new pearl at 1.02. "To find out that the microbial life can intelligently figure out the difference between a cancer cell and a human cell and induce the opposite response with their mitochondria, you start to realize, we're barely human."
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Let's try to break this down into little digestible pieces of BS. 1. microbial life is not intelligent. They do what they do, but they don't really think about it. 2. A human cancer cell is a human cell too. 3. Assuming we talk about gut bacteria - they don't have mitochondria.
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OMG, this same doctor, an MD, is saying the weirdest things. He is talking with a smirk on this face that is trying to convey that he know his shit. Instead he is talking shit. Let's continue to listen at 1.03 in the video:
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ZB, MD: "To be human and alive, you have 20-30-40 thousand species of bacteria, 5 million species of fungi, 300 thousand species of parasites, speaking to the mitochondria within your cells, to coordinate constant repair." Wait - what?
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Maybe this MD is confusing cells with species here? but more correct estimates are that we have 500-1000 bacterial species in our gut, and maybe another 500 in mouth/skin. OTU estimates are often super-inflated if not corrected for sequence errors.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiota …
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And I have no idea where this MD got his numbers of fungi and parasite species from. We might have 1 or 2 dozen at the most. Are there even 5 million species of fungi in the world? This sounds like an MD who is mainly full of himself.
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The documentary ends with a slide showing the most egregious puzzle pieces of BS, nicely put together for us all to read. Let's call them the "Puzzle pieces of nonsense". None of the bullet points on this slide appear correct - but please tell me if I am wrong.pic.twitter.com/Z66ejVO1dL
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The presenter of the documentary concludes this episode at 1.13 stressing how important this information is for you, your family, and loved ones. You can watch it for free. But only for 9 days. Then, he will take it off-line.
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If the presenter was really doing this to help us, to share information that Big Pharma is not sharing with us, then it does not make much sense to only make it free for 9 days. He is doing it to make money.
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It's fine to want to make money, but to first claim that people don't want to share information because they want to make money, and then to take your information offline to make money does not make much sense.
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Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this reporting - for free! Taking off now, and let's stay ....
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