What's Your Gut Feeling?
UW Medicine's Mini-Medical School is a series of lectures and demonstrations designed to teach viewers about medical science, patient care and leading-edge research underway at the University of Washington.
How do bacteria that live in your stomach influence you from the inside out? Learn more about the human microbiome.
| What's Your Gut Feeling? - Part I |
What's Your Gut Feeling? - Part I
How do bacteria that live in your stomach influence you from the inside out? Learn more about the human microbiome from UW Medicine physicians and professors Teri Brentnall and Christopher Damman.
What's Your Gut Feeling? - Part II
How do bacteria that live in your stomach influence you from the inside out? Learn more from about the human microbiome from UW Research Professor Johanna Lampe.
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