The Extinction Happening Inside You

Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobiota, like bald eagles, to understand the consequences and find solutions.

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To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:
Extinction: the termination of a kind of organism or group of kinds, usually a species
Endangered: a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future
Microbiome: a community of microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, and protists) that inhabit a particular environment and especially the collection of microorganisms living in or on the human body
Hunter-gatherer: a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
Prevotella: a genus of bacteria most commonly found in the microbiome of people who eat a plant-rich diet
DDT: an aromatic organochlorine sometimes used as insecticide banned in the U.S. that tends to accumulate and persist in ecosystems and has toxic effects on many vertebrates
C. diff: (short for Clostridium difficile) a toxin-producing bacterium which can infect the bowel, causing illness with diarrhea and fever, especially in people who have been treated with antibiotics
Antibiotics: an antibacterial substance (such as penicillin, cephalosporin, and ciprofloxacin) that is used to treat or prevent infections by killing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria in or on the body
Probiotics: a microorganism that when consumed (as in a food or a dietary supplement) maintains or restores beneficial bacteria to the digestive tract
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Credits (and Twitter handles):
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Alex Reich, Kate Yoshida, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg, Sarah Berman

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References:

De Filippo, Carlotta, et al. "Impact of diet in shaping gut microbiota revealed by a comparative study in children from Europe and rural Africa." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.33 (2010): 14691-14696.

Gomez, Andres, et al. "Gut microbiome of coexisting BaAka pygmies and bantu reflects gradients of traditional subsistence patterns." Cell reports 14.9 (2016): 2142-2153.

Hand, Timothy W., et al. "Linking the microbiota, chronic disease, and the immune system." Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism 27.12 (2016): 831-843.

Harmon, K. "Bugs inside: what happens when the microbes that keep us healthy disappear." Sci Amer (2009).

Henson, Shandelle M., et al. "Predator–prey dynamics of bald eagles and glaucous‐winged gulls at Protection Island, Washington, USA." Ecology and evolution 9.7 (2019): 3850-3867.

Sonnenburg, Erica D., and Justin L. Sonnenburg. "Starving our microbial self: the deleterious consequences of a diet deficient in microbiota-accessible carbohydrates." Cell metabolism 20.5 (2014): 779-786.

Tito, Raul Y., et al. "Insights from characterizing extinct human gut microbiomes." PloS one 7.12 (2012).

US Fish and Wildlife Service. "Bald eagle recovery plan (southwestern population)." US Fish and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1982).

Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. "How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution." Nautilus (2015).

[novdelta]

We need merch for those blue things. If they exist I'll buy them out of stock immediately
Edit: I was tempted to go for something cringey like "thanks for the likes", but nah

[keraatkins]

Other you tubers: sponsored by Nord VPN and Skill Share.

Minute Earth: sponsored by a college

Got to say that’s high class

[chaserose]

What made you decide you needed to make this?








WAS IT A *GUT* FEELING?!?!?!?!

[lathah]

"I Contain Multitudes" by Ed Young is a great book about microbes and life.

[JaybeePenaflor]

Thanks, MinuteEarth, for your easy-to-understand videos. In this new normal society where lockdowns are done almost everywhere, YouTube channels that make learning easier for students are heroes of the educational system. Looking forward to more and more great videos.

[novenandrian]

Minute Earth: The extinction happening inside you


Hamburger: *_Coffin dance intensifies_*

[LazloVimes]

‘Micro eagles of our gut’, that’s an awesome way yo say it :)

[thetalamhclisteach]

Maybe the real extinction was in us all long

[aratakiitto]

"Mr cell I don't feel so good"

[poweroffriendship.]

_"THE EXTINCTION HAPPENING INSIDE YOU..."_

*Purple Grape:* SWEET RAVE PARTY!!!

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

0:04 Velma and Daphne driving the bald eagle close to extinction? Zoinks, Scoob

[uncinarynin]

I can imagine the dating conversation.
"I have butterflies in my stomach!"
"I have eagles in my gut!"

[wonk]

i saw the word “extinction” in the title and knew it was going to be interesting

[OutOfBillion]

Wow, nice analogy of eagles to gut fauna... no one would have thought of that.

[guillermojrboy]

No one:

MinuteEarth: *Prevotella are the bald eagles of the gut!*

[ElectroNeutrino]

Something I've heard a lot is "processed foods are bad for us". But I've never been able to get a good answer on what they define as processed, and how the processing makes to food unhealthy.

[balab]

2:26 that is totally a sneaky bi flag, this isn't the first flag you've put in videos

[SciFactsYT]

Random fact:

If a squirrel finds a baby squirrel without parents, it will immediately adopt it!

[clarkevander]

NOTIFICATION SQUAD!!!!

KEEP SAFE EVERYONE.

[esperanzazagal]

This is spot on and the implications are scarier than initially meets the eye