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There\u2019s no place like \u201come.\u201d Your microbiome is highly influential in determining your health. But it\u2019s not the only \u201come\u201d doing so. Your exposome \u2013 environmental exposure over a lifetime \u2013 also plays a role. \nHear how scientists hope to calculate your entire exposome, from food to air pollution to water contamination.\nPlus, new research on the role that microbes play in the development of neurological diseases such as Parkinson\u2019s, and the hot debate about when microbes first colonize the body. Could a fetus have its own microbiome?\nAlso, choose your friends wisely: studies of microbe-swapping gazelles reveal the benefits \u2013 and the downsides \u2013 of being social. \nAnd, why sensors on future toilets will let you do microbiome analysis with every flush.\nGuests:\n\n\nRob Knight\xa0\u2013\xa0Professor of Pediatrics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at the University of California, San Diego\n\n\nVanessa Ezenwa\xa0\u2013\xa0Ecologist at the University of Georgia\n\n\nIndira Mysorekar\xa0\u2013\xa0Microbiologist, formerly at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, now at Baylor\n\n\nGary Miller\xa0\u2013\xa0Professor of public health at the Rollins School of Public Health and director of the HERCULES Exposome Research Center at Emory University. After August 2018, his lab will be at Columbia University.\n\n\nOriginally aired May 14, 2018\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices