Show Notes
What's a craving? Why do I fart? Do microbes reallly control our brains? The Fact Detectives ask these questions and more when they meet microbe expert, Doctor Joanna Simkin – the manager of Museum Victoria's Health and Medicine collection. Listen now to ‘digest’ all the other cool facts that Joanna shared... A Kinderling co-production with Museums Victoria.
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