Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast

How Poo Made Old Mice Young w/ Dr Katie Guzzetta

Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast

Show Notes

Season finale warning that will blow your butt off,but.. we might have just the treatment in mind. This week we interviewed the brilliant Dr Katie Guzzetta, former UCC PhD student and current Harvard visiting research fellow. One big paper from her PhD was published in one of the biggest journals in the world where she found that giving old mice a 'fecal implant' from younger mice rejuvenated them! What!!! We go through the study, talked about how the hell this even works, what this means for the future of aging and answer the question if you should be freezing your poo for future you!

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