Seed Health is a microbiome company trying to disrupt the way health, business and science overlap. While its first product is its probiotic line, Seed has more lofty ambitions to do deep research into human health and rethink the way most people think about the microbiome. The microbiome technically is the community o

Every day scientists are learning something new about the human-microbe relationship, and today’s guest, Ara Katz, and her company Seed, are right at the cutting edge of these discoveries. Dive in for an extended conversation on the latest microbiome research, including the most effective ways to care for the non-human

My guest today is Ara Katz, the co-founder and co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbiome science company pioneering innovations in probiotics and living medicines to impact human and planetary health, and my personal daily synbiotic of choice. She’s one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve ever spoken to abou

If you feel like you keeping seeing or hearing everyone talk about the microbiome, you're not wrong. Ara Katz, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seed, gives us a crash course in everything we need to know about the importance of gut health, probiotics, prebiotics, and explains all the different microbiomes that exist in our bod

Like a reef or rainforest, what we call a human is actually a multispecies superorganism — technically a "holobiont." We evolved to exist with our microbes and the microbiomes of others. Breast milk co-evolved to feed the growing garden in an infant's gut. We exchange microbes when we hug and kiss or have a pet in the

What IS a microbiome? Ara Katz, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seed, is here to tell us, as well as explain the fascinating microbial makeup on and in our bodies, and what the hell is actually a probiotic. Plus, the Bristol stool chart and what your poop means, evangelism over evidence in the wellness space, the importan