In this week's episode of TMI, Rob and Sarah discuss a new article written by Brian Johnson about his girlfriend's vagina, Kate Otolo, and why it's a good thing she's in the top 1% in terms of vaginal health.
00:01:22.540So you have a microbiome in your gut1.00
00:01:25.160and you and women have a microbiome in their vagina we also have a microbiome on our skin
00:01:30.200in our mouth all of the orifices of our body have microbiota have organisms and so somehow
00:01:37.160they're saying oh when you culture this vaginal flora it is they're rating it objectively on this
00:01:44.900scale so great i think that the the the indication here for people is just that hey look what is Kate
00:01:52.300doing that's improving the her vaginal microbiome it's not eating garbage food i've met kate and
00:01:58.500brian and to be fair they basically said we want to do everything for attention we possibly can
00:02:03.980i get it this is an attention economy that that is they said that they said that well this is
00:02:08.820getting a lot of this is getting a lot of attention you know i mean and you know brian is very good0.99
00:02:13.380at virality hey i just had sex with kate let me show you my my vagals my my vagal my vagus nerve0.99
00:02:19.500score let me show you my whoop score after i had sex with kate hey i'm gonna inject he's tracking0.99
00:02:23.240his data while he's having sex with kate yeah and what's he looking for what data is he i think he0.98
00:02:27.800was looking for heart rate variability afterwards but again it's like okay great like you're getting
00:02:33.160a lot of attention saying is he like on a bunch of i for visualized it's having the ekg stuff on
00:02:37.720his body like he's got these you know and then honey let's go out it's like hey i'm ovulating
00:02:42.660babe let's go we're gonna have a kid what's he i think he just has a whoop band on he's looking
00:02:47.320at his hrv and his you know his vagal tone not a lot of wires and all no i don't think although
00:02:52.200i wouldn't be what's going to get caught in different things i wouldn't put it past him
00:02:54.920but he's definitely about virality oftentimes at the expense of decorum perhaps so yeah this is0.75
00:03:01.580great like women should be thinking about the quality or the composition of their vaginal
00:03:06.400microbiome just like men should be thinking or all of us should be thinking about the composition
00:03:10.800of our gastrointestinal microbiome and these are in a large part driven by the quality of our
00:03:17.140diet you know and so great kate's not eating junk food that she has a good microbiome score in her0.99
00:03:23.500vagina awesome if women see that and they understand how she does that please if you're1.00
00:03:28.100in the top one percent is that better for your mate or is that better for you it's probably1.00
00:03:31.380better for both people because when you're having sex you're obviously very intimate with the vagina0.99
00:03:36.020and we know that when there is vaginal dysbiosis vaginas are not as much fun to be around0.95
00:03:41.940predominantly because of the smell and just that it's not as much fun for women they can get more
00:03:46.640infections and things like this. So it's better for both partners to have a healthy microbiome0.92
00:03:51.900in the vagina, in the mouth. You don't want to kiss someone with bad breath. It's kind of the1.00
00:03:54.960same thing. Got it. Interesting. So it's more about smell than anything else. Probably, yes.
00:04:00.840And for the woman, it's about the propensity for urinary tract infections or the propensity for1.00
00:04:07.980fungal overgrowth, yeast infections, et cetera. So when you have a healthy microbiome in the vagina,1.00
00:04:13.260A woman is going to be more resilient against the wrong type of organisms, fungal or bacterial, overgrowing and creating yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, or urinary tract infections.
00:04:25.100So how does that apply to men? Now flip it and put it on men.1.00
00:04:27.520I think that, you know, a man is going to have a skin microbiome, and your skin microbiome is going to affect the woman's vaginal microbiome also.
00:04:35.340So you want to be healthy. Your skin microbiome is in large part due or connected with your gastrointestinal microbiome.
00:04:42.400we know that for men and women, the right type of flora in our gut affects the regularity with
00:04:48.760which we have bowel movements, which is super important for humans and human health. It affects
00:04:52.880whether we get bloated or gassy, which is no fun. It affects our ability to digest food. It affects
00:04:57.240systemic inflammation. And so we as humans are sort of this symbiotic organism with the trillions
00:05:06.100of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live within us. Have you heard the statistic that most
00:05:11.300scientists now agree that we are more not human than we are human. There are perhaps, you know,
00:05:17.12010 to the 15th cells in the human body. There are probably 10 to the 16th plus organisms in your gut
00:05:23.160and around you. You are at least an order of magnitude, perhaps two orders of magnitude,
00:05:28.220not human, more not human than you are human. This is DNA that is not yours. So we are this sort of
00:05:33.780symbiotic simulacrum of humans, and we affect those organisms based on how we're moving through
00:05:40.340our environment and what we're eating pretty interesting it's funny you say this because
00:05:44.460you know when I was single if you smoke cigarettes you know I was dating a beautiful girl you know
00:05:52.340a former Miss California type of a girl but she's you know she one of them smoked and I couldn't
00:05:59.120deal with it I couldn't deal with the smell another one was you know even if she came out0.99
00:06:05.020of the shower there was still a bit of a stench okay and I'm not even talking about down there1.00
00:06:09.680just here. And I couldn't deal with it. Another one was she, she was great, but she smelled like
00:06:14.580copper. And I would say, why do you smell like copper? Her skin would smell like copper. And1.00
00:06:20.040you know, for somebody that's extremely sensitive with scent, you know, so now this, this, but this
00:06:25.640is not even about what they all look physically great, but the smell was I was throwing it off.
00:06:30.560Hey guys, I am Paul Saladino. You can find me on Manect. If you have any questions about diet,
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