Recently I watched the documentary “Hack Your Health,” which is available for streaming on Netflix. The film covers the emerging science of the gut microbiome (the population of trillions of bacteria, most either harmless or beneficial to human health) that live inside our GI tracts, and that are increasingly being found to play a role in everything from our tendency to gain weight, to our mood, to our risk for various chronic diseases.
I really wanted to like this film, because I think the gut microbiome is a fascinating and important emerging area in medicine, but the film suffered from some major flaws. Overall, I’d give it two out of five stars.
