A U of G professor is featured in a new CBC Nature of Things documentary that premiered in April called Myth or Science: The Power of Poo.
Prof. Emma Allen-Vercoe, who is world-renowned for her research on the microbial world inside the human gut, was interviewed for the doc. The film looks at real-life experiments using human waste and explores whether poo has the power to revolutionize human health.
Nature of Things host Dr. Jennifer Gardy visited Allen-Vercoe’s lab to test a popular myth about waste produced by vegetarian or carnivorous diets. Allen-Vercoe used an NMR spectrometer to analyze all the smelly compounds found in human waste.
She studies normal human gut microflora, both in disease and in health.