• 11: Gut Health, Illness & Disease Part 1

  • Oct 15 2021
  • Length: 38 mins
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11: Gut Health, Illness & Disease Part 1

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  • About the episode:
    We are only 1% human. The remaining 99% is made up of the microbes that inhabit us. The functions and roles of these microbes go above and beyond just regulating and keeping the gut healthy. This episode talks about the need to keep a healthy microbial balance and how it helps in long term and short term maintenance of health. 

    About the guest:
    Emeran Mayer is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Executive Director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress, Co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA and Founding Director of the UCLA Brain Gut Microbiome Center. He is a world-renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist with 30 years of experience. His main area of research is studying how the relationship between the digestive system and the nervous system plays out in health and disease. He is currently investigating the sex differences in brain-gut interactions; pelvic pain syndrome; the effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy on brain signatures in IBS; brain-gut microbiome interactions in inflammatory and functional GI disorders. He has also authored four books - The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health; The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding the Connection Between Food and Immunity Can Help Us Regain Our Health; Functional Pain syndromes: Presentation and Pathophysiology; The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding Why we are Sick can Help us Regain our Health. He loves mountaineering and is also a documentary filmmaker.
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