Welcome back to another episode of the Found My Fitness interview series.

This episode features Dr. Iran Elinov, a renowned expert on the gut microbiome and how it influences

human health and disease.

I'll tell you a little bit more about who Dr. Elinov is when I'm introducing him in

a moment.

But what he's particularly well known for, among other things, is his role in the work

that came out a few years back out of the Weitzman Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, demonstrating

that our responses to diet can be incredibly personalized.

This is so important because it turns on its head the idea that there is this one true

diet, and if we could just get everyone out there to eat that exact diet, that we'd

have this whole eating thing solved.

It's more complicated than that.

While genes and other factors come into play, a big part of this personalized response

to diet is the gut microbiome, a special area of Dr. Elinov's expertise.

Today's episode is, in a large part, a deep dive on that exact topic.

In this episode, in addition to the fundamentally deeply personal and individual biological

response to diet, Dr. Elinov and I discuss how the bacteria in our gut are on a circadian

rhythm and why this is important for when we eat.

The differing roles of genes versus the environment in determining the makeup of the microbiome,

how macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, or even the type of fat, such

as saturated versus omega-3 fatty acids, whether we eat a plant-based diet or an animal-based

diet, and how that influences our microbiome.

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