078: Dr. Robynne Chutkan - Microbiome 101 | Stop Sanitizing Yourself Sick | Having A Dog Will Boost Your Health
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, we are speaking with bestselling author, Dr. Robynne Chutkan. She is a leading gastroenterologist who strives to highlight the importance of nutrition, exercise, and leisure to her patients.
In 2004, Dr. Chutkan founded the Digestive Center for Women, an integrative gastroenterology practice. She makes regular appearances on Dr. Oz and has been a featured expert on The Today Show and The Doctors. Dr. Chutkan's first book is titled Gutbliss (2013) and she recently released The Mircobiome Solution (2015).
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is your microbiome?
- Microbes (in & on our bodies) outnumber us 10 to 1
- As society becomes more sanitized, we're seeing more people with autoimmune diseases
- Our microbiome breaks down food & toxins, makes vitamins (eg. vitamin K), synthesizes hormones & neurotransmitters, and turns genes on + off
- The benefits of a vaginal birth over getting a c-section
- Formula fed babies end up with pretty serious microbial abnormalities
- A simple technique to colonize a baby post c-section
- Baby formula doesn't come close to breast milk in terms of nutrition
- Antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers are damaging your microbiome and making you sick
- A simple tactic to help prevent colds and the flu
- Play in the dirt, build a healthy microbiome
- Having pets is good for you and your children
- Chlorine in you water (shower & drinking) is harming your microbiome
- Questions to ask your doctor before taking antibiotics
- A number of prebiotic foods that feed your healthy gut bacteria
- What to look for when buying a probiotic
- The positive and negative sides of stool transplants
- Solutions to reduce gas and bloating
- People with depression and anxiety have abnormalities in their microbiome
- Don't ever take antibiotics for acne
- As cities grow, rates of asthma increase
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Dr. Robynne Chutkan - The Mircobiome Solution (book)
Dr. Robynne Chutkan's website (Gutbliss)
Follow Dr. Robynne Chutkan on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Robynne Chutkan - Gutbliss (book)
Goji's Instagram account (our new puppy)
Greenhouse Juice Co. (Toronto)
Dr. Martin Blaser - Missing Microbes (book)
Habits app for iOS (*no longer available)
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Transcript
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| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the 78th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:17.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:20.0 | Today we have featured guest, Dr Robin Chuck Ken. |
| 0:24.0 | She's a gastrointestinal enterologist who considers both the art and science of medicine |
| 0:29.0 | equally essential to achieving health. |
| 0:32.0 | She is primarily plant-based and enjoys doing vignasi |
| 0:36.7 | yoga practice and she's also a long-distance runner. So these are all the foundations |
| 0:42.0 | that make up her healthy routine. |
| 0:44.0 | She strives to highlight the importance of nutrition, exercise, and leisure to her patients. |
| 0:50.0 | Robin's made regular appearances on the Dr Oz show. |
| 0:54.0 | She's been a featured expert on the Today Show |
| 0:57.2 | and she's been a guest on the doctors. |
| 0:59.7 | Robin has written a couple of books around the microbiome which is a big topic for us today on the show. |
| 1:07.0 | In 2013 she wrote Gut Bliss and just recently this past summer she came out with the microbiome And just a whole wealth of knowledge on the and we really pick her brain on that subject. |
| 1:23.0 | So we'll get into more detail on what we talk about with Robin shortly. |
| 1:26.0 | But first I am going to talk about our fun weekend. |
| 1:31.0 | So Jesse and I have some exciting, more exciting news, always |
| 1:34.1 | lots of exciting news from us, but if you've been following us along in our |
| 1:37.4 | Facebook group and on social media, you may have seen our announcement of a new |
| 1:41.6 | puppy. So Jesse and I are getting a little puppy, an Australian |
| 1:45.5 | Shepherd, her name is Goji, and we get her at the end of February. So yesterday we took a little trip to go and |
| 1:51.2 | meet her because we just couldn't wait the full eight weeks so |
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