#113 Dr. Ghannoum | The Mycobiome & Key Insights to Total Gut Health
The Gabby Reece Show
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4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is infectious disease specialist and one of the world's leading microbiome researchers: Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum.
Working at the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Medical Center has brought Dr. Ghannoum to find and coin the phrase Mycobiome which is where our fungi and bacterial communities live in our body. Mycobiome is different from our microbiome and important to our overall health.
Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum was called "the leading microbiome researcher in the world" by The Washington Post. He just released a groundbreaking new article about the gut and its connection with COVID-19 and depression. According to the latest findings, organisms found in the microbiome may be able to predict depression in patients. Considering the mental health crisis brought on by the pandemic, this research couldn't have come at a better time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gabby Rees Show. It's all an experiment. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi Dr. Ghanum, thank you for coming on the show. |
| 0:10.0 | Before we dive in and talk about fungi and bacteria, I really want, if you could just share your story about you were taking a holiday from your |
| 0:25.0 | family, |
| 0:26.0 | family, you know, couldn't return home. |
| 0:29.0 | I tell you, you ask a very important question. |
| 0:31.0 | I mean, overnight, as if you are in Costa Rica and then you |
| 0:34.6 | cannot come home. You can imagine you know and that's exactly what happened with me. |
| 0:39.4 | So you studied infectious disease, this is your specialty, but you ended up going to this conference that, I don't want to say, really change the direction of, you know, looking further into the microbiome and the impact of |
| 0:56.8 | the fungi and and the bacteria you know good and bad I think most of us know about the good and bad bacteria but it's now really learning about the fungi but you you go to this conference and people are really talking about the microbiome and something about this conference really you |
| 1:15.9 | pivoted and you change directions into what you were paying attention to. |
| 1:20.6 | So what happened when I used to go to infectious disease meeting and everybody |
| 1:25.4 | talking about the microbiome which is the microbes that live in our body everybody |
| 1:30.7 | was talking about bacteria I I said to them, no because bacteria and fungus, as well as viruses, they live in us in the gut, okay? |
| 1:39.0 | So you really need to look at the total picture. |
| 1:42.8 | And that's where I started to advocate this. |
| 1:45.6 | But then I did a study in Crohn's disease patients. |
| 1:49.4 | And I found that there is an increase in bacteria the pathogenic one E. coli and |
| 1:54.4 | syroshia as well as can candida or candida whatever you want to call it and |
| 1:59.6 | with that I notice that they come together they play together and they start causing issue in our gut okay and then that's where when I published a paper it really received a lot of attention and so many people contacted me |
| 2:16.1 | what can I do and that's where really my son Afif I have you know his name he said that you have to start doing more of this to help people. |
| 2:27.3 | And honestly, that's what pushed me into this and I am so glad that's happened because it's such an exciting area and I really feel happy because I feel that we are trying to help other people, you know? |
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