So psychobiotics are the group of bacteria that can actually alter your mental status and so we know now that there's certain bacteria that make you less anxious of certain bacteria that can help you with depression and it's literally you can transplant the microbiome from one human to another human or one human to another and one transplant their mental state.

So psychobiotics is really hard to do it in practice yet because besides changing your diet and your lifestyle we still don't have the fact probiotics to be you know modulating that gut bacteria but it's an area that it's so strikingly interesting to me because for me and most people you would think that if you have depression anxiety, HD, schizophrenia and these are all examples in the literature.

If you have those things you have to take medication for your brain to help it. Now with psychobiotics what they're saying is if you transplant the gut bacteria out of that person and put in healthy mental state gut bacteria, you can change the mental state without doing anything to the brain and that to me is so inspiring and exciting because wow we're going to be doing things in our gut through food.

Life style for changing the gut bacteria that can affect our mental state.

Welcome back to the ancient health podcast where we educate you on real health solutions that will help transform the way you live, feel and overcome disease naturally.

I'm your host Courtney Versage along with Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Chris Motley. We're so happy you've joined us. Let's dive into today's episode.

Hey friends, welcome to the ancient health podcast. I'm your host today, Dr. Chris Motley. Courtney gives her best and today we have a very special guest, Dr. Amy Shaw. She's out of Scottsdale, Arizona, one of my favorite cities in the country.

And Dr. Shaw is all about holistic health, holistic practicing. You ought to see her social media, her website has such good information about gut dysfunction, about different conditions like autoimmune and how you can heal through what you eat. Thank you so much Dr. Shaw for joining us today.

Thanks so much for having me. Now, first of all, let's get a brief backdrop about who you are. Many people may know you who you are and some may not, but can you give us a description of where you're at, what you love to do, what's your specialties.

What are some of the things about Dr. Shaw that people don't know?

Yeah, sure. I am an immigrant from India. I came here when I was about five years old and you know shortly after arriving to the US, my parents were working two jobs trying to make, you know, ends meet and they were eating an American diet, which was very different from the diet that they had back in India.

And a few short years later, we got a horrible news in our family. We found out that my father was diagnosed with type two diabetes and that all of his five brothers, they all got diagnosed with type two diabetes and they all had just come.

And my grandmother, who was quite healthy, was also diagnosed with type two diabetes of six people all at once. And it was a devastating diagnosis for our family because that is the disease that had taken every person at a young age in our family.

From that moment, I knew that there was something about diet and disease. And I didn't know what it was. It became very interesting because then, you know, the family became obsessed with trying to figure out what are we doing wrong.

And that inspired me to go to nutrition school. And after nutrition school, I just felt like, well, I really want to study how food affects the body. And back then it was not as mainstream as it is now.

And I ended up going to the nutrition school and then med school. I did a internal medicine residency immunology fellowship. And once I got to practice, I was like, so excited to do brain body nutrition work. And I realized that Western medicine was like the farthest thing from that.

And so as I went through my own personal health crisis, I thought to myself, I need to start to do more of this for myself and talk more about what if you're anxious, what if you're depressed, what if you're burned out, what if you're tired, what if you're trying to also deal with preventing diabetes and dimension heart disease.

And so that's basically how all of this started. And now I have a book that is, you know, now here it's called I'm so acting hungry. And the whole point of it is to figure out why we crave what we crave. I mean, why is it that we have the best of intentions. But then we end up eating foods that are leading to disease food creates mood food creates your physical state.

I love the way you said about how your food creates your mood. One of the mantras I always have at my offices, you think what you eat, whatever you put in your guts, basically get to affect the neurotransmitters and the brain chemicals that come into your into your brain and into your head.

And I sympathize with you, my mom's an immigrant from Korea and she has type two diabetes. We talk about the standard American diet, can we touch on that a bit when you say like like my mom's family, they were raised on like garlic, crushed, crushed red pepper,

tongue ginger, tons of scallions. And and I really mean this in all respect to like my mom's family, but they're raising the country. And I hate to say they used anything they could from the farm. And so they just put it into the pot and they just put good seasoning.

I see it in even South Korea nowadays, like that there's obesity rising. There's a ton more type type to diabetes because now they're allowing the processed foods to come and infiltrate.

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