413: Surprising gut health offenders way beyond diet | Father of functional medicine Jeff Bland, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jeff Bland, Ph.D.: “Our diets can mark our genes.” Bland, the father of functional medicine, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the surprising factors that can mess with your gut health, plus: - How functional medicine has evolved & where it's headed (~00:45) - Why your well-being depends on the well-being of the planet (~11:59) - Environmental criteria to look for when shopping for food & clothes (~17:31) - How your social behaviors can alter your gut microbiome (~25:37) - How to change your genetic destiny (~30:59) Referenced in the episode: - Learn more about Big Bold Health. - Follow Big Bold Health on Instagram. - A study showing Oura ring can help spot signals associated with COVID. - Paul Hawken's Drawdown. - mbg Podcast episode #222 and #362, with Bland. - mbg Podcast episode #253, with Patrick Hanaway, M.D. - Learn more about Solarea Bio. - A study showing how stressful environments can alter the gut microbiome. - News story about research for obesity genes. - Bland's study, "A Discovery that Reframes the Whole of Global Healthcare in the 21st Century." Enjoy this episode sponsored by Cotton! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:30.5	What's the way for Champions League and Europa League live an exclusive on TNT Sports?
0:38.7	Hey everyone, we are in for a treat as we have the father of functional medicine.
0:45.2	Literally he is the father of functional medicine. Founder of Big Gold Health,
0:50.0	one of our all-time favorites here at MyBuddyGreen. A man who needs no introduction,
0:54.7	Dr. Jeff Bland back on the show, Jeff Wackeb.
0:59.2	Oh Jason, thank you. You know, it's interesting because I've been in this field long enough now
1:04.8	that I'm now starting to be called the grandfather of functional medicine. So I think I'm getting
1:10.8	into my venerable stage of my career, it appears. I love it. So I'm not note, you know, you
1:16.8	alluded to your time spent in this space and, you know, as I did mention, you are known as the
1:22.4	founder of functional medicine, the father of functional medicine. And so how do you define
1:28.7	functional medicine and how has it evolved since you founded it? Yeah, thanks. You know, I think
1:35.8	it really has evolved in it. I recall back so clearly to when we started this journey,
1:44.4	which was 1989. 1989, my wife, I'd been traveling a lot in my work at that point. And she said,
1:53.6	Jeff, you know, you keep coming home and talking about all these wonderful people you've met,
1:56.8	these leaders all around the world and different thinking and different thoughts about what the
2:00.8	healthcare system could be like. And, you know, why don't we sponsor a whiteboard meeting? And you
2:06.3	can maybe invite 20 or 30 of these thought leaders in from these different disciplines. And we could
2:11.2	just sit down and without licensure reimbursement, just talk about what is the nature of an ideal
2:17.0	healthcare system? And that was kind of the birthing of the get together. We ended up having that
2:22.7	meeting. She hosted it in Victoria, Vancouver, British Columbia on the island there. And it turned
2:30.3	out that it was a really great meeting of minds. It was so kind of positive that we decided to do
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