490: Eat This Way to Optimize Your Microbiome & Sidestep Disease | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drwillbulsiewicz490
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (IG: @theguthealthmd) is an award winning gastroenterologist, internationally recognized gut health expert and the New York Times bestselling author of Fiber Fueled and The Fiber Fueled Cookbook.
He sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of ZOE, has authored more than twenty articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, has given more than forty presentations at national meetings, presented to Congress and the USDA, and has taught over 10,000 students how to heal and optimize their gut health.
For the latest science on how to take your gut health to the next level, stick around for my chat with Dr. B... he’s a wealth of information.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why the microbiome is transforming the way we think about medicine
- What is fiber and why it's so important
- Does the carnivore diet cause antibiotic resistance?
- How the processing of food impacts the microbiome
- The microbiome is adaptable
- The golden rule of gut health
- Tumors have their own microbiome
- Any living food has a microbiome
- Start adding fermented foods into your diet
- Healing is possible
- You can begin to change your microbiome within 24 hours
- The challenge with probiotics + recommendations
- Fermented foods vs probiotics
- What is tepache?
- How exercise impacts your microbiome
- Sharing microbes with your partner
- Dr. B’s minimalistic approach to the skin microbiome
- The healing effects of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)
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Related links:
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz - The Fiber Fueled Cookbook
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Dr. Will Bulsiewicz - Fiber Fueled (book)
Justin Sonnenberg - The Sonnenburg Lab
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. So I call this the golden rule because no matter who you are no matter what dietary pattern you follow |
| 0:06.4 | This is something that you can apply and I think it's very tangible very easy to follow and can be potentially game-changing for a lot of people |
| 0:18.2 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 490. I'm Jesse Chapus |
| 0:23.2 | I'm here to take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. This week |
| 0:30.7 | I'm chatting with Dr. Will Bullswitz. Dr. B is an award-winning gastroenterologist |
| 0:36.2 | Internationally recognized gut health expert and the New York Times best-selling author of Fiber Fueled and the Fiber Fueled cookbook. |
| 0:43.5 | He sits on the scientific advisory board of Zoe has authored more than 20 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals |
| 0:51.1 | Has given more than 40 presentations at national meetings presented to Congress in the USDA and has taught 10,000 students how to heal and optimize their gut health |
| 1:02.3 | For the latest science on how to take your gut health to the next level stick around and have a listen to my chat with Dr. |
| 1:08.1 | B he's a wealth of information highlights include does the carnivore diet cause antibiotic resistance the golden rule of gut health |
| 1:16.9 | You can begin to change your microbiome within 24 hours Dr. B's minimalistic approach to the skin microbiome and the healing effects of short-chain fatty acids |
| 1:27.6 | As always if you'd prefer to watch versus listen this full interviews available over on YouTube you can get there by going to ultimate health podcast calm slash YouTube |
| 1:36.7 | Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you don't miss any of the video action |
| 1:40.1 | If when you get to the end of this conversation you enjoy it you take a lot away from it |
| 1:45.3 | The best thing you can do to help this show continue to grow and more importantly helps someone along their health journey is share this episode far and wide |
| 1:53.6 | Thank you so much. Here we go with Dr. Will Bolswitz |
| 1:58.5 | Dr. B today we're going to be talking about gut health |
| 2:01.6 | How to build that up in a good way, but before we do I think it's important we talk about |
| 2:06.8 | Why the microbiome is important. So let's kick it off there |
| 2:10.4 | Oh man, well first of all Jesse thank you for having me. I'm excited to to connect with you in your audience |
| 2:18.9 | I feel like |
| 2:21.7 | The microbiome is this scientific revolution that's taking place right now |
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