How's it going friends welcome to another episode of the Genius Life I'm your host Max Lugovier

of Filmmaker Health and Science Share and all this in the author of The New York Times best-selling

book Genius Foods. On this episode of the show I'm super excited to introduce you to Dr.

Mahmoud Ganum. Dr. Ganum has spent his entire academic career studying medically important fungi

encompassing different fungal pathogens including Candida, Aspergillus and Cryptococcus, the major

causes of fungal infections. He's published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles addressing various

aspects of superficial and systemic fungal infections and recently published the first study describing

the oral microbiome of healthy individuals. Now if the word microbiome sounds a lot like the word

microbiome, well you're right they're related. Over the course of the next hour Dr. Ganum and I

are going to talk about the fungal component of the human microbiome which is known as the

microbiome. Your mind is going to be blown when you learn about the universe of fungus that you

carry around with you and Dr. Ganum is going to offer some very practical advice on how to feed the

good guys and starve the bad guys. We discuss food, exercise, the gut brain axis, sugar, artificial

sweeteners and more. Plus you'll learn about the two secret ingredients that Dr. Ganum says can

help fight Candida which is normally present in our bodies but overgrowth can cause major problems

ranging from thrush to yeast infections to digestive problems. This is one of my favorite episodes

because the microbiome was such a new world for me so I have no doubt that this is going to be a fun

one for you to listen in on. Before we get to it I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of

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