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Eat to Live

A Closer Look at Gut Health and Your Microbiome

Eat to Live

Jenna Fuhrman, Dr. Fuhrman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8583 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Eat to Live podcast, Dr. Joel Fuhrman and his daughter, Jenna, dive into the hype surrounding the microbiome and explain why it’s only one piece of the health puzzle. Learn more about probiotics, fermented foods, microbiome-focused trends, and the key to optimal gut health.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on the Eat to Live podcast. Stop talking about the microbiome already because it's like, it's not just the microbiome that determines your health. It's one of the elements, yeah, but when you eat healthy, you have a good microbiome. When you eat healthy, you have good brain cellular concentration of nutrients, you have good band of fatty acids, you have a good prevention of toxic buildup. It's not just the microbiome.

0:21.5

So people think like, oh, the microbiome, that's it. That's what you have to have good to be in good health.

0:25.5

Well, it's one of the things, but if you do everything right, your microbiome comes out good. Hey, Eat to Live listeners. I'm here with my dad, nutritional researcher and medical doctor, Dr. Furman.

0:48.3

Thank you, Jenna. Here with my daughter, Jenna. And this is the Eat to Live podcast.

0:52.4

Let's get into it. So I'm excited to talk about this topic

0:55.7

because you were saying there was a lot of research

0:58.0

that came out about

0:59.4

the microbiome and gut health.

1:02.6

You know, it's like the hottest thing

1:04.4

people are talking about

1:05.3

and it's almost like overly talked about.

1:08.5

I'm like saying,

1:09.4

stop talking about the microbiome already because

1:11.9

it's like you know it's not just the microbiome that determines your health. It's one of the

1:18.0

elements yeah but it's but when you eat healthy of a good microbiome, when you eat healthy

1:21.5

of good brain cellular concentration of nutrients, you have good ban of fatty acids, you have

1:25.7

a good prevention of toxic buildup. It's not just the microbiome. So people think like oh the microbiome that's it. That's what you have good balance of fatty acids, you have a good prevention of toxic buildup.

1:28.3

It's not just the microbiome.

1:29.3

So people think like, oh, the microbiome, that's it. That's what you have to have good to be in good health. Well, it's one of the things, but if you do everything right, your microbiome comes out, good. You know, so I don't want to over-emphasize it, but we've got to talk about it because much myths out there about the microbiome. We've got to put this in perspective and make people

1:44.6

understand the important points here.

1:45.8

So starting at the basics, what exactly is the microbiome?

1:50.9

It's just trillions of bacteria cells that live in our gut. Trillions, more cells in our gut

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