Battling Pathogens and Building Immunity Begins In Your Gut – Dr. Robynne Chutkan : 998
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… Robynne Chutkan, M.D., joins the show to talk about a topic that’s foundational to biohacking—resilience. More specifically, resilience that starts in the gut. You’ll learn:
- how your microbiome continually evolves and why that matters to the state of your gut and body functions.
- how to strengthen the antiviral defenses located in your gut.
- why your body’s own ability “to resist, heal, and recover from viruses is vastly superior” to pharmaceuticals.
- what to do before taking antibiotics to protect your gut, as well as what you can do to rehab your microbiome after antibiotic use.
“Being on the winning team when battling viruses isn’t because of good luck, or coincidence, or variations in viral virulence,” Dr. Chutkan explains in her newest book, “The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens from the Inside Out.” "It’s due to differences in us, the hosts, and our defenses, and those differences are what determine your outcome. Put another way: it’s less about the potency of the pathogen and more about the health of the host.”
Dr. Chutkan is a Yale- and Columbia-educated integrative gastroenterologist who’s been advancing knowledge and education about gut health for decades. Nearly 20 years ago she founded the Digestive Center for Wellness to help people get to the root issue of their digestive issues and improve their gut health.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:10.7 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode, you're going to learn some really cool stuff. |
| 0:19.4 | You might have heard me talk about the microbiome maybe once or twice or a lot because it's |
| 0:25.4 | a cutting edge for biohacking. |
| 0:27.5 | But there's some stuff going on that you probably haven't heard about that has to do with your |
| 0:32.4 | anti-viral defenses in your gut. |
| 0:35.2 | Most people talk about biome as being the gut bacteria, obviously. |
| 0:41.2 | But when you really look at it, there's a viral situation in the gut. |
| 0:46.0 | There's a parasitic situation in the gut. |
| 0:49.0 | There's a fungal thing happening in the gut, a whole fungal biome. |
| 0:52.8 | And there are even phages which are basically little parasites that eat bacteria. |
| 0:58.3 | So it's a jungle in there. |
| 1:01.7 | And we're going to go deep into exploring the jungle, specifically looking at the anti-viral |
| 1:07.8 | defenses that are there and what you can do to basically outperform pharmaceuticals |
| 1:14.6 | when it comes to fighting particular viruses. |
| 1:18.0 | But not in any particular way that would be related to any government mandated viruses |
| 1:24.0 | because it's rude to talk about those and only the worst kind of person would ever mention |
| 1:28.3 | that by name. |
| 1:30.2 | I for one, support our new AI robotic overlords. |
| 1:34.0 | I just wanted to make that really clear. |
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