Do "Poop Tests" That Tell You What You Should Eat *Really* Work??? (You'll Be Surprised!) & How To TRULY Know What's Going On In Your Gut, With Dr. Alex Mohr
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll get to explore what it really means to have a healthy gut—and why most gut tests only skim the surface. With the guidance of Dr. Alex Mohr, Director of Microbiomics at Theriome, you’ll move beyond generic advice and start decoding the true complexity of your own microbiome.
Whether you're biohacking your way to peak performance or just want to feel better day-to-day, this episode gives you a powerful roadmap for making your gut data work for you, not just overwhelm you.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | But as we move through these other ones, just give us the big takeaways as far as what the |
| 0:10.1 | major sexy parts of each of these different scores are. |
| 0:13.0 | Because I think the next one after that, looking out of here is the resilience score. |
| 0:17.0 | What's the resilience score? |
| 0:17.6 | So the resilience score, I think, is unique to our test. |
| 0:21.7 | Depending on the scoring, depending on what we're finding, it may not be the most advantageous thing to start |
| 0:25.9 | taking a particular probiotic to increase beneficial bacteria. It may, the first step is some |
| 0:31.4 | elimination, some depopulation events to actually kind of bottleneck these pathogenic microorganisms |
| 0:37.2 | to then allow |
| 0:38.2 | ecological space, ecological niches for commensal microbes to then repopulate that. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionists, and I'm passionate about |
| 0:53.9 | helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, |
| 0:57.1 | fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 1:04.6 | The molecule NAD plus, like everybody's talking about it, |
| 1:08.6 | it's in every living cell of your body. |
| 1:10.1 | It's so vital to aging. |
| 1:11.7 | But what is it? |
| 1:13.1 | What is it? |
| 1:14.9 | Here's how to answer that question at your next cocktail party full of biohackers. |
| 1:19.0 | NAD plus is a co-enzyme that helps with almost everything you associate with being in your prime. |
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