Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, where Dr Stephen Gundry shares his groundbreaking research

from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone.

Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific

advancements, and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long

happy life. So when you think of stress reduction, you of your

practices such as meditation,

yoga, running, walking outdoors in green bathing.

And while all that is good,

that's not what we're going to talk about today.

See, the vast majority of our stress induces

actually come from our gut microbiome, which means taking care of your gut

gut is actually one of the best things you can do to keep stress and anxiety and depression at bay.

So let's talk about the gut brain connection and we should expand on that to the

microbiome gut brain connection. on that

feel-good biome gut brain connection. First of all, we're now understanding

that feel-good hormones like serotonin

and the brain calming hormone Gaba are actually coming and produced by a healthy gut

micromion.

For years we used to think that these hormones were manufactured in the brain.

A few years ago we realized that in fact they were arriving at the brain from distant sites

and so we thought that they were produced by the neurons in our

gut and there's plenty of neurons down there but surprise surprise we're wrong

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