Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick.

Together, they are the Bostics.

We've got a scientist and a gut microbiome expert on the show today.

Please welcome Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe.

She has 25 years of experience advancing biology and human health.

She's a badass. Wow. On this episode, I learned so much about the gut. I was blown away.

She breaks it down in a really clear, credible way. And it's a way that really makes sense. We also talk about some really

interesting topics, like what stimulates the body's natural GLP1 hormone. And we even talk about

improving the metabolism and reducing food cravings. I found this episode fascinating. I know you

will too. With that, let's welcome Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe to the show. We prep for all these things. And a lot of the feedback from the team is like, people are just terrified. They don't know what to do. There's so many illnesses. There's so many new cancers. There's so many things happening as it relates to gut. And people, I mean, you know this. There's a lot of information out of there and people don't know where to turn. They don't

know what to do. They don't know what's real. What's not. So I guess to start, how did you get involved in this space to begin with and how did you get interested in the gut? So I totally agree. It is a really noisy space. Everyone knows, oh, gut health is really important for me. But now what? what do I do? What's actionable from this? And

what is going to help me personally and what's going to help, you know, that person may not be the

same thing. And so for me, I actually didn't really know anything about supplements or probiotics

and things like that. I did all of my research. I have a PhD in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins.

I did a pretty traditional

postdoc at Northwestern. Then I worked as a scientist and a pharma company. We were developing

drugs for Parkinson's disease. Then I worked in a DNA sequencing company doing biology. And so I've had

a really hardcore basic science background. And when I learned about the microbiome, I was like,

wow, this is an entirely new part of our body that we didn't really understand before.

So I came at it from purely a science and almost pharmaceutical kind of an angle and then realized there's a lot of natural things that are happening here and natural ways that we can fix our bodies.

And so we ended up putting our products out as probiotics as opposed to drugs.

But I came to it purely from like a science and clinical and data standpoint. Someone who doesn't

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