Dr. Sabine Hazan: How Microbes Shape Memory, Mood, and the Mind
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Could the answers to our most stubborn health mysteries—and maybe even the secret to a longer, happier life—be found in the microbes we’ve spent a lifetime trying to avoid?
How does our microbiome affect conditions like depression, Parkinson's, and autism?
Research from this week’s guest shows that optimizing microbial health can dramatically improve our quality of life, leading to enhanced memory and cognition and reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's. After microbial transplants, some patients even started regrowing their hair!
Our guest today, Dr. Sabine Hazan, is a trailblazer and pioneering specialist in gastroenterology, internal medicine, and hepatology. Dr. Hazan is the Founder & CEO of the Malibu Specialty Center and Ventura Clinical Trials where she conducts and oversees clinical trials for cutting-edge research. She’s also a top clinical investigator for multiple pharmaceutical companies, and an author to boot.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- The many unexpected benefits of microbiome transplants
- How sunlight, exercise, and hobbies like gardening actually improve our microbial health and resilience
- How changing the way we think affects our microbiome
- And much more…
- progenabiome.com
- Pick up the book, Let's Talk Sh!t, on Barnes and Noble or progenabiome.com
- Listen to the Let's Talk Sh!t podcast with Dr. Sabine Hazan on progenabiome.com, letstalkshit.org, Apple Podcasts, Audible, YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts
- Go to microbiomeresearchfoundation.org for cutting-edge information from Dr. Hazen and the Biome Squad
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Abel James, and thanks so much for joining us on the show. What if the secret to |
| 0:05.8 | unlocking the mysteries of our minds, our health, and even our happiness is hiding in the most |
| 0:10.7 | unexpected place inside of our guts? Could the answers to our most stubborn health mysteries, |
| 0:16.9 | and maybe even the secret to a longer, happier life, be found in the microbes we've spent a |
| 0:21.9 | lifetime trying to avoid? How does our microbiome affect conditions like depression, Parkinson's, |
| 0:27.8 | and autism? As our body's main point of contact interacting with the outside world, |
| 0:33.0 | many illnesses start in the gut. Research from this week's guest shows that optimizing microbial health |
| 0:39.3 | can dramatically improve our quality of life, leading to enhanced memory and cognition |
| 0:43.9 | and even reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's. After microbial transplants, some patients even started |
| 0:50.2 | regrowing their own hair. Our guest today, Dr. Sabine Hazen, is a trailblazer and |
| 0:56.1 | pioneering specialist in gastroenterology, internal medicine, and hepatology. Dr. Hazen is the founder |
| 1:03.0 | and CEO of the Malibu Specialty Center and Ventura Clinical Trials, where she conducts |
| 1:08.3 | and overseas clinical trials for cutting-edge research. Dr. Hazen also has an impeccable sense of humor. I think you're going to enjoy this interview. Before we get there, here's a quick plug. Make sure you're subscribed to the Able James show wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can also get an ad-free version of this show with a lot of behind-the-scenes goodies when you subscribe to my |
| 1:27.6 | substack. That's at abeljames.substack.com. A-B-E-L-James.com. Look forward to seeing you there. |
| 1:35.4 | On this episode of the show of Dr. Hazen, you're about to discover the unexpected benefits of |
| 1:40.6 | microbiome transplants, how sunlight, exercise, and hobbies like gardening |
| 1:45.3 | actually improve our microbial health and resilience, how changing the way we think |
| 1:50.2 | affects our microbiome, and much more. Let's meet Dr. Hazen. |
| 1:59.4 | This episode is brought to you by Manuk Kora, Troscriptions, and crowd health. |
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| 2:11.1 | It's ethically produced by master beekeepers in the remote forests of New Zealand and contains powerful nutrients to support immunity and |
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