Gut Bacteria And Viruses | The Gut Immune System Link with Dr. Grace Liu
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.6 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I am speaking with Dr. Grace Liu – who is a functional medicine practitioner who specializes in gut health and the founder of the Gut Institute. She has formulated her own brand of probiotics (which we will discuss today), and host of the Microbiome Medicine Conferences and the Heal SIBO Summit. We will talk about the gut bacteria and viruses and the link between gut health and the immune system.
In this podcast, Dr. Liu will cover:
- The connection between the gut and immune health
- The uplifting data on survival COVID-19 survival rates in the elderly population
- The critical role of lifestyle and stress in gut health
- The link between testosterone and anabolism and how it relates to gut health
- A practical guide to probiotic supplementation
- The connection between gut health and COVID-19 infection
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. I'm your host, Ari Whitten, |
| 0:12.0 | and today I have with me Dr. Grace Liu, who is a doctor of pharmacy. She's an AFMCP, which I will let her describe what that is. She is a functional |
| 0:24.0 | medicine practitioner with an international functional medicine practice that includes |
| 0:27.8 | nutritional consultations, integrative laboratory analysis, and personalized counseling. |
| 0:33.2 | She's a gut expert in particular, and that's what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:37.6 | She's the founder of the gut Institute. She's a gut expert in particular, and that's what we're going to be talking about today. She's the founder of the gut Institute. |
| 0:40.5 | She's a formulator of probiotics. |
| 0:42.3 | She's a host of the microbiome medicine conferences and the Heal-Sebo Summit. |
| 0:49.5 | And I recently connected with her on the topic of coronavirus of COVID-19 that everybody's talking about |
| 0:56.2 | right now. And she let me know about some fascinating research about how the gut microbiome |
| 1:02.1 | ties into immune health. And I basically said, you know, I'd love to have you on the podcast |
| 1:08.0 | to talk about all this stuff. And, um, in particular, |
| 1:12.0 | there was some stuff she mentioned the, about the gut lung axis. Now, I had heard of the gut |
| 1:18.2 | brain access, the gut skin access, the gut mitochondria axis in particular is an area where I know a lot |
| 1:23.9 | about, but I had never come across anything about the gut lung access. |
| 1:27.8 | And I started to look into that. |
| 1:29.6 | And I just thought it was mind-blowing and fascinating stuff. |
| 1:33.4 | So I'm excited for this conversation and I'm really excited to have you on the show, Dr. Lou. |
| 1:39.8 | Thank you so much, Ari. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.8 | I'm so grateful to be here. |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah. |
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