Gut-Skin Axis: Can Gut Problems Cause Skin Cancer? | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Can your gut health affect your skin—and even your risk of cancer?

After years of struggling with debilitating gut issues and extreme weight loss, Chuck Carroll is now facing a new health challenge: skin cancer. Could these be connected?

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Chuck sits down with leading gastroenterologist and gut health expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz to explore the latest science linking gut health, skin conditions, and cancer risk.

In this episode you'll learn about:

- Chuck's new cancer diagnosis and how he's doing

- The gut-skin connection

- How gut issues and skin cancer could be connected

- What your skin could be telling you about your gut health

- What comes next for Chuck in his healing journey

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	There's something called the gut skin access and basically what that means access to AXIS that
0:10.0	the gut and the skin are communicating with one another and intertwined on some level.
0:15.0	But I would actually argue it's not just gut skin, it's the gut immune skin access.
0:21.7	So it's these three parts, it's like a triangle.
0:24.1	The gut microbiome, the immune system, where 70% of your immune system resides in the
0:29.7	lining of your gut right there, just literally millimeters away from where all these microbes
0:34.9	are, and then your skin.
0:39.5	And welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:43.1	Hello, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and around
0:47.7	the world.
0:48.8	Hi to the room he's watching today in Kansas City, Kansas, Miami Gardens, Florida, and Shanghai, China.
0:55.1	Wherever you are, we appreciate you making the world a healthier place.
0:59.2	And this is indeed episode 47 of season 8, number 646 overall.
1:05.0	That is a lot of episodes.
1:06.1	And today, we are talking about whether or not there is a connection between your gut
1:10.6	and your risk of skin cancer.
1:13.6	It is indeed unusual, but there does seem to be at least some evidence showing a potential link there.
1:19.6	And for me, it's actually personal because in the midst of all the other health challenges I've been facing of late,
1:25.6	I was also recently diagnosed with skin
1:28.6	cancer. Actually had a spot removed right off of my temple recently. And that's when I started to
1:33.7	look into a potential connection. And I wanted to do a deeper dive with someone who could
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