How Diet Influences Everything From Gut Health to Decision Making

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The health of our digestive system greatly impacts the health of our whole body. This is because our gut is designed to help us digest food, absorb nutrients, keep invaders out, and even produce helpful compounds like the neurotransmitter serotonin, among so many other powerful functions. This is why the whole body will suffer when the gut is out of balance. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. Stanley Hazen about how the microbiome can influence disease risk and why this is an essential piece to the future of medicine. He also talks to Dr. David Perlmutter about how what we eat influences everything from our mood to our tiniest gut friends—microbes—and how well they function and fight off invaders. Dr. Stanley Hazen is both the chair of the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the Lerner Research Institute and section head of Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation at the Heart and Vascular Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. He’s published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and has over 50 patents from his pioneering discoveries in atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease. Dr. Hazen made the seminal discovery linking microbial pathways to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and four-time New York Times best selling author. He serves on the Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. His books include the #1 New York Times bestseller, “Grain Brain,” “The Surprising Truth About Wheat,” “Carbs and Sugar,” with over 1 million copies in print. He is the editor of the upcoming collection, “The Microbiome and the Brain,” that will be authored by top experts in the field and will be published in 2019 by CRC Press. Dr. Perlmutter’s new book, “Brain Wash,” co-written with Austin Perlmutter, MD, will be published in January 2020. Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full length conversation with Dr. Hazen https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrStanleyHazen Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full length conversation with Dr. Perlmutter: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrDavidPerlmutter

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	This whole idea that the gut microbiome participates in multiple facets of human health and disease,
0:08.9	it's kind of, I think, be changing the way we think of medicine in the future and look at things
0:14.4	more holistically. Yeah, you absolutely are right. I mean, this is radically changing the paradigm
0:18.7	of silos and medicine and specialty is all breaking down. And it's really what functional
0:22.7	medicines about, its systems thinking, how do these things connect, how they relate.
0:26.7	Hi, I'm Kaya Paroet, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast. Functional
0:31.2	medicine puts a major focus on the gut. And there's a lot more happening in your gut than you
0:36.0	might think. Dr. Hyman recently sat down with Dr. Stanley Hayson to discuss why the microbiome
0:41.9	is an essential piece to the future of medicine. And he also spoke with Dr. David Perlmutter about how
0:48.2	what we eat influences everything from our mood to the function of our microbes. We were on a
0:53.9	panel recently and you were saying that, you know, so many of our blood metabolites are not even
0:58.4	human. They're microbial and they all have different effects on our biology. So the question is,
1:04.0	why if we've evolved for years with these microbes, co-evolution, why is it that in the last
1:10.7	hundred years we see this explosion of heart disease? Has our gut bacteria changed? And how and why?
1:17.0	That is an excellent question and it's not totally figured out. But what is for certain is that our
1:22.3	gut bacteria are changing as we have changed not only our environment in terms of how we generate
1:30.2	food and process food and the whole science of agriculture has changed as well as the prevalence of
1:36.6	antibiotics use, which is like a nuclear bomb to the gut microbial community. And every time a
1:42.9	person takes antibiotics, the whole community or a big portion of it gets replaced. And often it
1:48.0	doesn't come back the same way as where it was to start with. So there are differences.
1:53.2	Most people might not know what the microbiome is or why it's important or why it would in the world
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