How Gut Bacteria Can Change Your Weight & Metabolism – Colleen Cutcliffe, Ph.D. : 1004
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™…molecular biologist and biochemist Colleen Cutcliffe, Ph.D., returns to the show with brand new science about your gut. She’s a regular guest because she and her team at Pendulum continue to uncover innovative ways to improve your gut health, your metabolism, your immune system, how your brain works and how long you live.
This time, Akkermansia’s back in the spotlight, with more than 300 new studies showing connections to weight, metabolism and immunity. A unique and novel probiotic strain (species of bacteria) naturally found in your gastrointestinal tract, Akkermansia muciniphila, directly interacts with your gut lining and helps regulate the mucus lining in your gut. Now, there’s growing evidence showing Akkermansia to be a keystone bacterial strain.
This conversation dives into the latest research and what it means for you. You’ll learn how to apply this new knowledge and how to boost Akkermansia in your gut.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:04.2 | Formerly, bulletproof radio. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.7 | Today, we're going to talk about one of my favorite things of all. |
| 0:21.2 | We talk about biohacking as the art and science of changing the environment around you and |
| 0:25.7 | the inside of you. |
| 0:29.7 | But what's inside of you, we don't even know if it's really you. |
| 0:35.7 | Because when you think about it, there's a whole bunch of bacteria that's growing. |
| 0:39.2 | I've talked about that so many times on the show, but we keep learning more. |
| 0:45.0 | What I want to be able to share with you today and what our guest is going to do is talk |
| 0:48.6 | about a specific species of bacteria that you can put in your gut that is called acrimansia. |
| 0:55.1 | We're going to talk specifically about weight, metabolism, and immune system. |
| 0:59.4 | What I'm proposing to you here is that you can add a specific species to the group of |
| 1:05.2 | stuff in your gut. |
| 1:07.2 | By doing that, you can turn on biological powers that you didn't have before. |
| 1:12.6 | It's that big of a difference. |
| 1:14.7 | What we're learning now is what different strains do. |
| 1:18.4 | Acrimansia is something that got ignored until a company called Pendulum came out and said, |
| 1:25.8 | hey, let's make this available as a probiotic because it was actually very hard to do that. |
| 1:32.4 | You're going to learn in the episode today how you can boost acrimansia in your gut with |
| 1:36.7 | probiotics and with other things like that. |
| 1:39.5 | Our guest is Colleen Cutcliffe, who's a PhD. |
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