How to Select a Probiotic and the Future of the Microbiome with Raja Dhir

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Raja Dhir is co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbiome science company pioneering innovations in probiotics and living medicines to impact human and planetary health. With unique expertise in translating scientific research for product innovation, Raja guides the development of Seed Health’s platform to enable rapid, efficient advancement of microbial research from discovery to market. He also leads the company’s academic collaborations, working with institutions like MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the National Institute of Health (NIH) to drive innovation across the fields of microbiology, genetics, immunology, and ecology. He co-chairs Seed’s Scientific Board –an interdisciplinary group of leading scientists, researchers, and clinicians–with Dr. Jacques Ravel.

Raja also oversees Seed's environmental endeavors under SeedLabs and directs LUCA Biologics, a venture targeting the vaginal microbiome for unmet needs in urogenital and reproductive health.

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In this episode we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The central role the gut plays in our overall health (4:50 / 3:04)
How the makeup of our gut microbiome comes to be (11:25 / 9:40)
Why fiber is critical to reaping the benefits of akkermansia (12:59 / 11:13)
The explosion of research on the gut microbiome (20:22 / 18:44)
Microbiome testing (29:09 / 25:15)
What are probiotics and should you take them? (33:41 / 29:47)
Selecting a probiotic (42:45 / 38:49)
Prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics (53:19 / 49:25)
How antibiotics affect the gut microbiome (58:38 / 54:44)
The future of microbiome data (1:14:34 / 1:10:40)

Learn more about Raja’s work at Seed.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.0	Research has connected gut microbes to virtually every organ system
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0:11.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr Mark.
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0:56.2	Essential fats are well essential for our health and our longevity,
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1:24.6	And there's mounting evidence that can help us repair and replenish our cells,
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