Welcome to episode 328 of Live Happy Now.

These days, many of us are taking a more hands-on approach to our health.

And this week's guest is going to explain why both physical and mental well-being are all in the gut.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Dr. Sabine Hazen, a leading researcher and

practitioner in the field of the gut microbiome. She's here to talk about what a gut microbiome is,

how it affects our overall well-being, its important role in boosting our immune system,

and how to discover if your microbiome needs improvement.

Let's start learning.

Well, Dr. Sabine, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

This is a wonderful conversation that we're about to have, and it's a really important

one because, you know, as we're recording this, our cases of COVID are going up.

And I think a lot of people are really feeling helpless about what they can do.

And the key to health is obviously a healthy immune system.

But I feel like there's a lot of things that haven't been discussed about what that really means.

My whole thing is, well, what about prevention with gut health?

What about isn't the immunity in your gut? Isn't your microbiome your immunity? We define health as a person that's like exercising, you know, looking good, feeling fit. But then you hear those people, you know, end up dying of COVID, you know, like the athlete that

dies of COVID. Did he die of COVID because of the fact that his gut microbiome was disbiased

out of balance in a way, right? And so I think this is what we need to focus on. A lot of people

don't necessarily know what you mean when you say gut microbiome. So can you

explain to us what that is and why it's so critical to our immune system? So our gut microbiome

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