Mastering The Microbiome

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our bodies are comprised of about ten trillion cells. But only half those cells are human. The remainder comprise our microbiome—a vast and complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live in or on our bodies. Only now is science beginning to understand the profound impact of these microbes on human health. We choose to believe that we are fully sentient and self-governing, wholly responsible for our health, moods and decisions. But the truth is far different. In fact, to a large extent, our emotional state, propensity for disease, the nature of our cravings, and even some of our decision making can be traced back to the nature of our gut ecology. Most of these microorganisms are symbiotic. Maintaining a healthy culture of the right microorganisms is fundamental to good health. But should the quality of your microbiome go awry, health havoc ensues. To better understand the vital role these microorganisms play in our health and lives, today’s show is a veritable microbiome masterclass courtesy of the gastroenterologists, scientific researchers, and gut experts that have graced the show over the years. After 8+ years and 500+ conversations, I’ve compiled a vast library of bankable, timeless information and advice. As a steward of this archive, I feel a responsibility to convert the best of it into a more helpful, productive, accessible, and practical resource. As an initial step toward this goal, I will be periodically offering curated wisdom focused on a specific theme or subject (as opposed to a guest). This episode is an embryonic experiment in doing just that—the first in what will be an evolving series of deep dives, commencing with this microbiome intensive courtesy of the following collection of past podcast gut health expert guests (all hyperlinked to their respective full episodes): Robynne Chutkan, M.D. Ara Katz and Raja Dhir Zach Bush, M.D. Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D. Will Bulsiewicz, M.D. FULL BLOG & SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/richroll575 YouTube: bit.ly/microbiome575 I sincerely hope you find this experiment helpful and instructive. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	The major source of all inflammation in the body is actually the gut.
0:05.5	So your gut hosts the largest number of immune cells in the body so that you're all,
0:10.8	you're most of the immune cells in your body are found in your gut.
0:13.1	You've got them in your spleen, your thymus, and you're obviously in your blood.
0:16.2	So in addition to immune cells being in your gut, you also have a lot of bacteria in your
0:21.0	gut.
0:22.0	And those bacteria play a very, very important role in regulating your immune system.
0:26.6	So you're talking about people that are eating unhealthy, they're not getting enough fiber.
0:30.6	And, you know, they're doing damage in the gut and that's causing a lot of immune cells
0:36.4	to become active, chronically, every day, you know.
0:39.7	You have to feed those bacteria, the right types of foods.
0:43.0	You can kind of think of them as little chemical producing factories, actually, because when
0:46.6	you feed them, the right type of food, which happens to be fiber, fiber gets digested by
0:53.9	this bacteria in your gut, in your colon specifically, and it produces a bunch of different chemical
0:59.2	products called short-chain fatty acids, which are little signaling molecules that tell
1:04.6	your immune cells in your gut to become a certain type of immune cell.
1:09.3	So they'll tell them, okay, become this type of immune cell that is involved in preventing
1:15.4	autoimmune diseases, making sure your immune system doesn't get so ramped up that it
1:19.6	starts to just attack everything, including your own organs.
1:22.6	That's very important.
1:24.6	That's Dr. Ronda Patrick, and this is a special deep dive edition of the Retro podcast.
1:41.3	The Retro podcast.
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