OPTIMIZE YOUR GUT to Fight Disease (Busting Common Gut Health Myths) with Dr. Jason Hawrelak
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.7 • 751 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m speaking with gut health researcher, clinician, professor, and expert to the experts, Dr. Jason Hawrelak about his life-changing knowledge on the best ways to care for your gut. Dr. Hawrelak is the most well-informed (and humble!) gut specialist I’ve ever spoken with, and I’m so lucky he was my professor in graduate school. You don’t want to miss this episode!
In this podcast, Dr. Hawrelak and I discuss:
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A major probiotic myth that Dr. Hawrelak has been trying to bust for over 20 years and why you might be wasting your time (and money!) on probiotics that aren’t right for you
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3 fascinating ways your gut health is connected to your energy levels (or LACK of energy!)
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The 1 gut problem you should be aware of that can lead to weight gain, insulin resistance, autoimmunity, brain fog, and even Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline
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The connection between your microbiome, dietary fiber, and…brain health!
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The amazing effects of prebiotics and when to use prebiotics versus probiotics
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Dangers of the Carnivore Diet trend and why your gut, microbial, and system-wide health might suffer long-term
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Dr. Hawrelak’s top 3 gut health tips…including one I didn’t expect!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me today is a very special |
| 0:12.0 | guest, Dr. Jason Harlack. He is, without a doubt, one of the premier, most world-class, most |
| 0:19.8 | expert of the experts in the gut microbiome. |
| 0:24.6 | So in a world of people, lots and lots of people who are claiming to be gut health experts, |
| 0:32.6 | this is, in my opinion, the premier gut health microbiome expert, one of them, certainly, in the world on planet |
| 0:41.0 | Earth. He is not a public-facing influencer where, you know, people in the general population |
| 0:48.7 | would know him, but he is widely known among actual gut health experts and physicians and clinicians, conventional |
| 0:56.1 | and functional medicine, doctors who specialize in gastrointestinal and microbiome health. |
| 1:02.7 | He is extremely well known and he offers coursework for those practitioners. |
| 1:08.0 | He's often an educator to those gut health experts and training them |
| 1:11.8 | in their knowledge of the microbiome. He's also a clinician. He's also a professor. He's also |
| 1:17.1 | a researcher. He's written over 20 textbook chapters in actual clinical textbooks meant for |
| 1:25.1 | training professionals in this domain of gut health and microbiome |
| 1:29.9 | health and is really la creme de la creme of gut health experts. I've personally had the pleasure |
| 1:36.5 | of taking graduate level coursework under him. And this podcast episode was actually recorded, |
| 1:44.7 | the one that you're about to hear, |
| 1:46.7 | was actually recorded about a year ago. |
| 1:51.0 | And we haven't released it since then, |
| 1:52.6 | for a reason I'll explain in a moment here. |
| 1:57.0 | Right after I took his coursework, |
| 1:59.4 | because I was so impressed with his knowledge, |
| 2:01.6 | I essentially reached out to him and said, |
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