Resbiotic - The Gut-Lung Axis Explained
The Story of a Brand
Ramon Vela
5 • 145 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with C. Vivek Lal, MD, FAAP, a physician-scientist and the founder & CEO of Resbiotic, to explore the incredible connection between our gut microbiome and respiratory health.
Dr. Lal shares how his clinical work with premature infants inspired a deeper dive into gut-lung science, ultimately leading to the development of Resbiotic—a science-first wellness brand that’s bridging the gap between clinical research and everyday health.
What really struck me in this conversation was Vivek’s blend of curiosity, care, and credibility. He’s not just creating a product—he’s on a mission to help people breathe easier, live better, and understand how their gut health plays a role in it all. If you’re interested in functional wellness, biotech innovation, or just want to understand your body a bit better, this one is for you.
Here are a few highlights from our conversation:
* The gut-lung axis: what it is and why it matters
* How a NICU doctor became a CPG founder
* Why Resbiotic leads with clinical credibility, not marketing fluff
* The challenge of translating deep science into consumer products
* How education and transparency are building trust in a skeptical market
Join me, Ramon Vela, as I listen to the episode and discover how science, storytelling, and heart are driving the next wave of health and wellness innovation.
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| 0:00.0 | We were also the first ones to find, or one of the first ones to find that lung actually has a microbiome, right? |
| 0:05.5 | Everyone comes up for the gut. Even the NIH, when it came up with the NIH microbiome project in, I think, 2006 or seven, they didn't have lung as a primary organ to study initially. |
| 0:15.5 | Because everyone thought that lungs are served, right? But later, our group and some other groups found that no, lungs also have |
| 0:21.6 | a microbiome, which is very low biomass, but it doesn't mean it's not important. It's very |
| 0:26.1 | important. So that's how my lab started studying the lungs with context to the microbiome. And we did |
| 0:31.6 | it for several years and found specific organisms which were helpful in decreasing lung inflammation. |
| 0:37.8 | So the problem was there was not even a concept which existed calling probiotic helpful |
| 0:43.7 | for lungs, right? |
| 0:44.9 | So respiratory probiotic or lung probiotic or the gut lung axis. |
| 0:48.1 | So we had to create a category. |
| 0:50.1 | And we, how many have launched many things after that, but we still are the OG of respiratory probiotics. |
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