Should We All Avoid Gluten? with Dr. Alessio Fasano

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Dr. Fasano discusses the effects of gluten as well as other potential triggers that aggravate the gut. What does it take to heal the gut? How can we prevent leaky gut? Find out more in this episode. Advancing innovation in research, clinical care and education, Alessio Fasano, MD, has dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for people with celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders. He founded the Center for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1996. In 2013, he moved the Center to Massachusetts General Hospital and renamed it the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment. He is chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and that's Dr. Pharmacy F-A-R-M-A-C-Y,
0:09.4	a place for conversations that matter. And today's guest is an extraordinary scientist and leader
0:14.1	in the field of gluten, Dr. Alessio Fassano, who I've known for a number of years and has been a
0:19.2	huge contributor to our world of functional medicine helping us bridge the gap between what we
0:23.6	eat, our microbiome, and chronic disease. So he's an extraordinary physician. He's been at the
0:31.1	forefront of the field of celiac and gluten research. He's now at Harvard. He's the head of the
0:38.1	division of pediatric astrology and nutrition at Mass General and professor of pediatrics at
0:42.8	Harvard Medical School. And he's basically leading a huge team looking at how do we understand
0:47.6	celiac and gluten issues. He's leading a group called the Mucosal Immunology and Biology
0:52.0	Research Center, which is over 45 scientists looking at how do we translate the information about
0:57.3	what we eat, gluten, our gut, our leaky gut, the microbiome, and chronic disease. It's pretty
1:03.6	exciting work and he's written an extraordinary book called Gluten Freedom, which I have you all
1:08.0	check out. All the proceeds for the book sales go to support celiac research and it's available in
1:12.2	seven languages, which is great. So the topics he's doing now are pretty exciting. One of them we're
1:18.0	going to talk about, which is this new research study looking at how our genes, our environment,
1:23.7	our microbiome, and our metabolism all interact to create a risk for disease. So welcome Dr.
1:29.2	Fosano. Thank you, Mark. You're at the forefront of one of the most exciting areas in medicine,
1:34.2	which is this connection between what we eat, the microbes on our gut, and chronic disease,
1:38.6	particularly autoimmune disease. And you know, I started practicing functional medicine 20 years ago.
1:43.6	Nobody even heard of gluten. I was talking about gluten-free diets are like what are you talking
1:47.1	about? People have to eat the worst food. And now it seems like millions of people's
1:51.4	spire to be gluten-free. It's like an aspirational diet. I'm gluten-free. It's kind of a kind of a
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