Show 1002: How Bowel Bacteria Affect the Brain

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Until fairly recently, no one was really interested in the denizens of the digestive tract except for a few gastroenterologists and a few more microbiologists. But now research has shown that the bacteria in our bowels form complex ecological systems, and interest in the microbiome has gone mainstream. Bowel Bacteria as a Source of Inflammation: […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.4	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redix Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:31.2	DNA analysis has shown that we have entire ecosystems living in our digestive tracts.
0:37.3	How do these microbes affect the brain?
0:40.3	This is the People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graydon.
0:48.3	The bacteria in our bellies have gotten a great deal of attention lately.
0:55.2	They appear to influence the inflammation that underlies so many chronic conditions,
0:59.7	such as heart disease, cancer, or even Alzheimer's disease.
1:03.8	We hardly ever imagine that there's a connection between the bowels and the brain.
1:08.4	But neurologist David Prometter says this link could be fundamental to
1:12.5	diseases like dementia, autism, or multiple sclerosis.
1:16.6	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, learn about the power of gut microbes to heal and protect
1:22.4	the brain.
1:25.2	First, this news.
1:30.3	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, British citizens are now being advised to take vitamin D pills.
1:37.3	For years, UK doctors told their patients, just eat a well-balanced diet, no supplements needed.
1:43.2	That advice should sound familiar since it's the same
1:46.5	message that U.S. doctors have been offering. But the public health experts have now recognized
1:51.5	that in Great Britain it's too difficult to get enough sunshine to make adequate vitamin D,
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