Welcome to the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent

conversations.

I have the absolute privilege to sit down with my good friend, Suzanne Devcoda. Dr. Devcota is the director of the

Human Microbiome Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A., an associate professor of

medicine at UCLA, as well as an adjunct investigator at the Jocelyn Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School.

This woman is a very well-established scientist.

She's been studying the effects of diet on the gut microbiome and inflammatory diseases for the past 12 years,

investigating dietary drivers of gut microbiome structure and function in the

inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic disease space.

She is no slouched publications.

She's published in Nature, Science, and Cell.

She's funded by the NIH.

She completed her master's at the University of Illinois at Urbana

Champaign in nutritional sciences. Actually, this is where I met her. Her PhD in molecular

metabolism and nutrition at the University of Chicago and her postdoctoral training at the

Jocelyn Diabetes Center at Harvard. In today's episode, we talk about why fasting and other

diets don't work for gut health. Do you really need dietary fiber? Why you should be or should

not be worried about, quote, leaky gut, and are food additives really bad for you? Let's dive in.

I'd like to take a moment to thank one of the sponsors of the show, and that is one farm.

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