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These days, we hear a lot about gut health. And many people want to know about the effects of probiotics, antibiotics, gut inflammation, and modern digestive issues. You are a walking ecosystem home to a microbial community made up of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. You may be surprised to learn that you are more bacteria DNA than you are human DNA. Many of these inhabitants are found in your gut, and they also exist on your skin and in other parts of your body. Together these trillions of organisms form your microbiome. Today we ask our experts, what does this complex community do for us? On this episode, Victoria Maizes and Andrew Weil are joined by guests, Erica and Justin Sonnenburg, to discuss the human microbiome. Erica is a senior research scientist in the department of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Justin is an associate professor in the same department at Stanford. Together, they wrote, The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health. Erica says until recently the microbiome was a relatively understudied area, and that research is just beginning to uncover the major role it plays in our health. She discusses how the overuse of antibiotics, soaps, and chemical sanitizers may be destroying the crucial diversity of our microbiomes. We discuss how the Western diet may be starving the microbiome of essential food sources and damaging the intestines leading to inflammation. Dr. Weil shares a strategy that he finds more effective than probiotics supplements - and less expensive. Justin explains how precision medicine will use microbiome testing to harness one's unique microbiome population to treat diseases. We also discuss the research surrounding fecal transplants and how this novel treatment may be used to address illnesses like irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, and asthma in the future. Learn how you can take steps to benefit your microbiome and why the right bacteria is a good thing.

These days, we hear a lot about gut health. And many people want to know about the effects of probiotics, antibiotics, gut inflammation, and modern digestive issues. You are a walking ecosystem home to a microbial community made up of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. You may be surprised to learn that you are more bacteria DNA than you are human DNA. Many of these inhabitants are found in your gut, and they also exist on your skin and in other parts of your body. Together these trillions of organisms form your microbiome. Today we ask our experts, what does this complex community do for us? On this episode, Victoria Maizes and Andrew Weil are joined by guests, Erica and Justin Sonnenburg, to discuss the human microbiome. Erica is a senior research scientist in the department of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Justin is an associate professor in the same department at Stanford. Together, they wrote, The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health. Erica says until recently the microbiome was a relatively understudied area, and that research is just beginning to uncover the major role it plays in our health. She discusses how the overuse of antibiotics, soaps, and chemical sanitizers may be destroying the crucial diversity of our microbiomes. We discuss how the Western diet may be starving the microbiome of essential food sources and damaging the intestines leading to inflammation. Dr. Weil shares a strategy that he finds more effective than probiotics supplements - and less expensive. Justin explains how precision medicine will use microbiome testing to harness one's unique microbiome population to treat diseases. We also discuss the research surrounding fecal transplants and how this novel treatment may be used to address illnesses like irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, and asthma in the future. Learn how you can take steps to benefit your microbiome and why the right bacteria is a good thing.

Episode #9 The Human Microbiome with Erica Sonnenburg, PhD and Justin Sonnenburg, PhD

In this episode, Therese Markow and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg discuss the diverse and active microbiome that is in the human body. This microbiome in our gut varies from person to person and is largely environmentally based – those foods we eat, and what we choose to consume plays a factor on how healthy our gut biome is. They discuss the changes of the microbiome as infants as well as in adults, and ways that we can change or reset the microbiome, as well as what we each can do every day to keep our microbiomes healthy.    Key Takeaways:    Typical western diets now are very low in complex carbohydrates and it is affecting the microbiome in the large intestine.  Your environment is a big player in your microbiome – what you eat, lifestyle, medications, etc.  The first year of a baby’s life, their microbiome could make an impact on their immune system.     "Unlike our human genome, which we have almost no control over, our microbiome is something that we have a lot of control over based on our environment." —  Dr. Erica Sonnenburg   Connect with Dr. Erica Sonnenburg:   Website: SonnenburgLab.Stanford.edu  Book:  The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health   Connect with Therese:   Website:   www.criticallyspeaking.net  Twitter: @CritiSpeak Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.  

In this episode, Therese Markow and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg discuss the diverse and active microbiome that is in the human body. This microbiome in our gut varies from person to person and is largely environmentally based – those foods we eat, and what we choose to consume plays a factor on how healthy our gut biome is. They discuss the changes of the microbiome as infants as well as in adults, and ways that we can change or reset the microbiome, as well as what we each can do every day to keep our microbiomes healthy.   Key Takeaways:   <ul> <li>Typical western diets now are very low in complex carbohydrates and it is affecting the microbiome in the large intestine. </li> <li>Your environment is a big player in your microbiome – what you eat, lifestyle, medications, etc. </li> <li>The first year of a baby’s life, their microbiome could make an impact on their immune system.  </li> </ul> "Unlike our human genome, which we have almost no control over, our microbiome is something that we have a lot of control over based on our environment." —  Dr. Erica Sonnenburg  Connect with Dr. Erica Sonnenburg:   Website: <a href="https://sonnenburglab.stanford.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SonnenburgLab.Stanford.edu</a> Book: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317191/the-good-gut-by-justin-sonnenburg-and-erica-sonnenburg-phds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health</a> Connect with Therese:   Website:   <a href="https://criticallyspeaking.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.criticallyspeaking.net</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/CritiSpeak" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@CritiSpeak</a> Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net  Audio production by <a href="https://www.turnkeypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Turnkey Podcast Productions.</a> You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

032 Dr. Erica Sonnenburg: A “Gut Feeling”: All About Your Microbiome 