546: Improve Your Gut Health with Robynne Chutkan, MD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Your gastrointestinal tract contains around three pounds of microbes - some good and some bad. When your gut is healthy, the bad bugs are kept in check, and the good bugs serve as internal workhorses for digestion and short-chain fatty acid creation, they also release GABA and other neurotransmitters, and fend off pathogens. When things are out of balance, irritable bowel, leaky gut, gas, bloating, and disease can occur. Gastrointestinal problems affect as many as one in five people, so a happy belly is something we all need to cultivate. In this episode, gastroenterologist, Robynne Chutkan, MD, shares her latest research.
Listen and learn:
- About the risks of emulsifiers and stabilizers found in common foods
- How artificial sweeteners can contribute to or even cause gut dysbiosis
- Why most probiotic supplements are useless
- The difference between insoluble and soluble fiber in food
- The future of fecal transplants
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr Chutkan is a board certified gastroenterologist and author of the digestive health books: Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, and The Bloat Cure. Her most recent book is The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens From the Inside Out. She is on the faculty at Georgetown Hospital and founded the Digestive Center for Wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | Inside your gut, your gastrointestinal tract, there are about three pounds of bacteria. |
| 0:07.6 | Some good, some bad. |
| 0:09.2 | When your gut's healthy, when things are going well, the bad bugs are kept in check. |
| 0:13.0 | And your good bugs, they serve as internal workhorses for things like digestion, for things |
| 0:18.8 | like the production of short-chain fatty acids, fiber turns into these fatty acids for releasing |
| 0:23.5 | GABA, for releasing other neurotransmitters, and also refending off pathogens. |
| 0:28.7 | Some things are out of balance. |
| 0:30.4 | You might suffer from gas or bloating. |
| 0:33.3 | You might have irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, or even much more serious gastrointestinal |
| 0:38.5 | diseases. |
| 0:40.3 | Gastrointestinal problems are so pervasive that an estimated 20% of the population is suffering |
| 0:46.1 | at any given time. |
| 0:47.4 | On this week's podcast, you'll meet a gastroenterologist who will help you to create a happy belly, |
| 0:53.1 | a happy gut. |
| 0:54.1 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 0:55.8 | I am a yoga teacher and a teacher trainer. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm the father of three kids. |
| 1:00.1 | Firstly, I'm a student. |
| 1:01.1 | I like to learn things. |
| 1:02.1 | So, I find people writing books, medical doctors, researchers, try to bring their best work |
| 1:06.3 | here on the podcast so we can all live more informed lives. |
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