How To Optimize and Balance Gut Microbiome | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to optimize and restore healthy gut microbiome with a world-renown gastroenterologist.
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on this episode of The Exam Room Podcast.
The conversation also covers the effects of refined sugars versus natural sugars found in fruits, natural prebiotic sources, and the potential for healing the microbiome after antibiotic use.
— In this interview —
Importance of a healthy microbiome: Discover why a well-balanced microbiome is critical for overall health, better digestion, reduced inflammation, and even improved emotional well-being.
Steps to optimize gut health: Practical steps to improve gut health, such as incorporating plant-based foods, maintaining a consistent exercise routine, and managing stress levels.
Antibiotics and microbiome: Learn how antibiotics impact microbiome and how to restore a healthy gut balance following long-term antibiotic use.
Fats and gut health: The benefits of omega-3 fatty acids from plant sources and the detrimental effects of trans fats on gut health are discussed.
Diet and microbiome connection: Learn how dietary choices directly affect the gut microbiome and how a healthy microbiome can lead to anti-inflammatory effects throughout the body.
Bananas are a natural prebiotic: Learn why green bananas are particularly beneficial to gut health.
Sugar and gut health: Natural and refined sugars impact gut health much differently. Discover why.
Gut health and diseases: Poor microbiome composition can affect many diseases, including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer, and depression.
And more!
Join Chuck and Dr. Bulsiewicz at Dr. Barnard’s Bon Voyage Bash in Miami on March 7!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | The choices that we make today will be reflected in our microbiome by tomorrow. |
| 0:08.0 | One week of dietary change will start to really change the microbiome. |
| 0:13.0 | Small choices really add up when you do them consistently and they will transform your gut. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome to the Exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around |
| 0:31.2 | the world. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi to the exam room. |
| 0:33.4 | He's listening in Burbank, California, Arlington, Virginia, and Lentz, Austria. Wherever you are, |
| 0:40.6 | we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode six of season |
| 0:46.0 | eight, number 605 overall. And get ready and strap in because today is another microbiome master class. |
| 0:56.5 | Optimizing your gut is on the table for this exam room. |
| 1:01.4 | Talking about optimizing the microbiome and how do you do it? |
| 1:05.3 | And does it all come down to food or do stress and exercise perhaps play a role as well? |
| 1:14.3 | All of that is on tap. Plus the foods that heal, the foods that destroy, restoring microbiome after long-term antibiotic use, and |
| 1:21.2 | stress and age. The impact that those two things have on microbiome balance and refined versus natural sugars and rating |
| 1:29.8 | omega-3s and trans and all fats in between on the gut health spectrum plus a good question here |
| 1:37.4 | are bananas nature's natural prebiotics plus more questions from the exam roomies and with all of the answers we seek |
| 1:46.7 | is a man whose favorite show growing up was howdy duty and if you follow his advice you'll be |
| 1:53.0 | saying i'm a new me because he will transform your bowels from feeling like a rock into a stone |
| 1:59.8 | cold bathroom stunter and on his shirt, it says fiber 314, |
| 2:05.8 | I just dropped the deuce. He is a number two time New York Times bestselling author and a friend of yours, |
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