Why is the Gut Microbiome Important? (Part #1) | Suzanne Devkota Ph.D

Dr. Devkota is Director of the Human Microbiome Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA and an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA, as well as an adjunct investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School. She has been studying the effect of diet on the gut microbiome and inflammatory diseases for the past 12 years. investigating dietary drivers of gut microbiome structure and function in inflammatory bowel diseases and metabolic diseases. Her research has been published in top journals Nature, Science, and Cell, and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. She completed her masters at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Nutritional Sciences, her Ph.D in Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at The University of Chicago, and her post-doctoral training at the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School.

In this episode we discuss:
• Why fasting and other diets don’t work
• Do you really need fiber in your diet?
• Why you should be worried about leaky gut
• Are food additives bad for you?

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Devkota Lab Website: https://www.devkotalab.com/
Suzanne's IG:   / suzannedevkota  

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Timestamps
00:00 Coming up on The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show
01:15 One Farm
02:55 Introducing Suzanna Devkota
05:12 The need for nutritional scientists in the microbiome space
06:32 What is the gut microbiome?
08:44 Is the microbiome only related to the gut?
10:10 What studies are done in Suzanne’s lab
12:37 Obesity and bacteria
14:25 Nutritional aspects of gut health & leaky gut
19:52 How do you know if you have a leaky gut?
23:36 LMNT Electrolytes
25:06 Do we know if artificial sweeteners affect the gut microbiome?
28:24 Foods to avoid for gut health
29:45 Food additives
31:26 Top three things that wreck your gut microbiome
34:32 Fermented foods and fiber
45:53 Traveling and your guts circadian rhythm
49:45 1st phorm
51:15 Can the people you live with influence your microbiome?
53:31 Fecal transplants
1:00:00 Testing your gut microbiota
1:05:06 InsideTracker



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