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How to Optimize Your Gut Health for High Performance | Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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What Is Your Gut Microbiome?

Your microbiome is all the bacteria viruses and fungi there on our skin. And we've co evolved with these microorganisms over time, and they actually play a really important role in our health. A prebiotic is the food that feeds the bacteria. The bacteria themselves are called probiotics. So prebiotics feed the probiotics. And then kind of a new phrase that's emerging is this phrase called postbiotics. Each of these bugs, they kind of make their own small molecules that have all of these different impacts in your body. Those small molecules are the postb antibiotics. This is kind of the ecosystem of the microbiome.

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