In 'Food Fix', Dr. Mark Hyman delves into the systemic issues within the global food system, highlighting how corrupted food and agriculture policies driven by money and lobbying contribute to chronic diseases, climate change, poverty, violence, and educational achievement gaps. The book pairs the latest nutritional and environmental science with a critical examination of the food industry and its policies. It offers practical solutions for individuals, businesses, and policymakers to create a healthier world, society, and planet by focusing on regenerative organic agriculture, public health initiatives, and policy reforms.
In 'The Gut-Immune Connection', Dr. Emeran Mayer presents a groundbreaking perspective on how alterations in the gut microbiome contribute to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding gut health and provides clear strategies for reversing the rise of these illnesses through nutrition and sustainable practices.
In 'The UltraMind Solution,' Dr. Mark Hyman explains that many mental and psychological disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and memory loss, are rooted in physical and biochemical imbalances in the body. He proposes a six-week plan to correct these imbalances through optimizing nutrition, balancing hormones, reducing inflammation, and other lifestyle changes. The book emphasizes the importance of functional medicine, focusing on the body's natural healing processes rather than just managing symptoms with drugs or psychotherapy. By following the outlined steps, readers can achieve an 'UltraMind' that is highly focused, able to pay attention at will, has a strong memory, and leaves them feeling calm, confident, in control, and in good spirits.
In 'The Mind-Gut Connection,' Dr. Emeran Mayer delves into the complex communication between the brain, gut, and microbiome. The book explains how messages travel between the digestive system and the brain through hormones, the vagus nerve, and signaling molecules. It discusses the impact of diet on gut microbiota, the influence of early-life events on gut-brain dialogue, and provides practical advice on maintaining balanced brain-gut health through a plant-based diet, fermented foods, probiotics, and other lifestyle changes. Mayer's work aims to help readers understand and harness the power of the mind-gut connection to improve their overall health and well-being.
Understanding How The Microbiome Affects Every Aspect Of Your Health | This episode is brought to you by Joovv, ButcherBox, and TrueDark
There’s a foundational piece of Functional Medicine that I find surprises many conventional health practitioners: it’s that the health of our gut impacts every other part of the body—even the brain. There are several reasons for this. When working correctly, our gut digests our food and absorbs nutrients so we can have energy and vitality. It eliminates toxins and fights pathogens. It’s also the home of trillions of microorganisms that aid in these processes and do so much more, like manage inflammation and produce neurotransmitters.
I was excited to talk to Dr. Emeran Mayer on this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, all about nurturing the microbiome to support whole-body health and fight the epidemic of chronic disease. Dr. Emeran Mayer is the author of the recently released book The Gut-Immune Connection as well as The Mind-Gut Connection. He has studied brain-body interactions for the last forty years and is the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and the founding director of the UCLA Brain Gut Microbiome Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for the past twenty-five years, and he is considered a pioneer and world leader in the area of brain-gut microbiome interactions and its clinical implications.
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Here are more of the details from our interview:
- The most common denominator in the chronic disease epidemic (8:01)
- How Dr. Mayer came to take a systems approach to medicine (11:04)
- Rethinking disease through our evolving understanding of the gut microbiome (16:32)
- Metabolites produced in our gut influence our health, for better and worse (24:53)
- Our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and stress affect our gut microbiome and full-body health, and vice versa (32:07)
- What will it take for conventional medicine to adopt a systems approach in patient treatment? (35:23)
- Treating neurodegenerative and cognitive issues through diet and lifestyle (43:02)
- Eating to support the gut microbiome and inequities in access to foods that strengthen microbiome health (47:20)
- Our gut microbiome interactions in our bodies mimic the soil microbiome’s relationship to plant root systems (56:25)
- How industrial agriculture has reduced the nutritional value of our food by damaging the soil (58:56)
Learn more about Dr. Emeran Mayer at https://emeranmayer.com/ and get his new book,
THE GUT-IMMUNE CONNECTION: How Understanding Why We’re Sick Can Help Us Regain Our Health at https://emeranmayer.com/the-gut-immune-connection-book/
Follow Dr. Mayer on Facebook @emeranamayer, on Instagram @emeranmayer, and on Twitter @emeranamayer.
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