The Microbiome — Your Key to Whole-Body Health
00:00:00.000 | The microbiome is an incredibly important area of research and functional medicine,
00:00:04.100 | which I've been doing for years.
00:00:05.000 | It's basically the fundamental way we get people better is start with healing
00:00:08.100 | the gut because everything starts in the gut from things that are obvious like
00:00:11.600 | digestive issues all the way from autism to Alzheimer's from heart disease to
00:00:15.500 | cancer to asthma to obesity.
00:00:18.300 | All these things are related to the gut microbiome even from schizophrenia to
00:00:21.900 | depression to anxiety to OCD all can be related to changing the microbiome.
00:00:26.500 | And so we're this frontier of microbiome research that is now helping us
00:00:30.600 | understand how critical the microbiome is in every aspect of our health.
00:00:34.600 | And yet, unfortunately, doctors don't pay attention to it.
00:00:36.800 | Don't do anything about it.
00:00:37.700 | Don't focus on it because they don't learn about it.
00:00:39.500 | But it's fundamental to the functional practice of functional medicine and what
00:00:42.500 | we've been doing for decades.
00:00:43.500 | So learning how to take care of your microbiome tending your inner garden is
00:00:46.500 | one of the most essential things you do.
00:00:47.800 | And I've written about this in many of my books particularly young forever.
00:00:50.300 | I talked about it and how to keep your gut healthy.
00:00:52.700 | So it's an essential feature and just by eating the right foods.