Understanding How The Microbiome Affects Every Aspect Of Your Health with Dr. Emeran Mayer

<p>Understanding How The Microbiome Affects Every Aspect Of Your Health | This episode is brought to you by <a href="https://Joovv.com/farmacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joovv</a>, <a href="https://butcherbox.com/farmacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ButcherBox</a>, and <a href="https://truedark.com/hyman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TrueDark</a></p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>I was excited to talk to Dr. Emeran Mayer on this episode of <em>The Doctor’s Farmacy</em>, 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 <em>The Gut-Immune Connection</em> as well as <em>The Mind-Gut Connection</em>. 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.</p><br><p>This episode is brought to you by Joovv, ButcherBox, and TrueDark.</p><br><p>When you sign up to ButcherBox, you’ll get 2 lbs of wild-caught Alaskan salmon free in your first box plus $10 off. Just go to butcherbox.com/farmacy to take ad