In this episode, Victoria Maizes and Andrew Weil are joined by guests Erica and Justin Sonnenburg to discuss the human microbiome. Erica is a senior research scientist in the department of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Justin is an associate professor in the same department at Stanford. Together, they wrote The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health.

We discuss how the Western diet may be starving the microbiome of essential food sources and damaging the intestines, leading to inflammation. Dr. Weil shares a strategy that he finds more effective than probiotics supplements –and less expensive. Justin explains how precision medicine will use microbiome testing to harness one’s unique microbiome population to treat diseases. Learn how you can take steps to benefit your microbiome and why the right bacteria is a good thing.

Body of Wonder is hosted by Dr. Victoria Maizes and Dr. Weil and produced by the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. View other Body of Wonder episodes here: https://azcim.org/podcast

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In the new series, Body of Wonder, Dr. Weil and internationally recognized integrative leader, author, and women’s health expert, Dr. Victoria Maizes will discuss integrative medicine with thought-provoking researchers, authors, and doctors. For two decades, Weil and Maizes have led a training program at the University of Arizona. Today, 2,000 healthcare practitioners have completed the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine and continue to apply the knowledge in their care of patients across the world, develop clinical research, author medical textbooks, and more.

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