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Diet as a Lever to Improve Your Microbiome and Health | Stanford Center for Clinical Research | Thu, Oct 15, 2020 (Video)

  • Mar 26, 2022
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Stanford Center for Clinical Research

Project Baseline Health Study Fall Lecture

Thu, Oct 15, 2020

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1 hr 9 min

Summary:

“Diet as a Lever to Improve Your Microbiome and Health” Project Baseline Health Study 2020 Virtual Fall Lecture

Thursday, October 15, 2020  

Speaker:Erica Sonnenburg, PhDSenior Research ScientistThe Sonnenburg LabDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology

About the speaker:

Erica Sonnenburg is a senior research scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology where she studies the role of diet on the human intestinal microbiota. 

She has published her groundbreaking scientific findings in prestigious journals such as Cell, Science, and Nature and is the co-author of the book:

“The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health.”

Introduction by Kenneth Mahaffey, MD

Professor, Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Department of MedicineDirector, Stanford Center for Clinical Research, 

Stanford University School of Medicine

Chapters:

3:05 – Humans are a walking ecosystem

5:08 – The microbiome is integrated into all aspects of human biology

6:18 – Microbes can cause weight gain Obese Lean

8:09 – The microbiome relies on complex carbohydrates

11:18 – A starving microbiome eats you

15:11 – How can we manipulate the microbiome to improve health?

16:32 – The human genome evolves slowly

21:37 – Two different ecosystems

25:39 – Advancing Human Microbiome Science

27:19 – Participants successfully increased their fiber and fermented food intake

33:42 – Immune status changes linked to microbiome diversity

37:19 – Fermented food consumption increased

42:48 – Probiotics did not increase microbiome diversity

44:25 – Individualized analysis reveals “responders”

48:37 – Blending fiber and fermented foods

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