975: What It’s Like to be a Top Researcher on Fungus in Human Bodies With Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, Case Western Reserve University [Main T4C Episode]

Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is a tenured professor and director of The Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He is considered to be one of the leading microbiome researchers in the world. His claim to fame is naming the mycobiome, our bodies fungal community. Dr. Ghannoum is the founder of BIOHM, which is the first company to engineer products and run tests to address the total microbiome of bacteria and fungi, to help consumers maintain their digestive health. Dr. Ghannoum has published books on fungus including, Total Gut Balance: Fix Your Microbiome Fast For Complete Digestive Wellness as well as over 490 peer reviewed scientific papers. Through his research, Dr. Ghannoum has made tremendous discoveries on fungus within the human body. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon with a degree in Biology Chemistry.  He got his Master’s in Medicinal Chemistry and his PhD in microbial physiology at Loughborough University of Technology in England.  WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: How coffee affects our gut health (4:42) Why the micro and mycobiome is like a garden in your gut (5:52) What are the good microorganisms that live in your gut (7:15) Why Dr. Ghannoum wants to change the perception of Candida (9:43) What is the connection between our gut and our brain (11:45) How dysbiosis affects our mental health (14:16) How the American diet causes gut dysbiosis (17:38) What three things you can do right now to fix your microbiome (27:27) How Dr. Ghannoum’s career started (34:27) What was the serendipity in Dr. Ghannoum’s life (36:09) How Dr. Ghannoum came to find a job in the United States (38:06) Why to try to be innovative (48:43)