Your Microbiome Is Going Extinct, Generation By Generation - Kiran Krishnan - #68

What's actually happening inside your gut? Modern diets, over-sterilized environments, and decades of bad supplement advice have quietly dismantled the microbiome that runs almost every system in your body — from your immune system to your brain. So what does a genuinely healthy microbiome look like, and what does it actually take to rebuild one?Expect to learn why 80% of gut-brain communication travels from gut to brain rather than the other way, how 40 grams of daily fiber cuts all-cause mortality by 40% (and why that would be a trillion-dollar pill if you could patent it), why the "kill the bad bacteria first" strategy has always been wrong, what leaky gut and LPS actually are and why one paper named them the number one driver of mortality and morbidity worldwide, why 98% of probiotics on store shelves are dead before they reach your intestines, and how our microbiome diversity has collapsed from 800–900 species in our ancestors to an average of 120 today and much more…-Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE (use code MERRILL)Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE (use code MERRILL)-Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast-Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE-Kiran's Instagram: HERE-0:00 The Other Brain: Why The Gut Runs Your Body6:03 What Is "Gut Health"? Defining the Microbiome Spectrum9:13 It's Daily Choices, Not Miracle Supplements13:48 Reading The Signs: What Your Body Is Telling You19:32 Your Gut Controls Your Immune System (Treg Cells and the Nobel Prize)21:04 How To Build Gut Diversity With Food and Fiber24:23 The Diet War: Why Picking A Camp Makes You Untrustworthy32:44 Meal Hygiene: How You Eat Matters As Much As What You Eat41:49 Why "Kill The Bad Bacteria" Is The Worst Gut Health Advice47:35 Probiotics vs Prebiotics vs Postbiotics: What You Actually Need54:29 Leaky Gut, LPS, and The #1 Driver of Chronic Disease1:00:30 The Mass Extinction Of The Western Microbiome1:08:24 High Protein, Rotten Farts, and Fasting: The Complete Picture1:15:47 Closing Questions