Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson

There's all sorts of evidence that if you don't have a lot of fiber, your microbiome's not healthy. Feed your microbes, you know, they need to be fed. And what they eat is fiber. Okay? That's what you want them eating. You want them eating fiber. And if you're not feeding them fiber, they'll eat your mucus layer. Okay? And we already talked about how thin that barrier is, and all of a sudden they start eating your mucus layer. They're not producing the butyrate you need, and the butyrate's needed to maintain the tight junctions. Right? So there's layers to this, it's like a snowball effect that if you're not feeding those micro the microbiome and keeping it healthy, you're gonna run into all sorts of all sorts of trouble. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Doctor. Chris Thompson. Doctor. Chris Thompson is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham in Boston. He is a renowned expert on the intersection of gastroenterology, metabolism, nutrition, and obesity medicine. And in today's episode, Doctor. Thompson explains how to improve your gut health, including the roles of your diet, gut microbiome, and gastrointestinal motility, as well as how your gut communicates with the rest of your body, which of course includes the gut microbiome, but as you'll learn today, much more. Doctor. Chris Thompson is a guest on this podcast because he's not just a GI tract and obesity medicine expert, he's also credited with having created an entire new field of treatments and perspectives on GI and metabolic health. So the knowledge he shares today is truly at the cutting edge and applicable, which is why by the end of today's episode, you will have a clear understanding of how your gastrointestinal system works, and you will have a set of new modern evidence based tools for improving and maintaining your gut health. Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford. It is however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public. In keeping with that theme, today's episode does include sponsors. And now for my discussion with Doctor. Chris Thompson. Doctor. Chris Thompson, welcome. Thanks so much. Good to be here. A lot of us hear these days about the gut microbiome, the gut brain axis. We hear about GLP drugs that help people lose immense amounts of weight and stop feeling this food noise thing, and on and on. But could we start by just having a conversation about this tube that is the digestive tract, and get real basic, and just educate people a bit on what …