"How To Take Care Of Your Gut Health" - Alice Bradley
Jose Clemente, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses the efficacy of fecal transplants in patients with Irritable Bowel Disease. “The microbiome is the collection of bacteria that we have in our bodies. When people think about bacteria in most cases they think about pathogens, things that are bad for you. The microbiome is not that. The microbiome is the bacteria doing things for us. So for instance, many of the bacteria that we have in the gut are in charge of digesting nutrients. They extract energy from nutrients.” He added, “In patients with IBD the microbiome tends to be much less diverse. And this goes back to this idea of an impoverished ecosystem: we have less species and because we have less species it is a more fragile environment... So I think one of the things that we are we are finding repeatedly is that we are missing species that are able to produce certain compounds that have anti-inflammatory properties.”
— Jose C. Clemente Litran, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai