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 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 Dr.

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