The Mental Health Crisis Starts in the Gut | Dr. William Li & Dr. Mark Hyman

I kind of want to take us down a path of helping us understand food as medicine from the perspective of the mind and mental health. Because we have a serious mental health crisis now. I don't think we have a crisis of mental health because there's somehow a design flaw in human beings. Our software is not failing. We have a screwed-up operating system that got installed.

I want to talk about a new term called the flavorome. The flavorome. The gut microbiome, healthy gut bacteria or disease bacteria can actually text message your brain up the vagus nerve back to the brain. The irritable bowel causes the irritable brain, not the other way around. It turns out that the graveyard is the garden when it comes to actually the microbiome.

Have you heard of amentoflavone? No, I haven't. Amenoflavone actually lowers anxiety. Cantelope is like the natural valium. You can change your brain, you can change your mind, and you

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