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Why Your Gut Is Your Second Brain | Emeran Mayer on Health Theory

Tom Bilyeu

In this episode of Health Theory, host Tom Bilyeu interviews Dr. Emeran Mayer, a UCLA professor and author of *The Mind-Gut Connection*, to explore how the gut functions as a "second brain" that interacts bidirectionally with the central nervous system. Dr. Mayer explains that for millions of years, …

Try These Tips for Better Holistic Health | Will Cole on Health Theory

Tom Bilyeu

Dr. Will Cole, a top functional medicine practitioner and author of *Ketoarian* and the upcoming book *The Inflammation Spectrum*, argues that chronic disease is not merely genetic but largely driven by "insidious inflammation." He defines this as a spectrum ranging from mild symptoms like brain fog …

What to Eat to Power Your Brain | Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum on Health Theory

Tom Bilyeu

Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, a leading expert on the microbiome with over 400 published papers and more than 20,000 citations, introduces the concept of the mycobiome to explain that our internal ecosystem is not solely bacterial but includes fungi, viruses, parasites, and phages living in harmony. He uses …

How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods

Andrew Huberman

Emotions are fundamentally rooted in a complex brain-body relationship where biological events and chemical pathways within the body directly influence how we feel, rather than arising solely from mental states. Andrew Huberman explains that emotions function as a push-pull mechanism between attract …

The Science of Your Gut Sense & the Gut-Brain Axis | Dr. Diego Bohórquez

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Diego Bohórquez, a professor of medicine and neurobiology at Duke University and a pioneer in gut sensing research, joins Huberman Lab to explain that the gut-brain axis extends far beyond the commonly discussed microbiome. While traditional physiology focused on hormones released into the blood …