“The Link Between Your Diet, Your Gut Hormones, and Your Genes” with Donna Gates

About the Call:

What you eat today will affect your gut hormones and your genes tomorrow! Find out how the magnificent, powerful inner world of your microbiome impacts your complete health!

About Special Guest:

Donna Gates, M.Ed., ABAAHP, is the international best-selling author of The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity and The Body Ecology Guide to Growing Younger: Anti-Aging Wisdom for Every Generation.

She is on a mission to change the way the world eats. The Body Ecology Diet was the first of its kind—sugar-free, gluten-free, casein-free, and probiotic rich. In 1994, Donna championed the natural sweetener stevia in the U.S., began teaching about fermented foods, and coined the phrase “inner ecosystem” to describe the network of microbes that maintains our basic physiological processes—from digestion to immunity.

Over the past 25 years, Donna has become one of the most respected authorities in the field of digestive health, diet, and nutrition. In 2013 she completed an Advanced Fellow with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

Learn More: www.BodyEcology.com

“Your Brain’s Health Needs Your Gut’s Help”
with Dr. Martha Herbert

About the Call:

The brain is not just a computer – it’s wet and attached to your body. Neurons are just a minority of what’s in your brain – many other cells and fluids support your brain’s health. When you understand the remarkable support structures of the brain, you’ll be better able to keep it optimally healthy.

About Special Guest:

Dr. Martha Herbert is a pediatric neurologist, brain researcher, writer, speaker and integrative systems thinker.

She runs the TRANSCEND Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she is a faculty member, co-directs the Body-Brain Resilience Center clinic and practice-based research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is the author of the public-facing Harvard Health Publications book The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be. She is also the director of the Medical Advisory Board of the Documenting Hope project.

She received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and her neurology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Prior to her medical training she received a PhD in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Learn More: www.MarthaHerbert.org

“Tracking the Human Microbiome From Birth to Death
(and Beyond)” with Dr. Rob Knight

About the Call:

The human microbiome plays many important roles in the human body, from digestion to disease. These complex microbial communities, consisting of thousands of species, have been challenging to summarize in a useful way. Come learn about the statistical and visualization tools that Dr. Knight and his team have developed that allow us to trace the sources of microbes in all stages of life.

About Special Guest:

Dr. Rob Knight is Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes.

He received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 1996 from the University of Otago in his native New Zealand, a PhD in 2001 from Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado, Boulder before becoming a faculty member in the interdisciplinary BioFrontiers Institute there in 2004. He moved to UC San Diego in 2015 to direct the new Microbiome Initiative.

His TED talk on the human microbiome has been viewed about 1 million times. His work combines microbiology, DNA sequencing, ecology and computer science to understand the vast numbers of microbes that inhabit our bodies and our planet.

Learn More: https://knightlab.ucsd.edu/

“Metabolic Signatures of Chronic Inflammation” with Mike Mutzel

About the Call:

Explore leading-edge concepts in endocrine, neurological, and cardiovascular function through the lens of the immune-metabolic system. Understanding and incorporating this practical systems-based work-up will improve a practitioner’s clinical success in the implementation of weight loss, autoimmune, detoxification, and cardiometabolic restoration programs.

About Special Guest:

Mike Mutzel has an B.S. in Biology from Western Washington University, an M.S. in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, and is a graduate of the Institute for Functional Medicine’s (IFM) Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP). He is an independent consultant for one of the world’s leading professional nutrition companies, and has worked as a nutritionist with Gerard Guillory, MD of the Care Group, PC in Denver, CO.

Mike has lectured alongside Dr. Guillory to large patient-groups in the Denver area and they have been featured on local T.V. programs discussing the power of Nutrition and Functional Medicine. In April of 2014, Mike launched his first book, Belly Fat Effect: The Real Secret About How Your Diet, Intestinal Health, and Gut Bacteria Help You Burn Fat.

Learn More: www.MikeMutzel.com