Reframing Microbiome Support for Functionality with Dr. Heather Zwickey

I first met Dr. Heather Zwickey when she was my immunology professor in medical school and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. Her command of the microbiome literature is frankly unparalleled. Join me in this New Frontiers conversation about the latest perspectives on the microbiome: Find out how we’re moving beyond the era of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria prebiotics, and how postbiotics (and their functionality) are arguably even more important than specific species. Not only that, Dr. Zwickey argues that we need to consider what we “feed” prebiotics to create a desired postbiotic effect – this changes if you’re targeting the immune system vs nervous system, for instance. All this is going to evolve how we evaluate, and prescribe for, the microbiome. Smart, timely, and always engaging – I know you’ll think so too. ~DrKF

See full transcript & show notes here:

[williamhenry]

Another GREAT video! Makes me want to move back to the East Coast so you could be my doctor (stuck in San Diego).

[amanda.strutt]

Question, just arised as i was listening to the vit D and receptors .... how do you know if your receptors are actually working properly? Is it a factor of taking the supplement over X amount of time and nothing changing? (I realize there's a lot of things that could affect it and dependong on a persons over all senario per say...) but just curious!