About this episode

Dr Will Bulsiewicz discusses the impact of food on gut health and inflammation.

Could the food you ate yesterday already be reshaping your gut, your immune system and your risk of chronic disease? This week’s guest says yes, and he’s spent his career demonstrating why that matters so much. Dr Will Bulsiewicz is an award-winning gastroenterologist and the author of the new book, Plant Powered Plus. And few people can explain the science of gut health as clearly, or as compassionately, as Will does in this conversation. If you think you already know everything there is to know about digestion, fibre and plant foods, this episode will change your mind – and deliver a great deal more. Will has identified four nutrition ‘workhorses’ that feed and protect our guts and, unsurprisingly, fibre is one of them. We get into the specifics of how the fibre we eat turns into short-chain fatty acids like butyrate, which Will describes as the most anti-inflammatory substance he has ever come across. He makes the case for fibre as the true longevity nutrient. We talk about resistant starch, found in cooled potatoes and green bananas, and why it feeds a completely different part of your gut microbiome to other fibres. Will shares the research behind the ‘30 plants a week’…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Guest: Dr Will Bulsiewicz

Topics covered

• gut health
• inflammation
• nutrition
• fibre
• plant foods
• microbiome

Keywords

• gut barrier
• chronic disease
• short-chain fatty acids
• resistant starch
• polyphenols
• fermented foods

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Products: Plant Powered Plus

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