The Accountant Who Cracked the Parkinson's Code Using Gut Bacteria - Martha Carlin
About this episode
Martha Carlin discusses her journey from auditor to discovering the link between gut bacteria and Parkinson's disease.
Martha Carlin wasn't a scientist when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 44. She was an auditor — trained to follow the evidence wherever it leads, and to never take anything at face value. That discipline took her somewhere medicine hadn't yet looked: the gut. What she found over the next two decades reframes how we understand not just Parkinson's, but chronic constipation, cancer, metabolic disease, sleep, cravings, and the quiet collapse of human health since World War II. The m...
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia
Guest: Martha Carlin
Topics covered
- Parkinson's disease
- gut health
- chronic illness
- nutrition
- metabolic disease
Keywords
- Parkinson's
- gut bacteria
- chronic constipation
- cancer
- metabolic disease
- human health
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Parkinson's
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