Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | Gut Health_ From Woo Woo to Mainstream

7 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A recorded talk/interview (YouTube) in which Aaron Hartman, MD frames gut health as a medical topic that was once dismissed as "woo" but is becoming mainstream. In this opening chunk he contrasts modern biomedical acceptance with longstanding emphasis on gut health in traditional systems (Chinese medicine, Ayurveda), and asserts biological claims such as "75% of all neurotransmitters are made in your gut" and that nutrients/neurotransmitters are produced there.

Gut health. The microbiome was considered woo, woo craziness in academic medicine 20 years ago, and it's just now, in the last one to two years, literally taking fire. 75% of all neurotransmitters are made in your gut. Nutrient factors made in your gut. And yet in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, they understood. Maybe not obviously not the way we understand, but they understood that gut health was super critical. You know, death begins in the bowels. Yes. We, we say that's, you know, Hippocrates, but actually predated Hippocrates. Yes.