What proportion of neurotransmitters does the speaker claim are made in the gut?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | The Rise of Gut Health_ From 'Woo Woo' to Vital Science

11 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A YouTube video featuring Aaron Hartman, MD discussing the rise of gut health and the human gut microbiome—from being dismissed as 'woo woo' in academic medicine about 20 years ago to gaining legitimacy and public awareness in the last 1–2 years. The speaker asserts that roughly 75% of neurotransmitters are produced in the gut and frames gut health as a holistic concept now entering mainstream scientific attention.

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About 75% of all neurotransmitters.

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. And now we're, it's become the public consciousness that the gut microbiome or your gut health, we tend to focus on the microbiome, but again, it's this holistic kind of thing associated with, you know, 75% of all neurotransmitters are made in your gut.