Jeffrey Bland introduces researchers from Catholic University of Louvain studying postprandial metabolic endotoxemia, a type of inflammation triggered by gut microbiome stress after eating. The work connects to leaky gut research and may explain how diet contributes to chronic disease.
So, you know, I've had this opportunity to interview and talk to so many extraordinary medical innovators in functional medicine Update over the last 30 plus years. And each time I come away thinking I am so privileged and so fortunate to have the chance to have these conversations and to meet these people who are really creating the medicine of the future. And once again, it happened to me just this month, Dr. Patrice Khani. This at least I hope this doesn't sound pejorative. Young investigator Young maybe in years of life, but certainly not young in experience and wisdom. He and his colleague, Dr. Nathalie Delzen at Louvain University, Catholic University in Belgium, have been doing some of the most remarkable work in understanding what they call postprandial metabolic endotoxemia, meaning after eating, the production in our blood of inflammatory mediators that are associated with the stress on our gut microbe, gut microbiome. These particular associations fan out into an understanding of the etiology of so many chronic diseases. It's like a fundamental process that they're discovering. And you're going to have the pleasure and privilege of hearing from Dr. Connie Some of the most extraordinary work that they've been involved in, in really dissecting and analyzing with very precise studies, this concept of postprandial metabolic endotoxemia. This follows so beautifully from the discussion we had in January with Alessio Fasano and then this extraordinary work that we discussed with Dr. Gasparini. And as it relates to leaky gut syndrome, this gastrointestinal milieu and the immune system of the gut and how it interrelates with systemic health is a forefront of our understanding of the origin of chronic disease and what we can do about it. So you're going to be very privileged to hear from Dr. Patrice Khani this month in Functional Medicine Update, another of my extraordinary experiences. Just to be part of this evolution of knowledge.
