Jeffrey Bland, PhDPresident of Big Bold Health | Human Health Thought Leader

Gut Health in Western Medicine vs. in your hands

7 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube talk (Jeffrey Bland, PhD) noting that while microbiome research is advancing rapidly, traditional (Western) medicine has been slow to translate those findings into clinical practice. The speaker advocates for functional medicine's gut-restoration principles as simple, actionable steps individuals can apply themselves to benefit from microbiome insights.

What's interesting to me is there's all this great research going on in the microbiome and we're learning so much more, but still, the application of that has not been really well formulated by traditional medicine, even though it's now recognized. And I think the functional medicine principle of gut restoration is so key and it's so simple, and it's something that actually the individual can apply out there listening by just following the basic simple principles.