Sachin Patel explains why gut health starts with your internal environment, not just adding probiotics. Think of it like gardening: the soil (your diet and lifestyle) has to be ready before seeds (beneficial bacteria) can take root. Focus on what your microbiome actually does, not which specific strains you have.
you, you mentioned there's microbiomes everywhere. So where, where do we start if we're trying to really help someone, you know, foundationally? It sounds like the gut is a good place to start. And I, and I think of it just like, you know, you kind of alluded to is that if you wanna grow a garden, it's really gonna depend on the quality of the soil. Yeah. Right. The seeds are what a lot of people focus on, which might be the probiotics and things like that. But it's really the, the, the, the soil itself. Right. And, and how it interacts with itself. That really—
and before the soil, what do you have? You have land. It might not even be ready for that nutrient-dense soil. So exactly. I mean, where the microbiome space is going is really exciting in that we are getting more targeted in understanding because it's not so much— we kind of mentioned this earlier— it's not so much who is there. I like to think of it as a neighborhood, and I think of a neighborhood not just by my neighbors, but how the neighborhood functions as a whole. What are the things they do? Who are the people living around me? Do they have other kids? You know, all the things that impact whether or not I wanna live in this neighborhood. And so it's not always about just the neighbors or the people, it's the houses, it's everything else. And so that really equates to, or I think of that as the functionality, like what functions is your microbiome not carrying out?
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