When the FDA Commissioner says the gut is the frontier of health, we listen - Marty Makary Pt 1

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube excerpt (Tiny Health) in which SPEAKER A argues the human microbiome is an under-appreciated frontier of medicine. The speaker notes a recent ‘‘mass explosion’’ in food allergies not seen two generations ago, suggests the microbiome may be implicated, and calls for greater study and respect for the microbiome.

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The microbiome have not gotten the attention they deserve. I'm a huge believer in this as a frontier of medicine. We've got to explain what's going on. There's something happening in our lifetime. There's been mass explosion of food allergies, and we didn't see that two generations ago. So something is happening that we have yet to really unlock. But we're not treating the microbiome with respect, and it may be because we don't really understand the microbiome. This is like the frontier in health.