The Mycobiome with Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum

One Thing with Dr. Adam Rinde

With so much talk about the Gut microbiome and the role of gut bacteria in health and disease; we often forget that there are other organisms living in the gut such as archaea, bacteriophages, helminths, viruses, and fungi.

In today’s episode we welcome on a world expert in the Mycobiome Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum. We did a great deep dive into the mycobiome, invasive candidiasis, intestinal permeability, biofilm and generally an expansive view of other players in the microbiome!

outline of our talk.

00:00 opening

0:42 Show Intro

2:33 Career, overview

7:39 Good Yeast vs. Harmful Yeast

10:35 Candida Pseudoscience

13:08 Fungal Dysbiosis

14:50 Invasive Candidiasis

20:54 Systemic effects of Invasive Candidiasis

22:33 Detecting Symptoms of Dysbiosis

25:04 Risk Factors for Dysbiosis

27:16 The Challenges of Testing and Diagnosis for Yeast concerns

29:28 Metabolomics and yeast markers 33:30 Nutritional approaches to fungal dysbiosis

36:16 Crohn’s Disease -Yeast connection

37:49 Biofilm and Candida

41:26 Closing thoughts

About Dr. Ghannoum:

Dr. Ghannoum has spent his career study the species of fungi that are living within our body and the role they play in health and disease. Dr. Ghannoum is a tenured Professor and Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Medical Center. He is also the co-founder of BIOHM Health, one of the leading consumer microbiome companies in the United States. And he is the author of the book Total Gut Balance which is an outstanding book about the gut mycobiome. #mycobiome #microbiome #candidiasis #inflammation #chronicillness

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