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Show Notes
Vanessa Sperandio is a professor at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in both the departments of microbiology and biochemistry. She joined the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health as the chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in spring 2022.
Sperandio's research focuses on the signaling mechanisms between mammalian hosts, their beneficial microbiota, and bacterial pathogens.
Sperandio was a 1997 fellow of the Pew Charitable Trust and was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2013.[3] She is also a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and selected as a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases.
In this episode:
Personal/Professional Journey
Our relationship with Bacteria
Neurotransmitters
Microbiome Imbalance
Nutritional Therapy Interventions
Processed Foods and our gut
How to eat for our gut microbiome
Supplements and Probiotics
Psychedelics, Microbiome, and Addiction
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