Episode 170: Gut Health, IBS, and Innovations in Gut-Brain Disease with Alexander Martinez

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, midnight

b'Alexander Martinez is the CEO and Co-Founder of Intrinsic Medicine and a former Silicon Valley corporate lawyer turned biotechnology entrepreneur. His thorough understanding of the industry and areas for improvement, in parallel with his own patient journey, inspired him to make a public health impact and seek novel medicines for broad patient populations that have been previously underserved by the traditional pharmaceutical industry. Intrinsic Medicine is a therapeutics company leveraging human milk biology to transform irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other Gut-Brain Axis (GBA) disorders.\\n\\nKey Topics:\\n- The gut microbiome and ecosystem of bacteria that lives there\\n- How our understanding of \\u201cbad bacteria\\u201d is changing\\n- Germ theory and the harm of overusing antibiotics\\n- The gut-brain connection and understanding the vagus nerve\\n- How the microbiome modulates genetics\\n- How the gut lining is broken down by physical and emotional stress\\n- New treatments for IBS and other gut-brain issues using human milk oligosaccharides\\n- Ways to improve your microbiome now\\n\\nLearn more about these new gut health developments at intrinsicmedicine.com'