Akkermansia

…And being the smart doc he is, he understood from the research that if you have low akkermansia, patients don't respond to the immunotherapy, what they call the checkpoint inhibitors, which is this new form of cancer therapy that helps activate your immune system. So if your gut isn't healthy, you can't actually get the cancer cells to die with immunotherap…

…So, you know, among all these four, let me kind of just throw a few out there for you. It turns out pomegranate is really good. It's got bioactives like elagitannins that actually help your gut nurture the akkermansia. Okay. It turns out that chili peppers can do the same thing. Black raspberry turns out can do the same thing. Oh, by the way, for acromanti…

…One of them is called oscillobacter. Um, one of them is called Kristin Sonnella. And then the fourth one is our old friend, Akkermansia. Okay. And we've talked about Akkermansia before, which, you know, it's sort of in making the rounds as a important gut bacteria.…