Dr. Amy Shah
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2,173 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Dr. Amy Shah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're making the decisions.
They're deciding how much estrogen, 40% of our estrogen gets recirculated through the gut.
And they decide there's an estrobilone, a special kind of gut bacteria that decides if it's going to go back to us or if it's going to be excreted out.
So it's hormone balance.
Like when we talk about hormone balance, like that's what it is.
And it's deciding how the feedback that it gives our brain.
So serotonin, there's melatonin.
We're creating serotonin.
95% of the serotonin in our body is made in the gut.
And serotonin and tryptophan, tryptophan goes to serotonin or melatonin.
But if there's a lot of inflammation, tryptophan goes away from serotonin and melatonin.
And it goes to this kynuren pathway.
Kynuren pathway is like an inflammatory pathway.
So if you are eating foods with tryptophan, because we can't make tryptophan.
Right.
If you're eating foods with tryptophan.
Like turkey.
Yes, and they are turning into, your gut bacteria are like, yes, awesome, turning this into serotonin and melatonin to help our feel good, to help our sleep, help our hormones.
But if there's inflammation or stress, the pathway actually goes down.
to the inflammatory pathway and it bypasses making serotonin and melatonin, which is why we feel like crap.
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