Dr. Shebani Sethi

Now, from treating thousands of patients over the last 30 years, I've learned that depression is mostly not in your head. It's in your body. When I treat patients' gut issues, and this is something I just discovered almost by accident, their mental health would magically get better. But it wasn't magic. It was science. I just didn't understand at the time. It's not magic.

Gut dysfunction is not the only cause of our mental health crisis. There's a lot of things that are driving it, but it's a major factor that's often unaddressed. Now, when your gut is unhealthy, when it's inflamed, your brain is unhealthy and also inflamed. When we fix... the gut, then brain health, mood, memory, focus, and mental health all improve. Now, why is this important?

Gut dysfunction is not the only cause of our mental health crisis. There's a lot of things that are driving it, but it's a major factor that's often unaddressed. Now, when your gut is unhealthy, when it's inflamed, your brain is unhealthy and also inflamed. When we fix... the gut, then brain health, mood, memory, focus, and mental health all improve. Now, why is this important?

Gut dysfunction is not the only cause of our mental health crisis. There's a lot of things that are driving it, but it's a major factor that's often unaddressed. Now, when your gut is unhealthy, when it's inflamed, your brain is unhealthy and also inflamed. When we fix... the gut, then brain health, mood, memory, focus, and mental health all improve. Now, why is this important?

Inflammation is a huge driver of most of our mental health issues from depression, anxiety, autism, ADD, even things like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disease, all linked to inflammation of the brain. And where is this inflammation coming from? Obviously our diet, but also from our microbiome. And I learned this early in my medical practice.

Inflammation is a huge driver of most of our mental health issues from depression, anxiety, autism, ADD, even things like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disease, all linked to inflammation of the brain. And where is this inflammation coming from? Obviously our diet, but also from our microbiome. And I learned this early in my medical practice.

Inflammation is a huge driver of most of our mental health issues from depression, anxiety, autism, ADD, even things like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disease, all linked to inflammation of the brain. And where is this inflammation coming from? Obviously our diet, but also from our microbiome. And I learned this early in my medical practice.

In fact, on one of my early books called The Ultra Mind Solution, a deep dive into the way the body affects the brain, including the gut and the microbiome. Now, conventional medicine views these two things as completely separate and unrelated. And typically, if you have GI symptoms, you go to the GI doctor, a gastroenterologist. And if you have mental health issues, you go to a psychiatrist.

In fact, on one of my early books called The Ultra Mind Solution, a deep dive into the way the body affects the brain, including the gut and the microbiome. Now, conventional medicine views these two things as completely separate and unrelated. And typically, if you have GI symptoms, you go to the GI doctor, a gastroenterologist. And if you have mental health issues, you go to a psychiatrist.

In fact, on one of my early books called The Ultra Mind Solution, a deep dive into the way the body affects the brain, including the gut and the microbiome. Now, conventional medicine views these two things as completely separate and unrelated. And typically, if you have GI symptoms, you go to the GI doctor, a gastroenterologist. And if you have mental health issues, you go to a psychiatrist.

to help with balancing your mood. They prescribe different drugs for each condition instead of understanding the root cause and treating that. And then we're gonna talk about how this works, why it's important, what the science is, and some of my clinical case studies, which are quite compelling.

to help with balancing your mood. They prescribe different drugs for each condition instead of understanding the root cause and treating that. And then we're gonna talk about how this works, why it's important, what the science is, and some of my clinical case studies, which are quite compelling.

to help with balancing your mood. They prescribe different drugs for each condition instead of understanding the root cause and treating that. And then we're gonna talk about how this works, why it's important, what the science is, and some of my clinical case studies, which are quite compelling.

Now in functional medicine, we know the gut and the brain are intimately connected and that the health of one directly impacts the other. So you can't fix the brain without fixing the gut and you can't fix the gut without fixing the brain. So it's bi-directional. It's not mind, body, body, mind, body, mind, mind, body. It's both, right? When we do that,

Now in functional medicine, we know the gut and the brain are intimately connected and that the health of one directly impacts the other. So you can't fix the brain without fixing the gut and you can't fix the gut without fixing the brain. So it's bi-directional. It's not mind, body, body, mind, body, mind, mind, body. It's both, right? When we do that,

Now in functional medicine, we know the gut and the brain are intimately connected and that the health of one directly impacts the other. So you can't fix the brain without fixing the gut and you can't fix the gut without fixing the brain. So it's bi-directional. It's not mind, body, body, mind, body, mind, mind, body. It's both, right? When we do that,

And I've done this in thousands of patients, and the studies back this up, and more and more data's coming out. Guys like Chris Palmer, Uma Naidoo, a psychiatrist from Stanford, and integrated psychiatrists, functional psychiatrists are all seeing this, and data is really exploding on this. When I wrote the book 15 years ago, there was data, but it was limited.

And I've done this in thousands of patients, and the studies back this up, and more and more data's coming out. Guys like Chris Palmer, Uma Naidoo, a psychiatrist from Stanford, and integrated psychiatrists, functional psychiatrists are all seeing this, and data is really exploding on this. When I wrote the book 15 years ago, there was data, but it was limited.

And I've done this in thousands of patients, and the studies back this up, and more and more data's coming out. Guys like Chris Palmer, Uma Naidoo, a psychiatrist from Stanford, and integrated psychiatrists, functional psychiatrists are all seeing this, and data is really exploding on this. When I wrote the book 15 years ago, there was data, but it was limited.

But I saw it, and I saw the kind of whispers in the wind let's say, the sort of tea leaves. And I was like, okay, this is really something. And when I started to do this with my patients and when we do this now, we see profound improvements in mood and obviously digestive health and all other areas of health. So gut is just linked to everything.