Gut-Brain Expert: The Best Anti-Inflammatory Products For Your Gut

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**Dr Madusha Peiris** (0:30)
I would not buy a probiotic.

**Dr Faye Bate** (0:31)
If you've ever wondered how you can regulate your appetite naturally, this episode is for you.

**Dr Rubina Aktar** (0:36)
UPFs have a direct influence on appetite regulation because of the way they're digested in the body.

**Dr Faye Bate** (0:41)
Dr. Madusha and Dr. Ruby are experts in the gut-brain connection. Their research has been called Nature's Answer to Osempic.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (0:48)
Your gut is not your stomach. It's about nine meters in length.

**Dr Rubina Aktar** (0:52)
Bloating is part of normal gut health, and the average consumer takes about 18 grams of fiber a day. We need to take at least 30 grams of fiber.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (1:00)
Osempic is actually a drug, and GOP-1 is a hormone that we all have.

**Dr Rubina Aktar** (1:05)
The gut sends the majority of the information to the brain, not the other way around.

**Dr Faye Bate** (1:09)
We'll be discussing how modern diets can disrupt gut signaling and why gut health affects mood, cravings and cognition.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (1:16)
We've been studying the gut way before it was cool.

**Dr Rubina Aktar** (1:18)
Yeah.

**Dr Faye Bate** (1:20)
But first, if you could do me a huge favor and click the subscribe button or leave a five-star review, it will literally take you two seconds and it really helps us keep bringing you guests to help you live a happier, healthier life. Thank you.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (1:35)
Hi, I'm Dr. Madusha.

**Dr Rubina Aktar** (1:36)
And hi, I'm Dr. Ruby.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (1:38)
And welcome to Her Discussion podcast.

**Dr Faye Bate** (1:40)
Dr. Madusha and Dr. Ruby, we have had so many community questions about regulating your app site, improving your gut health and actually signs of how to know when your gut health isn't good. But first, I would love to know what brought you to the world of gut health and appetite in the first place and being women in STEM.

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (2:05)
I'll go first. So for me, the journey actually started as a very curious person who wanted to learn as much as I could.
But I did my PhD in neuroscience and I was studying the brain, I was studying multiple sclerosis particularly. So I had no idea about the gut, I had no idea about there even being a nervous system in the gut, until I joined the Wingate Institute for Neuro-Gastroenterology, long word, and that's when I started. So this is about 18 years ago. So since I finished my PhD, I decided I don't want to really work on the brain, I want to work on something else. And it happened that I started to work on the gut and understood that there is a very strong gut-brain connection. So I have fallen in love, I would say, with the gut ever since.
And it's so, so complicated. And we underestimate the gut so much. And I'm learning something new about the gut every day. And I've been in the field for 18 years. So that's why I do what I do. I absolutely love learning about how the gut works, how it's so integral for so many processes that are important for normal, healthy function. I have a research lab at Queen Mary University of London.
So I teach, I have active research projects. So I'm still doing experiments. Maybe not me personally, but my team. And so I'm still very excited to be a scientist and will always be a scientist.

**Dr Faye Bate** (3:33)
I have to ask everyone who comes on who's a researcher, what's your favorite piece of research that you've done?

**Dr Madusha Peiris** (3:39)
I think the favorite piece of research I've done has been discovering what underlies Elcella. It was that fundamental moment where you asked her what I thought was a relatively simple question about how nutrients actually interact with the gut and what happens when different nutrients interact with the gut. And getting that answer, which was completely unexpected, was that eureka moment. I think that's been my favorite moment out of all of the different experiments I've done.