Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Life | Practical Tips with Dr. Ken Brown

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:00)
In this episode of the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with gastroenterologist, Dr. Ken Brown. What makes Ken so unique is that he combines clinical research with practical application. He still sees patients.
In this episode, we talk about how the microbiome could be causing your weight gain.
We discuss how your gut health could be potentially leading to later life-threatening diseases, the things like Alzheimer's. We discuss supplements that will be helpful for the gut microbiome and so much more. As always, if you like this episode, please take a moment to share it, subscribe, leave us a review. And if you have not checked out the community, you can go to the website, drgabriellelyon.com and join us. Because remember, friends, we are in this together.
Dr. Ken Brown, I'm thrilled to have you on the podcast. Welcome.

**Dr. Ken Brown** (1:05)
Thank you so much, Gabrielle.
Love the setup you have here and I'm honored to be here. Thank you.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (1:11)
I want to tell the listeners something really special about you. Okay? And I didn't share this with you before we sat down, because I wanted to save it for the podcast. You and I have been friends now for, gosh, six years. At least six years. I had a friend and she became a patient. She's a friend and a patient and she was a 34-year-old extremely well-known entrepreneur. She went and she did a grail test, also known as the gallery test. And this was before I had helped and stepped in taking over her care, her grail test came back positive for colon cancer, 34 years old, no family history. And she had also done a PRNOVA scan, full body MRI, which showed a mass in her, was it her secum? Secum.
And my heart's racing a little bit because this is a pretty sad story.
She passed away, and I called you when the doctor that was seeing her before said, Yeah, you came back positive for cancer, go figure it out. You need to schedule a colonoscopy. She lived in Dallas at the time. And I called you and I said, Ken, I need your help. I don't know what to do. This girl cannot, she's going to some random colonoscopy place.
You stepped in, you got her, you did a colonoscopy within the week, you found a large mass in her cecum, you had her scheduled for surgery within the week for removal. And I am forever in your debt. I'm so grateful. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. And I hope friends that are listening, you never put in that position where you need to call in a favor, but the way you stepped in and the way you handled it, sadly, she passed away within six months of that diagnosis. She didn't want to get treatment at the time.
But thank you.

**Dr. Ken Brown** (3:23)
Well, thank you for the referral for trusting me, a very difficult case, completely caught off guard, really thought that it was going to be something seen, you know, that they were seeing something else on the scan. But that's what we do. We're doctors. We treat people.
And unfortunately, a lot of people get very frustrated because of the system and the way it's clogged and the way that insurance companies are involved in sometimes going peer to peer is the way to make things happen really quick. So it's, you know, we take care of each other and that's, unfortunately, people that don't have access to a friend that's a doctor or somebody, sometimes they kind of get shuffled around a little bit, but you can cut to the chase. You know how it goes.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (4:03)
Yes, I do. And I've called you many times.
Unfortunately, not as significant as a colon cancer case of a 34-year-old, but there has not been one time that you have not come through for me and I am so fortunate to be your friend. I'm so fortunate to be your colleague and I just wanted to set the stage so that the listener knows, yeah, we're going to talk all about science, but I think even more importantly, that they know who you are as a person.

**Dr. Ken Brown** (4:30)
Well, thank you so much. Can I tell you something about you?
So first of all, congratulations on your book.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (4:37)
Thank you, sir.

**Dr. Ken Brown** (4:38)
I have read it. It is great. I love it. I was a little scared when I first walked in here. Let me tell you why.
Because I read it, but then I also listened to it on audiobook.