Published on Jun 22, 2017 UCLA gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD, provides an overview of current science that shows the biological link between our brain and digestive systems and tips on how “to listen to your gut” and interpret the signals your body is sending you. Learn more at ➨ http://gastro.ucla.edu/

Published on Mar 1, 2017 For more information about the featured speakers... Dr. Emeran Mayer: website - emeranmayer.com social media - @emeranamayer "The Mind-Gut Connection" - www.amazon.com/Mind-Gut-Connection-Conversation-Impacts-Choices/dp/0062376551 Dr. Dan Siegel: website - drdansiegel.com social media - @drdansiegel "Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human" - www.amazon.com/Mind-Journey-Heart-Being-Human/dp/039371053X

Published on May 17, 2017 Mayer is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and Co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA. Mayer is a world renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist with 35 years of experience in the study of clinical and neurobiological aspects of how the digestive system and the nervous system interact in health and disease. Some of the research questions he has addressed in this studies include: What are the brain mechanisms underlying increased sensitivity of the gut (visceral hypersensitivity)? How does chronic intestinal inflammation alter the structure and function of the brain? How do adverse events experienced early in life alter the brain? How does the male and female brain differ in chronic pain? How do mind-based therapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy affect the brain? His current research focus is on the role of the gut microbiota brain interactions in emotion regulation, chronic visceral pain and in obesity. His research has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has published over 320 peer reviewed scientific articles, including 100 chapters and reviews, co-edited four books, and organized several interdisciplinary symposia in the area of mind body interactions and chronic visceral pain.

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Published on Jan 19, 2017 The brain-gut-microbiota axis and how it affects our behavior. Interview with Emeran Mayer at the 88th Nestlé Nutrition Institute workshop.

Presented at the 24th International Molecular Medicine Tri-conference: Microbiome-Based Precision Medicine Symposium San Francisco, February 23-24, 2017

Published on Jan 11, 2017 Part of the rise in autism is due to better diagnosis, but Dr. Emeran Mayer thinks it's something in our environment, and within us, that has played a role in causing this increase. Mayer's latest book is "The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health."

Published on Oct 21, 2016 Neuroscientists now think of the gut as a "second brain"; it independently controls your digestive processes and is in constant conversation with your main brain. What do they talk about? Depression, theorizes Dr Emeran Mayer. Mayer's latest book is "The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health"

How Gut Microbes Communicate with our Nervous System – Relevance for Food Allergies? Presented at the 26th Annual Workshop of the Harvard Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Boston Nov. 11, 2016

Published on Oct 31, 2016 Dr Emeran Mayer is a world-renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist with 35 years of experience in the study of clinical and neurobiological aspects of how the digestive system and the nervous system interact in health and disease. His current research focus is on the role of the gut microbiota brain interactions in emotion regulation, chronic visceral pain, and in obesity. His research has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health. Dr Mayer is a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, executive director of the G Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA. Mayer's latest book is "The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health" (https://goo.gl/vKFPZt). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/emeran-may... Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - So when we sleep and we have an empty stomach then the activity, the contractile activity of our gut changes to a very unique pattern. It’s a 90-minute cycle, very powerful waves of contractions migrate from the esophagus all the way down to the end of our large intestine. And they move very slowly. So this has been referred to as the intestinal housekeeper that sort of cleans the gut from any residue that’s present. And the rhythm for that is generated by the brain so it’s dependent on the input of the vagus nerve on the second brain in the gut. And this has been something that also should occur when during daytime when in between meals when our stomach and intestinal system is empty. However with the sort of modern habit of snacking in between meals so a lot of people don’t have that during the day but have it during sleep. If you add the microbes into this now it’s quite likely, not really proven. I mean the microbes obey some kind of a Circadian rhythm by themselves so they’re different during sleep and during daytime. But it’s quite possible to assume that this powerful wave that sort of cleans everything out will also affect the microbes, the composition of the microbes because if we don’t have it – so people that don’t have that for some reason they will develop abnormal colonization, for example, of their small bowel with a lot of microbes that don’t really belong there. So clearly an important role in regulating the populations and the regional distribution of these microbes in our gut. What happens during sleep, so during REM sleep when we have a lot of activity going on within the autonomic nervous system circuits within the brain and the signals are being sent to the gut. So our body is inhibited but not our intestinal activity. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/nWQORr.

Published on Dec 6, 2016 Dr. Emeran Mayer, UCLA researcher and author of "The Mind-Gut Connection," and Ilchi Lee, natural wellness expert and author of "Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life," site down for an interview about the important influence of your gut for your mental, physical, and emotional health. Dr. Mayer briefly explains the interaction of our gut microbes with our brain and how Lee's Belly Button Healing method improves your gut and brain.

We’ve all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—as in the butterflies in our stomach when we’re nervous or the visceral lurching sensation that associates an upsetting discovery. While ancient healing traditions, like Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, have long recognized this relationship, Western medicine has largely failed to acknowledge the mind-gut connection. Dr. Emeran Mayer, professor of medicine and executive director of the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, offers an inside look at this developing science, making the case for people to give more attention to their “gut feelings” and heed the signals their bodies are giving them. His talk will outline his recommendations for establishing better health both in body and mind. Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and University Bookstore Recorded 10/11/16

Published on Sep 14, 2016 Dr. Emeran Mayer joins us in the Mountain View Teaching Kitchen to present his new book The Mind-Gut Connection and to talk about how our gut and our brain are inextricably linked; how the microbes living in our gut play a crucial role in this dialogue; and what he recommends to harness this connection. After the talk, Dr. Mayer answers questions from our moderator, Liv Wu, and from the audience.

On today’s program we will explore a new book, The Mind-Gut Connection, by my friend Dr. Emeran Mayer. Dr. Mayer is a Gastroenterologist, Neuroscientist and Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Executive Director of the Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress at UCLA. As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in the role of mind-brain-body interactions in health and chronic disease, his scientific contributions to the broad area of basic and translational enteric neurobiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical GI diseases and disorders is unparalleled. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and co-edited 3 books. He is the recipient of the 2016 David McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society. His most recent work has focused on the role of the gut microbiota in influencing the brain, the role of food addiction in obesity, and the role of the brain in chronic inflammatory diseases of the gut. He has a longstanding interest in ancient healing traditions and affords them a level of respect rarely found in Western Medicine. He has been involved in documentary film productions about the Yanomami people in the Orinoco region of Venezuela and will discuss these experiences, dating back 40 years, with us today.

For the past several years in health care, it seems like the "gut" has been on everyone's mind. Pedram has talked at length with various guests about the gut and its processes on this program, but in this episode, he welcomes Dr. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine at UCLA, to discuss how the gut isn't just a self-contained system doing its thing automatically. No, Dr. Mayer joins the program to discuss how the mind and its processes can also affect the gut. Dr. Mayer has been the go-to researcher on brain-gut interations for nearly 25 years. What is the mind-gut connection? What role does the mind play in gut health? In what ways can we improve mental and physical health when focusing on the mind-gut connection?

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Emeran Mayer interviewed on PBS show "Natural Health Breakthroughs with Brenda Watson”

Emeran Mayer TEDx talk on brain gut microbiome interactions

“A Gut Reaction to Obesity: The Impact of Diet, the Microbiome, and the Environment” We are at the confluence of three daunting yet exciting trends in the realm of food and health: a dramatic shift in our health care system which has moved away from curing acute illnesses to managing chronic ones; a problematic obesity epidemic created in part by perverse economic incentives and a lack of consumer awareness regarding what we eat; and an explosion of scholarly interest in the gut microbiome, the intestinal bacteria in each of us that represent an unexplored frontier in medicine and basic science. Recognizing that these three trends are both important and interconnected, the topic for the 2015 Health Care Symposium is “A Gut Reaction to Obesity: The Impact of Diet, the Microbiome, and the Environment.”

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