Gut Check Quotes

“Let me start with a small (literally) example of how these bugs can control us. Many of us are familiar with the single-celled organism Toxoplasma gondii, which is responsible for the disease toxoplasmosis. Pregnant women are told to avoid close proximity to cat litter and to have their partner “scoop the poop” for the duration of their pregnancy because cats can pass along toxoplasma in their feces.”
― Steven R. Gundry, Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

“Over the past fifty years, we have introduced innovation after innovation that has overlooked, depleted, and destroyed our microbiomes. It’s no coincidence that in the same time frame there has simultaneously been a stark increase in major diseases, from obesity to the current mental health crisis to the autoimmune epidemic that I treat in my clinics every day.”
― Steven R. Gundry, Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

“We think that we’re the highest-functioning organism on the planet and that our mind has complete control over our behavior, but in the hands of a simple single-celled organism, we are essentially nothing more than a giant lab rat.”
― Steven R. Gundry, Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

“Now we know that our gut is akin to a teeming tropical rain forest with its own diverse ecosystem, communities, and multiple signaling devices, languages that single-celled organisms use to talk among themselves.”
― Steven R. Gundry, Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health

“The truth is that inside your digestive system lives a galaxy made up of trillions of bacteria belonging to at least ten thousand different species, plus an as-yet-undetermined number of viruses, fungi, and other microbes. This is your gut biome. You also have an oral biome with seven hundred species of bacteria and a skin biome with a thousand different species.”
― Steven R. Gundry, Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health