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Decoding the Holobiont: The Ecosystem of Ecosystems | HOMe Podcast Special Episode

6/24/202615 min

In this special in-person roundtable recorded in Washington, D.C., the core faculty of the Health Optimization Medicine and Practice (HOMeHOPe) program—Dr. Scott Sherr, Dr. Ted Achacoso, Dr. Allen Bookatz, and Dr. Jup Kuipers—sit down to decode one of the most important perspective shifts in modern health: the Holobiont.

Moving away from the traditional, siloed medical model of "organology" (treating the heart, gut, and brain as isolated systems managed by different specialists), the faculty discusses why true health optimization requires viewing the human body as a complex, interconnected ecosystem of ecosystems.

Join us as we delve into:

  • The Holobiont Paradigm: Why you are not just a single organism, but a super-ecosystem made up of human cells and trillions of cooperating microbiota (including in your cornea, ureters, and gut).
  • The Danger of "Organ" Medicine: How specializing solely in individual organs leads to clinical blind spots, and why common prescriptions like statins and PPIs can quietly disrupt cellular energy (CoQ10) and nutrient absorption system-wide.
  • Metabolomics vs. Genetics: Why your DNA only tells you what might happen, while clinical metabolomics tells you exactly what is happening right now.
  • The Cell Danger Response (CDR): How your metabolites act as powerful epigenetic signalers, turning genes on and off to regulate systemic health and recovery.
  • The N-of-1 Future: Why large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) often fail by completely ignoring the gut microbiome, and why personalized, N-of-1 medicine is the only true path forward.

This episode is for you if:

  • You are tired of being bounced between specialists for interconnected symptoms like mood disturbances, fatigue, and chronic bloating.
  • You want to understand the limitations of DNA testing and why measuring real-time metabolites is the gold standard for biohacking.
  • You are a clinician looking to shift your practice from illness management to foundational cellular optimization.

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First 90 seconds
  1. Allen Bookatz· Guest0:31

    Welcome back everybody to a special edition of the "Health Optimization Medicine" podcast. We're live, or not really live, but we're recording here in Washington, DC. We've got five of the six faculty of Health Optimization Medicine. And today we're gonna be talking about something called the holobiont, and this was a term that I was first introduced to by two people at this table, Dr. Scott actually first, and Dr. Ted. But it's a term that comes actually from a scientist in Germany, but was more popularized in the '80s and '90s by a woman by the name of Dr. Lynn Margulis. And Dr. Margulis published quite a bit of work on this. But Dr. Ted, let's go to you. Why did you decide to make this a sort of like a core value or a core part of Health Optimization Medicine?

  2. Ted Achacoso· Host1:21

    It's because I was looking for a model of the body as an ecosystem, and I was looking at the concept of a superorganism first.

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