Giulia Enders: Stress Is in Your Gut
3/26/202644 min
Giulia Enders is a German doctor and author who is well known for explaining how the gut works and how it affects our overall health. She helps people understand topics like digestion, gut bacteria, and the connection between the gut and the brain.
In her talks, she explains that the body should be seen as a whole. To understand the gut, we also need to think about sleep, stress, metabolism, diet, and mental health. She explains medical ideas in a clear and simple way, while also paying close attention to patients' experiences.
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[gentle music] Aprendemos juntos, a BBVA initiative for a better world. Giulia Enders. Born in 1990, Giulia Enders is a German physician and researcher specializing in microbiology and gastroenterology. She became internationally known with her best-selling book, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, where she explains in a clear and engaging way how the digestive system works and how deeply it influences our health. Her approachable yet scientifically rigorous style has made her one of the most influential voices in gut health and the microbiome. Today, she combines research with lectures and science outreach.
Giulia Enders· Guest0:52
I wanted to work just with the gut, so I picked a hospital that would do only gut all the time. I wanted to read and do and do everything just with the gut. But after a little while, I had to realize, "This is not how I am a good doctor." Um, I realized that some of my patients who had irritable bowel syndrome, for example, some of them would sleep really bad, so I had to read about sleep and the brain. Then a colleague of mine, uh, suddenly noticed when the air quality was bad, people would come in more with belly aches, and even more appendicitis was happening. We looked it up. There was even studies on it. So I had to start reading about the lungs and about