Grand Rounds - April 4, 2025
"It Takes Guts! Connecting the Brain, Gut, Diet & Microbiome"
Speaker: Joseph B. Weiss, MD. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology,UCSD School of Medicine.
Objectives
- Recognize that humans are complex superorganisms with close interactions between the brain, gut microbiome, and diet.
- Define the human microbiome and recognize that genes are often transferred between organisms and influenced by epigenetic factors.
- Describe the healthy human gastrointestinal tract as hosting trillions of microorganisms, most of which are commensal and beneficial.
- Understand how the microbiome can be dramatically influenced by antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and epigenetic factors.
- Describe the multi-directional pathways between brain, gut microbes, and diet.
- Recognize that recent advances in genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, and technology have revolutionized the understanding of the role of the microbiome, diet, and gut in human health and disease.
- Review that the information concerning probiotics is preliminary and has the potential to cause harm as well as benefit.
- Advise patients to use probiotics as they would antibiotics, with caution and to monitor changes in health.
Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.
The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals.
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