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417 — Eat $H and Live with Dr. Hazan (Re-Run)

·1 hr 11 min·4 clips

A suicidal patient reportedly stopped having suicidal ideation after a fecal transplant and started craving orange juice.

BS Free MD opens by setting itself up as a place for raw, real, and honest healthcare talk where nothing is off limits. The hosts frame the episode as a year-end sendoff and bring in Dr. Sabine Hazen. Hazen is described as probably the world authority on fecal transplant and a nationally renowned expert on the gut microbiome. The hosts also note that she practices gastroenterology in Malibu, California and runs Progena Biome, a genetic sequencing research company focused on understanding gut flora. The tone stays light, with the kind of joking back-and-forth that keeps a serious topic from feeling sealed off. Hazen explains that microbiome findings are deeply individualized. She pushes back on the idea that stool testing can be boiled down to one universal answer. She says the clinical picture matters. She points out that a patient with immune problems and zero bacteroides already tells a story of imbalance. She talks about comparing samples against normals and family patterns to build that picture. She emphasizes that imbalance does not look the same in two different people. She even brings geography and diet into it, noting that microbiomes adapt over time to where and how people live. The hosts ride that thread into the end-of-year mood. They joke about gyms getting crowded and medical practices getting slammed when people decide to change their lives all at once. The conversation then shifts into the pandemic and the role of anxiety. Hazen says the people getting infected are often the people who are very anxious. The hosts turn that into a blunt reminder that worrying will not change what happens tomorrow. The episode keeps bouncing between lab logic and plainspoken life advice. It also keeps the informal chemistry of the show intact, with interruptions, riffs, and side comments that never let the discussion settle into lecture mode. By the end, the hosts wrap things up with their usual mix of humor, self-awareness, and cautionary medicine. The final sign-off keeps the show’s promise intact: keep it raw, keep it real, and do not pretend medicine has to sound sterile to be useful.

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A blunt gut-microbiome conversation that stays clinical, personal, and grounded.

BS Free MD keeps its blunt healthcare tone, and this episode settles into gut health with unusual ease. Dr. Sabine Hazen comes across as a leading voice on fecal transplant and a nationally renowned expert on the gut microbiome, while the conversation moves from clinical detail…

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