In Part 1 of ‘Gut Feelings: The Abdominal Brain’, Debi Evans, a retired State Registered Nurse, and Cheryl Grainger, a self-employed pharmaceutical training consultant with over 35 years of experience, are joined by Dr Sabine Hazan. She is an award-winning consultant gastroenterologist, co-author of Let’s Talk SH!T: Disease, Digestion and Fecal Transplants, and the Founder and CEO of ProgenaBiome. Dr Hazan is also the Founder and CEO of the Malibu Specialty Center as well as of Ventura Clinical Trials, where she conducts and oversees clinical trials for cutting-edge research on various medical issues. Dr Hazan is a top clinical investigator for multiple pharmaceutical companies. She acts as the series editor of ‘The Microbiome and Disease’ for Practical Gastroenterology, a peer reviewed journal that reaches 18,000 gastroenterologists. She has been a speaker for the World Congress of Digestive Disease, MAGI, Microbiome Congress, International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Conference and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Have you ever followed your ‘gut feeling’ when making a decision? Perhaps you have told friends you are ‘going with your gut’. What causes butterflies in your tummy when you are excited or nervous? What causes that sinking feeling in your tummy when things aren’t going too well? Did you know you have two brains? As well as your cephalic brain in your head, you have an abdominal brain situated in your gut. The enteric nervous system works together with the cephalic brain and is connected by the biggest nerve in the body, which is called the vagus nerve.
Here are a few interesting facts about the digestive system:
· It is 30 feet long from mouth to anus.
· It has tens of millions of microbes growing within it.
· The gut makes up 70% of the immune system.
· The colon is 5 feet long.
When Dr Hazan started studying the gut microbiome of ‘Covid-19’ patients, it wasn’t too long before she noticed a pattern emerging. It appeared that patients who were suffering from ‘severe Covid’ appeared to lack bifidobacteria in their guts. Why? Armed with a wealth of knowledge, she developed a patented range of protocols which appeared to increase bifidobacteria in the gut with remarkable results. The protocols were to become the subject of much controversy and censorship. Despite constant censoring, she has continued to speak out.
What difficulties has Dr Hazan faced when trying to publish research that goes against the national narrative? Her research on the use of ivermectin in Covid-19 patients showed an increase in bifidobacteria within 24 hours; however, when she published her hypothesis, it was retracted within eight months of being published. Why were solutions being dismissed? Why weren’t doctors coming together to find a solution to fix the problem? To her dismay, she soon realised that ‘the price of stock mattered more than the price of a life’.
What can we do to improve our gut health? How can we increase our bifidobacteria in our gut? Are probiotics the answer, or are they just a racket? How have the ‘vaccines’ affected the gut? What effects are mRNA and spike proteins having on the gut? What happens to a clinician if they dare to save a life using a therapeutic such as ivermectin? Who can you trust?
We would like to thank Stephanie Sinclaire, UK Column’s producer, for arranging this interview at a time to suit both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Follow Dr Hazan on X: @SabinehazanMD