Optimist | Gastroenterologist | Innovator
To those searching for health,
It’s an honor and a privilege to be your food and gut microbiome guide. My aim is to improve your health, drawing on the experience of five years having lead The Food & Microbiome Innitiative at the Gates Foundation. I also bring over twenty years of experience unlocking the secrets of the gut microbiome as a graduate of Columbia Medical School and physician scientist in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Washington.
The foundation taught me solutions don’t have to be complicated. In fact they can’t be in the people and parts of the world that need it most. I have also become convinced that microbiome-informed approaches that shine light on the most fundamental medicine – the food and nutrients we eat – need to be applied right here at home. Otherwise, our problems (obesity, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc.) will continue to grow into the world’s problems.
This is why I am also excited to be launching GutBitesMD, a resource for democratizing the latest research in nutrition. In this online resource I hope to share with you a broad and literature-backed distillation of the evidence in easy to digest sound bites – as well a Calculator Tool to help choose the most gut-healthy foods. The mission is to provide reliable information to clarify your relationship with food so that you can take back control of your health.
To Good Food & Health,
Chris Damman, MD, MA