How do your food choices affect your health and longevity? Discover how the diversity of your gut microbiome directly impacts your physical health. Hear about Stanford-led nutrition studies that demonstrate the restorative power of plant-based diets to lower your biological age. And discover the power of culinary medicine, a growing field that brings together nutritional and culinary knowledge to treat food-related diseases and help people move away from lifestyles that lead to chronic disease and toward lifestyles that promote health and well-being. Moderated by Lisa Gauthier, Stanford Medicine
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Christopher Gardner, PhD, the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine and research associate at the Stanford Prevention Research Center
Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM, clinical associate professor of surgery-general surgery and director of Obesity Medicine at the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center
Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology

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