Download podcast episodes a week early here! - http://www.lewishowes.com/pod Check out his new book : THE GUT-IMMUNE CONNECTION - https://emeranmayer.com/book/ Today's guest is Dr. Emeran Mayer. He is the executive director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience and the co-director of the Digestive Diseases Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for the past twenty-five years, and he is considered a pioneer and world leader in the area of brain-gut microbiome interactions. In this episode Lewis and Dr. Emeran Mayer discuss what the mind actually is, the effects of religion and finding a higher purpose have on your mind, the biggest breakthroughs during Dr. Mayer’s 40 years of research, why Dr. Mayer wants the world to stop using the word “placebo,” he effects that stress has on your immune system, the key changes to make today to improve your health, and so much more! For more go to: www.lewishowes.com/1138 or www.lewishowes.com/1139