Dr. Robynne Chutkan is a board-certified gastroenterologist, the author of Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, The Bloat Cure, and The Anti-Viral Gut, and the host of The Gutbliss Podcast. Educated at Yale (B.S.) and Columbia (M.D.), she’s a faculty member at Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness in Washington DC. A former Governing Board member and Training Committee chair of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), Dr. Chutkan has authored dozens of scientific articles and spoken globally on the role of the microbiome in health and disease. She has a PBS Special entitled “Gutbliss” and has been a featured expert in media outlets including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, The Doctors, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and others. She’s an avid (and slow) distance runner, a squash player, and a yogi, and is passionate about introducing more dirt, sweat and vegetables into people’s lives.