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Shilpa Ravella

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Dr. Shilpa Ravella is a transplant gastroenterologist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where she oversees the care of rare-disease patients who have undergone intestinal and multiple-organ transplantation. Unlike other solid organ transplants, the intestines are not sterile - the germs that live in the gut are also transplanted - and so Dr. Ravella's expertise lies in the interactions between food, the gut microbiome and the immune system, especially the potential of nutritional therapy to prevent and treat disease. Dr. Ravella speaks and writes regularly on food, health and wellness. She has written for a variety of media, including the Atlantic, New York, Slate, Discover and USA Today and her TED-Ed lesson, 'How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut' has garnered over two million views.

Books by Shilpa Ravella

A Silent Fire

An expert in nutrition and the gut reveals what inflammation is, why it lies behind many modern diseases and what we can all do to help combat it

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