Emeran Mayer
Gastroenterologist and neuroscientist
Emeran Mayer is a gastroenterologist and neuroscientist at UCLA who researches how the brain, gut and microbes interact. He wrote The Mind-Gut Connection.
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American Born 1950 in Traunstein, Germany
About Emeran Mayer
Emeran Mayer was born in 1950 in Traunstein, Bavaria, into a family that ran a confectionery business. He studied medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, did his residency in Vancouver, then moved to Los Angeles, where he completed specialty training in gastroenterology at UCLA. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and a pioneer of research into brain-gut interactions. He founded the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center and received the 2016 Paul D. MacLean Award. He wrote the best-selling The Mind-Gut Connection, and has also written The Mind-Gut Immune Connection and the recipe book Interconnected Plates. Outside medicine, Mayer has long loved adventure and documentary filmmaking. He took part in film expeditions as a student and has climbed peaks including Denali and Mont Blanc.