When clinicians discuss the microbiome, the lower digestive tract immediately comes to mind, but in this episode of the Microbiome Zone, Julian Abrams, MD, discussed some interesting findings on the microbes in the esophagus and upper gastrointestinal tract.

Dr. Abrams, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and the director of clinical research in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, in New York City, spoke with Elena Ivanina, DO, MPH, an integrative gastroenterologist and the founder of the Center for Integrative Gut Health, also in New York City, for this episode.

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—GEN Staff