

Welcome to Superhumanize, where we explore the edges of human potential, and the systems, seen and unseen, that shape our lives.
Today’s conversation is a deeply personal and profoundly scientific journey. I am honored to welcome Martha Carlin, citizen scientist, entrepreneur, systems thinker, and founder of BiotiQuest. When her husband John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2002, Martha didn’t just become a caregiver. She became a force of research, uncovering unexpected connections between the gut microbiome, neurodegeneration, and the modern toxic landscape.
In this conversation, we speak of grief and love, and also bacteria and frequency. We speak of supplements, and also of synchronicity. We map systems, from spreadsheets to stool samples, and explore how shifting the internal terrain may be one of the most powerful levers for healing our minds and bodies.
This episode is an invitation to listen not only with the mind, but with the gut.
With gratitude,
Martha Carlin, is a “Citizen Scientist”,
systems thinker, wife of Parkinson’s warrior, John Carlin, and founder of The BioCollective , a microbiome company expanding
the reach of science and BiotiQuest, the first of it’s kind probiotic line. Since John’s diagnosis in 2002,
Martha began learning the science of agriculture, nutrition, environment, infectious disease, Parkinson’s
pathology and much more. In 2014, when the first research was published showing a connection between the gut
bacteria and the two phenotypes of Parkinson’s, Martha quit her former career as a business turnaround expert
and founded The BioCollective to accelerate the discovery of the impact of gut health on all human disease. Martha was a speaker at the White House 2016 Microbiome Initiative launch, challenging the scientific
community to “think in a broader context”. Her systems thinking background and experience has led to collaborations
across the scientific spectrum from neuroscience to engineering to infectious disease. She is a respected out of the
box problem solver in the microbiome field and brings a unique perspective to helping others understand the
connections from the soil to the food to our guts and our brains.

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