BiotiQuest® Gut Health & Probiotics Blog with Martha Carlin

Your Fatigue Has Hidden Roots - with Martha Carlin / Awesome Health Podcast

Martha Carlin | Dec 11, 2025 | podcast

Awesome Health Podcast - episode 295 Are you constantly battling fatigue, brain fog, and persistent bloating? You might be dealing with a silent instigator: LPS endotoxins. We recently dove deep into this topic with Martha Carlin, a pioneering microbiome researcher and founder of The BioCollective. Here's what you need to know about this stealthy driver of chronic inflammation. In this podcast, you'll learn:

  • What is LPS and how does it silently drive fatigue, bloating, and brain fog?
  • What your poop can tell you about your hormones, brain, and immune system
  • Red flags hiding in your daily routine—and how to shift them naturally
  • Why healing starts in the soil (and what that means for your plate)
  • How the microbes in your food, your gut, and your garden are all connected—and how eating for soil health supports your own

With gratitude,

Martha Carlin photo 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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