This video explains that all diseases start in the gut, a concept Hippocrates introduced 2500 years ago. The gut's tiny, one-cell-thick lining, when healthy, protects the body, but when leaky, it allows harmful substances into the bloodstream. Factors like the Standard American Diet, gluten, medications, environmental toxins, and stress contribute to leaky gut. The speaker emphasizes a four-step process for healing: remove harmful elements, repair the gut, restore healthy bacteria, and replace missing nutrients.
Key Takeaways
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The gut interacts with every system of the body, and its health is fundamental to overall well-being, a concept first recognized by Hippocrates.
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Your gastrointestinal tract produces 90% of your body's serotonin, linking leaky gut to mood disorders and exaggerated stress responses.
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Leaky gut, or intestinal hyperpermeability, is associated with major health problems like autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, allergies, and mental illness.
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Gluten causes the release of zonulin, a protein that regulates tight junctions in the gut, making it permeable and allowing harmful substances to leak into the bloodstream.
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The Standard American Diet, characterized by processed foods, refined grains, added sugars, and oils, is a leading cause of chronic health issues and negatively affects gut integrity.
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Excessive medication, including pain relievers, stomach acid reducers, and antibiotics, can severely damage the gut lining and microbiome, leading to nutrient deficiencies and increased risk of infection.
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Pesticides, especially glyphosate (Roundup), are toxic to gut microbes and are considered probable carcinogens, increasing the prevalence of chronic diseases.
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Chronic stress elevates cortisol and significantly impacts the gut-brain connection, altering gut bacteria composition and leading to digestive issues and mood disorders.
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The gut has five critical defenses: mucosal IgA, tight junctions, gut-associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), friendly bacteria, and stomach acid, all of which need to be healthy.
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Healing leaky gut involves a four-step process: remove problem foods and toxins, repair the gut with essential nutrients, restore healthy bacteria with probiotics, and replace missing enzymes and nutrients.
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we're going to dig into gut health
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hippocrates father of modern medicine
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said
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all disease begins in the gut 2500 years
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later
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we've come full circle the gut interacts
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with every
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system of the body we found that
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hippocrates really was right
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so many years ago conventional medicine
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while gives you temporary relief
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it doesn't address the root cause and to
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simply treat with medication
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it is potentially going to make it
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chronic
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or just aggravate things so we want to
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get at
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the root cause and like hippocrates said
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we've got to start
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with gut health okay
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so the gut is the whole gastrointestinal
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system
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gateway to overall health starting with
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the gut microbes
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where we call that some people call it
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the inner garden it's
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an ecosystem of organisms including
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bacteria
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yeast fungus yeah viruses and even
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protozoa
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from the mouth all the way through
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important
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we need all these microbes hearty
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diversity and the friendly bacteria are
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essential
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for our very life we may think bacteria
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is something we need to kill especially
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right now
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but in fact only one percent of all
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bacteria are thought to be responsible
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for disease
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all the rest may have really important
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functions
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and helping us make not only essential
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nutrients
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but really organizing all the systems of
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the body
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far beyond the digestive tract your
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organ systems are really related to gut
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health
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the immune system we're going to go
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through that the endocrine system the
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nervous system the circulatory system
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your heart and your blood vessels the
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integumentary so
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your hair skin and nails your
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respiratory reproductive
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have you ever taken an antibiotic and
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ended up with a yeast infection
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that is a perfect example of microbiome
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imbalance and then we've got the new
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endocannabinoid system
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you know everybody's taking the cbd well
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we're going to talk about that in
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another webinar
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this year but there are some key points
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that just never cease to amaze me
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now this first one is the numbers are
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kind of debated
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but it's generally considered that
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those microbes outnumber us 10 times
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you've got 10 times the amount of
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bacterial cells
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then we do human cells wow
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so more bacterial dna than human day
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dna in our body you know we think we're
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so complex and all that well they found
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out a carrot has more
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dna than we do so anyway the next point
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that's i think really interesting
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gastrointestinal tract makes 90 of your
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body's
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happy hormone serotonin leaky gut strong
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connections
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to mood disorders and an exaggerated
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stress response
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who needs that i ask people that have
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anxiety
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if they have digestive issues invariably
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they say
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yes now most importantly
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approximately 70 to 80 of your immune
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system
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is housed in the gut and in the days of
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a pandemic
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this is key we're going to talk more
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about that in a minute so
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as you can tell gut health certainly
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doesn't stop
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at digestion the health of your gut
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depends
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affects every system in your body when
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functioning properly
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the gut bacteria is a major proponent of
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overall well-being and helps communicate
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and have proper functioning of healthy
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immunity
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to help prevent either chronic
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infections or autoimmunity
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energy production you know your
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mitochondria
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the powerhouse of the cell can be
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damaged by leaky gut
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mood disorders anxiety and depression
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brought on by leaky gut
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food cravings talked about this last
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month but boy that gut bacteria
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can actually make you crave sugar and
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process food and then of course
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hormone production and digestive
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regularity but of so much more than just
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digestion
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and the amazing thing that really
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blows my mind this all happens in one
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cell thickness all this takes place one
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cell thick
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the immune cells some digestive enzyme
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muscles the channels that allow
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nutrients to be delivered across there
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one cell
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thick but boy needs to be healthy
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so let's see here we're supposed to have
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that okay
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so what is leaky gut it's a term
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that scientifically technically we call
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it intestinal
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hyperpermeability and it's really become
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recognized as a very common health
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problem today
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research suggests that leaky gut is
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associated with major health problems
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including
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autoimmune like lupus type 1 diabetes
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and ms
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chronic fatigue syndrome fibromyalgia
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arthritis allergies asthma acne obesity
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even mental illness hippocrates was on
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to something
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when the gut breaks down it becomes
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permeable
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so those good nutrients don't get
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absorbed and the bad ones that are
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supposed to be eliminated
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like undigested food particles toxins
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digestive juices bacteria they're able
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to freely leak into the bud's
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bloodstream
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a problem right okay so something's
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going on here
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okay so how does this happen so
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in one cell thickness there are these
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tiny channels
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called tight junctions and they're
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supposed to only allow
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digestive things to pass through there
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is a protein called zonulin so
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these channels the tight junction and
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these zonulin proteins
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hold the zipper walls together like a
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zipper
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zonulin keeps that zipper strong but
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when there is an irritation to the gut
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lining
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it swells zonulin breaks down and these
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tiny channels
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become huge gaps that that's where the
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food particles bacteria digestive juices
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all those toxins can then leak into the
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bloodstream
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they can actually run lab tests to see
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how bad it is by measuring the levels of
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zonulin
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and also lps lipopolysaccharide
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and that's part of a gram-negative
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bacteria not good very inflammatory
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so when you see high levels of either
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zonulin
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or lps in lab tests you know there is
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trouble in the gut and that those tiny
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channels governed by zonulin
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have become unzipped and stuff's leaking
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in
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so instead of that lining be being
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impenetrable it's totally penetrable
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so remember that zonulin because we're
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going to come back to it
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so you can imagine with all that foreign
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stuff going
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into the bloodstream the body is
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reacting
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trying to fight off all these things
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that it considers foreign invaders that
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is getting into the bloodstream
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so it's producing antibodies it's
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pro-inflammatory
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cells and that leads to a lot of things
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chronic inflammation
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allergies so much more and of course
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this continues
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until the gut permeability is addressed
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so
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fortunately a lot of research we now
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have a really good understanding of
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what's causing it
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the obstacles and the treatment methods
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and we're going to go through all of
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that today
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so how the gut gets leaky
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so there are big factors that have
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proven to be negatively affecting the
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gut's
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integrity most prominent one of course
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has to do with the food
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because that's what is on the gut lining
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more than anything so you've got the
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standard american diet
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that includes gluten and a lot of grains
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well then you've got food allergies
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then you've got excessive medications
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you've got exposure to chemicals
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environmental pollutants that include
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heavy metals pesticides
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persistent organic pollutants food
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additives
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all sorts of stuff we're going to go
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into then also chronic infections
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and poorly managed stress
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you know you can see why it is such an
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issue in these days so
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we look at all of these and we've got to
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deal with all of them to heal up the
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leaky gut
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starting with the sad
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diet the standard american diet
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rightfully known as the sad diet one of
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the leading causes
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of chronic health issues i mean
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my my my works cut out for me
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so there was a study in 2009 conducted
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by the usda
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saying that 63 percent of the calories
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americans consume eat every day come
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from processed foods
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contain containing preservatives refined
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grains
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added sugars and oils now that was 2009.
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can you imagine what it is today it's
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almost like you took the whole
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food guide pyramid if you're using that
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grain at the bottom
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dairy in the middle and a dollop of
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sugar on top
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honestly none of those foods have any
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business
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in our diet when we're trying to heal up
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leaky gut
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if you wonder about the sugar part you
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can go back and listen to
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a case against sugar oh my gosh it is
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it is awful okay so continuing on
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you can call it fruit you can call it
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franken food
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food like substances fake food
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but most definitely we shouldn't call
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it real food within two generations the
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majority
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of the american diet is prepackaged meal
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with paragraph long ingredient lists
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labels that is hard to pronounce
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we are not eating enough real
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food some facts on that usda or no the
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the fda food and drug administration has
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approved approximately 3 000
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different food additives preservatives
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and coloring a lot of them without
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adequate safety research
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the average person ingests 150 pounds
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of additives every year this is in
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addition to the 150 pounds of sugar each
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year
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so that magnitude of these chemicals
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plus the sugar that we are allowing into
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our lives
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i think is bizarre and crazy and that's
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in addition to the three thousand
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additives preservatives and coloring we
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have to look at preserve
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but the pesticides and the herbicides
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one of the herbicides
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ground roundup glyphosate broad spectrum
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herbicide
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while no toxic effects to humans
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have been proven they have been proven
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to be toxic to our gut
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microbes and 54 of the gut bacterial
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species
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are sensitive to glyphosate so
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we know diversity and the gut bacteria
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is going down i think primarily due to
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this roundup
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the united states has been very slow to
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act they hardly
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ban anything that big corporations sell
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but in 2015
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the world health organization
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reclassified glyphosate
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as a probable carcinogen to humans
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it's used since the introduction of
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glyphosate in the 70s has increased
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100 fold mostly on soy and corn
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and canola and it's grown as glyphosate
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resistant roundup ready here so all of
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those are varieties outside europe
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because europe has banned it
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we're becoming more and more aware of
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the consequences of this fake food
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lifestyle and simply
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is not good enough for us our body needs
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better
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and that's only one factor in the leaky
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gut epidemic
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but definitely a big one so next we're
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going to be
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discussing other factors that could be
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responsible
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for the onset and the progression
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of leaky gut so we know sick and
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inflamed we know that inflammation
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is an important vital response
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and it's the body's attempt to defend
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itself against
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a lot of things pathogens uh heal from
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injury
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repair damaged tissue so when you brain
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sprain an ankle
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it swells you get a splinter in your
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finger it swells
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inflammation is an important part of the
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whole healing process
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it brings in all the healing components
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and
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goes to work and does everything and
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then when it's over the inflammation is
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gone
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the ankle is normal or the splinter is
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pushed out healed up
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but chronic inflammation is not
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beneficial
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at all and it is epidemic anymore at the
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root of all chronic illnesses in fact
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it worsens the body's ability to
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recognize foreign invaders
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and puts your body on high alert for
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prolonged periods of time
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and this causes lasting damage and a lot
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of autoimmune response that leads to
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body
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attacking its own healthy cells body
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constantly trying to figure out is it
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friend
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is it foe having the immune system on
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alert
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all the time that chronic stress is
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not good and causes lasting damage
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throughout the body
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every system it's that chronic
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inflammation
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especially in the intestinal tract when
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it goes
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untreated leaky gut gets worse and worse
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and worse and the
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body ultimately loses its ability to
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repair
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the damage so big things
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gluten just to let you know exactly what
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gluten is i mean you hear about it every
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place but it
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is you know a general term
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for a mix of proteins that are in
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the most predominant grains wheat barley
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rye
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gluten gluten is found itself to be in
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all of our food supply packaged foods
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prepackaged
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dishes no surprise that our consumption
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of gluten has
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increased immensely and really our
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health is suffering from it
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wheat has also been bred to be hide
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higher in gluten because it what is what
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makes bread
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and bread products light and fluffy you
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know if you
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have tried anything gluten-free you know
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it's like a brick
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that's because it doesn't have gluten
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you know so we love our cereal and our
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toast and our bagel for breakfast we
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have a sandwich for lunch and
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pasta for dinner huh you know no wonder
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this over consumption may be the problem
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or it's the increased content or
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both don't know but gluten allergies
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sensitivities and tolerances are
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becoming
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increasingly common and exactly
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how does it work why is it so dangerous
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well
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remember that zonulin that protein that
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regulates the tight
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junctions like a zipper well gluten
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causes the permeability
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of the gut by causing the release of
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zanyan opening up those
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tight junctions gluten makes your
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gut leaky simple as that the antibodies
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normally released as a result of that
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leaky gut and damaged tissue
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accompanied by even more antibodies
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creating the attack
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on the gluten you know there's a
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building block of gluten called gliadin
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and this leads to more inflammation and
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the body gets so confused
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more health complication so in other
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words
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your body reacts to the over consumption
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of gluten
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by creating a defense mechanism to fight
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it so once this damage has occurred
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within the digestive tract
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it's then circulated through the whole
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body causing inflammation
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everywhere
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primary effects you know the damage
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gluten causes
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you know we've talked about this the
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primary effects are going to be
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intestinal perm hyper permeability
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you know that is the number one effect
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the leaky gut
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then there is the permeability of the
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blood brain barrier
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we used to think that that was intact
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not so much
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so think migraines think headaches think
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tension
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the another thing onset of autoimmune
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disease such as celiac crohn's and
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ulcerative colitis
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but maybe some of the other 80
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different autoimmune diseases the
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development
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of psychological disorders think
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depression ocd
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anxiety and then it fuels the dysbiosis
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the abnormal
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bacterial yeast growth so think candida
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think acute allergies or the ige
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responses
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or even delayed antibody responses
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while all these tissues issues are
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really serious
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within themselves they too further cause
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complications
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so next come the secondary effects of
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gluten as if the primary ones weren't
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bad enough
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then you've got over a period of time if
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the cilia gets worn down
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the cilia are those little fingers that
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absorb all of your nutrients
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you become nutrient deficient iron b12
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everything fat soluble ones so they
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shrink become worse
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then of course the systemic inflammation
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leading to joint
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organ and tissue breakdown so i'm
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hitting gluten kind of hard
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seems a little redundant we keep coming
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back to how bad gluten is
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but it is one of the most important
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pieces of information
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i want you to take away from this class
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gluten is a major component of that
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whole
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leaky gut cycle and it's present at the
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onset
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the maintenance and the progression of
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this damaging condition
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and so we really not have to take it
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seriously
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so gluten's path to disease as you
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probably can guess
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it's pretty direct first step is when
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gluten's
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contribution goes undiagnosed okay at
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this point
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there's no symptoms you know no obvious
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symptoms at all
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you know you feel like you can eat
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anything
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and you have no problem with anything
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unfortunately
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the lack of noticeable symptoms
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does not mean gluten is not hurting your
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gut
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i'm going to tell you about that in a
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minute but then the second step
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is the progression to subclinical
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problems
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this is where leaky gut begins to
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develop
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gluten often is going to go un
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noticed then you get increased food
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sensitivities
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maybe environmental sensitivities you
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start being you know
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sensitive to different things gas and
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different things you may have digestive
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distress yeah
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but it could be rashes it could be
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inflammation it could be achiness
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it could be really vague and symptom
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wide
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one of my favorite gluten researchers
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is dr alessio fazano an italian comes
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from italy
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came to harvard to study celiac disease
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and also became interested
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in gluten intolerance intestinal
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permeability and autoimmune
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he was the one that discovered even if
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someone has no overt reaction to gluten
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they still have measurable inflammation
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in the gut after a meal containing
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gluten
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so even those that think that they've
21:38
got a cast iron stomach have no
21:40
noticeable problems
21:42
they have reactions to gluten at a
21:44
cellular level
21:45
measurable observable objective we're
21:48
talking the zonulin and the lps
21:50
so not only have we bred wheat to have a
21:54
lot more
21:55
gluten but now we have it three meals a
21:57
day
21:58
and in our snacks too much too often
22:03
but then now we've got besides gluten
22:05
there may be
22:06
other allergies food sensitivities that
22:09
can
22:10
cause and be caused by leaky gut so it's
22:13
kind of like a leak
22:15
a vicious leaky cycle is it the chicken
22:17
or the egg
22:18
you know we know whole undigested food
22:21
particles leaking out into the gut
22:23
it's going to make your body go what is
22:25
that doing there let me attack it so
22:27
you've got a lot of immune issues coming
22:28
up
22:29
but then the swollen lining of the
22:31
digestive tract itself
22:32
interferes with digestion of foods so
22:35
bottom line
22:36
i don't think for our purposes it really
22:38
matters whether
22:39
it causes or is caused by we just need
22:42
to eliminate
22:42
all the normal inflammatory foods and
22:45
allow the gut to heal
22:47
and then often it gets back into good
22:49
shape
22:50
you know we introduce back one at a time
22:53
so then we can really figure out what
22:54
foods are the problem
22:57
next drugs medication is severely over
23:01
prescribed
23:02
in the current medical model used today
23:04
nowhere else in the whole world
23:06
are drug companies allowed to advertise
23:09
you know people become trained to think
23:11
they need medicine no one is ever
23:13
deficient in zoloft or prilosec i can
23:16
just tell you
23:17
you know they simply cover up the
23:18
problem and cause more
23:21
so for example you know statins that are
23:24
used to lower cholesterol have been
23:25
shown to lower vitamin d
23:27
probably all the fat solubles and coq10
23:31
so while it is lowering the cholesterol
23:33
that may be simultaneously
23:35
causing nutrient deficiencies muscle
23:37
fatigue
23:38
abnormal blood pressure and weakened
23:40
immunity
23:41
and then we go to the pain killers like
23:42
ibuprofen naproxen aspirin all of them
23:45
they contribute to deficiencies like
23:47
vitamin c and iron
23:48
leaving you vulnerable to other diseases
23:51
and eroding
23:52
the protective mucosal layer layer
23:55
throughout the digestive tract
23:56
then you got stomach acid reducers
23:58
medications that hinder
24:00
the stomach from doing its job to digest
24:02
protein and
24:03
help calcium be absorbed in vitamin b12
24:06
so you're causing chronic problems there
24:09
like neuropathy and osteoarthritis and
24:11
osteoporosis and
24:12
even small intestinal bowel overgrowth
24:16
known as sibo then antidepressants too
24:20
significantly impact the gut's motility
24:23
moving peristalsis and that causes a lot
24:27
of digestive issues so
24:29
lastly it's important to note that
24:31
antibiotics
24:32
are unable to differentiate between the
24:34
good and the bad
24:36
so they're killing off everything so the
24:39
result is
24:40
altered microbiome and a much greater
24:42
risk for more
24:43
infections that it will take months if
24:46
not
24:47
years to rebalance on its own so as you
24:50
can tell
24:50
drug drugs offer a lot of unintended
24:53
consequences
24:54
that can affect our health badly of
24:56
course there are
24:57
situations when drugs are your solution
25:01
life-saving threatening infections
25:03
surgical situations or any critical
25:05
situation
25:06
that your daughter doctor has prescribed
25:09
something essential for you
25:10
but i believe it is always best to
25:13
continue to look for the root cause
25:15
solution
25:16
instead of just relying on more and more
25:18
medications that have side effects
25:20
and they have interactions and cause
25:24
deficiencies
25:26
okay pesticides
25:29
much like the additives and
25:30
preservatives flooding our food supply
25:33
pesticides are a huge part of what's on
25:36
our plate
25:38
three million tons of pesticides are
25:41
being used
25:43
worldwide each year and more than
25:46
sixteen
25:46
thousand chemicals are involved in the
25:48
production of these pesticides
25:51
so studies have been done to assure safe
25:54
blades
25:54
have been very limited and whereas some
25:57
of them have no documented research
25:59
at all one family are called the
26:02
organophosphates
26:03
these pesticides were developed by the
26:05
nazi germans
26:07
in 1940 as nerve gas soon after the war
26:11
they were begun to be marketed
26:12
as a as a tool against pests
26:15
agricultural pests
26:16
so essentially they attack the nervous
26:18
system of the pests
26:21
serious downside however is that they
26:23
also happen to be
26:24
extremely toxic you know to quote they
26:26
are considered
26:27
junior strength nerve agents because
26:29
they have the same
26:31
mechanism of action as the nerve gases
26:34
like sarin so growing evidence indicates
26:38
that various chemicals
26:39
including food contaminants and
26:41
additives can disrupt that
26:43
one cell thickness of the gut lining
26:46
that will interfere with the microbiome
26:49
and even the nervous system
26:51
of the gut lining a really great book
26:54
highly recommend
26:55
is the toxin solution by dr joe savol
26:59
pizzorno he's the founder uh founding
27:02
president of bastyr naturopathic college
27:04
boy
27:05
when he retired you can't stay retired
27:08
long so he dug into the research against
27:10
toxins and our health hormonal
27:14
imbalances thyroid issues type 2 type 1
27:18
diabetes
27:18
obesity asthma you mean you name it he's
27:21
got the correlations in here so if
27:23
you're you're really
27:24
wanting to dig into it toxin solution
27:27
kind of a dry reed but
27:28
i liked it so then you know exposure to
27:31
other chemicals
27:32
environmental pollutants heavy metals
27:35
pesticides and
27:36
and the persistent organic pollutants
27:39
we're going to go into that really deep
27:41
next month in my next webinar we're
27:43
going to dive deep into the toxins
27:45
and how to properly detoxify from all of
27:48
them
27:50
and it's important in this day and age
27:52
so then we've got hidden
27:53
infections that can definitely affect
27:56
our healthy little gut microbes of
27:58
course you've got the
27:59
normal offenders like salmonella and
28:01
rotavirus
28:02
and giardiasis but there's also candida
28:05
there's gum disease there's a lot of you
28:08
know
28:08
infections that are throughout the body
28:10
that can really affect
28:12
the gut health interesting little tidbit
28:15
here
28:15
now that research is starting to come in
28:17
about covet infections
28:19
we found that you can pretty much
28:21
predict
28:22
by looking at the gut microbes how the
28:25
body is going to react
28:26
both disease severity and dysfunctional
28:30
immune responses
28:31
and then patients with cova 19 have
28:34
alterations
28:35
in the gut microbes compared to controls
28:37
they have a lot more
28:38
opportunistic bad guys and less
28:41
of the beneficial bacteria at the time
28:44
of hospitalization and at all the
28:46
checkpoints
28:47
when they were there even after they've
28:50
been cleared
28:51
of all covert and respiratory symptoms
28:54
they still have an altered gut
28:57
microbiome you know you've heard a lot
28:59
of people
29:00
that even after they're over covered
29:03
they still have gut symptoms
29:04
months later so kind of interesting how
29:06
it's all tied together
29:08
and of course stress cortisol
29:12
that stress hormone that's elevated and
29:14
just about everybody today
29:16
shift workers you got politics you got
29:19
the pandemic you got
29:20
worry you got news overworked all these
29:23
things play into leaky gut
29:25
it's like a four-lane uh eight-lane
29:27
highway to the brain
29:28
from the gut to the brain and the brain
29:29
to the gut we call it the gut brain
29:32
connection
29:33
and it's no joke you can link anxiety
29:36
to digestive problems we all know this
29:38
we've got phrases
29:40
that have just come from our intuitive
29:41
knowledge like it was a
29:43
gut-wrenching experience or are there
29:46
certain situations that make you
29:48
feel nauseous you ever feel butterflies
29:51
in your stomach
29:52
get nervous or how well we say i just
29:54
can't stomach that
29:56
emotions and thoughts affect your gut
30:00
just thinking of biting into a lemon
30:03
those juices start to flow
30:05
you know this connection goes both ways
30:08
a troubled
30:09
intestinal tract sends signals to the
30:11
brain
30:12
just like the troubled brain can settle
30:14
send signals to the gut
30:16
certain microbes in the gut can be the
30:18
cause
30:19
or the product of anxiety stress and
30:22
depression
30:23
it's all because of that that highway we
30:27
are so connected
30:28
stress and depression can make you want
30:30
to eat
30:31
sweet processed foods we talked about
30:34
that last week
30:35
and then that feeds certain inflammatory
30:37
gut bacteria
30:38
that's associated with stress and that
30:41
thrives and of course
30:42
additionally stress and depression can
30:44
even reshape the gut bacteria
30:46
composition
30:47
so that alters the gut bacteria that
30:49
releases metabolites and toxins and
30:51
neural hormones that alter what you want
30:54
to eat
30:55
how much it what you feel like how
30:57
nervous you are
30:59
all goes back to that one cell
31:02
thickness and how it responds so we've
31:05
got to have
31:06
that one cell really healthy
31:09
some bacterial species species encourage
31:12
healthy eating some encourage bad eating
31:15
some get
31:16
back gut bacteria heighten your stress
31:18
responsiveness
31:19
and some help promote healthy
31:23
moods and there's research to back all
31:25
of that so it's
31:26
pretty exciting times so now we're
31:30
getting down to the nitty-gritty
31:32
our gut has five defenses
31:35
that are critical for healthy gut
31:37
function and in order from the first
31:39
layer down so first you have the
31:41
mucosal iga that's the first line of
31:44
defense
31:45
it's also known as immunoglobulin a
31:48
this antibody is the first in the
31:50
mucosal
31:51
membrane and it's considered first line
31:54
of defense
31:55
against all those toxins it's up against
31:57
immunoglobulins are the protein that
31:59
function
32:00
as antibodies to neutralize and
32:03
eliminate
32:03
the unwanted toxins before they get a
32:06
chance to
32:07
activate the immune system farther down
32:09
and and one product
32:11
i really like that is proven to help
32:14
this
32:14
iga is called immuno big g little g
32:18
sbi and this is by biotics
32:22
i love it it really works well okay so
32:24
then after your iga
32:26
then you have those tight junctions we
32:28
talked about
32:29
and those type junctions are fed by
32:32
nutrients some of the nutrient one is
32:36
butyrate or a product that we sell it's
32:39
called butyric acid
32:41
and that is a friendly bacteria
32:44
that ferments in the fibers and it makes
32:47
butyrate
32:48
really healthy for the healthy colon but
32:50
then you have zinc and d
32:51
and quercetin that help heal up those
32:55
type junctions same thing we use to
32:57
fight covet
32:59
third thing is the gold the gut
33:01
associated
33:02
lymphatic tissue this is where the gut
33:05
concentrates
33:06
the immune system eighty percent of the
33:09
immune system
33:10
so that is the gut's last
33:13
line of defense it's got to be healthy
33:16
we use colostrum
33:18
we use beta 1 3 for that or beta glucan
33:20
1-3
33:22
fourth thing we've got the friendly
33:23
bacteria got to have that this bacteria
33:27
actually communicates with the galt the
33:29
gut associated lymphatic tissue to warn
33:32
it against the danger so in fact if that
33:35
bacteria
33:36
doesn't get tagged as a pathogen our
33:39
immune system ignores it and it can
33:41
wreak havoc
33:42
so the immune system is asleep on the
33:44
job if it doesn't get tagged
33:46
there have been over 50 000 studies done
33:49
in the last five years
33:51
just on our gut microbes so you know as
33:54
a baby
33:54
we come out pretty much sterile and then
33:56
you've got mother's milk and
33:58
crawling around on the floor sticking
34:00
everything in your mouth we rapidly
34:01
colonize the gut bacteria
34:04
so if you were breastfed or if you
34:06
weren't
34:07
if you were c-section or natural what we
34:10
eat how we live
34:11
how much stress we're in all that
34:13
impacts the gut bacteria
34:16
there are some strains that are going to
34:18
starve out c-diff
34:19
there are some strains that are good for
34:21
the respiratory system my radio
34:23
show podcast last week went into all
34:25
those different ones so
34:26
we don't have time to go into all the
34:28
prebiotics probiotics and probiotics
34:30
that are important
34:32
in the gut health but we need them
34:35
along with fermented foods like kimchi
34:38
and pickles and sauerkraut all those
34:41
feed
34:41
the gut microbes lastly but not least
34:45
you've got stomach acid
34:47
boy so important it is essential first
34:50
line right there in the stomach it's
34:52
going to kill off bad bacteria
34:54
starts breaking down protein helps
34:56
absorb b12
34:57
but as we age stomach acid goes down
35:01
so sometimes we need to supplement with
35:04
some more stomach acid a lot of people
35:05
like apple cider vinegar
35:07
that's great but if you don't have
35:08
enough stomach acid
35:10
you need you're just setting yourself up
35:12
for leaky gut and we need to be taking
35:14
care of that
35:15
because if there is dysfunction anywhere
35:18
your
35:19
immune system is also going to be at
35:21
risk
35:22
good thing about all five of those
35:25
things
35:26
you can feed all five of those critical
35:29
elements
35:29
with a good quality digestive enzyme a
35:32
good quality
35:34
personalized probiotic and a great
35:36
multivitamin
35:37
covers all of them okay doesn't have to
35:39
like
35:40
millions of pills okay okay so tips on
35:44
gut health
35:45
okay given you a lot of information on
35:47
what causes the leaky gut
35:49
but what you affect is gonna help
35:53
fix the problem you know and what are
35:55
you gonna do so i like what food
35:57
activist michael poland says
35:59
eat food not too much mostly plants
36:03
dr mark hyman says to eat pagan which is
36:06
really just
36:06
a lot of plants like a vegetarian but
36:09
then you're going to eat grass-fed
36:10
pastured organic poultry and chicken
36:13
eggs wild caught fish
36:15
so it really boils down to eating a lot
36:17
of plants
36:18
two to three servings at each meal and i
36:21
say a lot of color
36:22
you really want to aim for the rainbow
36:24
because there are all those
36:24
phytonutrients in there
36:26
25 000 of them then you need adequate
36:28
fats and
36:29
and good healthy protein and then we
36:32
have to address the lifestyle stuff so
36:34
we're going to get into all of that as
36:36
we continue on because all of it
36:38
is so important for the foundation of
36:41
health
36:42
so beginning when we're doing any kind
36:44
of functional treatment
36:45
where do you begin first step of healing
36:48
the gut
36:49
is to rule out the causes so it's
36:51
important to recognize
36:53
there's rarely just one you know just
36:56
like with anything when the body breaks
36:58
down it's got so many backup mechanisms
37:00
that it takes
37:01
a lot to the system so you know
37:03
it's usually not one so you really have
37:05
to
37:06
just from the beginning think about the
37:08
big players that we talked about
37:10
standard american diet you got the
37:11
gluten you got the grains you got the
37:13
food sensitivities
37:14
then you've got the medication you've
37:16
got the chemical exposures environmental
37:19
pollutants
37:20
you've got the chronic infections and
37:22
poor
37:23
managed poorly managed stress so
37:26
the people i work with are generally in
37:30
good health
37:31
and they're smart so they just want to
37:33
prevent or just be healthier
37:34
so we've got time so in my programs
37:38
i like to first just clear out
37:40
everything that we know is a problem
37:42
you know we everything we've talked
37:44
about clear out most of those things
37:47
and then if problems persist we can do
37:50
some functional testing i'm going to
37:51
talk about
37:52
you know some of those tests are going
37:54
to look for
37:55
nutrient deficiencies they may look for
37:58
pathogens they may look for
38:00
heavy metal toxicity or toxins and they
38:02
may check for food sensitivities or
38:05
your um tendency to have food tech
38:08
sensitivities may do some genetic
38:11
testing
38:12
which i don't think that's so important
38:14
because the hladq
38:16
where it's going to show a
38:17
predisposition it really is not going to
38:20
change anything we're just going to be
38:21
doing the same
38:22
procedure these tests can also be
38:26
expensive
38:27
and i like to give the body a good
38:28
chance to heal on its own
38:31
save you a lot of unnecessary expense
38:33
but
38:34
the protocol starts like this we begin
38:38
with the four r's and
38:41
for ours man we've we've been doing this
38:43
forever before
38:44
ours for four decades i've been reading
38:47
about this and
38:48
it is the fundamental program that you
38:51
use to help heal
38:53
anything whether it's digestive distress
38:55
and all those
38:56
complications uh balancing out the
38:58
microbes
38:59
it is what i consider a cool tool
39:03
to understand and treat health issues
39:05
and
39:06
reverse a lot of chronic complaints see
39:08
it all the time
39:09
so first and we do this in the following
39:12
order
39:13
the first r in the four r's is you
39:16
remove
39:16
remove all the problems the toxins the
39:19
infections
39:20
you know i use the elimination diet and
39:23
a really in-depth case history
39:25
next thing we do is repair you know you
39:28
may need to add
39:29
some essential nutrients that we'll talk
39:31
about in a minute
39:32
next thing restore that's usually
39:35
probiotics we want to repopulate the gut
39:38
with healthy bacteria to help balance
39:40
things out and then lastly
39:42
replace anything that is missing or
39:44
lacking
39:45
you know think enzymes think nutrients
39:49
okay most important thing though first
39:51
we've got to remove
39:53
the bad that is the most important place
39:56
to start you know drive this home a
39:59
little more
39:59
removing is the fundamental first step
40:03
you've got to remove everything that is
40:05
possibly a problem
40:06
i had somebody ask me recently if you
40:10
know they'd already removed dairy and
40:12
sugar
40:13
do i really need to remove gluten
40:16
i'd like to take responsibility for this
40:18
one but no i can't
40:20
i've heard it and they say okay if
40:22
you're sitting on three tacks
40:24
and you remove one are you all better no
40:27
it still hurts so you got to remove
40:30
everything that's a problem
40:32
and and then that takes the burden away
40:36
and you know some of these other things
40:37
that we need to pesticides
40:39
need to eat organically you don't want
40:41
to have genetically modified food in
40:43
your diet because
40:44
that's going to hurt the diversity of
40:45
the gut microbes you know any
40:47
unnecessary medication
40:49
check with your doctor how about the
40:51
chemical cleaners
40:52
and the yard chemicals we're using how
40:54
about the cosmetics used
40:56
that have the phthalates and the
40:57
parabens so basically you have to think
41:00
air water skin food anything that comes
41:03
in contact
41:04
with your body you might need to be kind
41:06
of a detective here
41:08
but it is so worth digging
41:11
so then the other three after you
41:13
removed all that
41:14
repair restore replace you've got a good
41:17
understanding of what
41:19
you had to remove in the life and in
41:21
your diet and everything
41:22
that could be damaging that and then you
41:25
can add some things
41:26
certain things that are going to enhance
41:28
the repair
41:30
restore and replace phase again to be
41:33
sure that you're beginning at the most
41:35
appropriate repair route for your needs
41:38
you may want to work with somebody who's
41:40
familiar especially if you're really
41:42
symptomatic with this
41:43
but you can do a lot on your own
41:46
now these are not recommendations
41:49
you know everybody is different but
41:52
these
41:53
supplements i'm going to tell you about
41:55
um
41:57
would of course need to be
41:58
individualized but they're common
42:00
supplements that have been proven
42:01
to be helpful in healing the gut process
42:04
so
42:05
you've got the prebiotics sometimes
42:08
certain fibers are really going to
42:09
enhance
42:10
how the probiotics when you take those
42:12
in how they're going to help them grow
42:14
and thrive
42:15
you may need digestive enzymes starting
42:17
with a little hydrochloric acid
42:19
may need other kind of fibers collagen
42:22
is
42:22
really good to heal up the gut and then
42:24
my favorite
42:25
turmeric the extract curcumin bcm 95
42:30
glutamine the amino acid glutamine is
42:33
fabulous to heal up the gut
42:34
and then quercetin suggestions oh my
42:37
gosh they're just so many things
42:39
um however main thing is
42:42
that you shouldn't rely on those
42:45
supplements
42:46
they simply don't work all by themselves
42:49
you have to they're they're part of the
42:51
healing process
42:52
but it really is food first and the goal
42:55
is to be able to sustain that wellness
42:58
on real food rather than just taking a
43:01
whole bunch of pills
43:02
that's a lot of people and you know i
43:05
used to think that you can just throw a
43:07
lot of pills at things but that is not
43:09
the way to go
43:10
most important part of health is
43:12
maintaining it
43:14
even after you've built a really strong
43:15
foundation during the heal
43:17
healing process you know without
43:19
maintaining proper diet and lifestyle
43:21
and stress management long term
43:23
you're going to be right back where you
43:24
started from so
43:26
help is not a destination you know you
43:28
can't think i'm going to be healthy
43:30
it is really a journey we're just
43:33
working on being healthier every day
43:35
and it's all the habits it takes 66 days
43:39
to change habits that's why i do
43:41
90 day programs you know i want to
43:43
support people all the way through
43:45
so you don't fall back in those old
43:47
habits and undo
43:48
all the good things okay some people
43:52
want to just skip the guesswork you know
43:53
they say if you don't test
43:55
you don't know so there are
43:58
a lot of things that we can test for
44:02
and even though it's kind of considered
44:04
a medical mystery
44:05
we know there's a lot of things
44:07
associated with leaky gut
44:09
and a lot of things that we can do so if
44:12
you need help with running tests and you
44:14
want to do that as part of a program
44:16
i think it's important to work with
44:17
somebody familiar with the condition
44:19
and they can run those tests if you feel
44:22
you need those
44:23
so i'm going to tell you about some of
44:24
these tests but
44:27
you know starting with the fundamentals
44:29
honoring
44:30
your uniqueness and if you want to skip
44:34
the guesswork if you're really
44:35
symptomatic you know
44:37
and and if you have a medical dish
44:39
condition please
44:40
work with a medical doctor i am not a
44:43
medical doctor i'm a dietitian i'm a
44:45
doctor of clinical nutrition
44:46
i work with nutrition and professional
44:49
supplements i
44:50
am not there to replace medical needs
44:53
but i have several tests that have been
44:56
really effective
44:57
when the medicine has not even covered
45:00
up the problems
45:01
my favorite is gi effects by
45:04
genova diagnostics and i've toured their
45:08
lab
45:08
i mean it is space age fantastic i've
45:11
been around a long time
45:13
so the gi effects um they they kind of
45:17
made it a little bit easier to
45:18
understand
45:19
these days and they've got this cool
45:21
scoring system
45:22
so it starts with what they call the
45:24
functional imbalance scores that helps
45:27
you kind of target
45:28
the area of therapeutic recommendations
45:31
that you need to target first so
45:33
that's on the front page of the report
45:35
really easy to look at
45:36
so you can prioritize according to
45:39
severity
45:40
and where they're finding the biomarkers
45:43
you know they're grouped
45:44
in five key areas so we talked about
45:48
the mal digestion you know if you're not
45:50
absorbing the nutrients
45:52
if the nutrients are going right on
45:53
through not helping you if you've got a
45:55
lot of inflammation
45:56
it's gonna show that up if you've got
45:58
dysbiosis it measures
46:00
all of the microbes in there so it's
46:02
going to show you dysbiosis
46:04
and metabolite imbalance going to show
46:06
you potentially pathogenic infections
46:08
costs about 500 so but i think
46:12
that a lot of hsas may pay for that
46:16
then standard process just came out with
46:19
this microbiome test kit and it's going
46:22
to provide
46:23
guidance toward a healthier lifestyle
46:25
brand new this week
46:27
i think i just got mine yesterday
46:29
standard process
46:30
is always quality integrity number one
46:33
one of my absolute
46:34
favorite companies it's two-part
46:37
assessment
46:38
it measures with genetic sequencing the
46:40
whole gut microbiome
46:42
and then there is a very complete
46:46
lifestyle questionnaire um i like it so
46:49
it's
46:50
is i think about 150 and i'll let you
46:53
know what i think about when i get my
46:54
results back
46:55
takes about a month to get those results
46:57
back so
46:58
anyway now uh we're going to
47:01
take questions so let me get
47:04
out of here so i can look and see if
47:08
there's
47:09
any in the chat
47:13
okay so
47:16
hey cindy oh i love this one okay
47:20
so the autoimmune protocol diet aip
47:23
diet necessary to heal leaky gut yeah
47:26
absolutely
47:27
that is you know any autoimmune
47:31
we take it a little step further um
47:34
the elimination diet is
47:37
great for 99 of the people
47:40
maybe not quite that much sometimes i
47:42
exaggerate but
47:43
the autoimmune protocol is going to
47:47
remove
47:48
even more things and yeah so if if
47:51
you've got any kind of autoimmune at all
47:54
we want to take it a step further
47:56
and i i would if it were me i'd be doing
47:58
some of the tests
47:59
because that that absolutely is going to
48:00
help fine-tune it i mean i i had one gal
48:03
that um we found potentially pathogenic
48:08
bacteria
48:09
in her gi effects test and when
48:12
she got rid of that her symptoms
48:14
decreased immensely
48:16
because you can imagine if you've got
48:17
potentially pathogenic bacteria in there
48:20
at a high level you're not going to have
48:22
the good commensal ones being able to do
48:24
the job properly so
48:26
um yeah yeah aip diet very good
48:29
somebody somebody's already doing that
48:30
so just in case you don't know what the
48:32
autoimmune protocol is it it
48:35
is eliminating a lot of things that can
48:38
be pro-inflammatory
48:40
you know eggs tomatoes like they say a
48:42
lot of nuts tomatoes all the nightshade
48:44
family
48:45
we do this for a period of time usually
48:47
a month
48:49
and um you know like the
48:53
whole 30 has an autoimmune protocol
48:56
that's a whole 30 is kind of a popular
48:58
30-day diet
48:59
that you know it just goes 30 days and
49:01
then everybody goes off of it and
49:02
i i i like to more encourage healthy
49:05
eating forever
49:07
but anyway so you you take all of those
49:10
out
49:10
and then part of the reintroduction is
49:13
you take
49:13
one food at a time only one food
49:17
and you reintroduce that heavy
49:20
for up to four days and see if you're
49:23
going to have any reaction you have to
49:24
be kind of a detective put your
49:25
little you know inspector dad gadget hat
49:28
on there because
49:29
there may be something rare so up to
49:31
four days
49:32
first day i mean if you get pain or
49:35
something immediately we need that food
49:37
you know can't be eaten that so you
49:39
don't have to go four days in misery you
49:41
can just say okay that food is not for
49:43
me
49:44
but on the fourth day you may just be
49:46
noticing your energy isn't as good
49:48
or you may be noticing you've got brain
49:50
fog or you may be noticing
49:52
a you know just annoying rashes so
49:56
you know that that reintroduction is
49:58
super important
49:59
um oh okay
50:03
then another one amy wants to know ideas
50:06
to replace pesticides
50:07
for yard and spider sprays there
50:10
are a lot of really good things there
50:14
um i have a whole ebook on uh
50:17
different oils you can use for uh
50:20
spider sprays i like pesticide or i like
50:22
that for
50:23
peppermint for the spider spray it's
50:25
really good with a little coconut oil
50:27
you can google some of that but as far
50:30
as pesticides
50:32
there are depending you know there's so
50:34
many different things but
50:36
um years ago we had grubs and there is
50:39
actually a bacteria a friendly little
50:41
bacteria
50:42
you can put in your soil a couple times
50:45
of the year
50:46
spring and fall now would be the time to
50:48
treat grubs where you
50:49
apply this bacteria and it
50:52
starves out those little grubs so i
50:55
really really like that
50:57
there are so many alternatives
51:00
you know they're more work i have to say
51:02
and that's
51:04
one of the things why everybody loves
51:07
the
51:07
pesticides and why they use them forever
51:09
but boy
51:10
the the downside of them is just so
51:14
totally outweighs
51:15
um the benefits when it comes to
51:18
our global health okay so
51:21
then nate do you recommend a tablespoon
51:24
of apple cider vinegar with every meal
51:27
or 30 minutes before to aid digestion
51:30
you know
51:30
so long as it's down there at the same
51:32
time i think it's great
51:34
and i love that apple cider vinegar one
51:37
of the best things there is
51:38
you know decades ago there was this
51:40
thing called jogging in the jug
51:42
that i thought it was just such a scam
51:45
and it was another one of those
51:46
multi-level things that
51:48
you know just comes and goes and it's
51:50
just a you know
51:51
just a scam but then my
51:54
best friend from high school her dad
51:56
came in
51:57
and he said debbie this stuff is great
52:00
my arthritis has gone away and
52:02
you know i don't need to take my
52:03
cholesterol medicine anymore and my
52:05
blood pressure is normal
52:07
that was when i was in my first
52:10
nutrition class that was studying what
52:13
goes on
52:14
in the gut and oh my gosh
52:17
when your gut is working properly when
52:20
your stomach has the acidity
52:22
necessary it is doing so many things
52:26
that sets everything up later in the
52:28
small intestine for good health
52:30
so when it's acid when all that food
52:33
gets to the small intestine
52:35
it makes calcium be absorbed better it
52:38
makes magnesium be absorbed better it
52:40
makes
52:40
iodine be all the minerals are absorbed
52:43
at a different ph
52:44
in your small intestine and then when it
52:46
gets down farther
52:47
it triggers the pancreas to release some
52:51
bicarbonate to alkalize the system
52:53
which is really important when you when
52:55
you're looking at overall
52:56
long-term health but it also triggers
52:59
the cholesterol to be
53:03
digested properly by the go it really
53:07
works with the gallbladder
53:08
and the bile to help emulsify that
53:11
cholesterol
53:12
so yeah i love apple cider vinegar but
53:15
the one thing i really don't like today
53:17
is the gummies i think they should take
53:20
those off
53:21
because when you're eating those gummies
53:24
you're potentially
53:25
etching the enamel of your teeth
53:29
not a good thing you know it's acid
53:30
erosion so if you want to do the gummies
53:32
you better
53:33
be brushing your teeth and flossing
53:35
right afterward
53:36
because gummies have sugar and then
53:38
you're etching that i just think it's
53:40
horrendous
53:41
so my two cents worth nobody asked but
53:45
that's what i think
53:46
okay so i've got a couple other
53:48
questions here
53:50
that a lot of people do not have a
53:53
gallbladder
53:54
and um you know they they feel like you
53:58
really don't need a gallbladder
54:00
so they just easily take it out
54:03
decades ago it only happened to
54:06
older people well not older anymore
54:10
they they kind of called it fat female
54:12
and 40 wasn't very nice but that's what
54:14
the doctors referred it to
54:16
because estrogen plays a big part in it
54:18
and
54:19
insulin resistance that you get with
54:21
overweight and a lot of overweight not
54:23
everybody
54:24
i mean some thin people have insulin
54:25
resistance of course
54:27
but now we're seeing this gallbladder
54:30
removal
54:31
in eight-year-olds nine-year-olds
54:33
because of our crazy standard american
54:36
diet
54:37
so you know when
54:40
we want to protect our gallbladder not
54:42
have it move first
54:44
we want to make sure you've got good
54:45
stomach acid you want to make sure
54:47
you've got a good healthy diet and
54:49
chances are you're never going to have
54:50
gallbladder problems but then
54:52
we have things that we can use to
54:56
really help heal up a gallbladder i mean
54:59
i
55:00
i've known so many people that have
55:02
saved their gallbladder when
55:03
the doctor wanted to take it out but it
55:05
takes a little bit of work
55:07
you've got to get that bile flowing this
55:09
time of year
55:10
is a great time to work with digestives
55:14
that work with thinning the bile
55:16
artichokes
55:17
chicory radishes dandelion
55:22
sometimes if there's a real issue you
55:24
may want to start with
55:25
bile salts maybe the amino acid taurine
55:29
all of those are really good my favorite
55:32
product
55:32
is af beta food it thins that bile
55:36
it takes that inflammation down my dad
55:39
when um gosh i was about nine years old
55:41
and i was a member i was a big
55:43
carbaholic and i was forever making
55:45
brownies
55:46
well my dad's gallbladder ruptured
55:50
he got gangrene so you know lucky to
55:53
live
55:53
but we used af beta food
55:57
to keep the inflammation out of his bile
56:01
duct because he had a lot
56:02
of inflammation there i love af beta
56:05
food it's wonderful
56:06
um some people if they've had
56:09
a lot of like the ilium has been removed
56:12
or part of the pancreas has been removed
56:15
we may
56:16
need to take that a step farther and
56:18
maybe add
56:19
more digestive aids like more
56:22
lipase more more of those digestive
56:27
enhancers
56:28
but maybe always making sure that we've
56:30
got some
56:31
of you know those herbs that
56:35
um you know years ago well we still have
56:37
it it's really popular it's gaining
56:39
popularity now
56:40
it was the swedish bitters that had all
56:42
of these things the radishes and the
56:44
artichokes and everything in there
56:46
really good for that gallbladder the
56:48
bile and all that
56:49
because if your gall bladder is not
56:51
working right your cholesterol is going
56:53
to be more of an
56:54
issue it's going to cause dysbiosis
56:56
farther down
56:58
not good um okay um another question
57:01
here
57:02
um okay
57:05
i'll try to come up with a handout but i
57:08
definitely
57:10
is going to i'm definitely going to make
57:12
sure
57:13
that you get the recording of this okay
57:16
have another one
57:17
um a gal that has
57:20
worked with her diet for a long time
57:23
still craves sugar
57:25
and it takes an hour for her to get
57:28
satisfied from a meal
57:32
you know um sometimes i think testing
57:35
really is helpful especially when you
57:38
have
57:38
done a lot of good things i think we
57:42
still need to
57:42
carry on the good healthy diet but if
57:45
cravings for sugar
57:47
have not been attenuated um i
57:50
i think i would do a um
57:53
maybe a neurotransmitter or maybe test
57:57
the gut microbes
57:58
you know it it's gonna it's gonna be
58:00
expensive
58:02
maybe um we can see if the hsa account
58:05
would pay for some of that i know
58:08
sometimes it will if it's
58:09
deemed you know if doctor signs off on
58:12
it you definitely can
58:14
okay then i had april had a question
58:18
about
58:19
knowing about the diet and the variety
58:21
in terms
58:22
of frequency of foods then how many
58:25
different foods need to be consumed to
58:27
get that flora going
58:29
when i first started doing the gi
58:31
effects test on people
58:34
you know i would look at that test and i
58:36
would see all these things
58:37
that were out of range and i'd want to
58:39
throw this supplement at it and that
58:41
supplement at it
58:42
you know lots of pills and then i would
58:45
call
58:46
the the doctor on staff that works
58:50
only with gi health and they would say
58:54
you know that's not getting at the root
58:56
cause you can't
58:58
can't rely on that we need to check
59:02
on changing we need to change the gut
59:04
microbes
59:05
only way to do that is by feeding them
59:09
and prebiotic fibers
59:12
a lot of vegetables a lot of different
59:14
kinds of vegetables
59:16
that fiber is actually
59:20
going to produce the butyrate in the
59:23
large intestine
59:24
that then heals up the gut lining and it
59:28
feeds the good microbes it starves out
59:32
the bad ones you know we talked last
59:35
month
59:35
how when you eat certain foods
59:38
and sugars it feeds those gut microbes
59:42
that love sugar and they're telling your
59:44
brain to eat more of them
59:46
when you eat more of those vegetables
59:49
you're going to be starving out of the
59:50
firmacuties
59:52
and really nourishing the bacteroidetes
59:55
and those are the ones that are so
59:58
healthy
59:58
so anti-inflammatory they're they're
1:00:02
going to be the ones
1:00:03
that are going to affect good moods
1:00:06
energy detoxification and
1:00:09
everything everything that we're wanting
1:00:11
to achieve for health vitality and
1:00:13
longevity
1:00:14
you've got to have the all those
1:00:16
microbes fed by the vegetables so
1:00:19
some people if their gut is way too
1:00:22
inflamed
1:00:23
initially to handle
1:00:26
vegetables then i say cook them you know
1:00:29
just make
1:00:30
vegetable soup that is still going to
1:00:34
have
1:00:34
those vegetables in there that will
1:00:36
ferment and be able to nourish the gut
1:00:39
lining
1:00:40
then as the gut gets a little healthier
1:00:42
maybe add a little glutamine
1:00:43
maybe add some of the medical foods in
1:00:46
there that i use with my
1:00:48
professional companies we can heal up
1:00:50
that gut a lot faster
1:00:52
so that then they can get back on some
1:00:54
of the healthy vegetables
1:00:56
okay well we have gone over an hour
1:01:00
and if you have any other questions just
1:01:03
go ahead and email them to me
1:01:05
i will definitely respond i um
1:01:09
i really appreciate you guys all being
1:01:11
on here it was wonderful i
1:01:13
i love having people on here that
1:01:16
with me share this as my passion you
1:01:19
know when
1:01:20
america spends more twice as much as any
1:01:23
other country
1:01:25
even the next closest we're spending
1:01:26
twice as much on health care
1:01:29
and yet we rank 35th or less
1:01:32
in our overall health we got to change
1:01:36
that
1:01:36
you know it's just not fair to america
1:01:40
to be
1:01:41
be so sick you know when it's in our
1:01:44
power
1:01:45
to really change and sometimes we just
1:01:47
have to
1:01:48
uh vote with our dollars buying the
1:01:51
healthy foods
1:01:53
and and taking better care of ourselves
1:01:55
okay all righty so
1:01:57
um it's been my pleasure thank you so
1:02:00
much
1:02:01
and we will talk soon
1:02:04
all right take care everybody thanks
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The Leaky Gut Solution
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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May 11, 2021
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Hippocrates said- ”All disease begins in the gut”- 2,500 years later, we have come full circle. The gut interacts with every system in your body and let's heal the gut!