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Welcome to the full fuel podcast, your hosts, Matt Tag and Alfred Lesley.
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What's up, brother?
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What's going on, man?
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Let's, let's dig right in, man.
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Let's go, man.
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Yeah.
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So think we left off last time kind of preembling what we're gonna talk about today.
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Love to get into, like, some gut health topics, man, and kind of why that's so important for
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people.
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Yeah.
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I think it's a it's been a buzzword for a while now.
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You know, your gut health might provide on, like, particular biotics, like, all that, but
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there's a lot of misinformation too.
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Right?
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So unpacking a little bit of that, man, and kind of, I think simplifying it is the biggest
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thing, you know, because because people get lost in the the info, and then that causes
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decision fatigue or, like, freeze.
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And people are like, I was gonna do this, but now I don't even I'm just gonna keep living my
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life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Things gotta have
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Yeah.
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So, you know, the the the big thing, man, is like, your gut is your immune system.
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Right?
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If you don't have good gut health,
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you are not gonna have a properly functioning immune system.
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It's just that they just are linked.
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The original statistic was 80% of your immune system lives in the gut.
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It's actually more than that.
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I think it's showing it's, like, closer, like, by, like, 90%.
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Mhmm.
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We have this gut associated lymphoid tissue called the GALT.
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We have your microbiome, which is comprised of millions of colonies of bacteria.
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And most people hear that and they're like bacteria.
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Bacteria might be like, yes.
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You should.
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Alright.
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They're good guys, though.
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Right?
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And there's you should have, like, small amounts of some bad bacteria too.
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They kinda feed off of each other, and that allows your body to basically be, like, ready
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for invaders.
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You know what I mean?
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So your body's always kind of, like, on the defense, if you will.
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But I mean, what what are let me ask you this.
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What are some of the biggest things you hear or, I guess, questions around, like, gut
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health?
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That the modern person probably has no idea.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's me.
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You you dive into the the deep research
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you know, as you should from a doctor's standpoint, then it's like me that, hey.
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I I wanna feel better on a day to day basis.
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Like, I wanna operate at a very, very high level.
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And, you know, there's I'm working with a few clients right now that I was, like, get into
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the momentum of, like, exercising because exercise, obviously, Peller.
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I think it's that that's what, you you know, kicks things in gear.
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Yeah.
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But the second thing, but really the first thing you focus on, and they're like
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simultaneously, is then the gut.
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It's not even necessarily like your focus of your diet, but you have to have an
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understanding of, like, what is going on that creates a feeling.
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Right?
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And the gut create produces all the feeling.
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Right?
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You could operate alignment, which I'm sure will tap into a little bit later.
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But, you know, for the for me, it's just the the propeller is just like that that activation
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of movement.
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And then what's what then is the gut?
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Like, what is it?
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And you you explained it at a very rudimentary level too as far as what is compromised.
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And then specifically, they got microbiome.
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Yeah.
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And then, you know, as GM quick says, like, your gut is technically your first brain.
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Like, that's what creates all the emotion Right.
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In your body.
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Like, that's gonna dictate how you feel that day.
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And so, like, if your guts, like, off, you're probably gonna feel a little crummy that day,
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and then your attitude probably is, you know, I mean, you could you can dictate that and
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maneuver that a little bit, but, like, your attitude's probably gonna be like, man, I just
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I'm I'm not feeling it today.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And you can't even, like, verbalize it.
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You just something's off.
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You know what it is.
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And I'm glad you said that the gut brain axis, because it's a two way street.
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Right?
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It's not
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just like one influences the other.
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It's back and forth.
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Mhmm.
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So, like, it is synergy.
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You know, a lot of your your positive neurotransmitters from producing the gut, like
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serotonin, dopamine, that kind of stuff Yeah.
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Produced by the colonies of bacteria.
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Right?
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So they digest food.
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They break down food, and they use metabolites to then create those ones or those,
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neurotransmitters.
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Vise versa, you know, and I see this a lot with patients who come in with really high stress.
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Right?
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They're grinding 9 to 5 and their kids at home and their levels are just 10, 10, all the time.
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The levels here.
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And they're like, why do I have diarrhea all the time?
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Why do I have these this, like, feeling of, like, like, like, an uneasy feeling in their
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gut all the time.
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It's, you know, a traditional doctor is gonna just say, oh, you have IBS take this
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medication.
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Like, you know, what's causing that.
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Right?
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IBS is like a psychosomatic thing.
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It's basically your stress levels and and your body being this elevated stress stay for so
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long, disrupts the gut.
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Right?
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And that's what leads to those.
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Like, I'm not to grab my hands.
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I'm so nervous.
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Kind of feeling it.
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You know what I mean?
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But you can't just slap medicine on top of that because you're not really fixing the problem.
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So that's where a lot of what I do is, like, a lot of, like, de stressing and, you know,
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focusing on bouncing the adrenals and hormones and stuff like that.
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But, the biggest thing with that, and and I think what most people don't realize is There's
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this thing.
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There's a, a condition called leaky gut.
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And I'd say, like, 20 years ago was, like, not even talked about.
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Maybe there were some, like, natural doctors.
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Before you segue completely into that, because I know we're gonna be going down Yeah.
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That rabbit trail.
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There is, like, one of the big things for me and maybe kinda gross, but, like, a quick
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measuring tool, you were saying, hey.
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Why do I have diarrhea?
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That is, like, something you should be measuring.
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Right?
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The Bristol chart Yeah.
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It shows you what what you what your poop should look like.
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Right?
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And so when you, like, quit Google search.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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And so and what your urine should look like in that color variation of, like, what a healthy
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potentially gut looks like.
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Yeah.
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Now it is gonna vary day to day because there's certain things that you're gonna eat, but at
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the same consistently, if you measured something in a week time frame, you will
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utilize that as a guy because that's a big guy, but then Alright.
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Now, like, going into the leaky gut, you know, though, that's a measuring tool.
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Now how do you fix something like that with high stress?
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Yeah.
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And and I'm glad you said that because, like, a lot of people, what they think is normal is not
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normal.
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Yeah.
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Like, what's normal?
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I just have diarrhea at 10 times a day.
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Like, that for him.
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That was normal.
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Yeah.
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And I was like, dude, like, I'm sorry that you've been my strength.
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Like, I felt terrible, man, because, like, the mainstream doctors had, kinda let him down the
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wrong path.
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Yeah.
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I mean, oh, alright.
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Yeah.
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We can cut that out.
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We can keep going.
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We can throw some stuff.
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That guy on it.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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And, like, so the mainstream doctors have basically led this guy down the like, oh,
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that's just so good.
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Like, here that they put them on all kinds of, like acid blocking, like, stomach things Yeah.
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And
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so I think maybe let's let's break down real quick.
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I can do just, this is, like, what I tell my patients, how your gut works or how it works.
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Right?
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You eat food, most people don't chew their food enough.
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Right?
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And you have salivary amylase is, an enzyme that's in your saliva that is meant to break
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down proteins and kind of pre digest them.
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Because when they hit the gut, they're ready to go.
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I'm co I'm cooperative to this too.
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I just gotta just juggle it in, road, and you know, why I feel so cool is because you didn't
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actually chew your food.
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Yeah.
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And so chewing your food, making sure that that you're getting those enzymes to pre break down
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those, those molecules.
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Then when it gets to the the stomach Right?
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How many how many times should you be chewing?
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I heard 14 to 16 times, and and I think that might even be a fast
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pace.
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Yeah.
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I think I think it's honestly more of, like, a time.
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I've gotta say, it'll be, like, 30 seconds to him, and it is, like, how long you should,
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like, choose something.
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That's a long time.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And it's, like, when you people that they're like, what?
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Like, I would be eating for an hour, which is kinda like how our ancestors used to eat.
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They were, like, rushing to go to work.
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They weren't rushing somewhere.
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They just a kill.
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They killed a
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deer or something.
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They cooked in.
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It was like, let's go.
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Yeah.
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They sat around the fire for hours, who's 8.
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You know what I mean?
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And that's like, Kyle was meant to be at Yeah.
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We're supposed to to really, like, like, get him with with that moment of unity.
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Right?
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It's such a good dopamine release when you can be, like, kinda one with your like that.
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Environment, man.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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But nowadays, it's TV's on.
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We're just shoveling it in to get to the next thing, get to work.
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That's right.
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We're, like, driving or something.
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Like, so, yeah, so we've gotten away from that because that's the first step, man.
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Then when it gets to your stomach, which really technically isn't even the gut, right, your
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stomach is a is a separate entity before you're good.
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You should have the the hydrochloric acid, which is gonna break down that food even
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further, right, like, get it ready.
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That makes it more of like a with that when it goes into the small intestine, which is more of
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a sterile environment, really.
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You don't have a ton of bacteria in your small intestine.
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It's more like, a, like, a transfer tube, but to get you to the large intestine where a lot
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of that absorption happens.
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Yeah.
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Large intestine is where your colonies of, microbiota is is more is, higher.
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Food is still processing through there.
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Like, it's a it's a filtration system.
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It's a small intestine, of extracting certain things before it gets to your gut.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then the large intestines, we're gonna have a lot of that absorption, right?
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Okay.
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It's also where people get a lot of their issues because, like, things like Crohn's
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disease and ulcerative colitis happen in the large intestine.
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Because a lot of times people have so many toxins in the food that your body's not
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absorbing and they're just hanging out It creates inflammation.
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It creates this kind of stress on that that tissue.
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And then, obviously, you can scrape the food, right?
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But, like, the the microbiome should be heavily colonized in the large intestine.
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Now there's something called sibo, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth.
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It's something I see a lot where, you know, people have they're not fully absorbing that
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food and large intestine, and it back tracks a little bit into the small intestine.
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And then you get an overgrowth, right, that's what the more means Cboe, an overgrowth of
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bacteria in your small intestine.
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Which can look like loading, right, couple hours after a meal, you get, like, serious
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bloating Yeah.
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Like indigestion feeling.
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And I always like to differentiate the tube is actually on the the topic we're gonna talk
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about today.
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So I'll just get to it.
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Mhmm.
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Sebo or, like, gut bloating versus, like, stomach bloating.
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Right?
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So if you something and, like, right away or, like, within, like, 10, 15 minutes, you're
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getting bloating.
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That's more like a, stomach acid bubble.
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Like, right?
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Like, the first area that it goes to is is not break sit down Yeah.
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That food start to, like, ferment and create gas and stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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Versus 2 hours later, I have bloodied.
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Right?
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So I always ask that.
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Like, when does it load it after, right, after, or later from the meal, even 2 or 3 hours,
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right, depends on a person's transit time.
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But, if that food's just sitting in the small intestine, and there's an overgrowth bacteria,
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and it's creating that kind of, like, fermenting.
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Think of just like something sitting.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Right.
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If you came.
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Yeah.
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That's what's happening.
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Got it.
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Inside your body.
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Right?
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So the little personal we were talking earlier about, like, hey, I eat, I eat something, and
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then usually, like, pretty soon I'm going
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to the bathroom.
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Yeah.
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After.
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Yeah.
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That's good, man.
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That means your body's like working.
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It's pushing things out.
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It's like, alright, we got some new stuff in here.
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Let's get the other stuff out.
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Yeah.
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You know, as opposed to people who are like, I feel like every 3 days.
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Yeah.
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Like, dude, you've got you got stuff backing up in there.
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Right?
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And what is happening with that?
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Your body's gonna start reabsorbing some of that.
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Right?
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That's that's when you get some issues.
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Yeah.
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That's like a, that's when inflammation occurs in the body.
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That's when your body is like, it's almost an elongated version, version of septic.
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In a way.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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It's
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a low drip.
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Yeah.
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Like a Yeah.
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Exactly a slow drip.
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That's kinda disgusting to think about when you don't even realize it.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's got you're backed up.
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Yeah.
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It's good to be processing through those.
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And then again, check out the bristle chart because you should be measuring you should be
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taking a peek at your poop.
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Yeah.
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Is it just a mud pie?
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Yeah.
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Is it is it like a complete brick coming out?
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That's not good either.
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Yeah.
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You want it a little bit more softer in nature, a lot but held together.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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You have, like,
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a solid piece that's, like, sausage shapes.
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I mean, we can get
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into it.
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Yeah.
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Just look at the jar.
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Just like I could talk about loop shit too.
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Right?
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As much as that would be funny.
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Yeah.
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But, leaky got the big thing because that, just number 1, and there it, like, is word of an
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anti inflammatory for the body?
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It just naturally it's inflaming the body.
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And you're just you're not feeling good.
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Like, I mean, you're like something's off.
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But a lot of people push through that.
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Yeah.
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And what's crazy about it is like you, you're healthier, you still had leaky gut.
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Yeah.
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So you could be super you could I outward.
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Yeah.
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Thinking that you're super healthy.
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Right.
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And then you're like, man, something's off, and it was gut you you're gut telling you
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ultimately.
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And then, you had you have a you're a really cool process.
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They you went through in order to carriers and share that story.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, mine was more of a stress related thing.
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It was just high levels of stress that was constant kind of like IVF symptoms, and then I
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was just putting stress on my gut to the point that so essentially what leaky gut is, I use
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analogy of kind of like a fence, right, like, thinking of, like, a, like, a fence with, like,
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vertical bars around a playground or something.
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And, you know, obviously a human can't get through it.
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Yeah.
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A soccer ball can't get through it.
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But a tennis ball, you throw it, it'll go through.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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So that's what your gut should be like.
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It be selectively permeable as the term.
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Right?
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It should allow certain things in Oh, no.
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What?
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Small pains of amino acids, right, not full protein.
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Yeah.
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Mic micronutrients, small, macronutrients, like fats and and carbohydrates.
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But it shouldn't let undudges and proteins through, right, like, the soccer ball or like a
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person running at that game.
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Now leaky gut is when, say, like, those bars get stretched apart, right, and they're they're
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open now.
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The or things are getting through.
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And that's because of inflammation, damage, whether that's from toxins, right, things that
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are are straight on the kinda like we talked about thinking episode 1, right, like the
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glyphosate and those pesticides.
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Yeah.
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Very inflammatory on the gut.
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Food sensitivities, right, if someone has, like, an born kind of like sensitivity to eggs
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or dairy or something like that, will inflame the gut as well and the way they got it, you
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know, inflammation does damage, right, the same way you get a cut.
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It turns red, and and it's, it hurts.
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It swells up.
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Same thing happens with our gut, but it breaks down those tight junctions between the cells.
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Gotcha.
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And that's like opening that that gate or that fence.
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Now people are breaking through, right, or or larger things are passing through into the
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blood.
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What happens is when those larger molecules pass into the bloodstream, the body has to do
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something with that.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Our body sees that as an invader, right, so there's this thing called molecular mimicry
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where basically your body sees, say, like, an undigested protein similar structure and makeup
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to thyroid tissue.
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Right?
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So your body is attacking that, attacking that, attacking that.
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Now it starts attacking your thyroid because they look the same.
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Body's gonna always just go towards what it thinks is a foreign matter.
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That's kinda what happened to me.
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Basically, I was developing antibodies against my own thyroid.
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So I had, like, an autoimmune direct condition called Hashimoto's.
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What I did what I did was started taking a bunch of direct stuff, thinking like, no,
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that's gonna be the solve.
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It wasn't because it was coming from the gutted sheet.
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Right?
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Okay.
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It's like we gotta, like, dig deep, man, to get to the root cause of the problem.
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Yeah.
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A lot of times, it is auto things are governance.
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Right?
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It's like, what's the first thing is what we put into our body.
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Right?
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That's like always the the first question that should be asked.
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Yeah.
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That is ever asked at your mainstream primary care doctors.
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Right?
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Like Yeah.
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Right.
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Like, oh, I have this rheumatoid arthritis.
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I'll hear some medicine for you.
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Or here's let's get you on this pro call of managing your symptoms versus no, why do you
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have rheumatoid arthritis?
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Why is your body attacking its synovial tissue in the joints?
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Right, on a broad scale.
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Yeah.
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That's the question I ask.
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It's like, why?
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Take it down.
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Why?
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Take down.
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Why?
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Keep going until you find the culprit, which a lot of times is some kind gut related issues.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty interesting.
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I didn't realize that the gut is, like, almost that, you know, it still goes to the largest,
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small intestine.
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Gets to the gut, but that's where the dispersion of the micronutrients happens, kind
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of, to the rest of the body into the cell Yeah.
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That then goes through your circulatory system.
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It is essentially feeding the rest of the body.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Like you said earlier, it's kinda like the, the filter or, like, your that that selective
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permeability concept is, like, it picks and chooses.
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Yeah.
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It should get through.
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Right?
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The healthy gut's gonna allow, you know, what needs to get through nutrients, smaller mean,
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acids, micronutrients, all that stuff, and not the bigger undigested things that it's gonna
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then excrete.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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And that's when everything's kinda working in these things.
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Synergy.
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So then I know it probably varies, may maybe a little bit across the board in terms of a
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client that comes into your office.
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Like, you you diagnose them.
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They have leak leaky gut.
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You then are asking the why, but then what is a what a 3 things that you essentially do maybe
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on the front side of that as protocol Yeah.
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To say, hey, these are the next steps in order of what we're gonna because they could be
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stressed.
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It it might actually not be Yeah.
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Either.
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It might be actually their eating patterns.
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What what are
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those maybe top 3 things?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So depending on what the cause is, I always like to have some definite proof, you know,
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like, I can make a hypothesis or, like, a diagnosis based on their symptoms.
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Yeah.
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But I'm gonna run some labs to make sure.
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Right?
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So there's a a lab I use is specifically for leaky gut.
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It's basically testing anti zonulin, which Xonulin is the protein that holds those cells
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together, the type junctions they're called.
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If you have a lot of an anti zonulin, high anti zone unit score, it means that that zone is
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being broken down.
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That that barrier is being, more permeate Right?
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So allowing things to get in, that is leaky gut.
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Yeah.
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And so I'd like to see, something like that first.
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Maybe a stool test if their symptoms are bad enough.
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Mhmm.
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And then a food sensitivity test is huge because that's like, hey, how do we get rid of
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the bad guys that are causing us?
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So when it comes to doing what we call, like, a heal and seal, right, in a heal, the gut, and
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seal those type junctions, you gotta get rid of the the the guys first.
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So if it's eggs, we gotta we gotta cut eggs completely.
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Doesn't mean you can never have eggs in the future.
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Right?
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We can heal it and get your body back to be able to to process those.
00:18:48
Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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00:19:14
Sensitivities.
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It's not like a food allergy.
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So We just present with my girls, actually.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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Yeah.
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So we had a analogy.
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There was a just a couple of things that we wanted to take a look at, but I didn't I didn't
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realize that you can Yeah.
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You can actually remove those.
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You have a sense?
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Yeah.
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It takes time.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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It's it's, and, like, diligence.
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Right?
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So you're probably gonna be avoiding for 6 months to a year, you know, 6 months is is
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doable for sure on that.
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But, you know, usually it's like, hey, let's just stay off these for a year.
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You rerun that food sensitivity test.
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Okay.
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And then if the the score should be going down, right, basically your body should be not
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letting those things into the blood.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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So, yeah, what, you know, honestly, and it's cool that we're, like, gonna be tracking
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through some of the points I wanna talk about, but the biggest thing, man, is, taking the
00:20:02
stress off the gut to let it heal.
00:20:04
Yeah.
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So most patients come in with a leaky gut or some kind of dysbiosis, we're gonna do, like, a
00:20:09
fat theme kind of protocol, and some fasting, mixing with, like, like, smoothies as opposed
00:20:15
to full meals.
00:20:16
Right?
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So do, like, shakes and stuff like that because it's easier on your gut.
00:20:20
Right?
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It's already kind of pre digested.
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It's not putting stress on the gut to have to break that food down.
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But you can still get the nutrients you need.
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Right?
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And it's all good stuff.
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We have a lot of herbs, a lot of, enzymes and detox kind of factors to help, the body pain
00:20:35
while it's healing, you know, and and I'd say it takes a good 3 to 6 months for something to
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really, like, heal that up.
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Think of it like an injury, but it's an injury that's probably been going on for a long time.
00:20:46
Yeah.
00:20:46
Yeah.
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It's a salt after a salt after a salt.
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And it depends on the person and the severity of their symptoms.
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Yeah.
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But huge.
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Yeah.
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I think that from what what you were saying to that was something I would like to build on in
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terms of, like, phytonutrients, but that's it.
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That was when I was conceptualizing even nutritious, of how can you how can it be most
00:21:10
optimal, but less evasive on the body.
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Yeah.
00:21:13
Right?
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And so how do you get something a little bit more quick and efficient, where it's, like,
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these ultra processed foods or something that you're putting in your body over and over and
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over and over.
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End.
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I mean, I come from a family that loves stacking.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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And so you're putting all these, like, foreign starches in there, these all these galutins.
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2 of my daughters have gluten allergies that we found out that then, or, you know, that
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naturally is gonna impact your gut, like, over time.
00:21:40
Right?
00:21:40
Yeah.
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Because there's so we we got some blood work done.
00:21:45
But one of the big things, even for me, you say going into a fasted state, that's been huge for
00:21:51
me in protecting my gut, healing that up over time, is, going into a fasted state and then
00:21:57
putting coming out of my fast with less evasive type.
00:22:02
Yeah.
00:22:03
Micronutrients.
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You know, I still put some micronutrients on my body out of a fast, but I wanna put, you know,
00:22:09
some vital nutrients, but something that allows me to ease my way out of that fast.
00:22:14
And then into a more macronutrient, you know, high protein dense state.
00:22:20
So talk about like phytonutrients to in terms of that healing, like, your gut, like, what are
00:22:27
what are some of the things that you're putting in this movie?
00:22:30
Yeah.
00:22:30
So I mean, they just yeah.
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You know, you wanna avoid, like, a lot of sugars and processed stuff.
00:22:34
So I have a few different recipes that I I will give out to my patients.
00:22:38
I guess one man is things like like blueberry Right?
00:22:40
They have a ton of antioxidants and carbohydrates that are, like, anti oxidant.
00:22:45
Right?
00:22:45
They're gonna scavenge
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up the, scavenge up those free
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radicals that are causing damage.
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Salt on the body.
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So things like that.
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I use a lot of detox shakes that I I use from a couple different brands, but they it's
00:22:58
basically a formula I I only use good quality stuff too.
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I might just grab something off Amazon.
00:23:03
Yeah.
00:23:03
Yeah.
00:23:03
You know, formulated to be easy, but also give your body what it needs to continue while while
00:23:10
on this kind of process or, you know, because the biggest thing with, like, fasting and and
00:23:14
being on, like, a smoothie diet is, like, people feel kinda crappy.
00:23:17
Yeah.
00:23:17
You know, you're not gonna be a little bit hungry.
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But if you're getting stuff into your body, that allows you to keep moving, right, all the
00:23:23
vitamins, minerals, everything like that.
00:23:24
Yeah,
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to say something about that.
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You say a little bit hungry.
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That's something that I've been doing for a couple of years now is, like, not eating the
00:23:36
whole plate.
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Right?
00:23:37
Yeah.
00:23:37
And there's a I was watching this documentary on these blue zones living to 100 and then this
00:23:42
guy, like, went and studied Blue zones.
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And in Japan, I believe it was it was a small island.
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I don't remember the exact name, but they had a motto of 80% full stop at 80%.
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And so it's okay to be a little bit hungry.
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That's one of those things is, like, the American culture is, like, eat till you're to
00:24:02
the brim, right, which puts a lot of stress on your
00:24:07
gut.
00:24:07
Right.
00:24:07
Because it's not, like, your body is only meant for a certain amount.
00:24:11
Right?
00:24:11
Yeah.
00:24:12
And, so, like, to say that, that's okay to be a little hungry.
00:24:16
Yeah.
00:24:17
Yeah.
00:24:17
I
00:24:17
am usually a little bit all the time.
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All it does, you know, it's fine.
00:24:22
Exactly.
00:24:23
I'm not hangry, but I'm also, like, right now, I could eat something.
00:24:26
I definitely could eat something right now.
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Should probably and then I could probably smash it out.
00:24:31
I mean, a lot of
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that's, like, am I hungry or am I just bored?
00:24:35
That's right.
00:24:36
And when we're bored and there's nothing to do, like, we kind of, like, defer to, like, bless
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you.
00:24:40
Yeah.
00:24:40
Right?
00:24:40
Like, it's, like, it's, like, part of the culture, man.
00:24:43
Yeah.
00:24:43
Safety.
00:24:44
Right?
00:24:44
Like, when am I gonna have my next meal?
00:24:45
I should just eat now because I
00:24:47
don't know.
00:24:47
Okay to to be a little hungry.
00:24:49
I love that.
00:24:50
And that's the whole thing with fasting, which we're gonna actually get into next episode and
00:24:53
dig in because I know you do fasting.
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I I fast.
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Almost daily.
00:24:57
Mhmm.
00:24:57
It gives you that reset.
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It's like a gut reset.
00:24:59
You know what I mean?
00:25:00
You're you're imagine if you just were doing buy some pros all day, Oh, they're long.
00:25:05
You're just curling.
00:25:06
It's stress.
00:25:07
You're by sucking up the air.
00:25:08
Yeah.
00:25:08
And then you're not gonna be able to.
00:25:10
Right?
00:25:10
Your gut needs a break too.
00:25:12
Right?
00:25:12
It's got muscle tissue.
00:25:13
It has tissue that needs to rest.
00:25:15
Right?
00:25:15
It's always if it's always working and there's energy being put into that system to break down
00:25:19
if you break down through the all day long, of course, it's gonna be stressed.
00:25:21
And, of course, you're gonna have Right?
00:25:23
It needs to take a break.
00:25:25
So fasting is a great way to kinda hit a reset button.
00:25:28
Let your your body kinda clear out the bad stuff.
00:25:31
Like, hey, let's get rid of this.
00:25:32
Can be ready for the next meal.
00:25:34
Right?
00:25:34
Yeah.
00:25:34
Yeah.
00:25:34
That's such a good example.
00:25:36
And as we wrap up this episode up, like, we only visibly can see our external.
00:25:42
Right?
00:25:42
Yep.
00:25:43
And, yeah, if we're freaking racking, the squat, you know, nonstop.
00:25:49
Like, nonstop ordering it out.
00:25:51
Yeah.
00:25:51
Nonstop doing bicep curls.
00:25:53
Like, we'd never leave the gym.
00:25:54
Like, that's what you're essentially doing your body when you're Yeah.
00:25:57
You're eating 4 to five times a day.
00:26:00
And by eating 4 to five times a day, you don't think, oh, well, my major meal groups are
00:26:05
breakfast, lunch, a dinner.
00:26:06
Well, all those snacks you put in between, still making your gut work out you know, all
00:26:12
these things of, like, no, actually, until you get to the point of bed, you're still making.
00:26:16
And then when you go to sleep, You're probably not getting the most optimized sleep, which
00:26:20
that's gonna be another episode that we're gonna be talking about sleep.
00:26:23
Yeah.
00:26:23
Where The whole season.
00:26:25
You actually wanna fast, you know, 3, 4, maybe even 5 hours before you fall asleep, yeah, to
00:26:31
get the most optimized sleep so that your gut is, like, not overworked.
00:26:35
Before you go into a Nocturnal state era, a sleeping state.
00:26:39
Yeah.
00:26:39
So and I'm I'm glad you brought up the snacks, right, because, like, that's a big thing is
00:26:42
people are like, woah, before I I'm people are snacking, right, if they can get their hands
00:26:46
on.
00:26:46
So I've been using the nutritious with my patients who are doing some kind of a diet
00:26:52
modification.
00:26:53
Yeah.
00:26:53
And they ask about what are the snacking options and most people turn to nuts and stuff
00:26:57
like that, which again, like, it's it's a a harder food that your body has to process and
00:27:02
break down.
00:27:02
So I've been using the the packs, the, nutritious pouches, because it's a smoothie.
00:27:08
Filled great stuff, right, and the accents you got mushrooms, which are good for gut, brain,
00:27:13
all of that, everything we just talked about, and it gets people through that midday,
00:27:18
whatever, that they need to get to their next meal.
00:27:20
You know?
00:27:21
But then also, like, keeping you a little bit hungry.
00:27:23
Right?
00:27:23
You're still a little and when you're also here, you work better.
00:27:26
Right.
00:27:26
You want your your more optimized.
00:27:28
Yeah.
00:27:28
Yeah.
00:27:29
So it's like a big thing of just, almost keeping in mind.
00:27:32
I love that, you know, if you have any, say, 80% full.
00:27:35
Like, 80%.
00:27:36
You don't need to max yourself out.
00:27:38
Well, I would challenge anyone to go eat a huge bacon eggs toast breakfast.
00:27:43
Yeah.
00:27:44
Go try to focus on your your work.
00:27:46
Not or fast in the morning, maybe have a little coffee, maybe have just water with some some
00:27:51
lemon or some salt
00:27:51
in it Yeah.
00:27:52
And work.
00:27:53
Where's your brain gonna be working better?
00:27:54
It's when you're fasting.
00:27:55
Right.
00:27:55
Because now most of your energy can go up there.
00:27:57
You got blood flow to the brain, know, I'd like to copy and take a nice little hack to get you
00:28:01
to the fastest Yeah.
00:28:02
It's a neutral, but,
00:28:02
yeah, you're not having to divert as much energy to processing that massive revenues, you
00:28:06
say.
00:28:07
Cool.
00:28:08
Dude, it's phenomenal.
00:28:10
Love it.
00:28:10
Yeah.
00:28:11
Really quality stuff.
00:28:12
I think a lot of takeaways there too.
00:28:13
Yeah.
00:28:13
We see it.
00:28:14
And then just you giving a lot of basic understanding of what things look like.
00:28:19
I think that was that was huge.
00:28:21
What are we what
00:28:22
are we talking about next episode?
00:28:23
Next episode, we're gonna dig in a little bit more to fasting think, kinda like how to do it,
00:28:28
how to start for people who are maybe below timid or or scared at the super month.
00:28:33
Yeah.
00:28:33
And some of the benefits Yeah.
00:28:35
Let's do
00:28:35
it.
00:28:35
Alright, man.
00:28:36
Well, we out at 4 field.
00:28:38
Let's get it, babe.