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(0:00) Introduction to gut health and detoxing (2:15) Misconceptions and benefits of an annual detox (5:43) Detox 360 program at Ascend Functional Health (7:34) The importance of gut function in health maintenance (9:33) Closing remarks and call to action00:00:00
Your gut is not just a food tube that you could just throw things down.
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It is a massive part of your view of your immune system, a regulatory of inflammation,
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and what's going on in the body.
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Usually, the cool thing about your gut is actually has nerve endings, up through your
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spinal cord, through your central nervous system that is constantly feeding your brain.
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So it's a controller of mood and mental health.
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It is a key player in hormone balances, and it's the foundation of long term health.
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So if you wouldn't your car for years without an oil change, why would you expect your gut to
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function without a reset?
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Welcome to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Welcome back to Health Decoded with your host, Matt Tack.
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And today's episode is gonna be another solo one, but this topic is something I feel
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incredibly strong about.
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If there's one thing most people completely overlooks when it comes to your health, it's
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detoxing the gut.
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We spend so much time talking about workouts, supplements, hormones, peptides, biohacking,
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but very few people ever stop and ask, have I actually given my gut a chance to rest, reset,
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and heal?
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Honestly, the answer for most people is no.
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Today, I want to talk about why an annual detox is your lifeline, and ideally two times a year,
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but an annual one for sure, how your gut gets overwhelmed throughout the year, and why
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extreme detoxes and water fasts only are not the answer, and how we can do this safely,
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effectively with our actually our Detox 60 program at Ascend Functional Health.
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So this episode isn't about punishment, it's about recovery.
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So again, let's decode it.
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The gut, the most abused organ in the body, and let me start with a simple truth here.
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Your gut is one of the hardest working and most abused systems in your body.
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Think about this.
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The average American eats roughly about 1 to 2 pounds of food every year.
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That's nearly a ton of food every single year.
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Literally a ton.
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No pun there.
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Now add this in.
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The average American has roughly about one bowel movement per day on average.
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So year after year, decade after decade, every single day, you are adding unhealthy and
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healthy foods to your body.
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So feeding good and gut, good, good and bad gut bacteria.
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So naturally, there's just there's microbiomes entering your body and exiting your body on a
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daily basis.
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So introducing chemicals, preservatives, alcohol, sugar, stress hormones, medications,
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and toxins.
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And guess what?
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That all compounds.
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Yet, most people never pause long enough to say, Maybe my gut needs a break.
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So why don't most people ever detox?
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Question is, you should, but the answer to that question is you should.
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But here's the problem, most people associate detox with insane water fast only, starving
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themselves to death, feeling miserable, or doing something that is super extreme that's
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just absolutely not sustainable.
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And I'll say this very clearly, you do not need to nearly kill yourself to heal your gut.
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In fact, detoxes often stress the body more, raise your cortisol levels, and make gut
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healing harder and definitely not easier.
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So what the gut actually needs is reduced inflammatory input, meaning just a rest, a
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break, targeted nutritional support, and then time to repair the gut lining, rebalancing of
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that gut microbiome, and then just overall consistency.
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That's really it.
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And healing doesn't require suffering.
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It requires a good amount of strategy and discipline.
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So, let me talk about why an annual or biannual detox is essential.
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So ideally, detoxing should be done at least once a year, and even better twice a year.
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We typically recommend once at the beginning of the year and then right before the holidays is
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actually a great time to detox.
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Why?
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Because detoxing allows the body to just reduce that systemic inflammation and reset the gut
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microbiome.
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It also improves the nutrient absorption.
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So if you're taking supplements and you don't take that time to rest, you don't get that
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micronutrient delivery to the rest of your body.
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It also supports liver detox pathways, and then it calms your immune overreaction.
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Oftentimes, get a cold, and sometimes it doesn't need to be that bad if you take time to
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reset the gut microbiome and then restore the gut integrity and that gut lining overall.
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So most people don't feel off.
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They honestly just feel broken.
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They feel off because their gut has been overworked for years and years and years
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without a reset.
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So let me dig in a little bit about the detox three sixty and how we use it at Ascend
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Functional Health.
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This is exactly why we created the detox three sixty.
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So detox three sixty is a four week guided detox program designed to support not shock the
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body.
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So you don't have escalated cortisol levels, allow the gut to relax and help the body
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eliminate just that overall built up junk over the years.
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And it also lines your systems back up in the way they were meant to function.
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This is not about starvation.
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This isn't about deprivation.
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This is just the intentional healing of your gut.
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And when you go in with that level of healing, what does your body do?
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There's this old thing about the placebo.
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If you go in with the attention of a positive mindset, meaning it was pre planned, you have
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that intentional healing.
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So over four weeks, we focus on various things, but mainly for removing inflammatory triggers,
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supporting digestion, digestion and implement elimination.
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So there is elimination of food sources and then the rebuilding of gut integrity and
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setting you up for what better energy, clearer thinking, and improved overall metabolism.
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So most people finish the detox three sixty saying things like this, my bloating is gone.
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Ninety percent of our patients say that.
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My energy is stable again.
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My cravings actually finally under control.
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Like, I can actually resist and say, No.
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I didn't realize how bad I felt until I felt what it, what it actually means to feel good.
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So that's what recovery actually does.
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When you intentionally focus on why you're doing it, number one, And then two, letting
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your body just rest and calm.
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And that's focusing on just getting your gut healthy and whole again.
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So why does your gut deserve respect?
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Your gut is not just a food tube that you can just throw things down.
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It is a massive part of your view, your immune system, a regulatory of inflammation, and
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what's going on in the body.
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The cool thing about your gut is actually has nerve endings, up through your spinal cord,
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through your central nervous system that is constantly feeding your brain.
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So it's a controller of mood and mental health.
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It is a key player in hormone balances, and it's the foundation of long term health.
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So if you wouldn't your car for years without an oil change, why would you expect your gut to
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function without a reset?
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Right?
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An annual or biannual detox isn't trendy.
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It's the responsible health maintenance that you need to plug in to your daily activities.
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And what better way to start a new year with a detox.
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So in closing, want you to take the here's the takeaways that I want you to take away from
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this message.
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I know it was a short episode, but I want you to get these.
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You don't need extreme fasting.
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You don't need these this punishment and you don't need to suffer to heal.
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What you need is intention.
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It needs to be preplanned.
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You need time.
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So four weeks, commit that time, and it just an overall structured plan that allows your gut to
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recover.
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And if you're ready to give this reset what it deserves, head on over to alessifxl.com to
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learn a little bit more about our detox three sixty.
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Book an appointment.
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We'll give you all the information you need about it.
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Send it with someone who needs their gut healed or needs a little bit of love to their send a
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little love to their gut.
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