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"Call it a casualty of the work from home culture, post pandemic, the shoeshine business that once thrived in big cities like New York. Most of the chairs of this shoe shine spot in Penn station are empty except for accountant Rory heenan, who's getting a Polish. You are what your shoes are, right? Oh, no, Nissan came off, says now that people work from home, business is down. He had to lay off staff and only has independent contractors. Have you lost 75% of the business? Over at the port authority bus terminal, hyrule carded is also owned a shop that struggled. Before I use it to make it for a day 1670 people for like a champ for a day by this time, just a little ten, 15 people. Shoe polish sales are down according to Nielsen and those shoe repair market is down according to IBS world. Julie Walker, New York
The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
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"All the way down to some very amazing details that plants secrete to carbohydrate, which sugar like molecules in their root system when they're in trouble, which attracts the microbes to gobble down, deliver just like in our gut, micro living that can live off of the mucus layer, which is also a carbohydrate sugar layer. And just that concept that plants depend on the microbiome to for many functions on the soil microbiome, but many to defend against disease. So against and stress, you relight drought insects a whole range of diseases, the plants sent down these distressed molecules through their root system and attract the microbes from the environment that then form very close interactions and stimulate the plant to produce polyphenols, these same molecules that we now know are so healthy for us. And then these polyphenols go back up in the plant to the leaves and to the seeds into the fruit to protect those assets of the plant. I just find it absolutely amazing that these same molecules that the microbes stimulate in the plants to help the plant health are we ingesting and we depending on the microbes to break them down into smaller molecules that can then do the same thing in our system. They can be absorbed and go to our distressed organs, including the brain. And it's beautiful how nature has done that. So it's a design principle. I think that works so well for the plants that evolution decided let's stick with it. It works for humans as well. Your balance is so prevalent and it's such a big problem for people. Yeah. And there's many causes of it, but sometimes it is a parasite. I had a patient recently who was very famous lady and she was really struggling with chronic gut issues. And we treated parasite and boom. She was instantly better. Yeah. So yeah, so again, plastic is a parasite and another one called and to me, but histolytica. They've both been implicated in IBS as triggers for IBS. Yeah. So if you can't find a reason for somebody's IBS and you should be looking for one is IBS is just not the diagnosis. There's a trigger for it. You should, you know, and you haven't been able to get to the bottom of it. You should be looking for those two parasites. Unbelievable. So we're treating, so we're treating, you know, I will start with herbal therapies, and then I will advance to using pharmaceutical agents if necessary. But then I want to make sure the rest of their gut is working. So we look at the digestive processes. And oftentimes, why do we have the parasite? Because they're digestive processes aren't working well. They're not making enough HCL in their stomach because they're under chronic stress. They might not be producing enough pancreatic enzymes. They may have some issues with their gallbladder that's limiting and their liver that is limiting their production of bile or release of bile. So we want to make sure they have all their digestive enzymes when to make sure that they're immune system is working well. So we want to create that environment to besides treating. I'm going to want to make sure that they're getting the types of foods and supplements in their diet that will support a healthy gut microbiome. Good prebiotic foods. The cruciferous vegetables, I want them to make sure they're getting things like broccoli and asparagus and Brussels sprouts. And dandelions. My dad was Greek and, you know, we lived in a suburban community and in the springtime, my dad would go around the yard, and he'd get all the dandelions, and he'd bring them in the house, and he'd steam them up and boil them, and he mixed them up with garlic and oregano, and garlic and oregano. And dandelions, right? What are we doing? We're giving our gut great prebiotics to feed the good bacteria, and I'm giving natural natural herbs and botanicals to make sure that we keep a healthy gut microbiome. So dandelion is really good artichokes really good. Konjac root with glucomannan is really good prebiotic. So I want to not just treat the organism. I want to create a really healthy gut microbiome that has a healthy immune system that will prevent further disease down the road. Yeah, so really it's about not only killing the bug, because I've been in traditional medicine. Just kill it. Kill the bug. Okay, see you later. And let's move on. Forget it. And the problem is that most people's gut don't get back to normal on their own. And I often see this even with celiac patients. They will be told, oh, you have celiac, don't eat gluten, but they still struggle for years with all kinds of digestive issues that they can not handle certain foods or they have bloating or gas. And even after they've eliminated gluten. So you really have to go through this whole gut restoration program. When we talked a lot about on the podcast, but it's such a key part of functional medicine. This 5 hour program where we get rid of the bad stuff, foods, bugs, whatever. And then we kind of put in the good stuff and help the body kind of repair and heal. Yeah. So that's really an incredible approach and we've seen patient our patient have had a maze. And I've seen I've come across really crazy things. I've seen people it's just to some ices from Africa and I've seen people and I've seen a lot of parasites, blastocyst is one of the most common ones. It's often not to be not a pathogenic one. So it's not bad. But it often does cause symptoms. And if people have symptoms and they have blasted systems, and they have a bowel. So let's jump to this final topic because I think that it's such an interesting topic. And it has to do with worms. So like, look, we all co evolve with living with all these bugs. And we had them and they live with us. What's interesting is that in the advent of sort of modern civilization, we've become over sanitized. And we've lost the contact with the natural world. And I think we've seen this uptick in allergies. And asthma and autoimmune diseases and inflammatory diseases. And as rheumatoid arthritis and all these diseases and the question is, why? Because when you go to the developing world and you go to a hunter gatherer culture, they don't have a no, like there's just no allergies as mine. I've seen by the other day. I grew up every summer spending three months on a ranch with horses and poop and outside and being dirty all the time. Absolutely. Being outside and I don't have a single allergy or anything. And I think there's this whole phenomenon where you see what the kids who grew up on farms don't get allergies and autoimmunity. And if mothers today saw what you and I were doing, we were kids mucking around and creeks holding onto salamanders. Feeding, we had a horse farm near us and I would feed the horses, you know, apples through the fence and they're licking my hand and you know, mothers today would be like freaked. Right, exactly. So we've sort of over sanitized ourselves. And there's a number of books like the epidemic epidemic of absence you mentioned, it really talks about this. And there's some really good science behind using worms, reintroducing worms into the body. And when you look at the part of the immune system that has us deal with worms, it's the same part of the im that helps us deal with allergy or asthma. Which is fascinating to me because it's like, oh, it has nothing better to do.
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"ibs" Discussed on The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"Don't have enough stomach acid, your body produces more, which is the hormone to pump out more hydrophobic and dead horse. Exactly. Absolutely. And I would venture to say that most people's issues are not high acid in the stomach, it's low acid. It's low ass. And we're taking more of these acid blockers, which, by the way, also cause irritable bowel. So they help your heart burn, but they use trouble belt. And there is a role for short term use of these acid blockers like in the ICU that studies have been shown they've been very helpful to prevent stress induced ulcers and hospital acquired pneumonia. But they're really to be used short term and when you start using them long-term, they are very toxic. They are very toxic. They produce increased intestinal permeability. They cause malabsorption of nutrients, vitamin B 12, iron, other traits, minerals, and they cause bacterial overgrowth. And they cause osteoporosis and pneumonia. Huge, huge. And I actually, I am really surprised that these things are over the counter. They really should not be able to counter. You know, I remember I've talked about this before, but I remember when I was in medical school, the rep just came out and the drug was like, these are super powerful drugs. So you never want to give them more than 6 weeks, they're designed to treat ulcers. After 6 weeks, you got to stop them. Don't take them long term. And now people eat them like candy, all day long every day, and I'm like, this is not good. And we see so many complications from that. So if you're into about there and you have these acid blockers that you're taking, there might be a correlation. So we talked about sibo and we could talk about how to treat that, but essentially it's killing the bad bugs and receding the gut and what other things are driving your overall besides that. Well, also, you can also potentially have problems with part of the intestine that causes peristalsis. So normally you think of the gut is like this conveyor belt. It's always moving things through. So you eat, and within about 24 hours, everything should sort of move through. And there are some patients, especially with the patients who have problems with constipation that will have problems with motility or really motility disorders. And there's a test that's not moving down. Not moving down. And there's a part of the intestines, which is called the migrating motor complex. And you can actually test for antibodies against the migrating motor compost. It's called IBS shore test. And I'll do that in some autoimmune thing. Yeah, it's a little bit like a paralysis, if you will, or a weakening of the gut. And we talked about that earlier how, in some cases, you'll have patients who have Lyme disease. I actually had a very good integrative gastroenterologist who brought my attention to this is that he had a lot of patients who had refractory sibo. So sibos was one of those things where it's sometimes can come back and oftentimes does come back. And what he was finding is that someone's more difficult patients with refractory sibo actually had underlying Lyme disease and Lyme disease affects the nervous system. He tied the two together because there is a paper. It's called bell's palsy of the gut. And in fact, bell's palsy is where you get facial paralysis. Yeah. And I'll never forget this when I was in my private practice. I had it the first time I saw a real acute a case of Lyme disease, the patient presented with bell's palsy, so our face was paralyzed. And I did testing on her and the patient had acute Lyme disease, and that is one of the known complications. And it's thought that also that Lyme disease can actually affect the gut. And you get paralysis and decrease motility of the gut. Yeah, so that is a very important point because there are the typical things that go on, food sensitivity, gluten, dairy, some people react to the chemicals in food that are food added food added as food coloring. Food coloring, sugar, alcohols, people. Emulsifiers emulsifiers, all these things that are in our junk and processed food do have a huge impact on people. There's obviously the sibo. So many people get parasites, little microscopic hitchhikers. Yeah, and there's one called blastocyst, which is really common. It doesn't cause a horrible disease, but it can cause irritable bowel and about 30% of people with IBS. Oh yeah, I have this. I'm an adventure to say that I have picked up a lot of these. I call them little microscopic hitchhikers. And when you actually look in the mainstream literature, they basically say that, you know, a lot of these, you don't need to treat it. So there are times when somebody can die in the histolytica and blastocysts. And sometimes under limax nana and sometimes people will have these and they'll have a small amount of them and they may not cause any symptoms whatsoever. But if I find them in the stool test and patients are having symptoms, I treat them. Yeah, absolutely. And then there's also other things people have like enzyme deficiencies we can see on stool tests than a digesting your food well. And also, you know, for me, I had terrible irritable bowel, you know, almost 30 years ago, it was from mercury poisoning because mercury affects all your enzymes. It basically interrupts the enzyme function of many different enzymes throughout your body, including your gut and until I got rid of the mercury, my irritable bowel wouldn't go away no matter what I did. I just say turkey and broccoli and brown rice for 6 months and nothing worked. And so you have to keep being a detective and thinking about what are all the variable causes. And we look at the stool testing. We look at breath testing for bacterial growth. We look at organic acid urine testing. You'll see there's markers of bugs in there. And we sometimes dig down deeper to look at things like metals or lime or other tick infections. So there is a real deep thinking about what is going on with this person. And it's guided by their history, right? Exactly. And it's personalized. It really is, it's totally personalized and it takes time to figure that out. Yeah. So diet plays a huge role in regulating what bugs are growing or not growing and how they affect everything from our mood to our weight. And our cognitive function, but it was fascinating is that the other direction also affects us. In other words, our thoughts and feelings and emotions and stress actually create a feedback loop to the gut that can actually cause damage to the gut, alter the bacteria, create a leaky gut, create inflammation that actually is almost the same as eating a bad diet. Can you explain that? Yeah, so this is the intriguing thing. So you asked me earlier why are we and how do we end up where we are today? One is the diet but the other one is the top down influence of our minds and our chronically
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"And the other interesting thing about breast milk. If we could sort of bottle breast milk, it's very, very powerful. Stop. There's a thing in breast milk called milk oligosaccharides. And these are very, very complex sugar moieties, sugar chemicals. And they're actually so complex that for a long time, science didn't even study them because there were too complex. So it was like this a LEGO set that was this incredible building blocks. And what they've done now, there are a couple of companies, one company specific out of Europe is actually synthesized one of the oligosaccharides in milk. And there are actually hundreds of them. And these act like fertilizer for the good bacteria. So these things that are found in breast milk are very, very powerful things. Yeah. So powerful. And so we dig down into the story and figure out when did it start and was connected to a digital foreign travel because pop people often have post infectious hair to what else syndrome. People can get it after antibiotics, people can get it after any kind of stress or trauma. And you know, people don't realize that it's connected to so many different things. So let's talk about, you know, what are the causes? And then we'll go instead of a case of how we would deal with this. So what are the top causes that you found in functional medicine that are driving irritable bowel syndrome for people? Well, a lot of irritable bowel also is probably misdiagnosed. I think is sort of sibo. I think a large number of sibo is this diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. So a bunch of people there are about have sibo or bad bugs growing where they shouldn't be in the small intestine. Exactly. Yeah. And I think that we're sort of finding that a lot of these people that were diagnosing with this catch all term is real. They're having potentially small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in our tests that you can do for that. We do the that's also known as a food baby. When you eat food and you get a big bloated tummy right after, and as a food baby, that's what sibo is. Right, because what's happening is we have bacteria on our skin. We have bacteria in our mouth. We have bacteria in our stomach, the small intestine large intestine. Most of them sort of live in the colon. But there are times when the colonic bacteria start migrating upwards and they go higher up. And it's sort of like invading a neighborhood. And they mostly sterile up there. I think it was not necessarily that we've always thought it was terrible, even the stomach has bacteria. But it's just much less. And they're all different kinds of bacteria, so the lower bacteria are more fermenters. They ferment things. Yeah. And that's where we get, I think I have talked about that and I've seen this a couple of times as the auto brewery syndrome where patients. In fact, I just recently had a patient. Fantastic case and he actually heard me on the podcast where I was talking about auto brewery syndrome. So I did a consult with him. And he ended up going and buying a breathalyzer. Yeah. And he confirmed that he has on a brewery syndrome because he was producing alcohol. He was driving over the limit. He was just short of save your money on beer, for sure. It was actually quite interesting because he actually was doing a very strict low carb no sugar diet and even with a really good diet he was pushing making alcohol. It was really quite interesting. So yeah. But anyway, so talking about, how do we diagnose this? So you can do stool testing. I like the GI map test where you can do quantitative PCR for bacteria, yeast, fungi. That's looking for the genetic material of the different but yeah, it's like CSI. CSI. I find it to be a very, very helpful tool. You can also do the hydrogen methane breath test. Although the thing about the hydrogen methane breath test is that I've had some patients who have significant irritable bowel sibo type symptoms they're bloating. And they're negative. And they're negative. And I think based upon my reading and literature is that they're probably producing hydrogen sulfide. Yeah. And I think that when you just sort of get a history of a past very foul smelling gas, that smells like rotten eggs, that's usually the people that are producing hydrogen sulfide. People don't realize that, you know, cows just don't produce methane. Humans can produce methane. Exactly. If you have this, and we measure that coming out in your breath and you measure hydrogen, we have to take this drink. And that's really a clue that there may be these bugs growing in there. And they have to be treated directly. And they can really help a lot of people. Oh, huge. Huge amounts. And it's often missed. It's very much missed. And you also have to do the test properly, because everybody produces small amounts of hydrogen methane, it's just that you want it lower down in the colon. It really does become as much of a clinical issue. The other thing is to also think about in those types of patients is to make sure that they have sufficient amounts of stomach acid. Stomach acid is very, very important at helping with the proper digestion. So you can actually do testing for gastrin levels. And I've been surprised at how many people have high gastro levels. So when you don't have enough stomach acid, your body produces more, which is the hormone to pump out more hydrophobic and dead horse. Exactly. Absolutely. And I would venture to
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"Pharmacy and the range of factors behind the irritable bowel syndrome and how to resolve this condition. Doctor Hyman speaks with doctor Todd lapine on the various root causes of IBS with doctor emery Mayer on the role of the microbiome when it comes to gut health and with doctor George pappa nicolau on when parasites are the cause of IBS. Let's jump in. So let's talk about this thing called irritable bowel syndrome. What did we learn about it in medical school? Not much. I mean, I think we basically learned that it was one of those conditions where you sort of treat the patient and it's not serious. You're not going to die from it. And I can remember actually put Dartmouth. We had doctor almi and he was an expert in irritable well. And back then, it was felt to be more of a sort of neurologic sort of like stress related thing. Psycho emotional. Psycho emotional. And he actually, this is an interesting side story. He did a test where he took some medical students and was measuring the manometry of them and while he was doing the sigmoidoscopy, he was measuring the tension in the colon. And then he could only do this to medical students and this was back in the 50s. And he told them, he goes, I think I see cancer. All of a sudden there was a spasm of the colon. Oh. Yeah. And it was like, he wanted to evoke to see what it was, what was going on with the Obama and they thought it was a lot of those nervous related. Which there is a stress component. And so back then, the concept of irritable bowel was that it was all sort of in your head. It's all sort of like we had a very fancy word for it in medical school. We called it super tentorial, which is a doctor's way of saying it's all in your head. It's all in your head. The tentorium is that thing that kind of separates your top of your brain from the lower brain. That was a joke. But it was very pejorative. And we often thought that these patients were malingerers, it was called functional bowel. Disease. Yeah, he's got a lot of blood. There was no real cause for it. It was more psychological and maybe stress related and these people are all emotional and upset. It turns out it's not so, right? And we call it syndrome, right? Syndrome. So when we say syndrome in medicine, what do we mean? It's a constellation of various symptoms. And you know, we don't know what the hell is going on. We don't know what. It's like chronic fatigue syndrome. You know, it's like, you know, how many different things can cause chronic fatigue. It's like there's 23 flavors or how many flavors of Baskin Robin ice cream, same thing with 31. I used to scoop Baskin Robbins ice cream. Remember my jobs. Probably. With all those artificial artificial flavorings and sugar. So nowadays we sort of classify Ural into irritable bowel with constipation, irritable, with diarrhea, and then mixed irritable bowel. That's how we're sort of putting an ICD-10 code on it. And that's a way of conceptualizing it, but there are lots of different things that play a role. Without question, I think stress does play a role with irritable bowel. And I think that stress can manifest in the body in so many different ways. And we've talked about this when we talk about autoimmune conditions, because oftentimes when we have a patient and some stressful event happens, it triggers a host of things and it's sort of like a ripple effect that goes on in the body. And without question, there is a stress component to some irritable bowel. I mean, you've got your second brain in your gut. There's more serotonin in your gut than in your brain. You've got this whole nervous system that connects the two that is extraordinary complex and feeds back both ways. So from the top down and bottom up. So irritable bowel can cause interval brain and it will rain because it will bow. It goes back and forth. Right, and you want to have a happy bottle of happy brain. That's like the key to a happy life. Happy bottles happy brain. Exactly. Exactly. And then yeah, and there is an interesting thing that you talk about because you have that gut brain connection and it's like a two way high wind. They're basically communicating. The brain is talking to the gut and the guts talking to the brain. And then you also have the enteric nervous system and some people forget about the enteric nervous system and that's the intrinsic nervous system to the gut. So literally if you sever the spinal column and there is no connection to the gut in the brain, the gut still works. You can still poop fine. If you sever the spine. It's got a mind of its own. It's got a mind of its own, exactly. But you know, Todd I want to come back to what you said, which is really important. You said, you know, we categorize irritable bowel with constipation or diarrhea or whatever, and there's a whole classification system that is driven off of symptoms. And the difference between functional medicine and conventional medicine thinking about any disease is that it's not focused on the symptoms, it's focused on the causes. So just saying people have irritable bowel. It doesn't tell you anything about the cause. It tells you they feel uncomfortable. They're blown, and they have diarrhea, their Bowser weird. They're uncomfortable, cramping, whatever the symptoms are, irrelevant when it comes to trying to figure out the cause. I mean, yeah, okay, you have to go about, but that's when you start to think about the problem. In traditional medicine, you name the disease, you stop thinking. Right. You know, and our colleagues said baker always had this great term. Traditional medicine is naming and blaming.
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"Okay, cool. You know, and you might just find that certain foods like just don't work for you, right? Are going to be problematic. But I think it's really interesting because the fact that things like food poisoning and surgery could be to precursors to this and this is not talked about is so key critical. Seriously, I had a nail tech that I would go to religiously every two weeks because I had like to have TV lady hands for selling jewelry and like I spent more time with her than I did many people I know and love and she's a lovely person, but two years in, we started talking about our health. And I'm like, wait a minute. You have gut issues? Wait, I'm like building this platform to teach people about gut health and she taught me some things and I taught her some things. And we just don't usually talk about it, right? So I wanted to open that conversation up. I'm not into poop emojis. I'm not into that. I'm not going to like, you know, that's just not me. I am into a respect for the body and let's be grown-ups and get this out there. And great news is that we've had millions and millions of downloads, which is just so freaking rewarding. But it's only the tip of the iceberg. Right. Only so what you learned today, what you learned from JJ, tell everybody who will listen to you. They will thank you for it. Well, and there's just no reason to suffer. And I think that's the most important thing, especially especially so many of these things that no one's going to talk about. I still remember I was walking through a department store when I was in college and short cutting through this department store to get back to school after teaching in aerobics class. And this girl asked me when I was due. Oh, JJ, you never forget those moments. Never. Never. First of all, it made me go, I'll never ask someone that ever, unless, you know, unless they're wearing a shirt that says baby and as an arrow, I'm not asking, right? But you know, those types of things where you feel shame and why I didn't do anything that would have caused that wasn't like I was sitting there going over to the corner donut shop and eating 20 donuts, right? It is interesting. I love the fact that you've got a guide you're giving everybody so you can download this immediately and get some information here. Of course you're going to want to get healing sibo as well. But tell us what's in the sibo IBS SOS guide. It's basically an overview of some of the things I just talked about and how to get the next steps for testing. And some resources and just walk into your doctor's office with this guide. That will really help. I mean, it's just a beginning of this conversation. But it does talk about how IBS is primarily caused by food poisoning and then a description of the different types. It's a primer. It is a great springboard for next steps. Nice. It really feels like to me if you've got those symptoms that you should do at home tests. There's no reason not to, that I can see and you would definitely want to know if this is an issue. So I super appreciate you making it so simple for people to do that. You'll be able to get that at JJ virgin dot com slash sibo SOS. So that's SIB os. And I know you're probably trying to scribble notes and write down some of these things. You're like, I don't know how to spell it. Don't worry, it's in there..
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"Okay. Yeah. You got to do what you got to do. So you can do that for your herbals. And then, okay, so rebuilding the microbiome. So the specialists that I've been talking to for these several years now, we started, I started in 2015. The question for my mind was like, shouldn't I get my microbiome in really good shape first? Or shouldn't I get on a probiotic ASAP PDQ right like it's a rebuild it? Now, there are different theories and people of different experiences. I know some people they get on megaspore and they're like, wow, I'm all well, because that's what they needed. I know other people were like, oh, I'm on a probiotic and first three days, I'm not sure if I can carry on. I stuck through it and I did it just a little bit less. And now two weeks and I feel amazing. Other people are like, this is not for me. I'm going to wait until I clear the sibo. So there's some controversy about when timing. But it's also so personal. So doctor pimentel is actually, by the way, he doesn't pay me or anything. I'm just going to say, oh my gosh. I'm thinking like Nobel medical prizes in the future because he and doctor ally rezai are mapping the small intestine. Microbiome. So that all that stuff that happened in the 90s for the large intestine, they're actually showing that it was not quite what we all thought. And that the small intestine, by the way, has an entirely different microbiome than the large intestine. It's fantastic. And that once you resolve the sibo, that the disproportionate levels of the E. coli and the klebsiella, for example, go back down to normal. Because the rest of the, without necessarily like, he's not a huge probiotic fan without necessarily doing that. But simply having them lower the homeostasis of the microbiome and it's brilliant, often comes back into balance. So it's super cool. Yeah. It's very exciting..
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"And so are you bloated? Do you have constipation? Do you have alternating constipation and diarrhea? Do you have diarrhea? And do you have rosacea? Do you have restless leg syndrome? A lot of people with GERD feel like it's connected..
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"To see you. So good to be here. Let's talk sibo and let's talk sibo, 'cause I know that this is why sibo is controversial beyond me, but you know, I know it can even be a little controversial. So I really want to unpack sibo. I'd love to know how you got to be so into this. Becoming the expert on sibo, what led you to this? Well, I've probably had it since I was 5. I went to India with my parents on a their business was importing and tagged along on a buying trip because I was 5. And got really sick with food poisoning, came home back to New York City, and we Dalton fancy school, we went on a country field trip. And we went to a farm in upstate New York, and we milk cows. And it was like city slickers. It was really cute. And fun. And when the teacher wasn't looking a couple of us, like, oh, I wonder what it tastes like, and we tasted the milk. And damn, if I didn't get sick. I had these episodes as a young person of getting food poisoning, which is the number one underlying cause of IBS and sibo, with really, wow. Yes, that is the big thing I want to show you. That is a mic dropper. Yes. Holy smokes. And why is that? It has because of the antibodies that your body produces to the E. coli and the klebsiella and the other things that cause food poisoning. They do something called molecular mimicry and they can use the sweeping wave of the small intestine known as the migrating motor complex and MC for short. And because they look so similar, those antibodies confuse it, which is obviously layman's terms. And so that sweeping motion doesn't sweep out, it allows the small intestine to become like what I call a microbrewery. And to ferment your food with either the methane producers or the hydrogen producers of the hydrogen sulfide producers. And which would normally just like move out, right? But because you're migrating motor complexes and sweeping them out, they hang out there, they eat your food, they fart it out as either any of those gases I just said..
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"The last thing that we want to do and we were saying this before is make nutrition and added stressor. So it really needs to feel achievable. And if it takes you a little bit longer to get there, that's absolutely fine. Yeah, I think that's such sage advice to start slowly and build up over time. And one of the things we also wanted to touch on is stress and IBS or a sensitive gut because I know that something that's relevant to so many people who are so many of our listeners. And what is the link there between stress and IBS? So first, the IBS is often diagnosed or a process of elimination. And I think it's really important for people to understand that because the number of times that people say, oh, I'm experiencing bloating. You know, I've got IBS and actually there may be another cause for it. I think it's important that people, if you are experiencing chronic gut symptoms for a period of three months plus, that you go and have it checked out by your GP. Just to sort of caveat that. But in terms of the link between stress and IBS. So we know that often when people are stressed, they may be more inclined to eat faster, and when you eat faster, you're not necessarily producing adequate digestive enzymes to break down your food..
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"You'll know that it's something very close to my heart and that is poor digestive function. Now diminished stomach acid and poor digestive function are potential origins of both IBS and sibo. And one of the world's most overuse and prescribed drugs could actually make it worse. Now if you are interested in exploring how the ineffective digestion or the ineffective function of your digestion may actually be causing some of your digestive symptoms, please go to the episode that goes through the whole thing. I break down the role of all of the digestions of the digestive organs and how they can break down and how they're ineffective function can actually cause some of your symptoms. So there's a full podcast if you want to explore it. In this part, I wanted to actually go through another reason why your digestive function might be less effective than you prefer. And you wouldn't believe that one of the most world's most overuse and prescribed drugs, protein pump inhibitors or PPIs. Now the diminished or low stomach acid for IBS and correction of it or what's commonly known as can be a really critical part of the actual long-term recovery from IBS. Post the shorter term treatments with things like diet and the antimicrobials that you see in natural medicine. A lot of the time the hydrochloric acid corrects all the gastric juice correction can take months so you can take a long, long time, but chronic moderate exposure to stress is also a big part of the consideration in developing the low stomach acid and I think this is partly why it does take quite a long time for the correction of these things to happen. Post a successful fodmap diet, you know, successful sibo treatment. Still it's actually essential to assess the role of protein pump inhibitors in the origin of the symptoms, especially if there's been a history of their use in the past. So as with most commonly prescribed drugs, PPIs play a role in managing people's symptoms in the short term. So the things don't become worse, IE if you have really bad gastrointestinal reflux, for example, you may risk developing Barrett's esophagus, which you then may risk getting stomach cancer or an ulcer or something really, really serious. So look, whilst we always tend to go into negative spaces if you like around pharmacy and especially when we're focusing on drugs that are very, very overused and overprescribed and may I say they are very overly used and I have prescribed in Hong Kong, especially, we always just have to remember the gray area. People get better from their ailments from these prescriptions. We have to acknowledge their place and just saying that we should never give them to people because they're always going to cause this or that. You know, if you're ill and you get better, you're going to be pretty grateful for that medication. So there's just a little sidebar rant on that in that sense. But look, the key part about it is that PPIs don't just have the potential to affect the acidity of the gastric juice, and we've explored previously on this in another episode of this podcast. If the acidity of the gastric juice changes, that has quite a large knock on effect to the other organs of digestion. But in this case, the overuse and overprescription of PPIs not only see that lowering of all important acidity, but it also causes a significant change in the bacterial diversity of your microbiome. That's super important. Now it's becoming clear that the connection between IBS and sibo is easy to see but different difficult to differentiate between due to the overlap of these activating factors. And it was quite easy when we went through those symptoms before. They almost sounded like the same condition in the PPIs are involved in the development of sibo according to some pretty clear studies, still they have evidence also in actually helping IBS in some cases which means that adequately assessing each situation on a case by case basis is still highly critical to a successful outcome. This need for individualization is actually where functional testing can come in. Just a short one on that one. I mentioned that the positive research with PPIs and IBS just to slowly out just slightly amplify what I was saying before about the fact that some of these drugs whilst they do cause harm to people over long-term use, hey, they can help too. So let's keep an open mind. Let's talk functional testing though, because this is where often the explanation can start if you've been struggling with IBS and have had no real way to articulate why this has been happening. Sibo breath testing and comprehensive stool testing can help create a more focused treatment for IBS symptoms. So fortunately, in the case of digestive symptoms, the tests don't guess mentality, which I think is test, I guess it's probably a bit overused nowadays, but hey, here we are. The tests don't guess mentality clears a lot of confusion around the origin of either sibo or IBS as I just mentioned. Studies confirm that the correction of abnormal readings in lateral space based breath test correlate with symptom improvement in IBS cases. So we can start to see the connection here between doing a sibo test and helping IBS. Further studies imply that the same breath test may be the best market to use for bacterial disturbances seen in IBS cases. So once again, slowly but surely, we're starting to see some really strong journals around confirming how these two things are connected. Acebo breath test can indicate a dominance in a particular form of bacteria either methane or hydrogen forming. So what does that mean? It's just basically that the byproducts of the existence of some of these bacteria involve hydrogen gas or methane gas. And these are different forming or hydrogen methane forming bacteria can directly influence the type of herbal or antibiotic treatment used to rebalance the overgrowth and offer insights into how things kicked off in the first place. Now, a really nice example of this is positive baseline. In the lactulose version of the sibo breath test can suggest that IBSD sufferers may have a better response to a commonly used antibiotic called rifaximin. Now, refraction has become very, very popular in relation to positive sibo outcomes and is used by a lot more integrated doctors. But I have a relationship with a few GPs in Hong Kong where if they see what treatment doesn't work out, I also send them for refraction treatment to good effect. I know a lot of my colleagues do that as well. So look these studies nearly always prove to be valid in practice in the sense that using the testing can offer quite a strong direction in relation to treatment, but also highlights how much more focused and expedited things can get now with the luxury of this testing and all of those amazing people that are doing the research for us and finding out how best we can use the testing in a clinical setting. Now moving on to a comprehensive stool exam, so this is a little different from what you may get from your GPU, which is generally looking for giardia or salmonella infections or something a little more acute. Still exams such as one of my favorites, the GI 360 can go into a lot more detail regarding the imbalance of the microbiome. This test assesses both probiotic and prebiotic status essential functional indicators such as nutrient absorption markers like the enzyme elastase, which points to chloric acid status and insights into carbohydrate and fat absorption amongst the wide range of other features such as inflammation assessment, gut associated immunity, which is incredibly important. And the presence of candida and parasites. I've teased an episode on gut associated immunity and something called oral tolerance, which I will get around to, I promise, it's going to be a very exciting episode. So, because actually offers quite a large or quite a large cost quite a clear explanation as to how food intolerances can present. So all of the features in this store test offer clarity on how diet and accessory treatments such as things like pancreatic enzymes post biotics that will be a new one for you if you haven't heard. That's how fiber was some of the end products of our probiotics and fiber consumption and diet can assist in achieving effective treatment. So look, we've talked about the functional testing and how to get a better sense of the IBS, but is there a connection between IBS and sibo? Well, it's fair to say that the answer is a resounding yes. Although, as you might have found in reading or going through this article, it's fair to say that the answer is a resounding yes, although, as you might have found listening to this episode, the definitions of IBS and cyber are very nuanced and hard to differentiate between in many cases. There are many crossover symptoms such as bloating, bowel or regularities, pain, nausea, and discomfort, yet initial research into connection between IBS and zero has brought a new way of educating people about what's going on and how they might help their issue. This new understanding is leading most practitioners including myself to begin to use the term sibo more often as a way of explaining the broader diagnosis of IBS or at the very least sustaining or excitatory factor. As our understanding of how testing and treatment can become more effective at keeping things better, it's the patient, hey there. That hopefully gets better it gets to benefit more than anyone. This new way of presenting things is where the connection between IBS and sibo can become an absolute godsend for chronic IBS sufferers. It creates a pathway to action that could offer a higher level of potential for a successful outcome in some cases it ends years of the daily roller coaster of IBS symptoms that can be both debilitating and frustrating with no end in sight. And this is exactly why I created this episode was to explore this because most people with IBS are very, very tolerant of their symptoms. They've learned to get around how they feel. They've often cut out half of the foods in their diet that were regular in their diet, although give them symptoms, but then they have no real road to getting back to a diverse diet which we all know is incredibly important for nutrient exposure and just a healthy life really. And that's just not physically as well. That's also mentally, that means going to a restaurant and feeling a bit better to order whatever you want in context, obviously. But it also just gives you the freedom to not have to look over your shoulder constantly and worry whether or not some food that you're going to put in your mouth is going to make you feel crazy or bloated for the rest of the day and et cetera really. Am I going to have to rush to the toilet after this meal is a common thing that I hear from patients. Anyway, as usual, I've been talking way too much. If you enjoy this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. If you feel the need to. Or if you have any further inquiries or you just want to read a little bit more about how you might be able to help your digestion and your mental health, pop to Philip Watkins dot health online and you can also join a mailing list there where I just mail out some newsletters just to let you know that new articles have been written or a new podcast has been released. Slowly but surely I'm getting better at this. I'm going to keep trying to do these in one take. So if there are mistakes through this please, please put a mile on your face and feel me squirm as I make these mistakes and I will continue I think to get better, but I must say I'm very much enjoying this. Soon enough I'm going to start getting guests on the podcast as well, so don't worry, we'll be having some very interesting people coming up and joining me on friend inspired radio. But for now, thank you very, very much for joining me on this journey between, or journey exploring sibo and.
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"ibs" Discussed on Free and Inspired Radio
"How it happened or how it occurred in the first place and worse still they come out from their practitioner consultations with a lack of precise tools to help them get long-term relief of the symptoms. I was actually talking to a patient this morning literally who's had IBS for ten years and she laughed when I said how many times have you received a prescription of relaxing, stressing less or getting a handle on your stress? And this is just a really quick idea or a quick example of exactly what people with IBS can go through from particular practitioners. So a quick teaser in the sense of what's coming up in this episode, sibo or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth may actually be the breakthrough that clears up the mystery for IBS for many people, including people that you may know suffering today. I've seen patients present with IBS diagnosis from their doctor and sibo from doctor Google. And often with some confusion about how they relate to each other, and this is exactly why I'm putting this episode together. The answer is that it's a chicken egg problem in the sense that one can cause the other or IBS can cause sibo or vice versa. So before we get started into their connection, let's deconstruct the nuances of both just to better understand how they're connected. So if you're new to irritable bowel syndrome or IBS or hear a sufferer, you're most likely not that new to it because you Googled it a million times. But a simple concise definition of IBS is a chronic functional disorder of the colon and large intestine defined by disturbed bowel habits abdominal pain and discomfort without an organic and identifiable cause. As with other syndromes, the understanding of IBS has evolved and is diagnosed now under three more specific subtypes, IBS C so that's IBS with constipation. IBS D, which is IBS with diarrhea, or IBS M, which is obvious with mixed bowel patterns also referred to as IBS a, which is standing for alternating alternating bowel habits. One of the most interesting parts of IBSC and IBSD is actually their gender specific element in interestingly women who tend to present more with IBS C men tend to present more with IBSD. Although I think for me, the mix is probably a little more even than that particular. From my own clinical experience, I can tell you that patients with IBS often present with a complex and unique collection of symptoms. I think most practitioners in my position would agree with that. But for the sake of this explanation, let's go through some of the standard and most often distressing symptoms which are things like urgency to go to the toilet. The abdominal muscle pain, straining, bloating, and fatigue, and I'd probably add brain fog to that one as well for most. What can be most frustrating for the. What can be most frustrating is the nature in which these presenting symptoms can alternate. The abdominal pain can sometimes travel to different parts of the abdomen for no reason. Sometimes it's the lower left, sometimes it's a lower right part of the abdomen, and there seems no way to connect the dots between why these pain, these pain points are coming up for people. This erratic presentation can be highly unsettling for those who experience it. The reason for this though is down to how many different activating factors there may be. And some of the reasons behind the genesis of IBS may be the following. So the quite a list here, so altered motility within the gastrointestinal system, so motility is the ability for your digestive system or your digestive system has to move food from one organ of the digestion to another and has a considerable influence on your bowel patterns. Another factor would be a reaction to a previous infection, for example, only coal line infection, gastritis is obviously a big part of that as well. Brain gut interactions is a huge one and as I've mentioned before I made a little snide remark there in some ways about people getting stress less type of prescriptions in the past for IBS. I think that's largely not happening as much, but it's actually not well-known that IBSC sufferers often have a lower level of serotonin and conversely IBS D sufferers have a higher levels of serotonin, so sometimes managing the chemical landscape in the brain can be a nice way of helping people to manage some of those more extreme bowel patterns. Alterations in the bacterial environment within the digestion or microbiome, so that's your classic dysbiosis. If you've ever heard that name before, it just means an imbalance in the bacterial environment. A bacterial overgrowth could be another factor, wait a minute, I think that might be. Food sensitivity, so an interesting stat on food 7th sensitivity is over 70% of IBS sufferers find their symptoms improve with a low fodmap diet. So that's fructose oligosaccharides. That's fructans. That's fructose or fruit sugar. Now, lastly, inflammation with the intestinal within the intestinal tract can also be quite a large factor for IBS. And this is a big one if you feel as if you had previous infections, for example. A more common characteristic of IBS or at least four patients that present to me in the clinic is the chronic nature of how long have you been suffering? I use the example of a patient this morning or new patient who I saw who's had it for almost ten years on and off and that's a really long time to feel unwell. On average, I see patients who have been dealing with these issues as I said for at least three years before seeking help in three years could be considered a small amount of time for those seeking and trying different treatment methods over time. It can be a frustrating and challenging journey for those in this situation, but it seems that small intestinal bacterial overgrowth may be the answer to at least some of these cases which, honestly, once you do have an explanation as to why the mysterious symptoms that seem related, but you can't quite work out why. Once you get an explanation as to why they are maybe occurring, it can be quite freeing. Let's look at Sabo. Let's look at small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. It's definitely a buzz term online. It's definitely a buzz term. Amongst functional medicine, but let's go into it if you're new to it. So the definition of sibo occurs when excessive numbers of bacteria in the small bowel also known as small intestine cause gastrointestinal GI symptoms, commonly the bacteria found in excess include gram negative bacteria or bacterial that are so all the ferment poorly digested carbohydrates producing gas and bloating that's also common. As the small intestine is a critical site for nutrient absorption, symptoms of sibo can often present as a result of malabsorption caused by the bacterial fermentation mentioned previously. It's necessary to define what the malabsorption means in this case. I think that's really, really important. It doesn't mean you're not getting your vitamins and minerals, although in some severe cases, some vitamin B 12 or 9 deficiencies have been seen in sibo more so it's your carbohydrates that may not be completely absorbing, leaving some remaining and often the final part of the intestine, small intestine or the ileum to ferment. This fermentation then creates the gas, as I mentioned before that can drive that common bloating fullness and distension. So evidence suggests that the typical symptoms described in patients with a positive sibo testers follows, so you've got some abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation or both nausea, bloating, flatulence, fullness, or distension and fatigue, and finally poor concentration and I added that in there because I think you've always got to consider the cognitive function or the cognitive effect of these things. So does those symptoms sound familiar in relation to what we just covered with IBS. I think they kind of do. It's not hard to see the similarities between the proposed symptoms of sibo and the ones associated with the IBS and studies now actually connecting the two. Further studies can consolidate this relationship, but current estimates suggest that up to 78% of patients with IBS suffer from sibo. So the clinical level though, many people with IBS are going through the sibo breath test and treatment process seeing results that they didn't think possible. So whilst we still need to do a lot more confirmation when it comes to the studies, I think it's really, really important to understand that there are opportunities now through some of the testing and through the treatments that result from some of that testing that can offer some gateways to feeling a lot better from IBS symptoms. We're going to take a break on free and inspired radio and I'll be back and we're going to talk about the connection between IBS and sibo and where some of these connections can be drawn and actually amplified.
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"It's i felt so attacked. When that means i came out it was just like. Wow why are you going to out me. Like not the But i i know and it is so ski. Sorry go ahead go ahead. I was just going to say it's you know. I think these things sound really fucked up as we say them. But it's also the truth. And i think it's really important to name and to have space for it because otherwise it kind of just stays inside you and starts to eat you up and it just kind of continues to like present itself in these different ways and you know it doesn't sound great to say but like i think it's true for a lot of folks and if we don't look at it it's just going to keep happening again and again and it's so tiring so then. How has your dating ben. I mean you wanna talk about. We're talk we're talking at a very fascinating time of my life right now. Okay because i have not spoken to a dude. Like i mean okay so even though i was in that long term relationship you break up and get back to us meantime. I've dated other people you know between i've had many small relationships hookups. Hangouts whatever because camp alone. In the past i can. I cannot recognize that girl. Like i love you so much but whoa like you. I know you're going to therapy but you really need to get that poor thing. We're just flailing around like anyone. Anyone anyone love me and yeah yeah so i. After that long term relationship. I ended up dating someone else for good eight months and months and he was wonderful. I thought he was so great and turns out. He had some addiction issues. Cool you know you. Just you know and there's nothing wrong with that but like i referenced. Earlier as when your therapist says to you it's not. That issues are a problem. It's how they match with yours. And i'd already been with someone with addiction. I'd already struggle with my own addiction to weed. I actually just celebrated era after smoking every day for ten years. So it's kinda just nothing against you dude. I just i have to care about myself and it was hard to go. But i said if i don't tr- star understanding that i can't do it all again i i'm just going to die So yeah this year. I actually recently have started talking to someone and no one knows that yet. But how are you feeling about it. I feel really good. Because i feel like a different person and i've never interacted with a person in a way where i'm not so self conscious or i'm not trying to make the my boyfriend or just i am in this phase of my life where i think i just wanna be myself and i don't want a boyfriend i really wanna meet people under explore and be like sexually free and like veal i get to just choose and i think even if i met someone i really really liked and you can't control you how you feel but i wouldn't want to let myself be in a relationship for just a wile. Yeah because it is. It is hard to find yourself for me for me. It's hard to stay myself If i'm in a relationship at this point in my life. It's not that i never will be able to but one hard thing that i think a lot of us feel is oh you can do it. It's like no. I can but i also acknowledged maybe not now. I love that so much people like no. You'll.
Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"ibs" Discussed on Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"And that's a healthy thing to be able to say so when you're in a toxic relationship you don't feel safe enough to say that that's one of the biggest keys that i realized if i said that oh there would be a tornado like a bit like a child breaking out and i would probably have done the same because i was such an insecure person with very low style worth so i was perpetuating the cycle as well. You know obviously a lot of toxic relationship. There tends to be an abuser codependent or narcissistic dependent but were both still super terrible like There's not one angel and one devil ever because you wouldn't participate in it if it didn't help you but you know i look at us now. Girl yep yep yep yeah i mean i think it's hard. I'm wondering what what the process has been like for you with how you perceive your ax. I know when i got out of my out of my a my first relationship was the most toxic abusive and all of the ways relationship for a long time. I really like demonized him and like just felt so much anger and frustration at him for all the ways he fucked me up and all the ways he hurt me and as we got older and granted like i was young i was teenager and all of this so i've had a lot more time probably than maybe since your seven year relationship ended but You know over the years of actually being able to feel some kind of like compassion for him and like humanizing him and recognizing where you know he had his own traumas. He was very clearly suffering very clearly hurting and to be able to sit with that and it not invalidate the ways. I've been hurt but to also just humanize him and under try to have a better understanding of like why everything happened the way that it did as a really hard process and i'm just kinda wondering you know what that process has been like for you with maybe your perception of your acts. I love that you're asking that because it is. I think it would be really important for me to share right now just like it's a roller coaster and it didn't really follow the classical path of like how you heal from stuff but it eventually got on the you know the five stages of like grief or loss or things like that but in the beginning it was i was twenty five and going to a couples counselor. Yeah i was really young. And i was basically like hey. Can you stop cheating. He's like no okay so like maybe we should talk to someone. Like i was just doing anything. I try to salvage it and i really cared about him and i knew he was struggling with other issues and i wanted to be there for him so i said okay. Let's go together. 'cause i'm your partner and i care about you i've known you since we've been nineteen like i do care so i want to sit by you and help you i. I started becoming his enemy. Because anyone who gets in the way of what you wanna do. Even if they're trying to hell is kind of like an addict with a sober friend. Just you become the one. They hate So it was only after he. And i had a really big block fight of me basically saying hey i think we should really just split up like i love you but this is not good for us. I think we're just tanking each other. He didn't like that. Of course he did something really insane. And i grabbed a duffle. We lived together. Grabbed duffle grabbed a pillow. Got in my car. And i never went back. I was like you need to move out. I'm not gonna talk to you until i not gonna talk to you again. I just gonna come back and live here when you get out. And the only reason i did that is because the couple's counselor that we are going to i went back to therapist and i said hey this happened. He sat me down. It was only have minutes of the session. Usually it's like an hour but he said hey. I'm not diagnosing him. But i think he has narcissistic personality disorder. I think you're codependent. And this is never going to work. I have never heard of. There has ever be so direct in my life. I was bold so so it. It was so sad. Because i loved him and i wasn't ready to go but i just forced myself. I had to go no contact which you know contacted this policy that a lot of people in toxic abusive relationships have to do. If you will always go back. There's just. I've gone back three thousand times so the beginning i i at least six months was scared of realizing all the other issues he had as i was unpacking. Things and there are so many more issues wasn't just like randomly cheating with it was just a lot of trauma that he was just. It was just. He had a lot of struggles. So i just felt bad and i missed him and i it was just like half my body was i know and then i started feeling. I angry angry. How could treat me like that. How could you do that. I hate you. But i think most of it was me trying to tell myself. I hated this person. Because you kind of have to get angry to heal. You have to angry and to not allow like go to not go back to. I mean for me. It was definitely a way to help cope of like okay. This is how. I don't have a relationship with him and how i can protect myself is that you are terrible and you are bad right and then i so this happened at the end of this happened in the beginning of two thousand nine hundred s right now. It's july twenty twenty one and only within the last few months i really just see it for what it is and i really feel like. We really loved each other. We tried we both had our issues. I was so broken. I was toxic. I was not nice so much of the time. I was broken. He fed off of it. I fed off of it. But they're still a lot a lot of resentment. But i have a lot of compassion for the love. He did give me. Because i did need it for so much. And he provided so much and a lot of people who have struggles have two sides of them one of them one side's very loving the other is a monster and so i think that's maybe what you and i often could old onto the the nice part of them but chev monster just got to take over ninety nine percent at some point Yeah and i think like one of the really scary parts for me was at one point. I had to kind of acknowledged that like part of me liked the monster. Pardon me like this is where. I'm like that. Ariana grande pete davidson meam of like cancer seeking like emotionally unstable men. Where where like part of me enjoyed the monster and that served me in. Certain ways is sexy. My girl You know what i'm saying. It's like you're crazy. Yes same and so i think what i saw out when i was so bouncing off the walls with my struggles and and hiding so much of it and i i remember honestly craving someone who was also sick because i felt so ashamed of how sick i felt internally and people don't understand how much i connect with that pete davidson. Ariana grande day have like my friends will say. I don't see it on mike but even if you're not somebody prefers it why. How can you not see it so psychologically logically obvious like the connection is right there..
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"Wyoming like maintaining actually nourishing my body. We can get back to the show and again major shout car love having them be a sponsor of the podcast so that we can get right back into it. I love that you also brought up pal certain relationships whether it be to apparent or with friends can really it can change you can mold. You can also help you heal from stuff. can it can also get you sicker. Because those are the ways we bond with people or we learn from people. And i do think that it's been helpful in a lot of ways to notice. How much of a terrible relationship by have with myself was only kind of a reflection of my relationship with and and things like that. It had really nothing to do with food or body. Or wade's those. Were great ways for me to fixate on things. I could fix it. Yeah the things that you feel like you can control totally and guess. What never got the control that i wanted. Never well when you say that this whole experience for you kind of started around ten maybe in your work in in therapy and unpacking some of this experience you know what do you think was kind of like the catalyst for that. When i started going to therapy. I remember i went in. I said hey. I have really bad binge eating. Help me fix this. Because that's a lot of the reasons why anyone really goes to therapy. You noticed something you like okay. It's bad you label it as wrong and you want to change hence fix and i remember i would go on and on and she would start going so like what's your family like. I said why excuse we're not talking about that. Yeah and it wasn't even a defense thing. I just felt like it was irrelevant. Yeah you're like. I don't get how this connected. And then as we went deeper she would really start asking about my dad. And i always knew as a kid. There were issues in the family. I mean i saw my parents fight awad and the way that my mother was treated is obviously not right and i think what's hard still about the time we live in. I think a lot of us have heard about narcissistic abuse different types of neglect and maltreatment. But people still think abuse just means really verbally mean or smacky app or hitting. And i never understood that abuse. Looks like a lot of gas lighting manipulating making someone feel small making someone dependent on you and that to me as a child internalized it and new. Hey something's wrong. Something's wrong here. But i'm asian. We didn't really talk about anything. We also didn't have the tools. So i think an eating disorder and hating myself was a pretty easy project. 'cause i didn't have to figure them out because i wasn't even allowed to ask about it. I would say what's going on with him. Well what's going on with you. What's wrong with you. They'd say yeah. We'll also away that you're coping and i think that's the way the peace hopefully of providing some kind of self compassion to yourself that i think a lotta people often miss when it comes to you know whatever kind of behavior there engaged to that's actually causing them harm or that they realize is a result of trauma of some kind. Is that what you were doing was a way to whole. You're doing the best that you could with what you had and where you were at and beat yourself up for that right of like it. Looking back hindsight. Maybe not the way that you would want to choose to cope but it was the best that you knew what to do to protect yourself to continue to survive usually a hundred percent. Y'all can't see me but my nodding has become so insane at this point i've bobblehead listening to tailor. It's true there was. There was nothing better. I could have done like what. What could i have had to help. Distract me help me in my own. Count me survive in some kind of way. Help protect me. I love when you said protect down and we forget that when something is a struggle we forget to see that something like an eating disorder for me was actually. My best friend was very hard to let go. And when and still binge eating and my relationship with food and the need for the numbing and the coping and the warm hug that of food gives me so ingrained in me as a person and i've it was hard for me to bring him nuts. Compassion piece that you just mentioned because nothing works if it doesn't work so if you keep doing it there's a reason you're doing it and it's giving you something and that's really okay. Yeah until it's not well and i think it's important to actually name that and one of the things like i love like in my work asking people is how does this serve you. Not in a judgmental way. Not in a. What's the perfect. How do i get a grade. A in therapy answer right. But what do you notice that that was doing for you and it could be you know it was a distraction. It could be it made. You hate yourself which you thought was what you needed to feel right but like actually identifying how serving me in what ways my wanting to continue this. And what ways my holding onto this. Because it's doing something for me and identifying that can sometimes be really scary so scary because the acceptance piece was so easy for me to confuse as permission to do and they're not the same for you to let for me to let myself under understand what was going on. I think i perceived it as oh then. I'll never stop doing it now. You're going to keep doing if you never accept.
Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"ibs" Discussed on Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"Icu how you are. And that. it doesn't matter to me if you weigh a little bit more than what you weigh now. That doesn't change. I i so badly wanted to help her. And that i didn't take on that. Plus i also wasn't experiencing the shaming and the Anti fatness from society. And the way that she would A little bit of a different experience by definitely witnessed it with with folks around in middle school. My best friend was bulemic. And i went to therapy with her That whole friendship is a whole thing. Chanted up call me the n. Word and i tried to run away from home so is really terrible. Okay that there's a big trauma bond going on there are a. We're going to take a short break rate here. Because i got something share with y'all at the transition here so Y'all know i've been doing so many things with the house renovation. And i've just been nonstop on the go and you'll know i like to eat plant based i want to nourish myself. I want to each whole foods and foods that are organic and that are just gonna actually help nourish and fuel me and all sorts haven't had a lot of time to make things for myself so i've been using sikora and i'm really really excited to share them with the all. I sincerely hope that you'll check them out. Because they make these like chef crafted plant rich meals delivered to my door..
Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"ibs" Discussed on Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
"Help you in some way. I hope when you are driving to pick up your child's you say out loud to yourself abundance. I hope that when you are running your errands and shoot freaking out that you're going to be late to get to work that you remind yourself of abundance that when you are he. I don't know doing anything. Literally that is creating new stress or Triggering a panic or urgency or stress of Scarcity that you can just think and then vocalise actually say it abundance. Hope you say right now with me abundance. You are worthy of abundance okay. Well that was my little rant. And i hope it was helpful and i am so excited to share with your today's guest. I've loved loved honestly. It has been a thrill to follow her on instagram. Kelly you gel might already follow her. She is notable social media influencers. She's a speaker and honestly a very celebrated mental health advocate in two thousand eighteen. She created and coined instagram and youtube series. Therapy thursday to share. Just how beautiful and meaningful connecting with the most raw vulnerable parts of yourself can be which is also why. I felt comfortable to share my little reflection here at the beginning of this episode knowing. That's this whole conversation with kelly. You was around mental health. And i just love all of her vibes. Kelly aspires to inspire those who struggle with their relationship with their bodies. Food trauma and recovery sharply probably come on several other. Podcasts episode. Because there's so many things we could get into She's incredibly passionate about breaking the stigma on mental health through keynote speeches. She has spoken at tufts university. Broadly purdue the national eating disorders association And doves i ever virtual global summit. Kelly has overcome eating disorders anxiety and depression and is grateful to share her journey and help others to help themselves. Which wow i knew. I knew we was aligned. Alright y'all i knew we was aligned by the fact that part of her purpose is to help others helps themselves just really hits me as well And yes because i'm reading from part of her bio that's what just On my therapy website literally two thousand sixteen. When i was creating the foundation of what my practice was and who. I was going to be as a therapist. My number one goal approach philosophy was. I am here to help you. Help yourself. Fucking love kelly. I really hope y'all go follow her on instagram. And i hope that you love this conversation with her. I absolutely loved it. So without any further do and solo talking.
Dishing Up Nutrition
The Gut-Brain Connection
"You may have thought you know. I have a gut feeling about something. Well that's probably true. Perhaps the gut connection to your moods is the same as having a gut feeling about something So we are all connected. Yes absolutely yeah so that gut microbiome like you said it's that collection of both good and bad bacteria that lives throughout our whole entire digestive tract and on previous shows. Because we've here's another topic that got health is another topic that we have covered numerous numerous times on past shows. We've talked about how those microbes are connected to lots of different things that people may experience though things like this general inflammation but things also like pain The foods we choose the way we eat are eating behaviors. In general specific food cravings are moods anxiety depression. Which is our topic today. And maybe this is a question that just dietitians wonder. But i i've asked myself to of you know for the listeners out there. Have you ever noticed that had ibs or which is irritable bowel syndrome or any other kind of digestive issues. How often do those tend to coexist with anxiety and oftentimes depression. Very good question. yes so you know it's really a two-way street. Your gut bugs talk to your brain pm. Fluence emotions and at the same time your emotions in the neurotransmitters used by your brain have a profound effect on your gut So when there's a breakdown of the good communication between the gut and the brain that's when depression and anxiety slips in the interesting isn't it. Yeah super interesting.
Break The Rules
The Problem With Long Term Restrictive Diets With Steven Wright, Founder of Healthy Gut
"A little bit about this specific kind of issues that people could run into roadblocks with long-term restrictive diets. And i'm very much can relate to that with the spectrum of restrictive diets been on. Yeah so it's so psychological right. It's so hard to say. That diet alone is just physiology base that That what you're eating is just contributed a leaky gut and triggering your immune system intriguing. You're you're you're ibs or whatever it is you're bloating like that is just so simple. Not true. like food is the most one of the most emotional things we do on a regular basis and it's also community like we've break bread with our friends. Our families our loved ones. So i'm going on these diets. Low fat math specific carbohydrate diet autoimmune paleo carnivore like whatever you choose I do think they're really important to hopefully reduce your symptomology like like if you find the right diet. I think. And i'd love to hear your your take on this lauren But if you get that right diet intervention you should know in a week seven days seven days. You should see improvements in your bloating. Your gas your bowel habits your acne your joints. Whatever you're dealing with your brain fog if you don't notice a change in seven days either. That's not the wrong dietary intervention for you or dietary intervention by itself is like i said not not going to cut it by a long shot and so for people to just hold out for a really really long time hoping that. It's just an oh detox. Little bit longer got a detox a little bit longer. I'm seven die off a maybe or maybe you've made an assumption that your digestive tract can do what it says it can do. Or what may be medical textbooks sick. And do like you can actually create stomach acid and enzymes and do motilal and those types of things and now might be faults you might. You might be already so inflamed that you're gonna need support just mechanically get the nutrients out of whatever diet. You're on
Green Wisdom Health Podcast by Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis
"ibs" Discussed on Green Wisdom Health Podcast by Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis
"I'm like you're getting if it's a magnesium oxide or calcium carbonate. You might as well go like a rock in west. Texas is a debbie over in midland. Gimme rock come out there and lick from a calcium Sino kabbalah main. I don't care how famous that doctor is. He selling you the cheap things there. There's a lot of lesbian tone and the drug industry not any better. Yeah people say well it's not fda. Jeez fda they miss one hundred and twenty thousand deaths a year. Anyway i won't get too much into that but everywhere we've had products that we've had a product that we really liked in the in the ingredient list was really great and then we don't know what happened. They changed some of the ingredients in it. And dr lewis caught it. We way move to something different. We don't just keep selling the stuff that that's not doing anything he really pays attention to. What's in those product. We really do as she gives me. Credit you know brandies just as likely to catch. She's absolutely a brilliant young lady. But i mean we're working hard and and you guys have been with us for years. And that's a lot of thank you You've seen as mike mini mini mini changes. Sometimes well we have to change companies because of lack of raw materials and they backorder stuff for two or three months. So you know thank you for your trust and i always ask people. Do you trust the brand or you trust the doctor. trust me. i'll take care of you to the best of my ability. And i work hard. You know again. I'm he male adumim malin people at six thirty in the morning and then you know some other signs that you're at risk for cbo. Actually they they say the elderly may be the most vulnerable to developing developing it because it the actually rises with age but there's other multiple factors that can increase your chances. No matter how old you are you know she gave me the look when she said elderly is like. I refused to do that. You're not taking any of this stuff medication. And especially antibiotics. Increase your risk for cbo. Yeah regular chicken. you're getting antibiotics and arsenic. So don't think you're immune to this. My favorite drug has caffeine in the morning so gastric acid suppression. What is gastric acids. Oh wasn't number one. Most people don't have enough as us when we check your chloride and it has to be a certain number. But most if you're taking a proton pump inhibitor or even an over the counter aunt acid. You're really really heaven More mail absorption problems and lack of b twelve is common in people with good acid and so lack of b twelve. Mangy lack obi sakes so you can't let the neuro transmitters cross the blood brain barrier and half of us have that five. Mta mutation. you don't have to worry about all this stuff. I read this stuff. I remember little bit of it and i can practice it real well. You're hiring me to take the stress off egypt's throw it in ask god to bless it and some other risk for cbo is fibromyalgia. You know lots of people have fibromyalgia. I've had women look at me and said do you believe in fibromyalgia. And i'd say yes ma'am and they start crying. I said well you're the first doctor that would listen to me much less. Say yes. it's a real you know. Myriad of conditions sealy x. disease crown disease and it it it. It's not always just gluten but if you eliminate gluten a massive amount of this stuff would go away. Grain is for making cows fat okay. Quitting grain. I still like corn causes the corn tortilla. We live were huge hispanic influence. so that's probably downtown. But i did give up gluten and way way way better in my gut health prior bowel surgery. Actually high risk for cbo. You know i was gonna talk about that because head people that come in. They have a gastric bypass. Because well doc. I got absolutely no. Willpower is like no. But then you've got to understand what they bypassed is places that you absorb different things and you wonder why your health goes to hell. I mean go. Back goes downhill because you're not absorbing certain nutrients minerals and vitamins. You don't have enough enzymes to start with and we one lady says. Well i'll give you three months. Well good god it. Nine months for god to make a baby and you've had gastric bypass i think i'll not participate in your care. She got mad cried because they say it takes a minimum of three months to make changes with nutritional supplements yuning logical changes stopped of the speeding locomotive to start to turn it around and then once it gets turned around. It's a month for every year. You've been sick. And that's just a good generality there so folks don't tell you'll give me three months and you've been doing this for thirty years. It's not my responsibility. That's between your body and god and doing the right thing so i i don't take that kind of responsibility. Yeah people that had are diagnosed with type one and two diabetes or a higher. Risk ber- Cbo so yeah. Well you know. That's an inflammatory metabolic syndrome and diabetes. That's that's an inflammatory disease. And that's what i said earlier. I don't know if i said it. Or i just had a thought but eight out of ten dass or from an inflammatory disease. Oh off the subject. I was taking a seminar the day you know sent their two weekends plastered to my pet and the guy says well usually when you have periods of stress. It uses up all your minerals. Because you don't have enough anyway and you don't absorb what you're taking and he says you lose all your minerals you eat up all your b- bottom it's like janet and her stress and your hair starts turning gray or white because it's replaced with zinc which don't have enough up an replaced with calcium. And he said there's two minerals one of them's aren't and the other one. I'm not gonna tell you because we're experiment. Now i'm sixty six. And i have the gray hair of a forty year olds less gray.
Recovery Happy Hour
Healing Your Body After Alcohol with Bryan Bradford
"Hi brian how are you doing good tricia. Thanks so much for inviting me tonight. Of course i'm so happy to have you. I know we go back a long long way. Known your family for almost thirty years and talk. Yeah your sister definitely started working for you guys twenty years ago. I miss you guys all the time. But after knowing you guys for so long and hot in for shopping at this flower shop for so long i know you are the guy to go to when it comes to talking about like more natural solutions for for repair essentially and for just for overall health. So what i did was like crowd sourced. And i got all the best questions from everybody and they are dying to pick your brain how they can recover in sobriety so i have won the honor of being the biggest erred so yes definitely be happy to answer those well. Let's get the party. Started the number. One thing that people want to know about is sugar cravings eliminate alcohol and then all of a sudden. We're dying for sugar. How can people deal with this in a healthier way. It's a great question. Tricia in is not just for alcohol. I mean this is type. Two diabetes is probably such fast growing disease in our country. Right now and so really. It's blood sugar. Prominent everybody is happy and so when it comes to that question. I always like to talk about the chemistry of the body a little bit and some people get bored with chemistry. But it's important understand our body a little bit more so you can understand why we do this and not that and so i like to talk about the hormone cortisol. Most people heard this hormone. Because it's your stress hormone so when you're under stress your body produces more cortisol. The problem is actually to other things that drive cortisol to go high in the body beside stress. The second thing that drives cortisol is is inflammation. And we know that alcohol can be one of the contributors of inflammation and the third thing that tribes cortisol up is drops in blood sugar. So when we were going through drinking binges or maybe eating too many carbs sugars you were just causing your your sugar to spike and crash throughout the day and this also made this hormone cortisol do the same thing so when this cortisol mechanism gets engaged. You're basically engaging most people know asked the fight or flight syndrome we talk about fight or flight all the time in recovery for sure. That's right. Because i like to talk about it on the chemistry level because we all heard the term stress did no one knows what that really means to the body. So i'm gonna put it in trying to pitch this through our audio here. What cortisol is that fight or flight hormone which means you were designed to run away from danger but you really weren't meant to eat and run at the same time so what the body does particularly what cortisol does is that when cortisol goes high is suppressed Digestive function. so this is a lot of people are not hungry when their cortisol is. Hi how many of you are waking up in the morning and you're not hungry till eleven twelve clock. That is not normal. We've most of us should be hungry as soon as we wake up. Because we've been fasting through the night but that's not way most of america's going right now so this is leading to an issue really of this sugar dysregulation so maybe night we had too many carbs. We are chocolate and popcorn and glass of wine percent people then basically. We spiked her blood. Sugar up in when that blood sugar starts to crash. Cortisol starts to go up so when we are suppressing our digestive system with this cortisol hormone. And now you decide to eat that piece of chicken or that hamburger whatever it is that protein yours. Your digestion has an acid in your stomach called. Hcl that's supposed to break down these proteins but when it's under suppression. The food sits in the stomach. Too long inserts to ferment. And so a lot of people start experiencing some bloating or belching or more gas sometimes. If it goes on long enough it turns no heartburn indigestion and then these undigested proteins that undigested piece of chicken that did not break down very well starts to go into your small intestines and now your small tested that proteins too big to be absorbed properly so your immune system starts to attack that piece of protein. It basically treats it like an allergy and so in other words now it starts to create an inflammatory response in the gi track and that can lead towards more that ibs type symptoms. Now we're dealing with constipation loose bowels. You know if it goes on long enough to really call so law. Problems with diverticulitis crowns other big problems and long term. But i just want most people don't understand let's back up for a second cortisol. Goza suppresses your digestion. We sort of lose appetite food that we are eating or not digesting. That will so now it's going into the small intestines undigested causing an immune system attack. Eighty percent of your immune systems in the gut. So that's why these proteins enter the g. I tried harshly. Undigested your immune system sees those as allergens and it will tack that protein to get out there any protein while your body is in fight or flight for long-term you're gonna have trouble breaking down those proteins without support
Recovery Happy Hour
Healing Your Body After Alcohol with Bryan Bradford
"Hi brian how are you doing good tricia. Thanks so much for inviting me tonight. Of course i'm so happy to have you. I know we go back a long long way. Known your family for almost thirty years and talk. Yeah your sister definitely started working for you guys twenty years ago. I miss you guys all the time. But after knowing you guys for so long and hot in for shopping at this flower shop for so long i know you are the guy to go to when it comes to talking about like more natural solutions for for repair essentially and for just for overall health. So what i did was like crowd sourced. And i got all the best questions from everybody and they are dying to pick your brain how they can recover in sobriety so i have won the honor of being the biggest erred so yes definitely be happy to answer those well. Let's get the party. Started the number. One thing that people want to know about is sugar cravings eliminate alcohol and then all of a sudden. We're dying for sugar. How can people deal with this in a healthier way. It's a great question. Tricia in is not just for alcohol. I mean this is type. Two diabetes is probably such fast growing disease in our country. Right now and so really. It's blood sugar. Prominent everybody is happy and so when it comes to that question. I always like to talk about the chemistry of the body a little bit and some people get bored with chemistry. But it's important understand our body a little bit more so you can understand why we do this and not that and so i like to talk about the hormone cortisol. Most people heard this hormone. Because it's your stress hormone so when you're under stress your body produces more cortisol. The problem is actually to other things that drive cortisol to go high in the body beside stress. The second thing that drives cortisol is is inflammation. And we know that alcohol can be one of the contributors of inflammation and the third thing that tribes cortisol up is drops in blood sugar. So when we were going through drinking binges or maybe eating too many carbs sugars you were just causing your your sugar to spike and crash throughout the day and this also made this hormone cortisol do the same thing so when this cortisol mechanism gets engaged. You're basically engaging most people know asked the fight or flight syndrome we talk about fight or flight all the time in recovery for sure. That's right. Because i like to talk about it on the chemistry level because we all heard the term stress did no one knows what that really means to the body. So i'm gonna put it in trying to pitch this through our audio here. What cortisol is that fight or flight hormone which means you were designed to run away from danger but you really weren't meant to eat and run at the same time so what the body does particularly what cortisol does is that when cortisol goes high is suppressed Digestive function. so this is a lot of people are not hungry when their cortisol is. Hi how many of you are waking up in the morning and you're not hungry till eleven twelve clock. That is not normal. We've most of us should be hungry as soon as we wake up. Because we've been fasting through the night but that's not way most of america's going right now so this is leading to an issue really of this sugar dysregulation so maybe night we had too many carbs. We are chocolate and popcorn and glass of wine percent people then basically. We spiked her blood. Sugar up in when that blood sugar starts to crash. Cortisol starts to go up so when we are suppressing our digestive system with this cortisol hormone. And now you decide to eat that piece of chicken or that hamburger whatever it is that protein yours. Your digestion has an acid in your stomach called. Hcl that's supposed to break down these proteins but when it's under suppression. The food sits in the stomach. Too long inserts to ferment. And so a lot of people start experiencing some bloating or belching or more gas sometimes. If it goes on long enough it turns no heartburn indigestion and then these undigested proteins that undigested piece of chicken that did not break down very well starts to go into your small intestines and now your small tested that proteins too big to be absorbed properly so your immune system starts to attack that piece of protein. It basically treats it like an allergy and so in other words now it starts to create an inflammatory response in the gi track and that can lead towards more that ibs type symptoms. Now we're dealing with constipation loose bowels. You know if it goes on long enough to really call so law. Problems with diverticulitis crowns other big problems and long term. But i just want most people don't understand let's back up for a second cortisol. Goza suppresses your digestion. We sort of lose appetite food that we are eating or not digesting. That will so now it's going into the small intestines undigested causing an immune system attack. Eighty percent of your immune systems in the gut. So that's why these proteins enter the g. I tried harshly. Undigested your immune system sees those as allergens and it will tack that protein to get out there any protein while your body is in fight or flight for long-term you're gonna have trouble breaking down those proteins without support
Recovery Happy Hour
Healing Your Body After Alcohol with Bryan Bradford
"Hi brian how are you doing good tricia. Thanks so much for inviting me tonight. Of course i'm so happy to have you. I know we go back a long long way. Known your family for almost thirty years and talk. Yeah your sister definitely started working for you guys twenty years ago. I miss you guys all the time. But after knowing you guys for so long and hot in for shopping at this flower shop for so long i know you are the guy to go to when it comes to talking about like more natural solutions for for repair essentially and for just for overall health. So what i did was like crowd sourced. And i got all the best questions from everybody and they are dying to pick your brain how they can recover in sobriety so i have won the honor of being the biggest erred so yes definitely be happy to answer those well. Let's get the party. Started the number. One thing that people want to know about is sugar cravings eliminate alcohol and then all of a sudden. We're dying for sugar. How can people deal with this in a healthier way. It's a great question. Tricia in is not just for alcohol. I mean this is type. Two diabetes is probably such fast growing disease in our country. Right now and so really. It's blood sugar. Prominent everybody is happy and so when it comes to that question. I always like to talk about the chemistry of the body a little bit and some people get bored with chemistry. But it's important understand our body a little bit more so you can understand why we do this and not that and so i like to talk about the hormone cortisol. Most people heard this hormone. Because it's your stress hormone so when you're under stress your body produces more cortisol. The problem is actually to other things that drive cortisol to go high in the body beside stress. The second thing that drives cortisol is is inflammation. And we know that alcohol can be one of the contributors of inflammation and the third thing that tribes cortisol up is drops in blood sugar. So when we were going through drinking binges or maybe eating too many carbs sugars you were just causing your your sugar to spike and crash throughout the day and this also made this hormone cortisol do the same thing so when this cortisol mechanism gets engaged. You're basically engaging most people know asked the fight or flight syndrome we talk about fight or flight all the time in recovery for sure. That's right. Because i like to talk about it on the chemistry level because we all heard the term stress did no one knows what that really means to the body. So i'm gonna put it in trying to pitch this through our audio here. What cortisol is that fight or flight hormone which means you were designed to run away from danger but you really weren't meant to eat and run at the same time so what the body does particularly what cortisol does is that when cortisol goes high is suppressed Digestive function. so this is a lot of people are not hungry when their cortisol is. Hi how many of you are waking up in the morning and you're not hungry till eleven twelve clock. That is not normal. We've most of us should be hungry as soon as we wake up. Because we've been fasting through the night but that's not way most of america's going right now so this is leading to an issue really of this sugar dysregulation so maybe night we had too many carbs. We are chocolate and popcorn and glass of wine percent people then basically. We spiked her blood. Sugar up in when that blood sugar starts to crash. Cortisol starts to go up so when we are suppressing our digestive system with this cortisol hormone. And now you decide to eat that piece of chicken or that hamburger whatever it is that protein yours. Your digestion has an acid in your stomach called. Hcl that's supposed to break down these proteins but when it's under suppression. The food sits in the stomach. Too long inserts to ferment. And so a lot of people start experiencing some bloating or belching or more gas sometimes. If it goes on long enough it turns no heartburn indigestion and then these undigested proteins that undigested piece of chicken that did not break down very well starts to go into your small intestines and now your small tested that proteins too big to be absorbed properly so your immune system starts to attack that piece of protein. It basically treats it like an allergy and so in other words now it starts to create an inflammatory response in the gi track and that can lead towards more that ibs type symptoms. Now we're dealing with constipation loose bowels. You know if it goes on long enough to really call so law. Problems with diverticulitis crowns other big problems and long term. But i just want most people don't understand let's back up for a second cortisol. Goza suppresses your digestion. We sort of lose appetite food that we are eating or not digesting. That will so now it's going into the small intestines undigested causing an immune system attack. Eighty percent of your immune systems in the gut. So that's why these proteins enter the g. I tried harshly. Undigested your immune system sees those as allergens
Food Psych
How to Avoid the Wellness Diet in the New Year with Harri Rose of Anti-Diet Riot Club
"So this week's question is from a listener named alison who writes hi christie. I thank you so much for all that you do. I i heard about intuitive eating on your podcast and has really opened my eyes to all of the diet culture messages that surround me. I've had digestive issues. Ever since i was a young child and have struggled throughout most of my life to figure out the best ways to minimize those issues doctors. I had always told me. I was fine. And if something did not make me feel good. I should just not eat it. I once told the doctor that i sometimes felt sick after eating some types of dairy and he told me i should just cut it out. Cut dairy out of my diet anyway. Because it's not good for me. What a few years ago. I went to a. Do digestive complaints more seriously. She told me. I was likely suffering from ibs and that i could try taking daily probiotics to see if that helped. She also suggested i try the fadh map elimination diet to see if i could identify a few trigger foods and then try to limit the frequency of eating those trigger foods. Shells gave me some guides in resources to learn about five maps. Did the map elimination and honestly felt so much better. I learned what foods made me feel worse over the last four years. I've noticed that my digestive issues tend to flare up. When i eat a lot of those trigger foods. There are some fruits veggies grains and dairies. That i feel great eating and others in each of those food groups that can trigger my digestive issues. I haven't limited foods at diet. Culture categorizes as quote unquote bad and only eat food. Die culture categorizes as quote unquote. Good there are no foods that i eliminated entirely. And i'll still eat some of the trigger foods if i'm craving them or if there aren't many other options which happens a lot when i'm traveling however if if i'm not having a strong craving try to focus on picking up foods from the grocery store that are last triggering after listening to your podcast for the last six months or so. I'm now struggling with figuring out if even having a list of quote unquote trigger foods in the back of my head is a form of restricting. That's actually bad for me. Especially as i hear that. Some healthcare professionals don't think ibs is quote unquote. Real is limiting foods that make me feel sick and change my ability to do things throughout the day. Because i feel sick a form of restriction that i need to unlearn. How do i incorporate my body's digestive reaction to foods into my decisions about the foods. I eat thank you so much for your response. It's hard to know how diet culture has infiltrated my food. Decisions and your work is really helping me be more careful about how i think and talk about food so i would love to hear your answer to this iona okay. So hi allison. That's a great question. Is a lot to unpack here. So let's start with the first part. The doctor advising knew that you were fine just to omit a food group or a food. That doesn't make you feel good if it doesn't make you feel good so as someone who has a specific gi issue and no through firsthand experience that this is a sort of general advice. That isn't always helpful. He can take years of having. Gi issued learn. What makes you feel good versus. What doesn't make you feel good in. This is especially true if you don't have the guidance and support of an experienced in a well rounded healthcare professional so for one and this is no fault of your own but the world we live in. We tend to ascribe moral values foods and this can disrupt our ability to notice into feel how foods are making us feel have some preconceived notions in those can have pretty heavy. Pretty powerful influence over our thoughts and our feelings about the foods were eating. It can even change how we experience those foods in our bodies in a lot of cases so to me selling a person to commit a food group. If it doesn't feel good is complicated. And i think it's it might even be a little irresponsible than it might appear on the surface because there's elements of restrictive diet culture in even assumptions about accessibility that underlies this sort of recommendation. And it could be well. Meaning who knows. I think usually it is on. The doctor. Might actually believe that. Gi issues can be resolved in this way. But i personally don't think so. What i think is that it just puts people on a path of relying on on restrictive health trends that just become more and more restrictive and unrealistic in unsustainable over time because the only answer to your gi issues becomes remove foods from your diet in. There could be other things if you're removed one food and then you feel better and it's like okay. Well now i'm having this issue and then you begin to remove another food in so the example that you gave about the doctor telling you to just cut dairy out of your diet because you told them that you felt sick after eating some types of dairy is just an example of how some healthcare providers don't consider the bigger
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Digital Tools to Measure Blood Sugar & Metabolic Health with Dr Casey Means
"Well, hey everybody, welcome back to the dr. Jockers functional nutrition podcast and you guys know that one of my favorite topics to talk about is blood sugar insulin and metabolic health and we had a great interview recently with Dodge van Dyckman. We went in depth on that and this is almost like a follow-up to it because we're going to talk about really the personalized approach to really looking at your blood sugar and how it's responding to the foods that you're consuming and so my guess is dr. Casey means she is the chief medical officer at levels and she is a Stanford trained physician again, chief medical officer and co-founder of the metabolic whole company levels, and she's the associate editor of the international Journal of disease reversal and prevention and he can find more information about her at levels health.com and we're going to talk about what the best food. Are for blood sugar management for metabolic health and how that could be variable depending on how your body is responding to the foods that you consume. We're talking about personalized medicine. So dr. Casey that joining us here. Thank you so much for having me. Dr. Jockers. So happy to be here. Well, yes for sure and I've heard of several of your interviews on other podcasts and you really do a great job of explaining how important blood sugar stability is and you know, this this new technology that we have now continuous blood glucose monitoring. And so what I love to do is start with your story and you know how you went from Stamford and trained in in medicine to now kind of branching out into a functional nutrition Integrative Medicine approach. Yeah. Absolutely. So like you mentioned I trained as a medical doctor conventional medicine. I trained at Stamford did my undergrad and Med medical school there and then I went on to become a head and neck surgeon. So I was deep in the surgical birth. Hold for about five years and in my role as a head and neck surgeon, which is really treating the conditions of the like your nose and throat. So an ENT surgeon something I noticed was sort of hitting me back, you know after about five years, like wow pretty much all of the conditions that I'm treating are inflammatory in nature. They're all related in some way to chronic inflammation. So some of the things you think about are like sinus infection, which is inflammation of the sinuses and chronic ear disease, which is inflammation of the eustachian tube the tube that connects the nose to the ear you get, you know inflammation in that tube and you get past building up in the ear, you've got Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is inflammation of the thyroid you've got things like vocal cord granulomas which are inflammatory masses of the vocal chords and then lots of head and neck cancer, of course, which we know cancer has very much relationship between inflammation. So it was really interesting to me sort of step back and say wow. This is sort of a very common theme between a lot of the conditions that I'm treating and in some way it didn't make total sense wage. That we would be treating those conditions with surgery because chronic inflammation is fundamentally a issue with how our immune system is responding to perceived or real threats in in the environment in our bodies and thoughts were more were learning about how chronic inflammation is in many ways really rooted in our everyday exposures. So what we eat the toxins were exposed to in our food air and water, you know, how much sleep we get the stress in our lives how much or how little exercise were getting our microbiome all of these things have a direct relationship to chronic inflammation. So I'm treating it with this sort of very reactionary invasive more anatomic approach with surgery, you know, there was some sort of missing missing link there and certainly surgeries are really important in beautiful art but phone no other conditions really rooted in chronic inflammation. It kind of got me thinking there might be a better way to approach us. What could we be doing what sort of really personalized dietary and lifestyle interventions really foundational help to really quell bath. Chronic immune response. Well that threat the body is sensing and potentially keep Patients Out of the operating room. You're not going to prevent all surgeries, but I certainly think there's some low-hanging fruit we can do to help minimize the severity of the disease is and hopefully never have to get have them get that really end of the line where they see me in the or going under the knife, which is a really serious serious thing. So that really got me on this journey of trying to understand the root cause of disease and that led me to functional medicine and so I actually stepped away from the operating room got training with Institute for functional medicine and really started thinking of disease a lot differently. I started seeing things much more as symptoms and diseases often being the branches on a very similar true and that tree that we that that sort of route that that connects a lot of seemingly disparate diseases often comes down to things like inflammation and even deeper Inflammation metabolic dysfunction this was talked about so beautifully on your episode recently with dr. Bed big man who is talking about metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance, but was so interesting is that you know in our country. It's it's not that about 88% of Americans have met have signs of metabolic dysfunction that was shown in a study a couple of years ago from UNC that 88% of adult Americans have at least one biomarker of metabolic dysfunction and metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance, which are kind of two sides of the same coin really can directly feed into inflammation. So it's all really created and what's sort of hopeful about this is that those are things that are readily modifiable with smart choices in and how we live and what we expose ourselves to so became really interested in that and and really this system the network biology movement, which is really stepping back and saying, you know, we've we've conventionally looked at diseases in in conventional medicine. As isolated silos, you've got depression. You've got obesity. You've got diabetes. You've got prostate cancer. You've got IBS and these are all things that are different and we treat them separately with totally different with medications a totally different mechanisms. But when you step back and you use sort of more advanced research techniques, like whole genome sequencing and proteomics, how can we actually see? What are the molecular links between diseases and you create a web a network a system and that's really the root of systems and network biology. And when you start doing that you see these connections and I think the future of Iraq and its really treating conditions at that level at the connections between diseases cuz when you do that you can you know, hit a lot more birds with one stone that's sort of a negative metaphor, but you know what, I mean, it's it's it's got instead of playing whack-a-mole. You're really you can have multiple various effects with with some single interventions effect that root cause physiology. So my career really moved
20 Minute Fitness
The Benefits Of Hypnotherapy
"Hey Alex welcome to the show. It's great to have you here today and I'm excited to chats about well not. So commonly now on topic today well, and maybe there's also quite a few misconceptions about it. hypnotherapy could you please introduce yourself and tell audience what mindset health does show? So Yup, hi, I'm Alison Coach of Health We build hypnosis spaced digital therapeutics for chronic health conditions like IBS anxiety. So essentially, the programs developed by doctors and psychologists to. Use hypnosis hypnosis based techniques to help people self that conditions right and so so what should our listeners like imagine? So it's an APP and it's kind of guiding me through hypnotherapy session or what should I imagine? Yeah. Yeah. So safer fell IBS Procam Nova. It's a structured program of audio sessions on order sessions plus psycho education and flare up techniques and essentially think guided meditation and the delivery methods was audio of coming boys getting to you into helping you. Get into a relaxed focused state. Then it's designed by doctors and psychologists teaching coping skills. It's I'm using visualizations to help increase your ability to self regulate. Right. So that's really the core difference between guided meditation sessions ride. They're more about you know folk singing and clearing your mind to some extent whereas hypnotherapy is using some of that. But really with the purpose of inducing you to making it more receptive to while things that you are looking to change your behavior. Exactly exactly. Yeah. That that's a great description of it. Essentially, hypnosis is becoming highly focused and absorbed to the point that you become more suggestive also receive receptive to new ideas or perceptions. So it's not a therapy itself but when it's combined with their PD techniques, cpt, it becomes hypnotherapy and so while because you'll like essentially low lowering your critical faculty and becoming more receptive and I'm in this sort of experiential learning state I'm when wet teaching you coping skills on. Bass coping skills or going through visualizations you really integrate them much more fully and studies have shown. It can actually improved effectiveness bt for many many conditions. Right and this is nothing like what has been popularized in Hollywood movies as being like put into a state where you lose all your awareness about what the hypnotists saying and what you're doing yourself and Sunday, you're chicken. Exactly. Yeah it's much more like if anything it's more a tightened away innocent heightened focus of what they're saying. So compared to say when we're talking about meditation about like clearing clearing your mind, this is much more like folks really focused on what they're saying tow. It's much more of an active active thing that got it, and so what can you really use it for what are like some of the common conditions that you can treated with? So it's been shown to help a variety of. Conditions. So one of the most well studied areas is irritable passenger. So there's been a tape of evidence showing it can reduce help manage symptoms by seventy percent of people by sixty percent reduction. So it's pretty powerful. It can also help with anxiety depression like teaching coping skills that can help you manage stresses and problem solving skills that can say depression. They often make portions when depressed and so teaching people with the skills to help them make better decisions is one way of managing that and. Is such a powerful vehicle for teaching skills. It can be used across a lot of things another well, well-researched area is chronic pain. So there's been a whole heap of evidence supporting it as a way to reduce acute pain in the moment, but also long term chronic pain conditions such as migraines chronic back pain something that's quite recently such. But this a pretty strong evidence behind it is helping reduce Menopausal postmenopausal hot flashes. So there was a study coming out of Baylor University that found hypnosis or a five-week hypnosis program could help reduce the onset and the the occurrence of hot flashes in postmenopausal women by. Eighty percent after the five-week on program. So it's this pretty strong evidence for writing things they sleep on smoking cessation is coming like ones that might people might associate with hypnosis but because it's just a vehicle for therapeutic aches and most people can become focused and absorbed in what they're doing with a movie or driving or in a daydream it is a widely useful tool, right and right now with mindset alfio primarily focused on mental health ibs and chronic pain management that's still in the works from what I understand right? Exactly. So we we started with mental health and essentially Wichmann, Dr Michael, Yap Kerr on the world leader. In hypnosis actually has textbook on clinically uses hypnosis, but he's a depression expert as well. So are we started with mindset which is a series of programs that teach individual skills and cognitive mechanisms round variety of mental health mental areas but with Nova, which is out second program that's structured six week program for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and that was based on a twenty sixteen clinical trial by at Monash. University that found six weeks of DOT therapy could help improve IBM symptoms by an average of sixty percent for seventy percent of people, and we've worked with the ray such a I'm from that study to as essentially take her. Work and then deliver through my ball up right and in the future will be we'll be expanding that that sort of ability of waking with such as for different programs into chronic pain into hot flashes into many different areas.
Not Another Anxiety Show
Anxiety Bytes: Am I Doomed by My Genes to Be Anxious?
"Hey guys autumn to not another anxiety. Show I'm your host Kelley Walker and joining me. Today is my co host Eric. Lay them head low. This these days I now and we get to do a little Anxiety by segment today. I know and I'm still angry about the it yes B. I t I s you. Don't all the grudge It's been a year more than a year it's been I think you have some exciting news. I'M GONNA share it for you okay. There are guests who knows how to sign into the show's instagram page. I do I know signing instagram. I even made a fun. Little time lapse video that I'm figuring out how to upload so stay tuned. It'll probably be like a week or two. I'm toying with doing once. We can like put it together. It makes us look like we're professionals. Yeah I'm not there yet. I'm just learning. I don't honestly we could talk about this after. I don't even see where you like. Start a new post or something so overwhelmed by. I like we're just GONNA TAKE BITES ICE says around coaching advice. Which is gonNA take fees Where you start a new post where you start a new post. Yeah we'll talk right after that will take that off. Line okay so anxiety by its. I'm kind of pumped about this one. Because I have had this question many times we we had a really great up that I can't remember the which one but it was sort of towards the beginning of things where we talked about We talked about this and it's one of it was when I was going through panic attacks. That was one of my biggest fears in the things. I got stuck on the most common questions I get asked. Okay really. It's like it's got to be like top five most common questions just in like my personal kind of one on one coaching experience. And I know it was a big question for me when things were really when things really felt like a big struggle. And we're really sticking well challen. Let's do it okay. So wait are need to set a timer. Is it going to be? Siri renew us all right. I'm GonNa see if I can do it with my voice. He Siri set a five U. Two's flower girl. God Oh my God all right. Forget I'm going to be hearings. A man you know what? Don't judge not that's okay. I've never heard man. Siri is my Syria. Identifies AS A British man? That's better than regular Siri. But you can tell me how to do that after two regular series. Okay ready so the question is am. I doomed by my jeans to be anxious. Ready go answer is now and that's the end of this segment. Thank you so much for tuning in today if you want to. Why do we do no no? None of us are doomed by our genes to be anxious In fact according to an article published in the advances in experimental medicine in Biology Peer Reviewed Journal Genome five times fast fast. You know when when you cited. It's nice abbreviated. But saying it. Out Loud so mouthful But you know. According to this study Genome Wide Association studies have failed to identify any genes significantly associated with anxiety diagnosis so You know this was published by the National Health Institute. I think it's like on the APA website too but They're very clear that we really just haven't been able to find any genes associated with an increased risk for developing anxiety But some recent research suggests that like epigenetics may be playing a role here so if you remember from old episode epigenetics can be thought of as genes that are more flexible so they can be turned on and off throughout our lifetime and they're also influenced by Environmental factors and environmental factors or like a very broad-based charm for like influenced by all sorts of things And this is really quite a bit different from how we used to think of jeans. And if you kind of want a quick review about genetics EPI This is a quick little anxieties segments bite. But you can listen to episode one seventy two With Dr Sarah Circus where we go into a bit more detail about Epigenetics and now apostasy by her so much much longer so much. Allah for so much But Anyway so preliminary research animal studies. Only there's no human studies yet but in animal studies suggests that some epigenetics may play a role in regulating our HP access which we talked about in episode fourteen so basically may influence. How sensitive are flight or fight response is under stress? So what happens is when we're feeling resilient on top of things good our fight or flight response may work absolutely beautifully but if our system is under stress which can be caused by external factors like financial strain Or internal factors like worrying. You know like certain behaviors or habits. We may innocently have But when our system is under stress epigenetics may kick our fight or flight system into higher gear a little faster than it would in someone else with the different genome but the great thing is there are genetic factors that positively influence the sensitivity of our HP Access Aka fight or flight response. So just some other factors that really like you can think of like enhance or late or you know. Increase resiliency with our fight or flight response. One factor is exercise. You know impacts this system. Positively nutritionally dense whole foods impacts this system positively human connection impacts the system positively A regular mindfulness practice can impact the system. Positively one of my favorite studies found you know just to go off. That is one of my favorites that he's in the world found that mindfulness practices. You know different. Mindfulness practices reduced on. Ibs symptoms in in study patients and and more importantly which shows sort of like the nature like a micro like a microcosm of the nature of epigenetics It also reduced these mindfulness. Various mindfulness practices also reduced expression of a gene associated with. Ibs Flare Up. So people were experiencing reduce symptoms and we were able to also see this in their genome so in short recent preliminary research suggests like there may be an EPI genetic factor here and also you know what we do know Have Known for little while there are so many EPI genetic factors that influence hauer fight or flight system behaves right like stress is one that can kind of tilted towards the unfavorable Paul. And there's so many other behaviors or habits that we can cultivate or have control over which is nice to know that. Can SORTA on nudge it back towards a more favorable place. Some right right right. I love that you keep learning things. Yano I'm like I told you Erica. Scientists forever yes mate just made it
Dishing Up Nutrition
Struggling with Digestive Problems?
"I'm Shelby Olsen. I'm a licensed nutritionist. With a bachelor's degree in exercise science and a masters degree in clinical nutrition and I understand that education is really important when it comes to talking about human health and nutrition. And of course I learned lots of things about nutrition and health while I was completing my master's degree. But to be honest with you as a practicing nutritionist with nutritional weight and wellness. I feel like I've learned even more so much of that. Clinical experience working with clients helping people feel their best. You know they always talk about education's great you learn lots of good things but when you're out in the real world working with people that's really where you've got to use those problem solving skills you really have to understand what is going to make a big difference here for people. We don't WanNa talk about theories we WANNA talk about action step so theresa and I are tasked this morning with talking about how those of you can change your digestive health so our topic is all things related to digestion have digestive problems. You certainly are not alone. According to a survey in the Journal of gastroenterology seventy four percent of the US population has some type of Gi symptoms and Gi gastrointestinal symptoms. That could be things like heartburn or acid reflux that could be abdominal pain or nausea. And of course that could be bloating gas diarrhea and constipation. You Know Teresa when I was in my first year of my master's program one of my professors said to me. You know if you're not comfortable asking people about their poop you're in the wrong profession. Isn't that or digestive. Problems are a common reason. People make an appointment with a traditional or a Dietitian. You know three so. I know you're busy in the office. Always but I'm sure you have clients that are in their eighties or ninety S. I'm sure you work with kids as well. You know we see that people can have digestive problems regardless of their age in fact we were talking before we came in that. There's a nutrition educator with nutritional weight and wellness who is a physical therapist and specializes in helping kids with chronic and very severe constipation. And I was KINDA SURPRISED TO LEARN. That parents are flying in all over to get help with constipation. Whether it's some some nutrition help some physical therapy help as you might imagine. Childhood Constipation is not very enjoyable for parents. Oh you feel your paying exactly so when we think about constipation. Oftentimes we're thinking about processed foods. Excess sugar were really looking at. What could be that foundation of creating that slow digestion or creating more of that painful Experience so another culprit that I think is often linked to constipation in children cheese sticks. And we're going to talk a little bit more about foods that are more challenging for the digestive tract but cheeses often constipated for both children and adults so think about the foods. Kids eat MAC and cheese pizza. Maybe snacking on crackers and cheese or those sorts of things they can be really challenging for those little belly's to digest. Yeah those are the foods that I think are very common. That kids are eating right now. Just because they're they're easy to eat first of all. I mean as far as just the mechanics of eating them right and then Yeah I mean. They're very convenient for parents to give their kids to right so parents. If you're listening you do have a child or you. As an adult or struggling with constipation or other tummy. Troubles are tasked today. Theresa and I are really hoping to address what helps with good gut health. And what may happen? If you don't have that right balance in the intestinal tract now it may surprise some of you listening to learn that your gut is even connected to your brain. We talked about that gut brain connection now. You heard her voice Joining me in studio this morning is our co host Teresa Wagner. I would say First and foremost she's a mom that's where she's spending a lot of time but we also get her a few days a week to in our offices and of course on the show so theresa you're a registered and licensed Dietitian. And how long have you been practicing? I think I've been a nutritional weight and wellness for five years. Maybe it's six. Yeah this they time flies when you're having fun so you must be fine now at one time. Teresa you and I were talking a little bit more as Nutritionists Dietitians. We experienced some of these things too. And I think you've kind of shared you've had some day just of issues before so hopefully you can kind of bring us into some of that discussion. Yes and maybe before we discuss that and before we discuss heartburn diarrhea constipation. Ibs I want to talk about how your immune function is connected to your Gut Hill. So not just the brain but also the immune system. Yes everything's connected. Isn't it approximately seventy percent of your immune system is found in your digestive system and because of Cova Nineteen? Many of us are trying to do everything. Possible in order to have good immune function Have you thought about your gut health and how it affects your immune function and I know shelby you have for the listeners out there have you made that connection. It's interesting to realize that throughout your life your immune system has been shaped by the communities of bacteria that reside in an on your body. How you were fed as a baby is a very important part digestive health And it's important for your current digestive function so how you were fed as an infant affects your current health right. Breast Milk provided for those of you who are breastfed and abundance of beneficial bacteria. And if you were breastfed you may have missed out on some of the those most protective bacteria from your intestinal track And now as a mom when I hear that I know of so many moms who tried breastfeeding and forever. Whatever reason it just didn't work out so this isn't necessarily meant to be a guilt trip but what it is or it's not at all meant to be a guilt trip but What it is just really good information for you to know for your children or you're having digestive issues Or the prevention of digestive issues or chronic illnesses right and there's also really good information for us as adults who maybe when we were being raised or when our parents were feeding us that it wasn't maybe breastfeeding wasn't in vogue at the time or our mothers weren't able to breastfeed at that time just as good information to have. I agree and I often tell people you know. I know I wasn't breastfed as a baby. And when I talked to some of my clients and ask them. It's it's an interesting reaction they while I had never thought of that. Does that really affect my immune system or you know that sort of stuff now and I tell them well you know. We can't travel back in the past and we're not going to blame and shame mom for what she didn't know at the time but that also gives like for me personally. That gave me really good reason to focus on reestablishing that good bacteria. Because I know I wasn't exposed to that beneficial bacteria through breast milk. Yeah good information right Some babies who are breastfed have a higher proportion of that beneficial bacteria that protects them against pathogens Certain diseases are often linked to an unhealthy. Good which may not contain adequate levels of that beneficial bacteria that bacteria. That's crucial for good digestion. Which we're talking about today exactly and in fact Teresa when we're talking about bacteria we're starting to see the bad bacteria has been connected as one of the primary causes of ulcers specifically those peptic ulcers. So yes I said bad. Bacteria causes ulcers not stress and not spicy foods for one hundred years or more Doctors and researchers believed that ulcers were related to stress and spicy foods. You know but it wasn't until two thousand five that Nobel Prize winners in medicine Dr Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren made that connection between ulcers and a type of bacteria called heliotrope actor Pylori. Sometimes you guys have heard of that as H. Pylori
Green Wisdom Health Podcast by Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis
You Cant Outrun Your Fork
"And today. We are going to cite you with a show about gluten called. You can't outrun your work. Dr Louis came up with that. Catchy Title I think he stole it. Perhaps from someone else but We liked it so extra. That's right but so we're GONNA talk to you about foods that might cause you to want more of the same and some very exciting testing information that we have been waiting very long time for Where it would be convenient for you and great reports and ways for you to determine gluten or wheat sensitivity so to day Dr Louis Would you explain to us about gluten and why it such a big problem? And why would someone be intolerant to it and you know what does it? 'cause what's the big deal with gluten gluten free so big deal right? I think it is a big deal. some of the research says is one out of one hundred or two out of hundred. That has gluten intolerance ILIAC disease. You know if you have that kind of Gi Issues go see your Gi doctor. So you're in tarnished Get the test made. Although we're going to tell you about tasks that you can do with us that I found to be. Oh my God blow you into new reality of knowledge and understanding again. I'M GONNA go down too much rabbit. Trails You know when I read this thing in interior. Was you know everybody should follow Tara? She really good health coach and she rat some pretty intelligent newsletters. Just like brandy does for Janet May You know I think anyone that puts beans chiles kind of a heathen might not love the Lord. But it's not just about beans beans can have issues too but mostly we don't talk about. Grind grain is not good and some of the myths. 'cause I I really think Janice going to get into more detail than me but and I hear this all the time but I'm eating whole wheat bread because I'm getting whole grains well usually Whole wheat break usually doesn't contain very much of the whole grind because the number one ingredient he's usually called wheat flour There's nips but I love my oatmeal. It's like well. I two or three bowls boat meal per year and I think it's the most nutritious thing you can eat breakfast. I personally think that's very very not true. And I think it's better than a breakfast. You know of sugary cereal but OATMEAL has a pretty high glycemic load. And so I don't think that's a good thing because it generally means when you have a high glycemic stuff. It usually means that you're going to spend the rest of the day over eating because you're hungry because of glycemic index Well you know I think we need to back up a little bit here and tell people why we got so involved with gluten you know before we we tell people. Don't eat gluten you know. It's not good but at the same time we didn't have a personal experience with it or where we could relate to own my goodness. That's what's causing it. If it's many of you have been listening to us for years. Thank you so much or someone that's new. You know the personal history there with why we found this out is because Dr Lewis was experiencing severe stomach pains to the point. He thought he was going to die. I mean I was bitterly I. I was giving him everything that I knew to give him. And you know we know all about nutrition for those of you that don't like me Janice WanNa keep me alive so ninette and happy but he I would give him so many things and it was like nothing was making it right and it got so bad. He tried to take out extra life insurance because he was sure he wasn't going to make it. And you know how God works. He sends people longer path. When it's just your bleakest darkest hour and shows you something you would not have listened to previously and incomes a Representative or actually. We had a a one of our bottom representatives. Tell us about this country. This company called vibrant labs and they did A lot of blood work with just a little bit of blood and we were very excited about it because we thought well you know. We don't really know what we need to have run. We've got a pretty good deal going with our lab companies. Now you guys get great pricing on the labs we you know. I don't know how this is going to help us. And she said but they'll do a gluten test on you and wheat sensitivity and food sensitivity testing and and maybe Dr Lisk and find out what's wrong so when we did the testing at that time it was a blood draw and it had to be a person that came to your office or they came to your house and they drew the blood and then it was sent off Which we did and Dr. Louis came back that he was not only gluten intolerant but he was borderline Celia disease. Which is what that turns into if it's uncontrolled so you know telling someone to quit eating gluten and then seeing it on a on a report where it's glaring at you telling you this is the result of you. Eating gluten is two different things which made us want to start offering this test. So Dr Lewis Stop Gluten. He thought well that's the issue. I'll stop it. He did and immediately. He started feeling better and I thought so. I did the test mine. Wasn't that bad. It wasn't great turns out that anybody who lives in the United States has it to some degree because of the Chemical crawls and the increase in gluten in the grange compared to what it was a few decades ago right and so we both more so than I will make sure he does not eat gluten in a meal and I cannot tell you the difference in how you feel with your digestive system. You know if you're suffering from you know things like bloating and brain fog and and you eat something that you just feel like it. Just you can't. You're not gonNA ever process it. It's probably because you have some sort of an allergy to it But belly pain diarrhoea. Muscle pain anxiety. Headaches nausea confusion numbness. They're all signs of it. And frankly with the lab testing the way it was at the time. And I know many of you and I'm sweating explaining this many of you've been asking us when you're GonNa get this going because we really want to do this We couldn't count on having a person that would draw the blood all the time everywhere because we are able to to draw lab across the United States. It's not always convenient place for someone to get drawn so vibrant look really just came out with The ability to have it as a finger prick test in your home so the way it works is we've said everything up on our website. It's under Specialty panels tab at the top and it explains to you. What all is in this test? And these tests that we've seen before because Dr has looked at them many times from different companies there about three thousand dollars to run what we're running for six hundred dollars and the fact that it can be a finger prick test in your home so you're secure. You don't have to go to a lab which a lot of people are scared of now and it doesn't take that much blood to do. All of this is just. We're just so excited to be bringing it to you But they have what? You're what you'll get for that six hundred dollars as a wheat. Zumur panel a leaky gut panel and a food sensitivity profile panel of ninety. Six foods Where'd you fill out the Hell Star Bay? If you've not done our health survey it'll ask you it. It includes Wheat Gluten and electons. And then you'll be able to pick two more primary foods that you eat the most of and those are added but it it detects wieght and gluten related disorders it aids in this specific recognition of antibodies to wheat peptides including gluten and non gluten components along with intestinal permeability. It allows detection of protein. Antibodies associated with wheat and gluten sensitivities. Were information to reduce monitor and manage the inflammatory effects of those sensitivities. So you'll be able to tail and it. It gives it to you in beautiful reports. It tells you what you may be missing nutritionally not specifically our products but just in general which Dr Lewis will turn around and come up with products that are ours to correlate to these tests. So that you'll know which things you need. So Dr Lewis. Can you explain to us? How Leaky Gut. Why why would we test for that so much? You know what? What is it? We're trying to see with leaky gut. Well the Gluten Causes Zanjan Zanjan opens up the gaps and then the leaky gut can absorb poorly digested food. Proteins back to our microbes and it gets things in your blood stains bloodstream. You don't really want It's just a bad thing. A you know anybody. Listen to enough my podcast. Now that I get in different moods well. I'm in a different mood today. You know you know my main thing I want to say. Today's it's you know we. We named this thing. It's hard to run your Fort It's also hard to lose weight when you have overactive knife and fork so folks you've gotta take responsibility Lake Innis is very very very common number. We'll get into maybe a little bit of detail but you know I looked up. Some research and it said leaking can be reduced by Herbs Courson Journal and Pharmacology And we have had trouble keeping our courson slash Brahma Lane in stock although we have in stock now because there was plenty of research that says corser tend to really really good for things that are Respiratory illnesses you. Draw your own conclusion there but It's really good because it has not just the Carson but rude and Brahma Lane. Pat Pain Pancreatic and which includes lap as protease and analyze. Because you need the enzymes and it's really really good. My Barranca have always always been a my weak area and I've been talking to in the morning to at night and you know it also lowers inflammation because that shows in your c reactive protein. Her chance heart attack and stroke and I've been taking it home I got. I feel better than I felt in years but given up. The gluten was good thing so think about the gut leak in this can be reduced by taking a course. It's not just about lowering your c reactive protein. It's about all kinds of other things. I'd say get away from grains I have plenty of stuff here depend on how much you WanNa get into but You have to you know. Had One patient says well. I did a test and I learned to get off of whatever food was bothering her. The number one is weight Number two is milk like if you have colitis or IBS and again if you WANNA really
Not Another Anxiety Show
What's the Deal with Digestive Issues and Anxiety?
"You know that you have anywhere from five to twenty five pounds of waste throughout your digestive tract gross? Yeah is that true? Absolutely absolutely I knew secretly. I weighed one hundred twenty pounds. Why are you laughing? That's a walk like in me like like time at one time so now imagine how much easier it would be to run away from a bear if you could instantly drop a bunch of that way got it. I'll look at you. You're so clever right at you. That's going to stick with me you. That's an and I kind of I think to when I'm working out and doing squats lunges with a ten pound weight versus without the way it is significantly new fart. Oh Geez no. But that's more exciting line of thought but now it's just a lot easier without the ten point eight. It's like as soon as I drop that weight like. Oh this is effortless like I could do lots forever or lunges forever and so obviously it makes sense to want to kind of our body to clear itself out if we need to run if we need to run dropping up to twenty five pounds is GonNa make us a bit faster when we're that much later. Yeah I remember when Panicked like was a was brand new and and sort of bewildering for me This is this is pre you by the way and understanding the stress response understanding that your body totally evacuates waste understanding why you sweat. Karen Young talked about this recently. We've talked about it in the stress response before but understand that. Your eyes dilate. I think right you're hearing something happens to the hearing your all the blood rushes to your internal organs away from your arms which they get cold and tingling understanding. Why your body has evolved to do this? An- Wi- is fascinating to me. Love that stuff. Yes so I mean. When we're in the midst of a threat you know fighting or running for our lives the only essential functions. We really need in. The face of that. Threat is breathing circulation and use of our big muscles so when we enter that fight or flight mode our body decreases blood flow Terai digestive tract and without that blood supply digestion. Just doesn't happen and so that's why we feel that nausea or that you know very significant urge to go to the bathroom. You know it. Tell me why this would happen. So I if I I feel like I just had a nervous life growing up so I always had that sort of like. Ibs Ish life. This is so gross. I'm never going to get married. That's you know that's fine. I'm uncomfortable but guys sorry or or ladies. I'm like one step away like one going out to the barons weapons anyway. I I always had that sort of like until I started. Dealing with anxiety look sorta how upset like permanently upset stomach anyway but something weird would happen to me when like after a panic attack like after it all like I would have like a rock in my stomach like it seemed like it. Yeah sure feeling like stomach yeah. Nothing would like evacuate. It just felt like I couldn't or or maybe this isn't related at all but the sensation of like you can't swallow as one thing you know like a lot of people have that but if I was eating something and then got nervous it felt like sat my chest like that's the muscles and Chen for sure this tension Chen and sometimes it can be if it feels like something is just sitting there Especially if it's like in your stomach can also be indigestion like your body's not digesting the food and I can feel a little bit like a rock lead like stomach and you may not get noticed like like it never really worried me. Maybe it's I always felt like us like some gross but it wasn't a sticky thing for me. I know this really freaks people out though. I mean a metaphor which is kind of that. Fear of throwing up is yeah. That was how that was one of the ways my anxiety first manifested when I was younger and when I'm stressed the first thing the first place it shows up is my gut for some people. It's muscle tension headaches fluttering. That stuff is kind of down the line for me. The first thing my body's first. Hey you know. I'm Kinda stressed and overworked and burnt-out and slow down. Its I Q. Is that indigestion? Heartburn them bit just unsettled. Nece and in my stomach's now that you say that. Whenever I'm like stressed to the Max I do get some especially night like heartburn. But it's on me the whole thing with anxiety like it's all of US experienced probably similar. Things is just what we what gets sticky right. It's kind of what we misinterpret so you. It's like digestive. Upset is just digestive upset for like that. It's just sort of like well. Yeah for me. It dumps towards. Oh my gosh. If anyone heard I think it was episode thirty to remember when like one of my it would jump to all my gosh. What if I put my pants like what is i? Put My Hanson. What if I throw up front of everybody like it wasn't just digestive upset? Okay so sorry. In the moment it feels like absolutely mortified in the worst thing. That can happen and unacceptable. Like now when I look back it is. It's funny and it makes people laugh and that's okay I'm cool. I'm cool with
The Hilarious World of Depression
Jameela Jamil Has an Ambitious Goal: To Feel Things
"It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Mel on this episode person who has become famous in America rather quickly as a Sitcom star and an outspoken activist. The Sitcom has ended but the activism. Who It's just getting started. Hello my name is Jamila Djamil and I am at the Hilarious Weld Off. Depression and And what do you do for a living? I'm an actor and activist at a pain in the US. Three job titles multifaceted. Jamila Djamil was a TV and radio host or presenter in England for several years. Welcome to fish. Wrap up with me. I am here to deliver onto you all of the latest chart news and gossip in less time than it takes to make a couple of so last Sunday Cigna American audiences. I got to know her playing honey. Djamil the name-dropping high-society Londoner on the NBC. Moral Philosophy Sitcom the good place. But we've been through a lot swell you. I haven't been this upsets. My good friend Taylor was rude. Yep Stage in Konya was defending my best friend. Say Jamila grew up in London. Her parents emigrated from Pakistan and India says. Her family had a lot of mental health problems. Schizophrenia OCD bipolar depression suicidal. Ibm for Jamila. There was anxiety. There was depression and coming to grips with a lot of trauma. I wouldn't say who within my entire giant family unit because South Asian families huge. But there was an abusive background. Came From and A lot of bullying at home and at school That happened to us. Because we were Pakistani and My Dad is I think. Technically Indian We were South Asians living in a very racist time in Britain such as very tense existence to grow up in where people constantly hounding you with racial slurs calling you a monkey and not wanting to sit next to you at school and just a general night Great doesn't doesn't so no it was really bad. I'm amazed I made it out of my. I've made it our of my twenties even but I've had like a full nervous breakdown gone completely just totally lost it looking back on it now. It was pretty bleak. She had big time mental health issues but she says South Asian immigrant. Culture didn't talk about that kind of thing and neither did British culture. What was being talked about? Was the necessity for girls to be ridiculously skinny. And Jamila Developed Anorexia so I think is a combination the fact that I was growing up in the nineties and so- Heroin Chic could time the adults using non ironically. Where you to? In order to be beautiful you had to emulate the look of someone who does not eat and only Consumes heroin is also look a famine? That people were trying to achieve which is fucking insane considering that famine was and is still occurring in this world and millions and millions of people are suffering and dying from it and how much those people would love to be able to eat something Having their own physiques considered chic in this Bizarre and shallow industry. I was seeing people in my own country. Flights Pakistan and see 'em like skill lethal people on the side of the street begging for food. And then I would come here and see people starving themselves deliberately to emulate that look in order to fit into runway closed just so tiny so the look was just everywhere you were supposed to have jutting out hipbones and believe me. It was a badge of owner. It wasn't something that you hid. There was a long queue outside the girls along line outside the girl's bathroom. Everyone throwing up at lunch one. After the other. The other there was a girl. Easter bring her weighing scales in school and e on them. I remember without giving an interview saying she eats nude in order to stop us from overindulging. In Your Kate Moss talking about nothing tastes as good as thin. Feels well tacos. Pizza cake was their decision that you remember making A. I need to start eating way less. I need to start. Was that a conscious thing or do they just emerge suddenly it was a very very conscious scarring moment of my maths teacher wanting to teach us about graphs and pie charts and she weighed all of us to collect all of our weights as data to show a chart. The dumbest thing you've ever heard how I was. Eleven I was one of the tools guarding was the second oldest girl in the year and I was choppy. Because you gotta get like why toget- toll and also I was just. That was just my build at the time I was loving the curry and I had no self conscious about my body whatsoever. I loved having a tummy. I didn't know about thighs very innocent child. I wasn't remotely interested in the way that I look and That moment changed everything because I was the happiest girl in the class. I was ridiculed by the entire year I came home. My family founded shocking upsetting. I was the happiest girl year and I was immediately encouraged to diet and so I started my first I about eleven and it was. I was dieting. The way an eleven year old were diet which is with no understanding of any nutrition. I was living on somewhere between like two hundred three hundred calories. A day sometimes lasts which is insane because I was very tall and even by the time I hit five ten in my early teens. I was still consuming sometimes. Want two hundred calories a day a belly move passing out all the time didn't did stop menstruating and thought that I was winning. It never struck you as something wrong with us. No everyone was doing it. Everyone was doing everyone who's taking laxatives. Everyone's drinking teas that. I now rally against so hard There was slimfast cans all over our school. I want you know fell over. One on the steps steps passed out a tiny like fake chocolate bars instead of meals. It was just people were afraid of carbs and Pasta and everyone was on the Atkins Diet. So everyone's smell like metal and also it was just disgusting. It's terrible time and we were all on it so it didn't even feel like something. You really hit ego also at the time because of Hollywood there was this fucking Brag that I think kind of still exists of women pretending they eat so much just unnaturally thin. What a dumb witted Brag finding other mental illness conditions emerging with the eating disorder or. Were you just two out of even notice a depression or an anxiety? I wasn't even out of it. I was high on it like I was just sort of I was I was such a devoted anorexic and I was so it's so time consuming beyond our exit. The amount of time you spend learning new tricks trying new tricks hiding your food all of the all of the things that you have to do with so consuming. The I didn't even know that I had any kind of mental illness. I didn't think I had anorexia. I didn't think there was no. I didn't think there was anything wrong with me. The only thing I thought was wrong with me that I wasn't enough I was never thin enough. Do you understand what Anorexia was and just think it was something other people had. Yeah I used to be jealous. I thought Anorexia could only come in the form of of someone who weighs like three or four stone forty two to fifty six pounds and I would be envious if those people for being able to achieve that. I really didn't get it. But that's the problem is if you give this misinformation children. We don't have the whole picture. We do we also have this like youthful arrogance to us where we think our health will last forever. Our lives will go on forever will never be Will never face the side effects in. No one knows about osteoporosis. Kidney damage or liver damage all the IBS. All the different things that happened to people who mess around with their health my thyroid. My drains. Everything is exhausted. I mean I even now sorry twenty years after I started sobbing myself. That's what I was gonna ask because so often people think of it as. Oh anorexia is when you're not eating enough but it is a mental thing that even if you people can have anorexia yeah and and even if you find better eating habits later on the reasoning the processing of the idea of food is still always there. So many of told our weaponized food in our minds. So we're taught that like food. Is You know if you have a parent who beats you and then feel bad about it and then gives you a meal afterwards. You start to associate that meal with love or if your parents are. You're not supposed to eat then. Food becomes rebellion and food. Become self harm so we can. We can give food all these kind of different personalities and I think a lot of people lot more people realized then they realize even during the the guilt associated food and the coding and the words that we use around food of clean eating dirty foods. This is just this shame Sort of slipped in an envelope within all of these ways of discussing this thing that we need to give our body nutrition so it can function food fuel and I didn't know that until I hit thirty
Green Wisdom Health Podcast by Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis
Possible Symptoms of Autoimmune Disease
"Today show is called possible symptoms of autoimmune disease based on the rest of our show from last week about thyroid problem. So we're going speak a little bit about thyroid. Problems turning into autoimmune things. We're also going to talk about some other auto immune issues and the possible signs and symptoms that you're headed towards auto immune disease so with that getting started. We've got a ton of questions at the end again. Thank you so much for writing in to us in giving this those world. Try our best. Well Dr Elissalde tries best to answer them and We'll see if we can inform you and get you a little more educated because you guys out there learning so much coming back in quoting as things we've taught you and we're just so proud of our students here so Dr Lewis. Can you tell us a little bit about auto immune issues and why? They are so prevalent in this day and time it seems everyone has won a Can ramble on that for quite a while. You know one of the things. I'd like to say though. Yes you've learned a lot but it's not what you know it's what you do. What you do is by far more important. I'd rather have a not very well educated patient that just follows instructions because they always get better results Speaking of that and I'll let you get back to that. You're talking about a patient patients. They get good results. Do and what you do. We had a lady that came in for You know we run low cost lab work here for those people that don't know what we do and then in in about three months we run it again just to see how things are coming along and what. We change with the products Our last patient of the evening walked in our store last night and I said your lab results just came back and I just need to compare them again she. She had run her lab. I think it was about four months ago. I lab looked pretty high risk of heart attack and a whole bunch of other flags on the lab and really scared her pretty pretty bad and she was so diligent in keeping up with the program we gave her. I mean you saw like clockwork. She never ran out of any of the products she never said. Hey how about I take one of these off and just get these few. She did everything we told her to do and When I showed her lab last night just briefly I said Oh by the way your chance of heart attack and stroke. That was currently high is now in the in the low range non-existent All your digestive issues are are are corrected. All the flags that were on. There were totally God. Immune system was way better and she started crying and I said I did. I do something wrong. And she said no she said I needed to hear this so bad she said I cannot believe that in a few short months that you have totally reversed all of this. She said I had another functional medicine. Doctor that I was with for over a year and he tried and tried to get my heart risk down and he could never do it and I said well you know it wasn't us that was doing it. Yes it was our knowledge but it was her participation at it like Dr Lewis said. She totally trusted what we told her to do. And she did the work and That it made me cry. We were all up there all crime for different reasons so I just wanted to pass that along. You're absolutely right. Yeah and and you know the other functional medicine doctors very good very competent but You know they're also playing with hormone replacement therapy and I'll tell people wanna see you know. Go to your MD or do for that if you want that. And there's a caveat for everything There's there's certain risk no matter what you do so you know. I I tell people all the time. This is not Alternative to good medical care but it's certainly very very complimentary so out on the end diseases you know. Some people just bigger. Oh well if I just removed this. Everything goes away your part of the plan. Some some people's College for four hours and you got to remove the toxins that organisms or the harmful foods There's essential oils. That can actually help with that. To help. Kill some of the noxious bacteria in the In Gums and down in the GI track. We use some of those Cappella ACID oversee Help fight yeast and most of us have too much of that going on. The reason is is because we have a society that has The farmers have been compensated for growing corn and soybean and then they're genetically modified. That's not necessarily a good thing. Then then we have food. That has Antibiotics in it sometimes growth hormones the antibiotics and our food and just the pesticides can just cause all kinds of problems with the microbiome of the Gut. Which that's Worthy Immune System Resides for the most part so remove the toxins or organisms. Found out. You know what it is. There's it's usually just dairy wheat. Excuse me I keep having this bronco stuff. But it's not nearly as bad as used to be Darrien weights. The top two chocolate comes in usually third-place which bothers me a lot but the dark chocolates. Not Nearly as offensive coffees and Eric can be nut served. Citrus fruits outs and people. So but you doc you talk about going gluten free. Oats don't have gluten in it. Well what if it's grown in the field where they used to grow wheat so gluten can be a big problem and it depends on the condition for you know for example? Migraines it's usually wait seventy eight percent of the time then in oranges and eggs come in second and third but for Coladas or IBS. It's dairy wheat. Chocolate coffee is different things but dairy and I'm not against dairy if it's raw milk and still has a good bacteria in it but going gluten free is is made a big difference for many people. But you know depending on the conditions if you have psoriasis. The first thing I would suspect is a nightshade sensitivity. Pepper cloves nutmeg Sometimes the nuts can't do that sometimes artificial flavorings. There's so many possibilities. That is hard to figure this out so you know that's why I tell people yet. Try the most common ones but more importantly Let's go to reoccupy the guts with the good bacteria. That's very very important. But that's not even going to work unless you replace the digestive enzymes because digestive enzymes have an immune boosting effect. That's actually it maximizes itself. When the blood is alkaline is but that's kind of an over-simplification isn't it? True you know the auto immune things haven't hasn't there been a rise in it that there's a lot of people getting it Has Something to do with losing some of the bacteria in the colon. That should be there. That's not anymore. I think it's worse than it was five or ten years ago. Or maybe God just sends us more people because we're a little bit more intelligent or better educated Than we used to be so yes. I think in common but at least more and more people with autoimmune thanks for coming to us in Macau partner. I'll tell ya I don't trade it unless it's connected to the musculoskeletal system but you know if the cells are going bad you've got metabolic syndrome or diabetes or whatever it it's adversely affecting those sales it's adversely affecting the sales that Come at well the muscles and the skeletal system so it it if you fix when you fix the other. The main thing is use the power in the body to do that and so yeah. I think it's the lack of bacteria and I take several different types of products. I think it's very important and I've said this for years. That people have over sanitized the biggest Ingredient in the hand sanitizer paranoia. I don't do that and there's nothing wrong with good bacteria that come out of the soil. I don't wash the Heck Outta my organic carrots. You know rent some. There's studies kids that have dogs and cats have greatly reduced allergies because their body has been exposed to and and their good bacteria in the soil. Unless the crops or ground on conventionally farmed You know because it has the N. p. k. and has the glyphosate etcetera go to your local organic farmer. I promise you it's worth a little bit of bonus that they charge extra for that sometimes. It doesn't even cost extra but it's really worth it. Well in old days didn't a lot of the people eat. Dr Like you know during the time of hippocrates at all that didn't they actually eat dard I mean I know a and now we have you know bat dirt but If it was organic dark that they tried to get a little bit of Dart on their food just so they'd be healthier.
Science Vs
Placebo: Can the Mind Cure You?
"To turnout noses up at the placebo effect because the idea that people can feel better from a pill that has no actual medicine in it. It sounds kind of ridiculous like how is that possible? But years and years of scientific research has shown that the placebo effect, really works, and it works for all kinds of people people. Like, oh, my name is Linda this is Linda banana and for decades, she suffered with a condition called irritable bowel syndrome, and she said it was awful to me. It was like your intestines. Twisting real tight tight like a rubber band. Sometimes two days straight. I'm sick with it irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is really common. It's way you can get horrible stomach pains diarrhea or constipation and it can be completely debilitating with BS. You never know when you're going to be sick. You'll be okay one minute. And then all of a sudden it just. And currently, there's no cure, Linda, tried everything pills diets change this change that noth nothing absolutely nothing was helping. But then one day she saw an ad on the tally for an exciting. New IBS study. I says, well, you know, maybe should call them up. Maybe they can help me out. So she called the number on the screen and got into this trial at Harvard Medical School in Boston where doctor handed her a bottle of pills is just a capsule pill. It's got like the powder inside. Now as you might have guessed that powder. It's no cutting edge medicine. It's a placebo. There's no active drugs in it at all, Linda goes home. She takes these pills and for the first few days. Nothing changes. And then the fourth day this when they realized my pain was all gone as well. Maybe it's just my imagination. I says it'll come back tomorrow or the next day. Well, before you noted seven days, it's ten days. It's two weeks. I was in shock. I said, nah. This can't be all of a sudden, there's absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. I'm talking about gone nothing that once symptom at all I'm waiting around for the paint comeback and nothing's coming back, and this is the wild effect that placebos can have you take a pill. We've no actual medicine in it. But you feel the benefit anyway. So that alone is pretty strange, but what happened to Linda was even strange out because from the very start when her doctor told her to take those capsules with white powder. He actually told her that this wasn't real medicine. He told me it was a placebo. It wasn't a medication. I thought what Linda was part of the first randomized control trial, the told patients way giving you a placebo. This is basically a sugar pill, and he'd involved around seventy people who had had IBS for a while it compared Linda's group who would taking placebos and knew it to those who just kept doing what they would do. Thing and on average the people who had taking placebos had fewer symptoms than the other group. I said this can't be I'm sick for ten years. I take placebo pills and for three weeks. I have no problem whatsoever. At shocking. It's like, I I can't make sense of any of it. I don't understand any of it today on the show. We are going to try to make sense of what happened to Lindau, and we're going to dive deep into the world of placebo to answer the following questions. One. What can the placebo effect health with two? How does it work and three what are its limits? Like is it possible to harness the placebo effect? So that we can stop taking some medicines altogether. When it comes to the placebo effect. There is lots of what? But then vez science.
Programming
Netflix Picks Up Madam CJ Walker Series from Octavia Spencer and LeBron James IGN Entertainment
"Buy specifically over Columbus Day weekend and finally once the school year is up and running it's a really, good tip from experts to actually pack your kid's lunch. Can save you a lot of money in the long run reporting. Live Olisa, Donovan RTD six Eliza thank you for those temps will most, IBS students don't go back to school until August six for the district's innovation network schools do head back to class this week with some of them starting today we're going. To tell you who those are students attend Ending. Edison school of the. Arts Purdue polytechnic high school and Thomas Greg neighborhood school they go back this morning and then tomorrow even Avon Dale meadows middle school starts, off the school year on. Wednesday it's the first day for. Kids going to cold spring school in urban act academy school fourteen and if you are sending the kids out to the bus stop today, they might want to bring that umbrella, along Todd absolutely you're going to need that umbrella off and on throughout the course, of the day today so you need it during all day parts here morning afternoon. And into the evening hours so make sure you have it handy. Not going to be dealing with any real heavy rainfall and severe weather. But these, showers will just continue to stream through at, times and here's where we stand right now and you notice most essential Indiana dealing with. Some showers there's some spots where there's no rain falling but still, probably a pretty. Damn feeling and then across the state line in Illinois there's a pretty good batch of rain that'll be sliding here in. Central Indiana as we work our way throughout the day so here are rain, chances from start to finish throughout the course of this This Monday nearly, one hundred, percent here. To the morning commute then as we go throughout. The course of the remainder of the day those rain chances you see are straight with us. Through the eleven o'clock hour and they continue into your Tuesday we'll talk, more about the rest of the work week here, coming. Up in just a few minutes all right Todd thank you a big announcement from net. Flicks it's wanting a series about an Indianapolis icon it will tell the story of Madame. CJ Walker she created a line of, hair care products for African American women that made her a millionaire and, she also began the development of the historic Walker feeder on. Indiana avenue before her death in nineteen nineteen the series on Madame Walker will be produced by. TV Spencer and LeBron James with Spencer also, set to star in this show it. Will be based on the biography on our, own ground by Madame Walker's great great granddaughter Alenia bundles eight release date has not been announced coming up.
Tumble: A Science Podcast for Kids
IBS vs. IBD: Signs, Symptoms, and Causes of Each
"Like we do but they do have a sensations of pain when their tissues damaged wait supplants do have pain when we cut them like flowers trees grass everything never gonna mo the lawn again how convenient actually i don't like mowing the lawn anyway well we can't say the plans feel pain the way that we do senses are the way in which we tell what's happening in world and then feelings are what we do about it so even though plants don't have brains like humans they know what's happening around them plans also have a way of knowing right away that they are attacked and they do that because they're worried about infection just like our bodies our and so they have a really quick rapid way to send defences to the site so they don't get infections with so she saying would a it gets or