WEBVTT - Check Your Gut 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:06.000 This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.000 Chris Harrison Company from the home office in Austin, Texas 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.840 with a great guest and a great episode today. I 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 love talking about our health, things we can be doing, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.000 things we should be doing. And with social media it 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.040 is so hard because we're inundated with so much, especially 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.760 about our diet, what is best for us, what should 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.560 we be eating? And then you see something, Oh my god, 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.080 I need to cut out eggs. I need to cut 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.760 out this cheez I need to cut out So what's real? 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.920 So joining us today is the foremost expert I could 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:45.360 find on gut health. Doctor Joseph A. Selhabb, a gastro 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:52.760 entrologist liz in Florida affiliated with multiple hospitals as an 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.680 expert on treating colonoscopy, upper GI indoscopy among other conditions, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.240 and started following him on social media. And what I 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.959 found is doctor Sahabb noticed that there was this push 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:11.039 which is good for us to better understand and improve 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.280 our gut health. Because what we have found, I guess 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.039 to put it in as a good analogy, the gut 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.480 is think of an old telephone operator who's connecting all 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.360 of the lines. Our gut is the central kind of 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.600 communication system for the rest of our body, and when 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.959 those lines get disconnected or get cross it's a mess 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.920 and it can lead to a whole host of problems 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.840 and even serious issues and cancers, and so gut health 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.240 has become so important. But there's so much misinformation out there. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.840 I wanted to talk to doctor Sahab and tell us 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.479 what is real, what is not? What do we really 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.679 need to pay attention to. So that is our guest 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.320 today as we dive in to gut health. Joining me 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.400 now is doctor Saalhabb. Doctor. First of all, are you 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:53.640 coming to me from Florida? 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.360 I am, yes, Orlando, Florida. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.200 At the time of this recording, the hurricane Debbie has 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.000 just blown through. How you doing everything? Okay? 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.280 Yeah, everything is good. You know where I'm at right now. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.440 There's a lot of heavy rainfall, but really it's not 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.720 super bad. I was able to make it to work 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.760 on time today. That's always a good thing. Traffic wasn't 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.400 too bad. You know, with Florida, we get so many 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.079 tropical storms and hurricanes that at this moment, at this time, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.280 we're kind of used to it, you know. So typical Tuesday, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.880 typical Tuesday. Ulest things get really bad, We're all scheduled 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.600 to go to work and we try to meet those plans. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.720 It's kind of like snow across the Midwest. It's like 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.440 when it hits the South, We're like, oh my god, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.640 it's debilitating across the Midwest, Like this isn't snow. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.240 Are talking about? Like this is nothing. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:47.760 Aside from your minor and meteorology. The reason I wanted 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.720 to have you on today I am such a proponent 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.760 and I am so interested in gut health. And when 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.000 I saw you, and obviously being an expert, and I 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.120 went through you know all that you have achieved in 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.760 your career, congraduate relations because you look so damn young 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.080 for being in this for two decades, but you are 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.280 equally obsessed with gut health. And I'm sure both of 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.600 us saw this trend on all social media where people 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.839 who you don't really know, you don't know what their 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.800 medical background is, started talking about gut health. And while 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.600 I think it is a good thing to start the conversation, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.640 it can be a dangerous thing and that I don't 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.280 know if these people know what they're talking about. So 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.800 I've come to the expert today to talk all about 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.639 gut health. What we need to know fact from fiction, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:32.880 What are the rumors, what are the things we need 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.720 to pay attention to. So I appreciate you coming on 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.560 today and not just talk about the weather, but talk 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:38.480 about our gut health. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.480 Thank you so much for having me, And yeah, I 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.000 agree with you one hundred percent. In fact, that was 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.120 actually one of the first It's actually the main reason 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.840 that I actually created my social media profile is because 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:50.440 you know, we all use it. We all see the 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.200 videos of the show up on our feed, and I was, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.960 you know, seeing a lot of videos that were just 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.400 either you know, mischaracterizing gut health or saying some of 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.080 the wrong things, and I felt like I had to 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.119 kind of correct the record. And what better way than 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.760 having a gast neurologist to someone who sees the stuff 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.560 that treats it every day, to you know, make a 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.760 video or response video and try to kind of you know, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.360 make complicated matters simple for people. You know, there's there's 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.719 no gut health can be can get complicated from a 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.040 medicinal standpoint, but there's also things that we can do 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.320 every single day that are just simple to improve our 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.000 gut health, and that's what I try to focus or 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.400 emphasize on on my videos. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.159 And I want to talk about all of those things. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.880 And I hate to start with the negative, But what 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.320 were the things that you were seeing on social media 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.040 that made you go, man, I gotta I gotta get 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.479 in because people need real information. What are some of 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.200 the misconceptions and perceptions we have of gut health. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.680 So I would say one of the first things is 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.800 that vegetables and fruits are out to kill you and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.080 they're bad for you, you know, And that's something that 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.280 we kind of see all the time. And you know, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.560 there's a lot of you know, science behind you know, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.880 what they try to say. You know, they try to 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.280 talk about this article or that article, or try to 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.080 go over certain mechanisms. But we have human studies that 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.120 show that fruits and vegetables are not only filled with fiber, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.120 which is essential for great gut health, but they lower 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.159 your risk of chronic diseases such as you know, diabetes, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.520 heart disease, They lower your risk of colon cancer, stomach cancer. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.560 And when I was seeing those type of things, I 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.480 wanted to just make sure that people didn't get the 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.720 wrong information regarding that because those type we have enough 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.480 of a problem in America where people don't get enough fiber, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.760 you know, they don't eat their vegetables and fruits, and 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:29.599 that was one of the things that scared me. I 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.560 did not want people to be under the impression that 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.960 those things were bad for you, and that was one 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.359 of the things I wanted to correct because I know that, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.080 you know, with colon cancer on the rise, especially in 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.000 younger people, a lot of it can be related to 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.600 our our diet, and I wanted to make sure that 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.560 people knew the facts. People knew the food that you 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.320 should eat that could lower your risk of things like 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.960 colon cancer and stomach cancer, to make sure that, you know, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.400 we're not afraid of them. And it's hard enough being 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.599 able to eat right, you know, nowadays with everybody throwing 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.760 all these things at you. So you know, that's what 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.200 I tried to do at least, and that was one 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.120 of the first things that I wanted to try to correct. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:08.000 So number one, everybody, fruits and vegetables are still good 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.120 because you know, fruit. Talk about something that's gotten a 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.240 real bad rap lately is fruit. Obviously there is sugar 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.320 in it, but it's not processed sugar. It's not the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.640 sugar like that's in a Snicker's bar or what have you, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.480 that we need to stay away from. Natural sugars are Look, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.800 can they be overdone like everything? Yes, but this is okay, absolutely. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.640 And the thing about fruits is that, you know, nature 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.359 is really clever. I mean, when you have fruit, it 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.480 comes packaged with fiber, prepackaged, you know, so to speak. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.479 And that fiber helps regulate, you know, the absorption of glucose, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.800 and it helps with the digestion process, helps you know, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.360 use the restroom, helps eliminate waste and toxins and things 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.359 like that. And not only did they come pack packed 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.720 with phyto nutrients and all of those things together. When 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.080 you put it all in one, they're super healthy for you. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.520 So you're not just taking the sugar you know, from 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.000 the fruit and just ingesting that with nothing else, which 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.200 is kind of what you get with juices sometimes, you know, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.680 they say, you know, don't if you're gonna, you know, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.239 do it, you know, blend it, don't juice it, because 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.960 if you're juicing it, you're taking out some of the 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.040 important parts that the fruit was made to come with. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.640 And so this is what I tell people too. I said, look, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.640 if you want to make a smoothie, don't hesitate to 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.160 blend it, you know, don't don't juice it, keep the fiber, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.120 keep the good stuff with it, because that's going to 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.000 be good for you as well. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.520 Eat the apple, not the apple juice, right exactly, there 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.559 you go. So, but you just mentioned something, and again 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.400 this was on social media and it was getting a 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.880 big play for a while of if you blend your fruits. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.040 You know, allah are smoothies which a lot of us 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:44.640 make every day that will diminish the good that comes 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.000 in biting into an apple or eating a whole banana. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:47.480 What have you? 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.840 Is is that fact or fiction? 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.000 Yeah? It doesn't. It Actually, blending it does not do 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.280 anything to its absorption. It does not affect its nutrient quality. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.760 In fact, it's almost like you're predigesting it, right, I mean, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.480 you're you're going to chew it. It's going to by 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.000 the time it makes it to your stomach, it's going 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.800 to be mushy, it's going to get absorbed. So really, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.239 what that does is for a lot of people, actually 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.280 gives them a practical way to meet the fruit and 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.240 vegetable intake. When you can blend it, put it in 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.880 a smoothie, be on the go, go to work, go 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.760 to school. It makes it a nice easy way to 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.000 get the amount of fruits and vegetables that you need 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.720 on a daily basis. And it really does not affect 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.920 the nutrient quality. In fact, a lot of things that 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.679 I tell a lot of ways I tell my patients 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.400 to get the fruit and vegetable take is, even get 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.840 frozen stuff. If you get the frozen fruits, for example, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.480 they really have I mean, the nutrient quality that they've 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.600 compared between frozen fruits and the fresh ones are they're 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.760 almost practically the same but one. But frozen fruits last 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.959 way longer, and they're so easy to put in a smoothie, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.800 and they're just so practical to use that. I also 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.040 tell them that you could use that too. Yeah. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.120 Another thing I saw on this is like last week 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.320 was this battle about carrots going back and forth and 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.520 like chopped carrots in this and it's they're they're full 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.959 of you know, they cover them because everything's about the 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.680 pesticides and what's on them right right, Like for example, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.079 they say strawberries are one of the dirtiest, most contaminated 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.080 fruits because of the pockets and things that the pesticides 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.120 can settle into. But carrots was really on the forefront 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.480 of getting a bad rap last week, and then I 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.560 saw some doctor get on and say, well, if you 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.679 wash them, all that stuff is going to come right 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.000 off and it's you know, it's chlorine, and you know, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.720 they kind of explain that you don't need to stop 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:27.920 eating carrots. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:33.079 Right, yeah, absolutely, I think you know, I try to 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.160 be careful when I talk to people about this stuff 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.960 because you don't want to give them a reason not 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.520 to eat the healthy foods, right yeah. And yeah, I 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.440 mean we once you get the produce. And I'm a 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.160 big fan of this, and I even talked about this 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.920 on one of my episodes about washing your fruits and things, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.360 whether it's avocado, kiwi, whatever it is, when you get home, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.480 you wash it. Some people wash it in with just 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.080 soaked water. Some people just use water. Some people use 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.640 baking soda and things like that. Either way, if you 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.520 bring it home and you wash it and you stick 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.360 it into a container, that will keep the shelf life 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.800 a little bit longer. Most of those fruits, you'll you'll 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.760 remove most, if not all, of the bad stuff. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.280 For you, what do you suggest in the in the 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.440 in the cleaning process, because again you just mentioned three 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.160 different styles and it's like, how crazy do we need 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.640 to be? What do you suggest? 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.960 You know, I've seen a lot of people use things 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.720 from baking soda to vinegar to all that stuff. What 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.640 I usually do is I usually just wash it with water. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.040 I occasionally use baking soda, but that's pretty much all 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.440 you need. Anything else that you're going to do really 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.679 isn't going to make that much of a difference. It's 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.240 usually the surface of the fruits and vegetables that you 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.120 really need to clean thoroughly. I mean, think about it 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.120 this way. If you're getting an apple, right, I mean, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.320 how many people have touched that apple before it made 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.480 it into your bag? Right? So it's it's it's dirty. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.680 It needs to be clean. So you just go back. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.600 You clean it thoroughly, You scrub it, you can use 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.520 some baking soda, you can let it kind of sit 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.480 in the water for a little bit. As long as 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.880 the outside cover is clean than the you're good to go. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.440 The strawberries in general again got another bad rap because 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.240 AaB they're they're porous and all that. But I don't 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.760 know if you follow Tom Brady and that kind of 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.199 shade diet, and I mean the shade of the fruit. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.679 He is very he's never had a strawberry, won't eat 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.720 them because he says it, I believe for inflammation purposes 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.880 are there? Do you believe or subscribe to that shade 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.280 theory on certain vegetables, fruits, et cetera. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.240 I don't know. It's only because I don't feel like 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.560 there is a whole ton of robust proof that those 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.160 type of things really are make a difference or a 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.040 detrimental to your health, at least in our human control trials. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.040 I mean, we know that for example, strawberries, you know 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.680 they're packed with vitamin C. And those fruits, for example, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.720 with different shades of colors like red and blue. In 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.400 each one of those colors represents a phyto nutrient that 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.600 those fruits contain, and we know that they're healthy for you. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.319 So I tell my patients, the more colorful actually your 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.040 diet can be, the more varied it can be, the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.600 better overall from you, because each one gives you something 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.040 a little bit different. And with strawberries, for example, I mean, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.280 they contain vitamin C, which we know help the good 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.520 gut bacteria grow in your gut. We know that the 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.760 fiber within berries are beneficial. They lower your risk of 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.240 colon cancer. They contain a bunch of phyto nutrients that 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.600 can help with inflammation and not cause inflammation. So I 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.640 don't subscribe to that theory. I don't know where it started, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.640 to be honest with you, but if you look at 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.000 the literature and you look at the evidence that's out there, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.199 you pretty much won't, in my opinion, it won't be 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:48.480 convinced that you need to avoid those type of things. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.520 Gut health has really come to the forefront, and which 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.520 is great. Many doctors are now saying, this is the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.120 engine that runs your entire body. Everything comes from what 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.200 is in your gut. What are the things that we 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.560 should know, What are the most important if you know 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.320 a quick list of these are the things we should 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.080 know about gut health and how to keep it healthy, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.080 even if we're just starting this process. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.320 Absolutely so, the way I think of your gut is 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.280 like a garden, right, So it's like an ecosystem. So 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.720 for example, the plants in the garden are like the 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.760 probiotics that live in your gut. There's trillions of probiotics 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.920 that live in your gut, and they are beneficial for 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.800 you because they not only help digest food, but they 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.800 produce beneficial compounds. So, just like any garden, you have 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.360 to let the plants grow and thrive, right, So the 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.280 way to do that is with So let's take the 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.880 example of sunshine and rain to make the plants grow. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.719 The sunshine and rain for the gut is actually prebiotics. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.040 So what prebiotics are are These are carbohydrates that feed 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.880 the good and gut bacteria and allow them to grow 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.319 and thrive. And often you get these prebiotics from vegetable sources, right, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.320 things like sweet potatoes, whole grains, spare I guess, broccoli, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.520 things like that. These are the type of thing that 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.640 feed the good gut bacteria, allow them to grow and thrive, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.000 and then as a result, the probiotics make what we 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.920 call post biotics. So think about the way the plants 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.320 make oxygen right when they grow and they thrive to 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.760 allow the environment for us to live. Pretty much same way, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.840 the probiotics make something called post biotics. These post biotics 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.640 are compounds that are what actually benefits us. So, for 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.400 an example, one of them would be something called butyrate, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.200 and we know that when the probiotics in your gut 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.240 make more butyrate, we tend we tend to have it better, 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 healthier gut and even lowers your risk of things like 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:45.600 colon cancer. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.680 And where does butyrate come from? Where do we derive 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:49.240 that from? 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.840 So we derive that from the gut bacteria. So when 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:56.320 you have good, healthy gut bacteria, they use the prebiotics 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.400 and they make things like butyrate. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.200 So it's the pree So it's the eat of the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.440 vegetables and all that will create that. There's nothing more 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.320 that will help that. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.760 Yeah, there's nothing more that well, our gut, our gut bacteria. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.840 A lot of it starts with our diet. Yeah, a 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.000 lot of it starts with the healthy stuff that we 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.680 need to try to eat. And what I try to 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.120 emphasize is one of the first things you want to 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.000 do is make sure that your diet is rich in prebiotics. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.360 And with prebiotics a lot of times comes fiber. Right, So, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.200 as we talked about before, you know, things that contain fiber, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.160 whether it's insoluble fiber or soluble fiber, those things allow 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.640 the gut bacteria to thrive, and the gut bacteria are 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.320 always kind of talking to your body. They are interacting 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.560 with your body. There's a thin membrane between the gut 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.800 bacteria and your immune system. They are constantly talking to 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.040 your immune system, they're talking to your brain, they're talking 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.080 to everything else in your body. And in fact, we 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.000 know that, for example, people that suffer from chronic diseases, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.240 they can have a depletion of certain good gut bacteria. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.200 There's almost like a signature for that. So we know 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.600 that if we can get those gut back to those 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.680 good ones to really grow and thrive, they produce these 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.240 beneficial compounds such as the butrate, and that's what actually 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:07.920 gives us our healthy gut. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.440 Is there a difference, in part of my ignorance, between 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.520 prebiotic and probiotics. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.960 Yes, so a probiotic is the actual living organism, So 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.640 it's the actual bacteria that lives and thrives in your gut. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.400 What a prebiotic is, it's food. Prebiotic is food for 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.760 those gut bacteria. Got it. And though that prebiotic feeds 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.720 the gut bacteria allows them to grow, thrive, and populate. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.560 Let's go over some a few things that again, we're 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.800 trends that are kind of sexy, were and some that 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.680 still are for apple cider or vinegar every morning, apple 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:43.280 cider vinegar. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.600 I don't see anything wrong with it. I am a 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.000 fan of apple cider vinegar myself. I guess it's important 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.040 to figure out what they're taking it for, right. So 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.760 if people say that, for example, apple cider vinegar is 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.920 going to cause you to burn fat and lose weight 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.600 and do all those things, I think that's probably a 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.320 little bit overblown. Is apple cider vinegar probably healthy in general? 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.359 Does it contain compounds that are probably beneficial for your gut? Absolutely. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.239 There are people who feel like they have and this 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:09.679 is one of the things that I tried to correct 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.360 on the record, where they have acid reflux and they 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.280 take things like apple side or vinegar. But there's no 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.399 real proof that apple side or vinegar can help with 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.320 acid reflux in and of itself, because acid reflux is 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.440 basically is just where acid is just pretty much going 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.800 up the esophagus causing a burning sensation, and sometimes for 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.239 people vinegar can actually cause that. Yeah, But what I 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.000 try to tell people is that look, that burning sensation 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.840 that you have in your test may not be as reflux. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.600 There's a lot of reasons why you may have that, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.560 including something called bile reflux, and bial reflux is more 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.480 alkaline than acid, and maybe when you mix a little 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.040 bit of apple side or vinegar it helps kind of 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.280 balance that out, and that's why some people feel good. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.879 So I think it's really important to figure out what 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.600 you taking the apple sid or vinegar for. If you 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.960 feel good on it and it causes no problems and 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.520 it helps you use the restroom and it helps you 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.400 get on with your day, I think it's absolutely fine. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.200 I don't think there's any harmful effects to it. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.280 A kombucha became such a cool trendy thing, especially in Hollywood. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.760 It started, you know, I noticed that things become cool 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.280 when they're on the set, you know, at craft services, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.600 and all of a sudden, every cooler was filled with kombucha. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.240 Yeah thoughts, Yeah, I think you know, if you're I 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.199 think is a good healthy drink. I think there are 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.840 certain ones that are very well populated with good gut bacteria. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.520 So the problem is with taking probiotics. You know, whether 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.320 it's in a pill form or whether it's in a drink. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.400 For example, is you don't know how much of those 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.159 probiotics actually make it into your gi track, because by 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.760 the time it actually gets into your stomach, the acid 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.080 mixes in with it. How much are killed off, how 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.120 much are there whatever's left. Does it really populate any 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.399 any other part of your gas dur intestinal track for 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.080 any benefit. That is what we don't know right now. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.680 I don't think we're there yet. So when people ask 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.200 me about probiotics and specific I say, look, I think 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.000 the best probiotics actually a pre biotic because you're feeding 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.280 the good gut bacteria. But as far as putting bacteria 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.600 in your gut, it's hard to say whether that works. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.800 But I think as a as a and a healthy 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.440 alternative to other drinks, I see there's I see nothing 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.040 wrong with kimbucha. I think it can definitely be beneficial. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.560 Greek yogurt has become very popular now. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.440 Yes, good, I love Greek yogurt. Yeah, I know, Greek 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.000 yogurt is great. Yeah, absolutely, I love Greek yogurt. Yogurt 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.359 is such an underrated food for a few reasons. The 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.760