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The Truth About Your Digestive System They Never Told You | Dr. Steven Gundry · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There is nothing new to be discovered, but there's everything
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  Speaker 1: to be rediscovered. And I think when you kind of
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  Speaker 1: look at it that way, you go I mean, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Debate, one of the fathers of heart and vascular
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  Speaker 1: surgery in Texas back in the fifties and sixties, when
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  Speaker 1: cholesterol came into the forefront, he always used to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. It's an
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  Speaker 1: innocent bystander, and you know, just get off of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's gotten trapped in an inflammatory process, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: cause the inflammation and what caused the inflammation. So, for
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  Speaker 1: one thing, if you have a little wheat German glutenant
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  Speaker 1: stuck to the inside of your blood vessel like a splinter,
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  Speaker 1: that's a really good cause of inflammation. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I've wrote about this in Longevity Paradox. Let's suppose
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  Speaker 1: I'm an alien sent to orbit the Earth to send
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  Speaker 1: back to high command my observations. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I could send back to high command is
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  Speaker 1: I've been watching the freeways in la you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you without a doubt that ambulances are
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  Speaker 1: the cause of accidents because every time there's an accident,
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  Speaker 1: I see an ambulance and interesting, So again, causation is
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  Speaker 1: not correlation. Correlation is not causation. So we could make
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  Speaker 1: an observation which I could make in the operating room
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  Speaker 1: every day that I see cholesterol plaque on the inside
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  Speaker 1: of that artery. So cholesterol must have caused that plaque.
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  Speaker 1: But the baky would say, now, cholesterol is basically a
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  Speaker 1: callous that is piling up on an irritation to TechEd
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  Speaker 1: that underlying structure. And that's why we see these plaques
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  Speaker 1: regress when you take away the irritation, just like if
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  Speaker 1: you stop lifting weights, guess what your calust goes away?
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  Speaker 1: How do you take away the irritation? Stop eating those
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  Speaker 1: things we should be eating for our microbiome, period, because
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  Speaker 1: our microbiome constitutes the vast majority of genes in our body.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of all the genetic material that exists
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  Speaker 1: in us and on us is non human genetic material,
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  Speaker 1: and our microbiome has the distinctive advantage of rapidly reproducing
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  Speaker 1: and constantly changing and exchanging information from one bacteria to another.
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  Speaker 1: And so I am to think that we've uploaded most
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  Speaker 1: of our decision making processes to our bacterial cloud to
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  Speaker 1: take the work off of our genes. Because these guys
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  Speaker 1: in the in the new book The Energy Paradox, we
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  Speaker 1: now know that that system, that microbiome, literally gives instructions
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  Speaker 1: which we now can measure. We've broken the code. We've
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  Speaker 1: only speculated that they've done this. But now I didn't
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  Speaker 1: break the code, but scientists have broken the code of
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  Speaker 1: how in fact they talk to us and direct us
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  Speaker 1: we really exist for our microbiome and as long as
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  Speaker 1: what are microbiome the microbiome or the bacteria, the fungi,
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  Speaker 1: the yeast, the bugs. Yeah, yeah, I mean, we just
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  Speaker 1: had no idea. When I was in medical school and
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  Speaker 1: up until the Human Microbiome Project, we boomed that the
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  Speaker 1: GI track the stomach and intestines was just this hollow
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  Speaker 1: tube and you put some digestive enzymes there there, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, you got proteins, you
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  Speaker 1: got fats, and you got carbohydrates, and then whatever was
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  Speaker 1: left the garbage you pooped out your rear end and
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  Speaker 1: that was it. That was fourteen years ago. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: then all and then, all of a sudden they went
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  Speaker 1: holy And for instance, there were books written about the
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  Speaker 1: gut brain axis because we knew that the second largest
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  Speaker 1: collection of neurons was lining the gut, and there's more
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  Speaker 1: neurons lining the gut than there are in the spinal cord,
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  Speaker 1: so it was called the second brain. Well, now, as
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  Speaker 1: you'll see in the energy paradox, we were wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: Those neurons are there to actually get messages from the
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  Speaker 1: guy to the biome and then talk to the brain.
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  Speaker 1: So we missed the fact that there was this symbiotic
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  Speaker 1: sentient being that was not only living in us, but
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  Speaker 1: was directing us. We know, if you have, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: fat and sugar loving bacteria, which I call gang members,
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  Speaker 1: they will hijack your brain and make you go find
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  Speaker 1: those more huger and more fat that they want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about we we are. We are overfed,
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  Speaker 1: but undernourished. I mean, we have more conveniences, more everything,
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  Speaker 1: we have, more food, we have you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: energy bars, we have energy drinks, and everybody needs five
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  Speaker 1: cups of coffee to get through the day. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's like, what a paradox. We should have the most
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  Speaker 1: energy of any species ever. We should have a lot
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  Speaker 1: more energies than those sardinians who are climbing up hills
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  Speaker 1: in their nineties, but we can't. You know, we can't
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  Speaker 1: get out of bed wow without a double expresso. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all because we stop taking care of our microbiom.
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  Speaker 1: You have a war going on in your intestines, and
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  Speaker 1: as things come across the wall of your gut, your
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  Speaker 1: immune system, seventy to eight percent of all your white
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  Speaker 1: blood cells are down in your gut, and a war
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  Speaker 1: gets started. And interestingly enough, the army has to have provisions,
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  Speaker 1: and we store fat, particularly in our gut, as provisions
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  Speaker 1: for our army. And in fact, I've published data that
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  Speaker 1: the war on the inside of our blood vessels, on
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  Speaker 1: our coronary arteries, we have fat at the cardial fat
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  Speaker 1: line our blood vessels, and that epicardio fat isn't there
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  Speaker 1: in people who don't have coronary art receise. So that
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  Speaker 1: is the stockpile for fueling the army. So if you
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  Speaker 1: stop leaky gut, you lose weight, and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's I think we talked about this last time I
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  Speaker 1: was on. One of the problems with with COVID nineteen
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  Speaker 1: and chronic diseases is that my humble opinion, others is
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  Speaker 1: it all Chronic diseases stem from leaky gut, and our
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  Speaker 1: immune system is distracted by everything that's going on down here,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't have a lot of troops up where
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  Speaker 1: they ought to be in our nose and mouth. And
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  Speaker 1: when COVID hits and gets then you have a hyper response,
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  Speaker 1: a cytokine storm because your immune system it's like the
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  Speaker 1: peanut allergy. It's like, oh my gosh, there's a silly
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  Speaker 1: little peanut antigen. Let's go crazy. And so it's these
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate people who have obesity, who have diabetes, who have
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  Speaker 1: insulin resistance, and you know, eighty percent of Americans are
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  Speaker 1: insulin resistant metabolic syndrome, and so it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: people go, well, you know, America is, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: doing very well with COVID. Well, we are the perfect
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  Speaker 1: setup for COVID. But I think one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I think we should learn is that the countries and
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  Speaker 1: even our states that really draconianly shut down and practice
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  Speaker 1: social distancing and practice masks wearing look masks are not
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing in the whole world. And we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to live or die on all these studies say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're helpful. Yes they're not helpful, but they you know,
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  Speaker 1: every long term study shows that masks probably have some effect.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like I remember when seat belts were introducing
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  Speaker 1: cars and there was a huge you and cry against seatbelt,
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  Speaker 1: against seat belts, and so you can always muster an
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  Speaker 1: argument that, oh, you know, that's dangerous. But we have
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  Speaker 1: a society have decided that we can mandate public safety
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  Speaker 1: issues and guess what, you better have a seat belt
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  Speaker 1: on in your car now, you know. And we can
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  Speaker 1: mandate airbags, and we can mandate that you can't drive drunk,
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  Speaker 1: even though you'd love to. And so the idea that
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  Speaker 1: we can't mandate for the public good. Sorry, you can't
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  Speaker 1: go one hundred miles an hour, although lots of people
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  Speaker 1: are doing that now. So you know, I have an
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  Speaker 1: associate in Toronto who when they were really shut down,
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  Speaker 1: you were allowed out of your resonance one hour per
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  Speaker 1: week to go get crushes, and they tracked you on
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  Speaker 1: your cell phone, oh my goodness. And to get around it,
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  Speaker 1: people would leave their cell phones in their house and
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  Speaker 1: they knew that the cell phone, you know, was always there,
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  Speaker 1: and they go, that's funny. That person has to go
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  Speaker 1: out and yeah, so that's draconian, that's horrible, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: they shut it down, you know, you know, we used
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  Speaker 1: to feel so sorry for Italy, all these poor Italians
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  Speaker 1: singing from their balconies, but they shut it down, and
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  Speaker 1: now they're better.