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138 // A $10 solution to Hashimoto’s? · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  A while back, I came across a comment on a forum in Reddit, and this person
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  said, I'm not a functional medicine provider. I'm just someone who suffered
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  for years and wasted countless dollars only to find a $10 solution.
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  And they went on to describe that $10 solution.
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  I took a screenshot of it when I came across it, and then I put it in my episode
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  ideas folder and kind of forgot about it until now.
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  So let's talk about it. What is this $10 solution and will it work for you.
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  Welcome back to another episode of Health with Hashimoto's. This is the podcast
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  where you find simple and sustainable solutions for your health.
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  I am here to empower you to take charge of your health.
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  If you have Hashimoto's, if you have hypothyroid, there's a reason that you have it.
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  There's something causing it. And that's one of the biggest things we do in
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  this podcast is we work together to figure out why you are having problems and
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  then what you can do about it.
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  Obviously, since it's a podcast, I cannot hear you.
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  Like I'm just talking to you, but I can't hear you. And so that is where our
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  school community comes into play, skool.com.
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  There are so many different communities on the school platform and the Health
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  with Hashimoto's is one of those communities. So come on over and join us.
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  When you join us, you should get an email from me that invites you to a free
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  15 minute call so that we can connect.
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  And that way I can hear you and you can tell me what's going on.
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  We can have a quick chat. It is not a full holistic Hashimoto's health session.
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  It is not a coaching call. This is a, hey, let's get to know each other.
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  And you can tell me what's going on, what you're struggling with,
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  and I can point you in the right direction.
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  I would love to invite you to that. So come on over to school if you haven't
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  already, and then sign up for that call. The link will be in your email.
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  Okay, so this comment has to
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  do with your microbiome. So let's go back and talk about your microbiome.
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  Your gut can also be called your microbiome.
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  And if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I have
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  mentioned every autoimmune condition has three things, has a gut component,
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  a genetic component and one or more triggers.
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  So of course, today we're talking about that gut component of the autoimmune condition.
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  Specifically in this podcast, we're talking about Hashimoto's.
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  So we need to address the health of your gut.
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  Your gut can also be called your microbiome. It's basically just the tube.
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  It starts in your mouth and your nose, and it ends at your rectum.
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  The thing is, 80% and people differ, 70 to 80% of your immune system is in and
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  around your microbiome or your gut.
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  Many, many, many chronic diseases and autoimmune diseases begin in the gut or
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  at least have a gut component, even genetic diseases. They are impacted by your gut health.
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  Your microbiome impacts everything.
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  It impacts your daily levels of pain, your energy, so much stuff.
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  It's even called your second brain because it produces so many hormones.
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  And did you know that your gut sends 400 times more messages to your brain than
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  your brain sends to the rest of your body.
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  I'm going to repeat that because it blows my mind every time I think about that.
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  Because you think of your brain being the control center for your entire body.
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  You think of your brain sending messages everywhere, right? At least I do.
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  Your gut sends 400 times more messages to your brain than your brain sends to
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  the rest of your body. So we really need to take care of our gut.
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  And in a perfect world, all of the beneficial microbes in our body would be perfect.
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  They would be perfectly imbalanced, we would know how to feed them,
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  we would know how to keep them healthy, and we would be reaping the amazing
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  health benefits that they help us achieve.
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  However, that's not the world that we live in. So when all of those things are
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  out of whack, then we can get symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation,
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  diarrhea, inflammation.
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  Like poor gut health plays that role in every health condition.
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  It's crazy. Every health condition is impacted by your gut health.
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  And then in turn, your gut health is impacted by many other things,
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  like your stress levels and your sleeping habits, your digestive habits,
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  like chewing your food well.
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  All of those things, exercise, all of those can impact your gut health.
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  Everything really is related to everything.
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  So what can you do about your gut health? And actually, I'm going to narrow
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  that down because gut health is something that we can talk about for hours and
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  hours, and this podcast is not hours and hours long.
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  So let's refine it down to just talking about the microbiome,
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  specifically the pre and the probiotics.
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  Now, I'm going to tell you about a garden analogy that keeps my brain straight
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  on what's a prebiotic and what's a probiotic and what's a postbiotic.
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  Now, if you look at your garden, you've got the soil, and then you've got the
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  seeds, and you've got the fertilizer.
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  When you're thinking about a garden and keeping it healthy and having amazing
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  abundant harvests, you want good soil, good seeds, and good quality fertilizer.
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  Whether that's put on the soil before, you know, you plant your seeds,
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  or whether it's something that you spray on, like you want all of those three
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  things to be peak so that you have the best outcome.
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  It's the same thing with your microbiome. You want good garden soil. That's the prebiotics.
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  You want good seeds. That's the probiotics. And you want good fertilizer.
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  That's the postbiotics. And fertilizer you don't need a lot of.
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  And so I'm not even going to talk about postbiotics because if you are eating
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  well enough and getting prebiotics and probiotics in your diet,
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  you are also usually getting postbiotics. So I don't worry about them.
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  I focus on the pre and the probiotics.
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  So let's talk about the probiotics first, because sometimes you don't need soil.
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  For Christmas this year, my husband got me a hydroponic garden.
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  Meaning it's just water, and the seeds grow in the water, and you know,
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  they grow a small amount.
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  I have several different kinds of lettuce in there right now.
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  I can't remember, but you can grow several different things,
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  just short plants, not, you know, huge things.
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  They grow in water. So technically, you can have harvest with just the seeds.
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  You don't need the soil. So let's talk about probiotics first.
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  According to a Harvard study, there are over 500 different species of bacteria
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  that live inside the human intestine.
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  That's a lot. It's a lot of different species. And we can talk about the scientific
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  stuff, and I will mention it briefly, but we're not going to go into all 500.
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  And also, I want to tell you that if you've been on antibiotics or if you've
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  been on some diets, they can wipe out your microbiome.
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  They can wipe out your beneficial probiotics.
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  For example, if you've been on the carnivore diet, which is great for reducing
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  inflammation, it's got no sugar in it, you know, it works really well for reducing inflammation.
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  But a side effect is that it can wipe out your microbiome because there's nothing
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  for your probiotics to live on.
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  There's nothing for them to eat. There's no prebiotics. And you can't have probiotics
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  thriving without having prebiotics for them to eat.
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  But I digress. We're going to go over some of the common probiotics.
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  And I'm going to link to an article that I found really helpful.
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  It's from thehealthreporter.com.
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  And they go over, first of all, how to read probiotic names,
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  because all of the probiotics, when you look on a supplement.
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  The probiotic supplements, you're going to notice really quickly that every
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  probiotic listed has three different parts.
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  A lot of times they're going to start with a B or an L, and then there's going to be a long name.
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  So the different parts will tell you the genus, the species, and the strain.
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  And yes, this is going back to elementary and high school biology.
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  At least I make my kids study this in elementary school. I don't know if they still do that.
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  But we're studying the genus, or we're talking about the genus,
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  the species, and the strain.
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  So the genus is usually a lactobacillus or a bifidobacteria.
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  So if you see in your probiotic supplements, like of course it's not going to
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  say this on foods, but if you take a probiotic supplement.
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  A lot of them start with an L or a B.
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  So that's the genus. Some will have an S because we also have Saccharomyces.
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  That's a different genus of the probiotics.
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  And so after the initial letter, then you're going to have another name and
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  that's going to be the species.
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  So a really common probiotic is L.
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  Acidophilus. The acidophilus is the species.
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  Another one might be L-K-C-I. I don't really know how to say that one.
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  I just always read it. Do you do that too?
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  Like when I'm reading, sometimes I just see the word and that goes into my brain,
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  but I don't figure out how to pronounce it.
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  So a couple of these are the same. This next one, L-R-E-U-T-E-R-I,
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  how would you say that? Reuteri?
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  I don't know. So that's another lactobacillus is the genus and then the species is this reuteri.
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  So you're going to have the genus and then you're going to have the species.
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  And then after that, sometimes you will have like some letters or numbers.
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  And those are the strains.
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  So for example, you have the lacto or the L acidophilus, and then you might
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  have a strain and it's LA-1 or DDS-1.
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  Those are the strains. And that's why when you're reading about probiotics,
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  it can get a little confusing because there's so much variety.
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  But the thing is, Remember I said you have 500 different types in your gut,
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  or at least hopefully you have around 500 different types. We want a lot of strains.
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  And I don't know if you have listened to the episodes about GLP-1.
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  I had one episode where we talked specifically about things that you can do
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  to increase your own GLP-1 production.
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  Because yes, things like Ozempic, Wagovi, Monjaro, all of those semiglutide and derivatives.
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  The GLP-1 agonists, the Mimics, they're popular and they work to help balance
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  hormones and help you lose weight, but they have so many side effects.
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  And in my opinion, the pros do not outweigh the risks.
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  The risks are far greater. There are things you can do. I have that episode
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  on things you can do naturally.
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  A couple episodes after that, I talk about the MindBody GLP-1 system,
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  which is what I'm a super big fan of.
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  I love how it helps your body do what your body is supposed to do.
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  It balances things out. It helps your gut. I love that it's two parts.
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  So the capsules, it's called the MB-Core.
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  And then there's some powder and that's the MB Enhance. That MB Enhance helps
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  with gut health and I absolutely love it.
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  I did a live stream in one of the Facebook groups that I helped moderate and
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  I talked about all the different ways that I use that MB Enhance.
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  It is fantastic. Now people who have not had a lot of fiber in their diet,
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  there is an adjustment period as their gut is, you know, getting used to a lot
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  more fiber and prebiotics and probiotics, but I love it.
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  I think it tastes good. It's kind of a vanilla flavor.
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  And I just love how my gut feels with it.
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  Anyway, I digress. In those two episodes, I talk about ways that you can increase your GLP-1.
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  And we talk about one probiotic, and that is acromantia.
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  And you don't have to take acromantia as a supplement or even in food to have more acromantia.
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  In that episode, I talk about you can work on the prebiotics,
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  you can work on the food that your probiotics eat.
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  And in doing that, you will increase how many probiotics you have.
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  So you don't have to actually take an acromantia supplement in order to have
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  more acromantia probiotic in your gut. Isn't that cool?
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  And it goes for a lot of other probiotics too.
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  Your probiotics want to eat food. So now let's talk about prebiotics and where you can get them.
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  Because the prebiotics are the food that your probiotics eat.
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  And the prebiotics are so important.
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  My husband and I are completely different when it comes to food.
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  And we like the same types of food. But I am so routine.
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  I could eat the same thing every day, like a different thing for breakfast, lunch, and supper.
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  But then I could repeat that day every day for like a year and I would probably not get bored.
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  I am fine with routine. My husband, he wants a new food every single day.
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  He wants a lot of variety.
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  He doesn't want to eat the same thing. He wants choices.
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  He wants things to be different. He wants things to be colorful and beautiful.
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  I appreciate that so much about him because my goodness, what a boring life
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  my kids would have if I was in charge. We would have the same thing every single week.
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  I'm so glad my husband is around.
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  And your probiotics in your gut, they're like my husband. Your probiotics want variety.
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  They want to have different things available all the time.
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  Your probiotics do not want routine and the same things over and over like I am happy eating.
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  Your probiotics want a variety. So your probiotics, You want to feed them like
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  a lot of different fruits and grains and legumes and vegetables, herbs even, spices.
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  There are so many different things that help your probiotics eat.
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  Even the beneficial fats in like butter and olive oil, chia seeds,
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  flax seeds, hemp seeds, avocado oil, coconut oil, even all of those things are
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  going to help build a good environment for the probiotics.
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  Now the probiotics aren't going to eat the fats, but those are going to help
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  the gut health in general and build a healthy home for the bacteria.
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  So your gut probiotics, they want things to eat like fiber.
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  You know what fiber is. They also really like polyphenols.
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  Now polyphenols, it's a fancy name and there's a lot of different varieties.
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  Basically it's chemistry and I'm not going to talk about it,
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  but I'll tell you one type of polyphenol is a flavonoid.
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  Now flavonoids, you're probably familiar with some of them because they are
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  the colorful plant compounds found in some foods.
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  So if you've heard of superfoods, a lot of the superfoods are super because
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  of the flavonoids, which are polyphenols.
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  So maybe you have heard of quercetin.
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  Back in 2020, there was huge respiratory virus going around the entire world,
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  and I was hearing a lot about quercetin and how it can help people fight off respiratory viruses.
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  Or maybe you have heard that dark chocolate is good for you.
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  And why is it? It's because of the polyphenols in them. blueberries.
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  Cranberries, tea, red grapes, and then of course red wine.
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  All of these contain different flavonoids or polyphenols that your gut really
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  wants because the probiotics need healthy food and the probiotics really love
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  those specific types of prebiotics.
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  So in addition to the foods that I just listed, other foods are really high in prebiotics as well.
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  Broccoli, kale, cabbage, apples, tomatoes, I said berries, Jerusalem artichokes, chicory.
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  Now, I mentioned chicory quite a bit when we were doing the GLP-1 episode.
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  Also, bananas, avocados, almonds, onions, garlic, all of those contain good prebiotics.
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  And also incorporating fiber or resistant starch foods.
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  That's another prebiotic. So those would be wheat. Of course,
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  if you're gluten-free, you don't want to do that one.
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  Potatoes and corn and other grains, those can feed the bacteria in the colon.
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  And those bacteria can produce short chain fatty acids, which are resistant starches.
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  And I think we talked about resistant starches in the GLP-1 episodes.
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  And those episodes, by the way, are episodes 114 to 117, I believe.
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  All about GLP-1, what it is, how to increase it, and then like I said,
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  talking about the system,
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  the mind-body GLP-1 system that helps your body create more GLP-1,
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  which is super beneficial, especially if an out-of-whack blood sugar is one of your root causes.
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  And it is a very common root cause for Hashimoto's.
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  Having too many highs, too many lows, even not a diabetic, having your blood
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  sugar go on a roller coaster can be a root cause for Hashimoto's.
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  So I'm a huge fan of the MindBody GLP-1 system for people who want to get things
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  back in balance and help their body do what their body is supposed to do.
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  So moving on to what foods can help you with probiotics.
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  Now, of course, probiotics, we talked about that they're the living bacteria.
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  You can get them from supplements.
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  I take Seed, S-E-E-D, and that is my favorite because it's got the prebiotic
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  and the probiotic together in one capsule.
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  It's actually like a dual capsule, super cool.
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  And, but I also get it from my diet. And here is where we come to that Reddit
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  comment that started this entire episode.
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  This person, Buzzle Muzzle is her or his handle.
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  The little icon is a girl, so I'm just going to say her. She says,
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  let me give you a chance to possibly save a bunch of money.
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  Go get yourself some milk kefir grains and watch some YouTube videos on how
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  to make milk kefir, then branch out to as many other fermented veggies and drinks as you can.
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  Healing my gut microbiome with
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  fermented foods completely reversed all my crippling digestive issues.
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  Note, I am not a functional medicine provider. I'm just someone who suffered
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  for years and wasted countless dollars only to find a $10 solution. So here's the thing.
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  Making your own fermented foods is like pennies.
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  Most fermented foods, it's a little salt and a little thyme. That's it.
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  Not thyme the spice, but thyme as in, you know, a week or two.
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  To make kombucha, you start out with old kombucha and a scoby.
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  And you add some fresh tea and some fresh sugar and then it's time.
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  Kefir, you can make milk kefir or water kefir and both of them,
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  you start out with some grains which are not grains at all.
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  It's just tiny little scobies that have the name grains.
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  And you add some milk or some water and a little sugar and thyme to make lacto-fermented
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  carrots or onions. You add the carrots or the onions or the garlic or whatever to the jar.
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  You add some salt water as a brine and some thyme. That's it.
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  They're so cheap. And each one of these things makes different strains of probiotics.
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  And so how many can you incorporate in a day or in a week?
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  I mean, there's so many different kinds. You can make pickles,
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  not the regular pickles. These have to be lacto-fermented. You make sauerkraut.
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  There's so many different varieties.
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  I encourage you to come over to our school community. I'm going to have a thread
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  all about fermented veggies and fermented foods so you can figure out how to
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  make things that are probiotic-rich and also have prebiotics and impact your
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  gut. I'll see you over there.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  If you found this episode helpful, will you please share it with a friend?
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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Music.