Dr. Steven Gundry
Appearances
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I go, I didn't do a heart transplant on you. You don't have a kidney transplant. You don't have a liver transplant. So what the heck are you doing on a transplant drug? And they go, yeah, you're right. What am I doing on that? The immune system is being told to look the other way. And that's not what we want to do. We want to find out what the immune system is revved up about. That's what we do.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I have a very similar philosophy here. I can show you the path, but it's you who must walk it. And we can see people who stray. We do leaky gut tests usually every three months in our patients. And we can see slip ups or we can see where they're really doing spectacular. And the fun stuff is it's measurable stuff. We can watch it.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
Just actually before I got on this podcast, I have a young man who flew in from the Midwest. He's 50 years old. Had really horrible leaky gut. Had liver inflammation from his leaky gut. He had vascular inflammation from his leaky gut. And he's now six months into this and his repeat leaky gut test is, oh, 75% better than six months ago.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And his antibodies to the various forms of wheat are 75% gone compared to six months ago. And his liver inflammation is gone. His vascular inflammation is gone. And he's just sitting there going, oh my gosh, look, this works. This isn't a placebo effect. He said, oh yeah, I can see it. And it's, yeah, I didn't make this up.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And the excitement that people see without immunosuppressant drugs is, again, why I get up every morning and watch this.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I made the bold statement back when I wrote The Plant Paradox that if you have any disease process, whether it's, oh, a migraine headache, whether it's high blood pressure, whether it's diabetes, whether it's coronary artery disease, whether it's arthritis, whether it's a skin rash, whether it's any autoimmune disease, then you have leaky gut. I'm sorry, get over it. And Hippocrates knew this.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
Hippocrates, I've tried to read as much as I can about his teachings. Hippocrates believed that all of us have a green life force energy, which is very California speak, that
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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wants us all to have perfect health and that there were external factors that would suppress the expression of this green life force energy and Hippocrates thought that a physician's job was to be a detective and to find out what these external factors were and teach the patient to remove them and then The patient's green life force energy would solve the problem, would heal the patient.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And he was right. And all I do is be a detective and teach the patient to remove these external factors. Now, since the human microbiome project, the green life force energy is actually our microbiome. So maybe we should call it the brown life force energy to be more descriptive. But our microbiome, this is their home. And they would like their home to be around for a considerable period of time.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
It looks like.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
My previous book, Gut Check, I introduced people to a little one cell organism called toxoplasmosis. which is a single cell parasite that has, like many parasites, has two life cycles. And many parasites have to spend some time in an intermediate host to get to their final place they really want to get to. And toxoplasmosis wants to get into a cat, and that's where it wants to go.
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And its intermediate host is strangely selected to be a mouse or a rat. Now that's a really, you would think, a dumb idea because mice and rats are deathly afraid of cats. If they smell cat urine, they run the other direction. But toxoplasmosis gets into a rat or a mouse through contaminated water that a cat has pooped in. And
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It basically goes to the brain and literally rewires the brain, primarily using dopamine receptors. And it makes the smell of cat urine sexually stimulating to the rat. And it also makes the sight of a cat incredibly exciting. And the rat literally runs to danger and gets eaten. Now, what's so interesting about that
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is we know that great apes particularly chimps can be infected with toxoplasmosis and why because believe it or not tigers big cats chimps are one of the favorite foods and these animals become emboldened around tigers
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great studies out of yellowstone park showing that most wolf pack leaders are infected with toxoplasmosis because believe it or not the predator of a wolf is a cougar a mountain lion and they become more bold take more risks and that's actually how they become leaders What's really scary is that humans can be infected with toxoplasmosis and people who are infected with toxoplasmosis.
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For instance, the vast majority of motorcycle riders in fatal accidents are infected with toxoplasmosis. And at one point, the U.S. military was very interested in infecting troops with toxoplasmosis so that they would run towards danger.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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So the reason I brought that up in that book and the reason I talk about more of this in this book is the power of a single cell organism to completely rework our thought process for that organism's benefit. And in that case, it's a parasite. But the parallel, the organisms, if they're in balance within us, want to try and get the food that they need to take care of their apartment building.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And if everything is in balance, like Bishop believed, then that makes a really good place to live and keeps us alive. In fact, Mark and I obviously, and I wrote the longevity paradox. One of the things that, to paraphrase Hippocrates, is that death begins in the gut. And you look at all these super old people, and he and I study them around the world. None of these people have leaky gut.
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They have this incredibly rich, diverse microbiome. And they have a microbiome that literally fends off all these environmental toxins. They eat plastics, for instance. And people go, what? They eat plastics? Well, we have bacteria that eat oil spills and plastics are merely petrochemicals. They're just looking for carbon atoms.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
So again, the road to health is paved with good intestines and that's all.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I'll give you a great story. You mentioned this wonderful woman who had Parkinson's that I start the book with. And I won't go into her whole story, but she had very leaky gut. She was very sensitive to gluten, a component, a lectin in gluten. Wheat, rye, barley. There's also a molecule in oats and corn that cross reacts with gluten, just as an example.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And she had antibodies to all these and we changed her diet. We took these things away. And within a year, her leaky gut was gone. And within a year, her Parkinson's symptoms really completely abated. She was back running again. She didn't have a tremor anymore. And I saw her and her husband about a month and a half ago for her two-year follow-up. And she still looked really good.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And she said, I don't know. I think I'm slipping. I can feel myself slipping. I don't know what it is. but are just not as good the last few months. And I said, well, let's look at your blood work. Let's look at your leaky gut. And sure enough, her leaky gut was still pretty good, but it was not as good as six months ago. Then she had some antibodies to gluten that she didn't have.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I said, I know you so well by now, but are you eating out more? Are you going to restaurants? Are you cheating? She said, oh no, I wouldn't cheat. Why would I? And I said, well, something's different. I said, you're getting exposed to gluten. And her husband perks up and he said, would sharing a cutting board with somebody who's cutting bread, regular bread on a cutting board do this?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I said, what do you mean? He says, well, our son who's 30 moved in with us about four months ago and he doesn't follow our diet. And every day he cuts bread on the cutting board. And then we have our bread that is safe and we use the same cutting board. And I said, Son of a gun. And when did you start noticing you were changing? And she said, it's when our son moved in with us.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And so we could see it on the blood test. She knew it. And that was the contamination in her. Now people go, oh, come on, a few breadcrumbs? If you'd told me this, again, 30 years ago, I would have laughed you out of the room. But there it was. We could see it. She felt it. And again, Hippocrates was right. Just be a detective. And there it was.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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That was the thing that was now stopping her green life force energy from expressing itself. And it sounds so hokey.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Just a few molecules of gluten in some of my, what I call my canaries, is enough to do this. Again, I would have told you these people are just crazy. They're not. And we can actually measure it. And it's like, son of a gun. You're right. Look, your gut is leaky again. Look, you've got antibodies to gluten. Where'd you get those from? And there it was, the sun.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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To me, again, if I look back, this seems like a incredibly radical idea, but Deepak Chopra has been talking about the intelligence of single cells, the sentient beings. Some people now want to talk about the intelligence of mitochondria, which are the energy producing organelles in all of our cells, which are actually engulfed bacteria.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I've come around to the way of thinking that we are truly a symbiotic organism. And that bacteria have been around for 3 billion years, the most successful life form ever. And we've only been around in our current form for about 100,000 years. And that a lot of us now think that this bacterial part of us
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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is driving the passengers are driving the bus and they're driving the bus for a really good reason because they've had a lot of experience with living and again i make the argument that they are sentient beings they see not with eyes like we see but they can read the barcodes on neighboring bacteria. We've known this for many years. It's called quorum sensing. They know who's in the house.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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We are truly a symbiotic organism and bacteria have been around for three billion years. The most successful life form We've only been around in our current form for about 100,000 years. A lot of us now think that this bacterial part of us, the passengers are driving the bus and they're driving the bus for a really good reason because they've had a lot of experience with living.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I'll give you an example. There's a keystone species in our gut that's called Ackermansia mucinophilia, and
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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there's a company that makes a probiotic acromantia that is a living bacteria and I'm a big fan of them they're called pendulum but there are also companies that make dead acromantia in other words they're not living what's really interesting is swallowing live acromantia we has measurable effects but swallowing dead acromantia has measurable effects but beneficial effects
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And you go, well, what the heck? How could that be? Well, they carry messages. I had a chapter in Gut Check, my current book, that dead men tell no tales, but dead bacteria do. And so we're beginning, we're getting come to grips with what seems basically just incredibly impossible. But final, I have a Sanskrit poem Buddhist scholar is one of my patients.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And we were discussing this one day about Hippocrates and gut health and all disease comes from the gut. And he says, I'll be back. And he comes back. He says, I've read all the Buddha's sayings in Sanskrit. He said, do you know what Buddha said? Buddha was a contemporary of Hippocrates. He said, enlightenment comes from the intestines.
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And I'm going, son of a gun, how did these, these great ancient wisdom, I don't know where the bacteria telling them about this, but we have to give these guys a little more respect.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Yeah, I was first enlightened about this a few books ago. There was a fascinating... Chinese study where they took volunteers and they put them on a 14-day water fast. All they got was water, which is a long time. And half the group were given 100 calories of prebiotic fiber. Now, we can't absorb this prebiotic fiber. We can't digest it. So we can't get 100 calories from it.
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But the gut bacteria, the important gut bacteria, this is what they love to eat. And what they found was that the people who were on a water fast were really hungry. Now, eventually that hunger went away, but it took a long time. But the people who got the 100 calories of prebiotic fiber had no hunger for 14 days. Now, it's called the gut-centric theory of hunger. And it basically says...
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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that these guys, if their needs are being met, they send text messages. In fact, GLP-1, which is the in thing, are made by gut bacteria. And it tells the brain, hey, we've got everything we need. You don't have to go looking for anything else. We're fine. Now, why are all of us continually hungry? Why do we want other foods?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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well because as i talk about our great great grandparents ate whole food and they that whole food whole and there was lots left over after we digested it into sugars and amino acids and fats that kind of filtered down to our colon where most of these guys live with all this stuff that they like to eat all this prebiotic fiber and so
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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everybody was satisfied in fact go ahead look at every picture from the 40s 50s even 60s of human beings and everybody was skinny because we were actually eating a lot of whole foods in fact we're eating more calories then now almost everything is processed or ultra processed and we've stripped away all of this prebiotic fiber And what happens is that these guys can hear us chewing.
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They hear us swallowing. They can hear the stuff coming down. They say, oh, boy, it's coming. And nothing arrives. And they go, what the heck? I heard you eating. We've been gypped. Go find some more. And keep eating until we get something. And you see the side effect of that.
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These bad guys can use simple sugars and they can actually use fats that the good guys can't. And the bad guys have actually gravitated higher in our intestines to grab this stuff before anybody else can. And people go, wait a minute, they're moving around in your intestines to grab this stuff. I'll give you an example.
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One of my offices is in Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Channel, we have whale watching. And for many years, all we had was the California gray whale. And they're not exactly cute and they're a little boring. But over the last few years, we now have huge pods of blue whales. We now have humpback whales, humpback whales from Hawaii. And we now have pods of killer whales.
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And it's what the heck are those doing in Santa Barbara and in the Channel Islands? Well, because with climate change, their food sources have migrated. And all they do is follow the food sources. And what I want people to realize is that these bacteria are sentient beings. They are following food sources, number one.
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And number two, they are directing us, the food consumer, to get the food sources that they want. And I'm sorry, get over it. These guys have had 3 billion years to work this out.
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And it's all in the book. First of all, you got to starve these bad guys of what they need. And those are processed foods, simple sugars.
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and fats number two you got to give the good guys what they need to eat and that includes prebiotic fibers inulin is a great prebiotic fiber in asparagus and artichoke hearts and in the chicory family of vegetables like radicchio or belgian endive you can take supplements like psyllium husks like chicory supplements which work great
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you also have to get a lot of polyphenols in your diet now polyphenols we've learned really only the last few years are some of the favorite foods of the good gut bacteria and polyphenols are these bright dark colored fruits and vegetables that you can get and many of the supplements that I manufacture at GundryMD, are polyphenol-based supplements. That's actually what made GundryMD famous.
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So polyphenols. But the third piece of the puzzle is you've got to get fermented foods into you or the products of fermentation. And one of the easiest things for everybody to do is add more vinegars into their diet.
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vinegar is a product of fermentation it's a post biotic and we now know that it's the products of fermentation that actually give the good guys the gut buddies the one up on everybody else and one of the easiest things for people to do get yourself some sparkling water buy some balsamic vinegar
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Put a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar in a glass of sparkling water and have a fake Coke, as I called it years ago. And it's a great way, or put apple cider vinegar in it. It's an easy way to give the gut buddies what they need to eat. Finally, we know that vitamin D, the higher your vitamin D level, the more diverse your microbiome.
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And again, the more diverse, the more this terrain is balanced and diverse, the better your health.
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Yeah, absolutely. As my friend Dale Bredesen will remind anyone who will listen, if the tau protein and amyloid plaque theory of Alzheimer's or cognitive decline was right, then $20 billion later, we ought to have an effective drug targeting those. And as anyone knows, this has been a dismal failure. Every one of these drugs has been a failure despite cleaning out amyloid plaque and tau proteins.
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So I like to use the example after 9 11. All of us remember that all of a sudden barriers, concrete barriers were erected in front of government buildings, in front of airport entrances, wherever we thought or suspected a terrorist could drive a car or a truck or something through. And we now know that with leaky gut, bacterial particles
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living bacteria can get through the wall of the gut and they're recognized as attacking 80% of all of our immune system our white blood cells are down in our gut and there is a way of saying they're an early warning system and they send text messages up to the white blood cells in our brain which are called microglia and And these guys are really the bodyguards of the neurons.
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And they get the message, oh my gosh, the army is advancing on the brain. Do everything you can do to protect these neurons from harm. And so I like my patients to visualize that these amyloid plaques and these tau proteins are merely concrete barriers that have been erected in the brain to protect the neurons from the terrorists who are on the way.
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And the more people understand that this is merely a response to what's going on in the gut, that's how this young lady with Parkinson's reversed her Parkinson's because there was no longer a threat
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And we are no longer at threat level five or whatever it was, and we could stand down and we can also watch microglia actually nibbling like Pac-Man, the dendrites of the neurons communicating to other neurons, trying to bring guys back into the fort circle, the wagons, because the Indians are attacking. And so we can watch this.
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And I was lecturing at a neuroscience conference at Harvard a few years ago about this. And one of the professors stood up and he says, so what's wrong with moderation and everything? And because I was saying, look, here's the cause of leaky gut. We got to get these guys stop this. And he's going, what's wrong with moderation? And I said, that's fine.
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If you want moderate memory loss, moderate heart disease, moderate arthritis, go right ahead. I don't want that.
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I'm not against pharmaceuticals. They have a place, but I view them, if I break my leg, I'm going to let somebody put a cast on it and my leg will heal, but I certainly am not going to need a cast the rest of my life. Once it's healed, I don't need the cast.
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And I view a lot of these pharmaceuticals, whether for instance, a statin drug or an SSRI as potentially beneficial until we can fix the underlying problem. And the underlying problem I submit is gut dysbiosis and a leaky gut. And what's interesting with these SSRIs is that indeed They do change the gut microbiome into a much more rich, biodiverse gut microbiome than when you started with.
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And people with depression and anxiety have a really dysbiotic gut microbiome with some bad actors that have overgrown. And a lot of this is thanks to the active ingredient around glyphosate, which actually targets Larry Paxton, The tryptophan serotonin pathway bacteria and kills them and allows other bugs which are resistant around up to flourish.
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Larry Paxton, And these SSR eyes take a month, even more to kick in because the gut microbiome doesn't change instantaneously. It takes quite a bit of time as I've learned through the years to change the gut microbiome. And so it's the same way. I'll give you another example. Metformin, the famous diabetic drug.
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We thought there was all these magical, mystical ways that metformin improved mitochondrial function, et cetera, et cetera. But now it comes to find out that metformin actually works most of its magic by changing the microbiome by actually promoting the growth of this keystone species acromantia. And it takes a while for it to kick in.
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And what was interesting to me in patients who I had or put on metformin to treat their diabetes or their insulin resistance, about 30% of them would get really interesting gut issues. Diarrhea is a known side effect of metformin. And about 30% of people get diarrhea so bad with metformin that they can't take it.
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And it's because it's changing the gut microbiome, not because of any side effect of these drugs. And when you start looking at all of these drugs now, even for hypertension, you begin to see these changes in the gut microbiome that are happening from these drugs. So rather than saying, oh, the drug is having this effect on this person's blood vessels.
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No, it's having this effect on changing the microbiome. And why don't we just go and change the microbiome and then we won't need these drugs. And this is what I learned Larry Paxton, Early on, when I was still a professor at loma Linda having people follow this program and these people who had operated on we're on two or three anti hypertensive drugs, they were.
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Larry Paxton, Having hip replacements and they were many of them were diabetics and as we went along through the months they're throwing their blood pressure meds away there. throwing their diabetes drugs away or they're lowering their insulin. And I'm going, this is amazing. Wow. Look at this.
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Just by having them eat certain foods and not eating other foods and going to the health food store and buying a few supplements. Look at this. And that's what made me do a leap of faith and quit as chairman and professor of heart surgery and set up a clinic where I just teach people eat. What an idiot. But But Hippocrates was right.
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And so we see all of these effects just by getting these guys the food they need and stop swallowing razor blades, as I call lectins. Is it hard work? But is it worth it? Most people think so.
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We talk about personalized medicine and we talk about, well, let's look at your genes and see what your genes determine and SNPs. We have to realize that our genome isn't very interesting. There are more genes in corn than in humans. There's more genes in a sand flea than in humans. But the microbiome genetic material is incredible. Incredibly vast.
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And the cool thing about bacteria is their genome can be exchanged between bacteria and the viral genome is capable of changing the bacterial genome instantaneously. And these guys are constantly dividing. And so they're just swarming with genetic information. And what we now know, because of the microbiome project,
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We can do personalized medicine by knowing which bacteria does what, which messages bacteria send to control our mitochondrial function, our cellular function. I just recently came back from the annual meeting of, get ready for this, the Society of Extracellular Vesicles. And it's like,
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so we now know that bacteria and plants can send packets of genetic information to through our body to hook up with a cell a target like a neuron in the brain to tell that neuron to do something completely different that will be a benefit or a detriment to the body as a whole And we can now, we can see these text messages. We can look and find out what that text message is.
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And the idea, again, that these little single cell organisms are so sophisticated that they can send out pieces of genetic material that will bind with our genes, epigenetic activity, It's just the holy cow. Talk about personalized medicine. We'll know which bacteria are missing. Well, we already know which bacteria are missing in certain people.
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And the exciting thing is we're beginning to find out what it takes to give each of these bacteria what they need to grow and prosper. It's not enough to just swallow these bacteria. I can assure you, you got to know
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what they want to eat you got to know what the bacteria next to them is making that they also need to eat and so it's a complex recipe and since i was trained as a chef by my mother you just have to figure out all the ingredients that make the perfect cake and that's what's going to be exciting
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Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
So they can go to GundryMD.com, my supplement food company, DrGundry.com, all about me. Got two YouTube channels, Instagram. Hopefully I appear when people are surfing the web, waving at them with some wonderful something to talk about. And you can get the book wherever books are sold. I've had multiple New York Times bestsellers, so they're in most bookstores.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
With each kind of passing book, since The Plant Paradox came out in 2017, interestingly, the Human Microbiome Project actually finished in 2017. And with every almost passing month, thanks to that project,
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
we now know who lives in our microbiome and for those who don't know yet the microbiome the microbiome that just lives in our gut probably has a hundred trillion bacteria alone not to mention fungi and molds and viruses and worms and we're now able to identify who all these creatures are and the roles they play in our health.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And because we can now identify who they are, we can start to see that the types of bacteria, the balance of good and bad bacteria really has a huge effect on personality, on
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
and again i make the argument that they are sentient beings they see not with eyes like we see but they can read the barcodes on neighboring bacteria we've known this for many years it's called quorum sensing they know who's in the house And you go, well, what the heck? How could that be?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
depression, anxiety, addictions, mood, and you can actually do animal experiments and human experiments showing that manipulating these groups of bacteria with food, for instance, or supplements, for instance, can have a huge impact on us. And so this book is a deep dive into the gut brain paradox that our brain is basically a good receiver for signals from the cloud of our microbiome.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
Just put it another way. You and I are on computers and I got to you by clicking on a link that took us up to the cloud and here we are. My computer really doesn't have a lot of computing power. We've put that up into the cloud. A lot of us believe that our genome, human genes, is not very big, but the microbiome genome is enormous.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And this genome actually divides constantly and constantly changes. So many of us think that we've uploaded our computing power, or downloaded our computing power into our gut. And the gut then makes the decisions, and then it uploads it. I'm holding up my phone near my head. It uploads that information to my brain, which is merely a receiver for that information.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And it's an interesting way to think about it, but Hippocrates said 2,500 years ago that all disease begins in the gut. So I'm just trying to catch up with what he knew 2,500 years ago. I'm a slow learner.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
Really, the single protocol works. And again, I see patients six days a week, even on the weekends. The single protocol works because if people are watching on video, I have a big sign behind me, a painting. The road to health is paved with good intestines. And this is what Hippocrates taught 2,500 years ago.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And all of these various people that are described in the book all had one thing in common. And that is they had a disbiotic microbiome. That means they had an imbalance of good guys and bad guys. And they all had leaky gut, intestinal permeability. Now, if you had asked me 25 years ago when I started this part of my career about leaky gut, I probably would have told you it's pseudoscience.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
But thanks to work by Professor now at Harvard, Alessio Fasano, who identified how leaky gut occurs, how lectins and gluten are a big piece of causing leaky gut, and how we can measure leaky gut with blood tests or stool tests. That's opened up an entire window of opportunity to show, in fact, that somebody with
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
parkinson's can be treated by restoring their microbiome into balance and stopping their leaky gut just as an example and that same protocol of restoring a balance of microbiome and stopping leaky gut can treat addictive behavior and so on down the line but about 80% of my practice now is autoimmune patients who have been everywhere, tried everything, and end up in my office.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And 100% of these people have leaky gut and an intestinal dysbiosis, an imbalance of their microbiome. This works. And like I say, I'm a slow learner. Hippocrates clearly knew this 2,500 years ago. He didn't have the Human Microbiome Project to help him out. But he knew this intuitively and I spent the last 25 years trying to figure out how he knew it.
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Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I'll give you a striking example. One of my friends through the years is Dr. Mark Hyman. And Mark and I were talking just a little bit ago. He has a daughter who's a third-year medical student at a very prestigious university. And in her third year, and there are four years of medical school, she has not had a course on the microbiome, which just flabbergasts him and me.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And yet that if we could only give credence to what we now know about the influence of the microbiome, what the shop knew well over almost 200 years ago now, that it's this, the microbiome in our intestines and in our mouth and in our skin, which I call the holobiome, is akin to a tropical rainforest.
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Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And there's all these interconnected species that are dependent on each other, bad guys, good guys, but they're all in perfect balance. And Machamp, was arguing with Pasteur that germs per se were not bad or good it was when the balance of this tropical rainforest or as he called the terrain became in balance that's when a disease or an infection started and unfortunately Pasteur was
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
much better public speaker. Stuart was discovered that it was bacterial contamination of the wine, grapes being fermented in wine by yeast that caused it to go bad. And obviously he was a big hit with the King of France finding that out. So he was elevated to a great place of honor and Béchamp was relegated to the obscurity.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
But as I write about in the book, and I've read every book about both of them, many of the books cite that on his deathbed, Pasteur called Béchamp and his colleague Bernard to his bedside. And he said, you're right. It was the terrain. I hope this story is true because it sure makes sense. But so again, we don't even teach this in medical schools. I'll give you a great story.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
I was just reading today. So one of my feeds. about the new exciting research into the treatment of IBS and all sort of colitis and what I do every day. And the article was going on and on about this poor young lady who was on steroids and other immune suppressing drugs. And her mother was not happy with the fact that she was on this and
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
The exciting part of the article was, well, there's now, we know so much more about immune suppressing drugs that we now can really pinpoint what we should be doing. And buried down at the bottom of the article was the fact that this young lady figured out that it was actually the food that she was eating that was her problem.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
And that she now tailors the food that she eats and she no longer has this problem. She's off of all drugs.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Steven Gundry on How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Identity | EP 599
and she's actually created a business where she provides food services for people with ibs and ulcerative colitis and imagine that but the entire article was basically oh the miracles of all these modern drugs and i'm a transplant immunologist by training as a heart surgeon and a heart transplant surgeon and when i have a patient walk in on these immune suppression drugs