Dr. Robin Rose

Okay, so you might laugh from my answer, but first of all, I think the vast majority of the population, especially if you're living in the United States and eat a standard American diet, you have some form of leaky gut. or at least a little bit of it.

Okay, so you might laugh from my answer, but first of all, I think the vast majority of the population, especially if you're living in the United States and eat a standard American diet, you have some form of leaky gut. or at least a little bit of it.

So I say to many of my patients, unless you're a cow and you live in a bubble and you eat grass all day, you probably have a little bit of leaky gut because everything from, right Dylan, from our exposome, like all the environmental toxins, glyphosate, which is now pervasive. It doesn't matter even if you're like not eating foods with glyphosate in it because that's being sprayed in this.

So I say to many of my patients, unless you're a cow and you live in a bubble and you eat grass all day, you probably have a little bit of leaky gut because everything from, right Dylan, from our exposome, like all the environmental toxins, glyphosate, which is now pervasive. It doesn't matter even if you're like not eating foods with glyphosate in it because that's being sprayed in this.

It's being sprayed even like on golf field, like on golf courses, you know, and then it travels in the air and then we're inhaling it. Right. So it's like all of those things are going to, you know, destroy the gut microbiome. Your refined sugar, ultra processed foods, alcohol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. I don't know, the list goes on and on.

It's being sprayed even like on golf field, like on golf courses, you know, and then it travels in the air and then we're inhaling it. Right. So it's like all of those things are going to, you know, destroy the gut microbiome. Your refined sugar, ultra processed foods, alcohol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. I don't know, the list goes on and on.

Forget about the course of the antibiotic, but one antibiotic, one dose of an antibiotic kills off thousands of the good friendly bacteria. So we're exposed all the time to all of these things, right? So that gut microbiome, which is obviously influenced heavily by our epigenetics, right? How we interact and adapt to the world around us is always, it's like in this dynamic state, right?

Forget about the course of the antibiotic, but one antibiotic, one dose of an antibiotic kills off thousands of the good friendly bacteria. So we're exposed all the time to all of these things, right? So that gut microbiome, which is obviously influenced heavily by our epigenetics, right? How we interact and adapt to the world around us is always, it's like in this dynamic state, right?

So we're always trying to keep balance in that microbiome. That's how I think of it. So I think we all have to be doing something on some level to keep that intestinal mucosal barrier intact and to keep really good balance in the gut, right? The good balance. the bad and the friendly bacteria like in check, okay, and in balance. So there's always stuff that you should be doing.

So we're always trying to keep balance in that microbiome. That's how I think of it. So I think we all have to be doing something on some level to keep that intestinal mucosal barrier intact and to keep really good balance in the gut, right? The good balance. the bad and the friendly bacteria like in check, okay, and in balance. So there's always stuff that you should be doing.

Even not moving, you know, being sedentary, even smoking kills, you know, the tobacco, you know, that has a bad impact on the gut microbiome. Even when you have cortisol dysregulation and, you know, your vagal tonus, all of that is messing with the health of your gut. and your gut, you know, your gut microbiome in that area.

Even not moving, you know, being sedentary, even smoking kills, you know, the tobacco, you know, that has a bad impact on the gut microbiome. Even when you have cortisol dysregulation and, you know, your vagal tonus, all of that is messing with the health of your gut. and your gut, you know, your gut microbiome in that area.

So you have to be working, unfortunately, because of the, you know, if we were hunter gatherers back in the day, and we were going to sleep when, you know, when the sun went down, and we're falling asleep in front of the fire that we lit naturally. And we're just like eating off the land and the berries and the plants and

So you have to be working, unfortunately, because of the, you know, if we were hunter gatherers back in the day, and we were going to sleep when, you know, when the sun went down, and we're falling asleep in front of the fire that we lit naturally. And we're just like eating off the land and the berries and the plants and

you know, hunting when we had to and being in feast or famine and all those things. We'd have really good gut microbiomes probably, but that's not how we evolved. And so based on how we've evolved, we now have to pivot and work harder at keeping ourselves healthier and keeping that gut microbiome healthier.

you know, hunting when we had to and being in feast or famine and all those things. We'd have really good gut microbiomes probably, but that's not how we evolved. And so based on how we've evolved, we now have to pivot and work harder at keeping ourselves healthier and keeping that gut microbiome healthier.

That makes sense.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.