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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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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And that she now tailors the food that she eats and she no longer has this problem. She's off of all drugs.
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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
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And number one, she had leaky gut. Surprise, surprise. And number two, she had a marker, which is called anti-nuclear antibody. Very common autoimmune marker. Some people call it lupus. Um, but it's very common in people with psoriasis and other conditions and eczema. And so as we were kind of reviewing this, she says, well, wait a minute. I have an autoimmune disease.
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And I said, well, yeah, you have eczema. That's an autoimmune disease, right? No, it's eczema. And I said, well, you know, it didn't just happen. Yeah. And, She says, yeah, but, you know, I can put steroid cream on it and it'll get better. I said, yeah, because that steroid cream is telling your white blood cells to stop attacking your skin. And she said, that's what it's doing? I said, yeah.
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She said, well, why am I attacking my skin? I said, because you have a leaky gut and your white blood cells look at certain proteins in your skin that look very much like what they're looking for in the foods you eat. And it's called molecular mimicry. And it was actually first proposed by a professor at Colorado State by the name of Loren Cordain, kind of the father of the paleo diet, years ago.
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And now most of us working in autoimmune disease realize that molecular mimicry from leaky gut is how autoimmune disease happens. So here's a lady who's had eczema most of her life, and now the good news is we know why, and believe it or not, we can fix it. And it'll take about nine months to a year to repair her leaky gut.
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When I started this 25 years ago, I was naive, and I thought, oh, we can fix leaky gut in a couple weeks.
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it takes work and the book is okay I've been doing this for 25 years here's and I've been seeing patients six days a week for 25 years asking them to take certain foods out of their diet put certain foods in their diet go get some supplements that'll help etc etc here's what here's what works you and I've hopefully taken the guesswork out of this. So.
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So 30 years ago when I was professor and chairman of cardiothoracic surgery and pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine here in Southern California, I was one of these famous heart surgeons who would take on impossible cases. And there's always a few of us idiots around the country who, you know, if everybody else turned you down, you know, come on, I'll do it.
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to manipulate this giant complex organism and, if you will, make us do their bidding for better or worse. And that we're actually a, what's called a symbiotic organism that we exist for the benefit of the other people who live in us, that is our microbiome. And if everything's going right, they exist for our benefit.
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And so I met a guy who I call Big Ed in all my books. He was 48 years old from Miami, Florida. And he had a coronary angiogram, a movie of the blood vessel of his heart, where he had inoperable coronary artery disease. That means he had so many blockages that you couldn't put a stent in because there'd be a blockage right beyond that. And you couldn't do bypasses because...
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there wasn't any place to land a bypass because everything was all clogged up. And so he would go, spent six months going around the country to these various centers that would take people like him on and everybody turned him down. And so he arrived in my office after six months of doing this. And I was kind of his last stop. And
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I looked at the angiogram that he brought from Miami of six months earlier, and I said, you know, I'd love to help you, but they're all right. They're right. There's nothing I can do for you. And he says, yeah, that's what they all said, but let me tell you what I've been up to. Still see his face. He says, I've been on a diet for the last six months, and I've lost 45 pounds.
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Now, this was a guy who was 265 pounds when I met him, so he was well over it. 300 pounds. Wow. And he said, I went to a health food store, and I've been taking all these supplements. And he literally brought in a giant shopping bag of supplements. And he says, you know, I've been taking these supplements. He said, you know, maybe I did something in here.
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So I'm scratching my professor beard and going, well, you know, good for you for losing weight, but that's not going to do anything in here. And I know what you did with all those supplements. You made expensive urine, which was – I believe. I said, you've wasted your money. And he said, look, I've come all this way. What would it hurt to get another angiogram of my heart?
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Another cardiac catheterization. I'm rolling my eyes and I say, don't get your helps up, but yeah, okay, let's do it. So the next day we get a new angiogram and in six months time, this guy has cleaned out 50% of the blockages in his heart. Really? I'm looking at the tube. Now, that's impossible. At least that's what I believed back then. Right, right.
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So there's a saying, if all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So I said, this is great news. Now there's places that I can do a bypass. And we did a five-vessel bypass on the guy, and he did fine. The researcher in me says, tell me about this diet.
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All right. I'm curious. Yeah, you're curious, aren't you? So he starts rattling off what he's been doing. And I had the blessing back in the dark ages of going to Yale University in the Dark Ages, when we could actually design our own major. It was kind of like a master's program. So we would have a thesis, and we had to defend the thesis.
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So my thesis was you could take a great ape, manipulate its food supply, manipulate its environment, and prove you would arrive at a human being. And I defended my thesis and I got an honors and I gave it to my parents and went off and became a famous art surgeon. So as big as it's talking, I'm going, wait a minute, you know, time out. That's my thesis from Yale University of what ancient man ate.
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And so that's number one. Number two, I go, let me look at those stuff. So I was famous for keeping hearts alive during heart surgery. I invented a catheter and a method to protect hearts. And we would put lots of interesting ingredients in the veins and arteries of the heart to protect it from dying. And I'm looking at his supplements.
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And a lot of the supplements, I'm putting down the veins and arteries of his heart intravenously. And it never occurred to me to swallow the dumb things. Wow.
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Now, why that's so poignant or serendipitous is that at that time, even though I was a very famous heart surgeon, I was 70 pounds overweight, even though I was running 30 miles a week, going to the gym one hour every day, eating a low-fat, mostly vegetarian diet. And I, you know, pre-diabetes. I had hypertension. I had horrible cholesterol. I had migraine headaches.
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But like the book says, unfortunately, things have gotten all cattywampus, as the old expression was, that we've not looked out for their welfare. And quite honestly, they're not looking out for our welfare. And maybe we can get that back to where we can all love each other again. And the book goes into how to do that.
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I don't recommend doing baby heart transplants with a migraine headache. And I had such bad arthritis, I had to wear braces on my knees to run. And I was told it was genetic because my father was exactly the same way. And, you know, get over it and, you know, take drugs, blah, blah, blah. So I called up My parents would say, hey, do you still have my thesis?
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And they said, oh, yeah, it's in the shrine. I said, well, send it up to me. And so I started on that, and I started taking supplements. And I lost 50 pounds my first year and subsequently lost another 20, and I've kept it out for 30 years. And my blood work changed dramatically. My arthritis went away. My migraines went away. My blood pressure fell. My cholesterol, anyhow.
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So I would operate on patients at Loma Linda. And I'd go, you know, I don't want to see you ever again. Normally, if we operated on somebody, we'd see them back five, seven years, and we'd do it all over again. I was very famous for reoperating on people. So I said, you know, here's what I want you to do. I want you to eat this.
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I want you to go to Costco or Trader Joe's or the health food store and buy some supplements. And they started reporting the same things, you know, like, oh my gosh, you know, my blood pressure is so low, I threw my blood pressure medicines away. Or, oh, you know, I was scheduled for a knee replacement. Well, my knee doesn't hurt anymore. And is it okay if I don't have my knee replacement?
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So after about a year of doing this at Loma Linda, I had an epiphany on Black Friday, what I call Black Friday, my wife. And I said, you know, I've got this all wrong. I shouldn't operate on someone and then teach them how to eat to avoid me in the future. I should teach them how to eat and I'll never have to operate on them. So now that's a really dumb career move for a heart surgeon.
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But I resigned my position at Loma Linda. And I moved down the road to Palm Springs, which is near Loma Linda, and I set up a clinic. And I basically said, hey, we're going to get blood work on you every three months. Medicare insurance will pay for it. And I want you to eat certain things and don't eat these things. And I want you to go buy some supplements. And let's see what happens, okay?
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And so that is kind of how all this crazy stuff started.
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So here's the crazy thing. The microbiome, we have at least 100 trillion bacteria that live in our gut. We have, there's probably 10,000 different species that are still being identified. And that has nothing to do with the funguses and viruses and molds that live in us. We have over 700 different organisms in our mouth. We have over 1,000 different organisms that live in our skin.
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Well, one of the reasons that, you know, the plant paradox was such a huge success, it still is, was plants don't particularly like us. They were here first. They don't want to be eaten. They can't run. They can't hide. They can't fight. But they're chemists of incredible ability. I mean, they can turn sunlight into matter, and we haven't figured out how to do that yet.
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So they use basically biologic warfare to make their predators think twice about eating them. Now, unfortunately, we're not very smart. And we'll keep eating them even though we're in pain or our brain doesn't work or whatever, because everybody knows that plants are good for you.
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Now, way back when, like I talk about in this book and the previous books, is we used to have a really great defense system against these plant compounds. We had bacteria that would eat, for instance, gluten. in wheat and love it. So we had a fantastic defense against the plant defense system. Unfortunately, over the last 50, 100 years, we've pretty much decimated that defense system.
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antibiotics that we take that are fed to our animals, glyphosate, Roundup. Believe it or not, most people don't know that Roundup was patented as an antibiotic, not as a weed killer. Really? Patented as an antibiotic. No idea. And it turns out that glyphosate is really good at killing off the gut microbiome, particularly the gut microbiome that makes
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all the feel-good hormones like serotonin that kills off the tryptophan pathway bacteria, and so forth and so on. So we're quite honestly sitting ducks for a lot of these plant compounds that wish us harm. The other thing that we did not know about is that I had the head, former head of the FDA on my podcast a couple of years ago. And we, he and I are very much the same age.
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And back when we were trained, we kind of thought the gut was this hollow tube and whatever we swallowed went in there and magic happened. And we absorbed, you know, proteins and minerals and sugars and fats, and then whatever we didn't need with pooped out the rear end, and that was that simple. We didn't even know that 100 trillion bacteria were living in our intestines.
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And it wasn't until the Human Microbiome Project, which started in 2007 and ended in 2017, that we literally discovered not only were those guys there, but that those guys were responsible for much of what happened to the magic that happened in this Silly Holland 2. And, you know, it's like, wow.
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You know, it's like we send these deep sea vessels down, you know, 20,000 feet into the pitch blackness at pressures that would crush any living thing.
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They can't live in there. And you go, what the heck?
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And so now we're going, what the heck? Look at all these guys that we didn't even know existed. And now we're being able to piece out exactly what each one of these guys does. And the communication system that these single-cell organisms have with this really smart control center up here. And the purpose of the book is, guess what? The bus driver is not driving the bus.
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The passengers are driving the bus. And this is just kind of a receiver of the information that's being passed up by the folks who are actually in control.
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And we have these guys living in every orifice that communicates with the outside world. So, for instance, guys, our prostate has its own microbiome. Ladies, your breast has its own microbiome, and so on and so forth. And we're beginning to realize that this collection has been there for as long as there have been animals, believe it or not.
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Well, you know, like General Patton said, if everybody's thinking the same way, then somebody isn't thinking. I love it. It's so true. I love it. Artist Shaggy has a song that his mother told him, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Anyhow, I've been on Mark Hyman's podcast. He's a friend of mine. Mark has a daughter who's a third-year medical student at a very prestigious university.
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i won't mention uh she has yet to get a course on the microbiome in her third year of medical school that's craziness and i've been on a podcast where supposedly a famous cardiologist told me that gastroenterologists think that the microbiome has nothing to do with health and it's like okay um okay um You know, it's funny.
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Years ago, there was a pediatrician in Boston who noticed that practicing pediatricians were 20 years behind current research knowledge. And he set up, Don Bergen is his name, and he set up an organization called the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where he asked people from various disciplines, to literally investigate the status of the knowledge in your particular discipline.
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And it turns out I was selected in cardiology and cardiac surgery. And long story short, we published a bunch of papers about this. In cardiology and cardiac surgery, the practicing physician was about 20 years behind common knowledge, research knowledge. And this institute We tried to put into effect bringing people up to common knowledge.
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And there is tremendous amounts of resistance to doing this for many, many good reasons. So, anyhow. Yeah. One person, when I really didn't go after one of my detractors, said, you know, you're kind of like a silverback gorilla. who's just kind of sitting there as the little baby gorilla is crawling all over and picking on him. And he's just kind of sitting there.
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And he says, why don't you just reach out like a big, smart silverback gorilla and whack him across the room? And he says, you just sit there and
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Well, so... We, in training, there were kind of, still is actually, there's kind of an East Coast mentality of cholesterol and maybe a West Coast mentality based out of Berkeley. Berkeley was where these particles were first discovered. And there are, for instance, seven different kinds of LDL and Three of them are actually pretty good for you. Four of them are probably not very good for you.
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Termites have their own microbiome, and fun fact, termites cannot digest wood. They can eat wood, but they depend on their microbiome to digest the wood for them. And that's just one example. We are dependent in many, many ways on our microbiome to digest foods that we eat, to protect us from foods that we eat. And what's really startling
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There's five different kinds of HDL, but only one of them actually goes around and cleans up your blood vessels. We call it Pac-Man, MOA1, and so on. And then there's another interesting little particle called LP little a and so on that we talked about. And I was very interested in... these particles and whether these particles oxidize or not.
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And on the East Coast, there's a protein that coats all cholesterol particles called ApoB. It's actually a protein. And there's one ApoB for every particle of LDL, no matter how big, how small. So counting ApoB became popular in the East Coast. On the West Coast, we weren't very interested in it because we could look at the particle sizes.
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Subsequently, we realized that it was whether or not these particles were oxidized, whether they were rusty, that they might be interested in sticking to blood vessels. But Michael DeBakey, one of the fathers of heart surgery from Texas, said in the 1950s and the 60s that cholesterol has nothing to do with plaque in the coronary artery. It's an innocent bystander.
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And that basically inflammation was the problem. And I've written about this before. If I was an alien circulating around Earth, and reporting back to high command what I observed, one of my observations, which I could defend, was that I'm pretty sure ambulances cause car accidents. Because every time I see a car accident, I see an ambulance.
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So I'm pretty sure that there's a strong correlation between ambulances and car accidents. And there is an association, but that does not mean causation. Right, right. So my work in transplants again, convinced me that these cholesterol plaques that I was seeing in transplant patients was cholesterol sticking to an inflamed surface that was being attacked by our immune system.
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And interestingly enough, I saw the exact same thing in my diabetic patients. In fact, a diabetic's coronary arteries look exactly like one of my pediatric heart transplant patients. Exactly.
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And if the pediatric heart transplant patient, what we knew was attacking that foreign blood vessel with inflammation and cholesterol was patching it, then the same process was happening in my diabetic patients. So to answer your question, it takes two to tango. You have to have cholesterol that might be interested in patching things and oxidized cholesterol. There's a better test now.
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We talked about oxidized phospholipid ApoB. And you have to have blood vessels that are raw or inflamed and that you need to patch it. I'll give you an example. I used to work out with heavy weights and I had some pretty cool calluses around my rings and my aura ring. And I pretty much stopped working out with heavy weights. And lo and behold, without me doing anything, those calluses went away.
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Now I didn't take a drug to make the calluses go away. I, had a lifestyle intervention where I stopped traumatizing my skin and I built up a cushion to stop that. And if you think about it, those are cushions that have been built up to patch an area of trauma. So when I watched Big Ed miraculously regress his literally calluses, I went, son of a gun.
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is that we're dependent on them to tell our immune system who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, to tell our brain whether to be worried about something. And chapters of the book make some pretty amazing claims, which is backed up by research, that their anxious people have a completely different microbiome than non-anxious people.
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He doesn't need those calluses on his blood vessels anymore because he stopped traumatizing the blood vessel. And because he didn't need them, they regressed.
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an entire book about it called the energy paradox. So mitochondria are these little intracellular organelles that we learned about in high school biology. Uh, and they're the cellular power plants that make ATP. But we now know that mitochondria are actually ancient engulfed bacteria. And we're pretty certain a couple billion years ago, uh,
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a cell ate a bacteria, and the bacteria is kind of like Jonah and the whale. The bacteria said, hey, before you finish eating me, let's make a deal. If you let me live inside of you and give me a few things to eat, I'll produce ATP for you beyond your wildest imagination. Now, Normally, we, most bacteria, will make ATP with what's called glycolysis fermentation.
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And essentially, you take one molecule of glucose and you get two molecules of ATP. Okay. In a mitochondria, you take that one molecule of glucose and get somewhere between 32 and 34 molecules of ATP. Now, you talk about a return on your investment. So apparently this was a really good deal. And all advanced organisms, whether they're plants or animals, have mitochondria.
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Plants, we call them chloroplasts, but it's essentially the same thing. And so mitochondria actually have their own DNA. And it's bacterial DNA. And the cool thing about mitochondria is mitochondria can divide and reproduce more mitochondria without the cell dividing because they have their own DNA.
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What's even cooler, and it's really wonderful nerdy stuff, only mitochondrial DNA is only in females. Females pass DNA. mitochondrial dna male sperm have no mitochondrial dna it's only in the a so it's actually female mitochondria that we have now what's so really cool is these were ancient bacteria we get our bacterial load initially from our mother when we are passed through the birth canal.
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Our mother takes crap on us and that drove Maria Shriver crazy when I mentioned that. So we're inoculated with female-derived bacteria and we have female mitochondria. And I make the argument that these are sisters. And I have two daughters, sisters, like to talk to each other. And so we now know that there is a really, really cool communication system between our microbiome and our mitochondria.
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People who have altruistic motives, and we're seeing a lot of altruism in LA with the fires, have a very different microbiome that makes them altruistic. And kids with autism have a very different microbiome that make them autistic, etc., etc., And there's even a chapter that I submit that much of addictive behavior is actually driven by the microbiome to get you to get substances that they want.
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And they're always exchanging information. And it's that information exchange that's so exciting. Getting to MitoPure, what's interesting, so we've known for a number of years that there's some pretty cool polyphenols in pomegranates, in walnuts, in raspberries. Elagic acid is one of them. And we've known for years they're really good for you.
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Well, it turns out that if you have the right set of bacteria, you can take these compounds and make the end product, which is called urolithin A. Now, most of us mere mortals don't have the right set of bacteria.
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Only about 20% of us can eat a bunch of pomegranates and make urolithin A. But what's intriguing is super old, super agers, you know, 95 and above who are thriving, about 70% of those folks have the right bacteria to make urolithin A. So why is that so cool? Well, urolithin A basically tells mitochondria to recycle themselves. It's called mitophagy, self-eat.
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And mitochondria wear out, and one of two things happen. If they wear out and kind of die, that's a bad thing. And It spews dead pieces of mitochondria around and our body views them as dead bacteria and doesn't like that. It causes inflammation. Seriously. Wow.
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But if you recycle your mitochondria, then they become new fresh mitochondria and you don't expose our immune system to these bacterial pieces. And so... The cool thing about urolithin A is you don't have to have all the right bacteria to make it.
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We sure hope so. Yeah, that's what... we think happens, that much of brain health, for instance, is mitochondria get damaged and become dysfunctional. And the book actually goes into why that happens even in more detail. So yeah, keeping our mitochondria fresh and happy and making lots of them
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Unlike that picture that we all got in high school biology of that one little mitochondria that looked kind of like a radiator, there can be a thousand mitochondria in a heart muscle cell. There can be a thousand mitochondria in one single neuron. A thousand of them. And the other thing that's really exciting now, and I allude to this in the gut-brain paradox, is we now know that
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mitochondria can actually be transferred to other cells that might need them. The other scary thing is that bad mitochondria can be transferred to cells where they can do damage. And bacteria can actually do part of this in a good way or a bad way. So the science of personalized medicine
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is going to get more and more deeper and deeper into these various communication systems between all of the factors that live in us. That's what's exciting. We're beginning to understand the language that bacteria and even fungi and even plants use. to talk to us and control us, if you will, get over it. We're the home to these bacteria. And quite frankly, they like to stick around in their home.
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And if we give them what they need, they'll return the favor. On the other hand, if we give the bad bacteria what they want,
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Oh yeah, absolutely. It's already up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble or wherever you get your books. And it's releasing in April? April 15th, tax day. It's an easy way to remember it. Perfect.
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So it's very, it's really complex. And the book wants to kind of have you kind of dive into, number one, how complex this whole system is. and how important it is to understand this system. And the good news is to manipulate this system with some of our food and behavior choices.
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Well, I've got two YouTube channels. I'm on Instagram, the Dr. Gundry podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, drgundry.com, my supplement and food company, gundrymd.com.
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Yeah, that's what's actually so interesting. One of the reasons I decided to write this book is about 80% of my practice is in autoimmune disease patients who either aren't getting relief from the various immunosuppressive drugs they're on and want to get off of them or otherwise want lifestyle changes, maybe diabetes, et cetera. But one of the things, a lot of these patients are women.
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And one of the things that struck me through the years is that a great number of these people, among other problems, were on antidepressants. And many of them kind of list their antidepressants, but don't even list depression or anxiety as an issue. And yet there they are on them. And they go, oh, wow, I've been on these for so long, I forget that I'm on them.
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And one of the really interesting things is we know that there's a depressive microbiome. There is an anxiety microbiome. And you can prove this in animal studies. But one of the exciting things through the years, and I've been
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doing what I do now for 25 years, is that a lot of my patients, when we were working on correcting whatever reason they came to see me, was that a great number of them, in fact most of them, weaned themselves off of their antidepressants. And they go, hey, isn't that unusual? Isn't that weird? I didn't come in here to get rid of these, but I don't need them anymore. Isn't that interesting?
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And I go, well, actually, it turns out that in the process of restoring the functioning of your gut microbiome and the functioning of your gut barrier function, you don't need those things anymore because the good guys are back in town, if you will. So it's exciting.
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Well, you know, it's interesting. And I've written about this in a previous book, which was one of the reasons I wanted to write this book. Antidepressants, most of them are what are called serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs. And yes, serotonin is the feel-good hormone.
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And we've learned through the years that much of our serotonin is actually produced by our microbiome, not by our nerve cells at all. And if serotonin reuptake inhibitors actually work by making more serotonin in your brain, then I should be able, if I'm depressed, swallow Prozac and tomorrow feel great because I've got more serotonin in our brain. Nope.
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Takes about a month for these things to kick in. So then you go, well, but wait a minute. So interestingly enough, these drugs change your microbiome to produce more serotonin and have more serotonin producing bugs in your microbiome. And that doesn't happen overnight. It takes at least a month to achieve. So when you realize that, you go, son of a gun.
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These aren't working the way they said they're working. They're changing the microbiome. And if you can change the microbiome with a drug, why wouldn't you change the microbiome without the drug and get off the drug?
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Well, you and I are very slow learners. The father of medicine, Hippocrates, 2,500 years ago, said all disease begins in the gut.
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Really. All disease begins in the gut. And like I say, I'm a slow learner, but I've been spending 25 years realizing that he's actually absolutely right. I'm a heart surgeon and a cardiologist, and I kind of initially started this to keep people away from me, reversing their heart disease with diet and food. And it became
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
increasingly apparent when I started working in transplant, children's heart transplants and adult heart transplants, that what I was seeing in children who got a heart transplant is that they would get a particular type of coronary artery disease where the plaque was kind of diffuse along their coronary artery.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
Well, you know, it's called The Gut-Brain Paradox. And like my other kind of paradox books, the idea... is that much of our thought processes, believe it or not, are controlled by these little one-cell organisms that live in us, on us, even in our brain, and that it's hard for most people to grasp that single-cell organisms have the power
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
And interestingly enough, that plaque looked virtually identical to my insulin resistant and diabetic patients. Very different than, say, a smoker's coronary artery disease. Right. And I realized that, son of a gun, the reason I was seeing plaque in kids was is that the blood vessels of the new heart I put in them came from somebody else.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
And where their blood was interacting with the lining of that blood vessel was attacking that blood vessel.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
And they would build up, if you will, a callus to protect against that plaque. So it was an autoimmune, it was an immune attack against that blood vessel. And lo and behold, what I was seeing in my diabetic patients was exactly the same thing. So I said, wait a minute, this is an autoimmune attack against the blood vessel of this patient with diabetes. Where in the world was that coming from?
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
And it was coming from the fact that, in my opinion, and now a lot of other people's opinions, Autoimmune disease is coming from a leaky gut, from intestinal permeability. And so that's... You're right. And Hippocrates was right. So you can reverse coronary artery disease by stopping this attack on the blood vessels. And how do you stop the attack? Repair the gut. And that's how you do it.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
Well, I made a bold statement when I wrote The Plant Paradox, which came out eight years ago now, that
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
Whatever problem you have, whether it's acne, whether it's eczema, whether it's autoimmune disease, whether it's migraines, whether it's high blood pressure, whether it's diabetes, you name the, whether it's joint pain, you name the problem, I'm going to try to convince you it's from a dysbiotic gut microbiome and a leaky gut. And if we fix that, that problem will go away.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #19 Featuring Dr. Steven Gundry PART 1!! MASTERING THE GUT MICROBIOME! The Gut's influence on overall health, the role of microbiome, Mitochondrial Health, Urolithin A, Treating leaky gut, Nutrition Tips, The Gut-Brain Paradox and more!
I'll give you an example of a patient I saw yesterday. I still see patients six days a week, even on the weekend. I started at eight and finished at five. So this lady has a long history of eczema. And it would pop up. It was kind of on her chin when I saw her yesterday. And so we had just done leaky gut tests on her. And we also did a series of autoimmune tests.