Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

For women, so hormones are important.

So for women, female fertility, perimenopause.

Menopause, 100% there is inflammation there.

Yes.

For men, hormonal issues.

So some of the statistics around men are wildly disturbing.

the drop in testosterone levels over the last 40 years, the drop in sperm counts over the last 40 years,

I mean, Viagra, Cialis, like all these things wouldn't exist if there wasn't a market because of erectile dysfunction, right?

So not to mention energy drinks, right?

So I'm not bashing them.

Sometimes I take them myself, but like I'm just saying that these things or like muscle soreness, joint issues, joint discomfort, difficulty recovering from exercise, difficulty performing exercise,

right?

Like when you're more inflamed, go and eat a fast food meal and then go try to work out and tell me that you can have a good workout.

You can't.

Wow.

Okay.

So there's acute and low grade chronic inflammation, correct?

Yeah.

And the low grade chronic information mostly comes from the foods we eat, or is it also our environment or sleep patterns, you know, and other, and other things that we do.

Okay, so one of the core ideas that I present in this book, and I will defend this position, is that your gut and your immune system are completely intertwined and inseparable.