Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

Yeah.

I call them the four workhorses because I have this mental image of like, imagine that you are, imagine that it's 1870, right?

You and I are heading West.

We're coming here.

there's gold here yeah we're gonna get rich and so we got this wagon right but in order for us to get across the plains you don't want just one horse you don't want just two horses at some point you're gonna have to climb a mountain climbing a mountain is like fighting a disease right fighting that battle against this chronic illness right so you're gonna climb that mountain and

you want to have three or four workhorses powering you to your goal right because one or two would not be enough so i call them the four workhorses because in my mind i have this image of that wagon that you're trying to power up the hill for the person who's sick whereas when you're healthy and you're feeling really well i mean you could say hey i only want one or two horses but that would be kind of stupid because why wouldn't you have all four clydesdales rocking

mm-hmm and be a total beast exactly yeah go for eight and give me eight of them you know let's go i have to come up with four more exactly double it up i have to go back to the drawing board there stress seems to be like one of the biggest things one of the biggest killers for a lot of people it just holds them back from accomplishing what they truly want and i'm curious does bad gut health

make us more reactive and cause more stress for high performers or high achievers?

If so, what's a science backed way that we can start to calm our nervous system with food that you like?

Okay, so first of all, stress 100% is connected to our gut microbiome, like without a shadow of a doubt.

And basically what you've led us into is a conversation around the gut brain connection.

right so they are basically best friends this is by the way chapter eight of of my new book and i have to tell you lewis this is the chapter that um would resonate with a person like you but i think it's going to resonate with the readers the most too like this is literally the best chapter that i've ever written

So out of all my three books, yeah.

And because there's a lot for us to unpack here.

It's about the brain-gut connection.

The brain-gut connection, which is the nerdy way of actually getting into the concept of mind-body, right?

Because like the mind-body concepts, allopathic medicine has rejected that as being woo-woo.

But there's absolutely 100% clear physiology that explains how our stress, our emotions, our connections to other people, our life of spiritual purpose, and our traumas

ultimately will impact our gut.

And when they impact our gut, they will impact our immune system and create inflammation.