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Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

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Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

It was a lot. But it was to prove the point, like what happens with this intervention over the course of eight weeks? And what they found is increase in the diversity of the gut microbiome, reductions of inflammatory measures, right? So this is what's potentially on the table. What does an intermediate amount accomplish? We don't have total clarity on that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

It was a lot. But it was to prove the point, like what happens with this intervention over the course of eight weeks? And what they found is increase in the diversity of the gut microbiome, reductions of inflammatory measures, right? So this is what's potentially on the table. What does an intermediate amount accomplish? We don't have total clarity on that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

It was a lot. But it was to prove the point, like what happens with this intervention over the course of eight weeks? And what they found is increase in the diversity of the gut microbiome, reductions of inflammatory measures, right? So this is what's potentially on the table. What does an intermediate amount accomplish? We don't have total clarity on that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

But I also think that there's enough to sit here and say, I think it's worth it, even if it's an intermediate amount. I don't think that it should be, hey, you only should feel good about yourself if you get up to six servings of fermented food a day. That's really hard to get to, to be honest with you. Absolutely.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

But I also think that there's enough to sit here and say, I think it's worth it, even if it's an intermediate amount. I don't think that it should be, hey, you only should feel good about yourself if you get up to six servings of fermented food a day. That's really hard to get to, to be honest with you. Absolutely.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

But I also think that there's enough to sit here and say, I think it's worth it, even if it's an intermediate amount. I don't think that it should be, hey, you only should feel good about yourself if you get up to six servings of fermented food a day. That's really hard to get to, to be honest with you. Absolutely.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So let's opt to try to prioritize these foods and take it as far as we can possibly take it. What happens with fermented foods? What are the benefits in terms of the gut microbiome? Okay, zoom out for a quick moment and contemplate this. It's very interesting. Our gut is an ecosystem in the same way that the Great Barrier Reef or the Amazon rainforest is an ecosystem.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So let's opt to try to prioritize these foods and take it as far as we can possibly take it. What happens with fermented foods? What are the benefits in terms of the gut microbiome? Okay, zoom out for a quick moment and contemplate this. It's very interesting. Our gut is an ecosystem in the same way that the Great Barrier Reef or the Amazon rainforest is an ecosystem.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So let's opt to try to prioritize these foods and take it as far as we can possibly take it. What happens with fermented foods? What are the benefits in terms of the gut microbiome? Okay, zoom out for a quick moment and contemplate this. It's very interesting. Our gut is an ecosystem in the same way that the Great Barrier Reef or the Amazon rainforest is an ecosystem.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

And a ferment is also an ecosystem. So it achieves a balance. And it's made up of all of these living microorganisms that include bacteria and yeasts. And through that balance, they are actively consuming and transforming components of that food that you have exposed them to. What they are depends. Like, are we talking about sauerkraut? Are we talking about kombucha? Are we talking about yogurt?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

And a ferment is also an ecosystem. So it achieves a balance. And it's made up of all of these living microorganisms that include bacteria and yeasts. And through that balance, they are actively consuming and transforming components of that food that you have exposed them to. What they are depends. Like, are we talking about sauerkraut? Are we talking about kombucha? Are we talking about yogurt?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

And a ferment is also an ecosystem. So it achieves a balance. And it's made up of all of these living microorganisms that include bacteria and yeasts. And through that balance, they are actively consuming and transforming components of that food that you have exposed them to. What they are depends. Like, are we talking about sauerkraut? Are we talking about kombucha? Are we talking about yogurt?

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

There's different things that are being consumed in each of those cases. But basically what they're doing is they're consuming things within that food and they're changing it. They're transforming it. So the end result is not just about the microbes. That is a part of the story. That you have living microbes. But it's also the transformation that took place within the food.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

There's different things that are being consumed in each of those cases. But basically what they're doing is they're consuming things within that food and they're changing it. They're transforming it. So the end result is not just about the microbes. That is a part of the story. That you have living microbes. But it's also the transformation that took place within the food.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

There's different things that are being consumed in each of those cases. But basically what they're doing is they're consuming things within that food and they're changing it. They're transforming it. So the end result is not just about the microbes. That is a part of the story. That you have living microbes. But it's also the transformation that took place within the food.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

An example of this is sourdough bread. You kill the microbes. And yet, despite this, I would argue that a high quality sourdough bread from nice flour is the healthiest bread that exists. It's lower in gluten content. It actually reduces the glyphosate content and enhances the absorption of fiber, of protein. So it increases the vitamins that are there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

An example of this is sourdough bread. You kill the microbes. And yet, despite this, I would argue that a high quality sourdough bread from nice flour is the healthiest bread that exists. It's lower in gluten content. It actually reduces the glyphosate content and enhances the absorption of fiber, of protein. So it increases the vitamins that are there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

An example of this is sourdough bread. You kill the microbes. And yet, despite this, I would argue that a high quality sourdough bread from nice flour is the healthiest bread that exists. It's lower in gluten content. It actually reduces the glyphosate content and enhances the absorption of fiber, of protein. So it increases the vitamins that are there.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So we get all of these benefits that come from the transformation that the food undergoes as a result of these microbes. In essence, what they're doing within that jar or whatever it may be within that ecosystem is they are slowly digesting the food in the same way that our body would digest the food, but we're giving them more time to really do it and transform it.

Dhru Purohit Show
Why You Need to Eat 30 Different Plants a Week to Fight Inflammation and How to Build Your Healthiest Gut Microbiome Yet with Gut Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So we get all of these benefits that come from the transformation that the food undergoes as a result of these microbes. In essence, what they're doing within that jar or whatever it may be within that ecosystem is they are slowly digesting the food in the same way that our body would digest the food, but we're giving them more time to really do it and transform it.