Your Immune System Lives in Your Gut

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:01]Okay. I also feel we're going to talk about the microbiome biome. We need to talk about the gut because a lot of individuals don't know how serious the gut is. You have to understand something. You have your your immune system is right there in the gut. You know that. If you don't know, you know now. Okay? You have heavy neurotransmitters in your gut and in your brain. They communicate with each other. This is your immune system and you have to keep your immune system intact. But it's good to be educated and understand your gut so you will not be taken advantage of out here so you can move accordingly. It's a reason why I'm 53 years old and I have I am not on no medication because I understand them out there. I understand my body. This is your temple. This is my temple. This is your temple. You want to take care of your temple. your body. This is you get one, you brought in here by yourself, you going to leave by yourself. So in between you come in here and you leaving. There's something in between called the dash. What you going to do with it? So it's a lot of things you want to do to make sure you protect you.

[00:01:13]So understand the body. This is all I'm doing. Making sure you understand every portion of your body and what to do with mother nature and yourself and education and knowledge to take care of you. So let's get into it. Okay, let's get into it.

[00:01:28]>> Improve your gut health without costing you anything. I'm a board-certified gastronurologist, so hit that follow button for more tips like this. So, I'm going to key you in on some things that I tell my patients to manage some of their gut symptoms. That won't cost them anything. So, for example, if you suffer from acid reflux, breathe in through your nose, let your belly expand, hold it for about 3 to 5 seconds, and then slowly breathe out of your mouth. And what this does is this closes off the opening between the esophagus and stomach and can help with symptoms of heartburn. The second thing is taking a walk after eating. We know that taking a walk after eating can help improve symptoms of acid reflux, bloating, and constipation because walking causes your intestinal tract to move, clear out gas, clear out food out of your stomach.

[00:02:07]>> 100%. Just walking. If you don't want to walk outside, go get yourself a treadmill.

[00:02:13]Some people walk in place.

[00:02:16]Intestinal tract to move, clear out gas, clear out food out of your stomach, and help you have a bowel movement. So, one thing you can do is something called abdominal massage. And what that does is you start in the right lower quadrant of your belly and you massage in a circular fashion towards the left lower quadrant of your belly. And what this does is this can help massage gas and stool throughout your colon. And if you're constipated, this can actually help you have a bowel movement. And this has been shown to improve symptoms and people who have IBS or irritable bowel syndrome.

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[00:02:46]>> Listen, a lot of people You got to start moving. That's another thing you can kind of like do. You can like like do some uh I say it a lot. If you sitting at a desk like I am right now, I even do it myself. I just rais my calves up, you know, my my feet up like this underneath the table. You can do that at work. I like doing it pretty much after I eat. If I don't walk, if I don't get on a treadmill, if I actually don't have time after I eat, whenever.

[00:03:19]or I might just be doing it anyway. I'll just do calf raises in like sets where I'm sitting at.

[00:03:27]It's really simple and it's amazing. And studies has already shown you can lower your insulin over 40%. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You can lower your glucose over 40%.

[00:03:41]Let's get to it.

[00:03:43]Major depression is a big issue and depression is the biggest cause of disability in this country and the microbiome of people who are depressed is different and in in 2022 there was a study of microbiomes of over a thousand people with depression and they found changes in about 13 bacteria and and these bacteria are known to produce various neurotransmitters. So can you kind of unpack that for us and just give us a little taste of the the mood brain gut microbiome connection? Yeah, I guess, you know, I I suppose we should have known this. Uh, but again, now that we're being able to look at individual bacteria and the compounds that they produce, you're right, brand new studies in the last year or so have shown that um depressed individuals have a depressive microbiome.

[00:04:32]And you can con >> a depressive microbiome. Just in case you don't know what that is, microbiome equals trillions of microorganisms in the body, especially in the gut.

[00:04:50]It controls your brain and your moods.

[00:04:54]It's crazy how they have done research to find out that the gut influences your mood plus your brain signaling signaling. So they know based on WHAT'S IN YOUR GUT IS HOW YOU GOING TO ACT. You could be depressed, happy, sad, uh sluggish, uh uh mopy, just low on energy, uh uh have all kinds of different irritable, crazy, losing it, uh joyful, you know, just just just just to these particular abnormal species.

[00:05:32]What's really interesting is uh let me step back one. Uh we've known that glyphosate, which is a lovely weed killer, was actually patented uh as an antibiotic.

[00:05:46]And one of the recent findings about glyphosate is that gly glyphosate targets the tryptophan pathway bacteria in our gut. Now, why should that be interesting is because tryptophan makes 5http, makes serotonin, which and GABA for that matter. And so glyphosate is really good at knocking out all the feel-good bacteras specifically in our gut. And isn't it interesting that this that this epidemic of depression and anxiety correlates pretty dog on good with the advent of glyphosate. And yeah, and now we know, well, you can say, "Oh, well, glyphosate's bad for you." But wait a minute, glyphosate is after the bacteria that are essential for our mood.

[00:06:43]>> Essential for your mood.

[00:06:49]It's a lot of stuff that's crazy and that don't make no sense and that your body don't like that's interrupting trillions of good gut bacteria in your gut in you in your body.

[00:07:10]Got to be able to take care of you. Who else going to do it? Let's listen to see what she got to say. Let's listen. we need to be asking is not how can we fix our gut microbiome but actually what is going on with my gut microbiome so that I know what I can do to fix it. Everyone is dealing with different issues. You might have SIBO, you might have uh bacterial overgrowth or you might have a fungal overgrowth. You might have candida again fungal overgrowth. You might have bofilm. You might be dealing with stress and just poor circulation.

[00:07:40]You might be dealing with acid reflux.

[00:07:42]There's so many different things that can be going on that are all going to lead.

[00:07:44]>> You see all that attached in your gut?

[00:07:48]That's your immune system. I don't know.

[00:07:50]It feels like it's under attack by what?

[00:07:58]They say we're all eating the wrong things.

[00:08:01]That's what they say.

[00:08:05]But who's producing the things that we're eating?

[00:08:12]feed back to this is my microbiome, but we're going to treat them a little bit differently. So, the number one question I want you to ask is what are the symptoms that I'm dealing with and when do I experience it? Most of you have no idea when you get those symptoms. Do they flare around certain parts of your cycle? Uh, is it before you eat? Is it after you eat? Do you wake up with these symptoms? Do you go to bed with these symptoms? Is it an hour after you eat?

[00:08:32]Is it right while you're eating? Is it 2 hours after you eat? How and when are you experiencing these symptoms? is that's going to tell me what might be going on with your gut. And then from there, we can also do what's called stool testing, which essentially is just looking >> stool testing. But what is it? What's she saying?

[00:08:50]>> Is just do what's called stool testing, which essentially is just looking straight at your gut and your poop to see what's going on. This is just one page of like a 10-page report of it looks at bacterial issues, it looks at viral stuff, it looks at fungal, it looks at inflammatory markers, and it's looking at your commensol or your healthy gut bacteria and seeing how much of each we have in there as well. So based on all of that information, based on some testing, we can then figure out, okay, well, what's going on with your gut microbiome? And I will say, not everyone needs a stool test. We can, for the most part, in our intake figure out what might be going on and start trying things from there. We don't always have to do a stool test. I usually save that for when we're move we're adding things in, we've made some changes and we're not seeing the progress that we're hoping to see. Then I would say let's do a stool test to get a better picture. So you can start with a stool test. You don't have to cuz obviously they are pretty pricey. So if you don't want to start there, we don't >> obviously you don't really have to do all that. Just be conscious of what you're putting in your mouth that's going down your esophagus and hitting your stomach. and now it's being spread in your whole colon, your intestines, small and large, is affected. Be conscious of that. It's it's okay to pay attention to what you eat on a regular basis. And because there's a lot of stuff that ain't cool that just should not be in the food. So, you want to help your body out as much as possible. And by the way, uh you can go get a test and some of these testes that don't cover with insurance and whatnot. It's a lot of money, but if you look into it, depending on what type of insurance you have or depending on where you go, it can cost 250 to$500 plus dollars. 250 for a stool test. 250 to 500 plus dollars. They have information. They have ways, state-of-the-art information, ways on a finding what's going on in you.

[00:10:53]Yeah.

[00:10:56]>> Yeah. Does she have anything else to say? Let's see. Oh, >> I have to.

[00:11:00]>> That wasn't cool. I left her eye like that. My bad.

[00:11:03]>> And then we'll look at Okay. Do we need antimicrobials? Do we need binders? Do we need um support for circulation? Do we need some bidters? Do we need um like supportive microbiome supportive stuff like probiotic? Do we want a sport probiotic versus a live probiotic? Do we want to do some glutamine? Do we want to do some deulsent herbs to help with soothing? Do we want to do anti-inflammatory herbs? So many different things that we can do to fix our gut microbiome. So, it's not an easy thing to be like, "Here, just focus on this one thing. Focus on this two things." We really have to dig a little bit deeper. And this is why working with someone is obviously helpful so that we can figure out what exactly you're dealing with and why you're dealing with that and where we need to go. The >> I like how she just broke that down. Let me not let her look crazy again because that was >> of it looks at >> That's better. So study has shown in 2016 cell jungle journal that digestion and nutritionist support is a helpful it helps break down foods produce compounds like short chain fatty acids.

[00:12:06]In short you want to take care of your gut. you want to eat properly. And um here's a little tip for you.

[00:12:20]The grains that they have out here today like and the pasta, a lot of it is not really that like it used to be. They started the GMO to it, the damaging, the fakeness to it. It's it's your body don't like it. So some people react different than others. So you guys need to understand that we're not all created equal in the sense of the way my body will react to a certain type of grain.

[00:12:53]Your body might act different. The way my body might act to some dairy or meat, your body might act different. Nuts, peanuts. That's why they just everybody, you know, body is different. You might have skin issue, eczema. You might have an issue with IBS, might have acid reflux. You might have issues with grave disease or Hashimoto's with the body attacking itself, nerve damage. You might have issues with your your uh insulin and and your pancreas or you might have issues with your gallbladder when having a burning sensation. You might have issues with your lymphatic system. You might get with it not flowing and flowing. You might have issues with your circulation. You might have issues with your skin. You might have which is the largest organ of the body. You might have issues with your your brain and your your hypothamus gland or your or your or or your um what's your penal gland or your your thyroid gland or your adrenal glands or your you know it's so many things that they have not shared with us about our bodies.

[00:13:53]But you definitely want to pay attention to your gut.

[00:13:57]That is over 70 plus% of your immune system. Take care of your gut and be careful what you put in your mouth. It can be dangerous. Okay? Focus on mother nature. It's always been your gift.

[00:14:15]Peace.

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