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this is a very important video for

anyone with an autoimmune disorder or

for that matter any inflammatory

disorders now of course the thing to do

if you have an autoimmune condition is

go to The Experts right so this is what

they will tell you what to do right

consume plenty of fruits and vegetables

and whole grains legumes only have

moderate amounts of alcohol limit your

sugars and sodas and also limit your

refined grains but of course the diet is

going to recommend you can have some

sugars you know juice and alcohol and

sugar and fine grains just don’t have

too much and you’ll be totally fine well

I’m going to let you know right now you

will never ever get better if you follow

that recommendation so let’s go ahead

and dissect and talk about what’s really

behind an autoimmune disorder most

autoimmune disorders where your own

cells are attacking itself creating a

lot of collateral damage with

inflammation

start in the gut but I want to talk

about the mechanism of what starts it in

the gut we have this immune barrier okay

we also have other barriers on their

skin the internal skin we have other

immune things like acids in your stomach

bile that’s produced by the gallbladder

lactic acid that’s produced by some of

your microbes that all prevent pathogens

from invading the body and we also have

this thing called the blood-brain

barrier which protects pathogens from

invading the brain and so the immune

system and I just have to say this is so

highly complex and so mysterious

really no one understands the complexity

of this magical defense mechanism and

how amazing it is and when you

appreciate it you’re much less

susceptible to using things to try to

bypass your immune system like

antibiotics for example or anything to

stop an infection you want to let your

body learn from it and develop more

immunity but before we get into this I

want to just touch on something that’s

really important

that’s about the immune system since

we’re on the topic of autoimmune our

immune system is developed when we’re

small infants hopefully you had a

natural childbirth you weren’t C-section

because that can inhibit the starting of

the immune system because of the

microbiome that’s developed in a natural

birthing process and hopefully you are

breastfed too because of the probiotics

that are in the breast milk really

fortify that immune system early on you

know when we talk about a fetus growing

in a mother’s womb it’s not a sterile

environment they did think it was

sterile at one time but they recently

found microbes in the amniotic fluid and

some babies actually have their first

bowel movement right inside the womb and

they found microbes in there where do

they come from well they came from the

mother and so an infant’s immune system

starts at Birth and if they don’t have

these certain factors okay if things are

too sterile if an infant is exposed to

antibiotics or anything that can inhibit

that microbiome boy is that immune

system affected later on in life and the

recent interest that I have in this

topic relates to farming

and growing certain plants and I’m going

to be doing some very interesting

research on my farm relating to this

topic but a seed that is grown in the

soil is not just a little packet of

genetic information it is literally

Noah’s Ark you have all sorts of

microbes it’s growing inside that seed

and on the surface of that seed that

helps that seed be fortified in its

growing process and so they found that

if you disrupt that microbiome early on

that plant won’t really grow it won’t

really have that microbiome to help it

absorb nutrition well the exact same

thing happens with us with our immune

system early on we’re talking about the

gut barrier okay there are these

protective things called tight junctions

that keep the cells very very tight and

secure so it forms a very very nice

barrier between the inside of your body

and the out outside of the body or

really the inside of the gut so if

there’s a pathogen trying to invade the

gut these tight junctions prevent it

from doing so now the medical term for

this is intestinal permeability of

course it’s the same thing as a leaky

gut right there’s holes in your

intestine that allow things to pass

through that then don’t get the stamp of

immune approval through immigration and

then certain things could be tagged

incorrectly and then your immune system

can go after them and then we have a war

we have inflammation and then we can

develop autoimmune diseases now there’s

this um protein that regulates these

tight junctions and if this zonulin and

the type Junctions are not working

correctly the immune system is not going

to have the ability to differentiate

between self and non-self in other words

your immune system can make a mistake

and start incorrectly assigning your own

tissue being a foreign pathogen and

start developing the antibodies you know

whether it’s for the thyroid the brain

anything and so this zonulent protein is

always elevated in autoimmune diseases

as well as a lot of inflammatory

conditions it is the primary regulator

of that intestinal permeability so if we

look at what foods are best for an

autoimmune disease it would be those

foods that reduce permeability and that

keep this zonulin in check and prevent

it from getting too high so what I did

is I cross referenced a lot of different

foods and other things that relate to

not only increasing or decreasing

zonulin but also affecting the

intestinal permeability

as well as directly causing autoimmune

diseases okay so the number one thing

that helps regulate zonulin is your own

microbiome okay so anything that

destroys your microbiome is going to be

very very bad for the situation anything

that supports it is going to be very

very good and again we come full circle

to these microbes right they’re not us

but they live with us and they greatly

help us a very large portion of our

immune system is due to these microbes

and I really think if we look at the

difference between like 50 years ago and

now we definitely do not have the

numbers and the diversity of microbiome

in our guts and we definitely don’t have

the numbers and diversity of microbiome

in this soil I think that is really at

the core of the problem so the first

food I’m going to recommend is

a probiotic food right that would be

sauerkraut kimchi

kefir

okay anything that will give you these

friendly microbes and you might even

want to take a probiotic as well because

we’re trying to increase the diversity

of microbes now if we’ve taken the flip

side I think we should also talk about

what to avoid

well guess what

antibiotics antibiotics directly

increase leaky gut okay they increase

this zonulin and they directly relate

and can cause autoimmune diseases so at

the first sign of a sickness don’t jump

to start taking that antibiotic and if

you have to okay definitely take a

probiotic at the same time it’s so

important I mean the amount of

antibiotics that I have taken in my life

are just off the charts simply because I

didn’t know the long-term effects did

you realize that when you take an

antibiotic there are going to be certain

microbes they’re going to survive that

are going to develop a resistance to

that antibiotic that microbe that now is

resistant to that antibiotic can do

something called horizontal Gene

transfer where it shares this

information with other microbes that

were not exposed to that antibiotic to

give them the genes that help them

resist that antibiotic and in the future

so these microbes can share information

back and forth and this is part of the

survival mechanism that they have

developed and so the next time you take

the antibiotic it works less and less to

the point where it won’t work at all

another food that is good potentially

for autoimmune would be anything

fermented okay fermented I’m not talking

about like fermented like beer or

alcohol I’m talking about like fermented

vegetables because fermented vegetables

are easier to digest they have microbes

they have the fiber that can actually

feed the microbes they have all sorts of

other secondary chemicals that support

keeping that intestinal line really

really tight but if you have the type of

autoimmune that involves damage to your

gut there’s too much inflammation then

you might have a problem with vegetables

in general you might have to do

carnivore for a little while but if you

don’t have that you might benefit from

fermented vegetables and this this also

includes vegetables okay because

personally I do very well on them I

don’t apparently have that much gut

damage that it’s a problem some people

don’t but if you have an autoimmune

disease that’s affecting the gut you

might not do well on the vegetables but

if you don’t vegetables can contribute

to a good gut microbiome because they

feed the microbes from the fiber but

also the phytonutrients in these

vegetables greatly support zonulin and

one of the biggest ones that is very

well researched is sulforaphane and not

only broccoli Sprouts but in broccoli

cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables

so sulforaphane directly helps reverse

gut dysbiosis okay alteration in the

microbiome sulforaphane is a great

remedy for h pylori another microbe in

your body that is in the stomach that

can get out of control and turn

unfriendly in certain environments and

then it can create ulcers but guess what

sulforaphane can help kill H pylori and

put it back into remission sulfur pain

helps the mucous lining in your gut and

sulforaphane directly inhibits

autoimmune conditions okay especially

like lupus and even psoriasis and other

autoimmune conditions so you could

probably get the most sulforaphane in

broccoli Sprouts you can just put that

on your salad each day or you can get

sulforaphane in a supplement all right

let’s go to the flip side what to avoid

okay

anything with the herbicide glyphosate

and this is in the Roundup Ready and in

GMO foods and if you look this up it’s

interesting because you’ll see these

mixed reviews of course the ones that

they say the glyphosate is fine are

funded by companies that have a vested

interest but if you think about it

glyphosate has a patent on it being an

antibiotic yeah because it kills

microbes certain things you’ll see on

the internet will say that there is no

dangerous to glyphosate in humans

because the pathway that biochemically

it interrupts is not part of the human

body

well it is part of the microbes that

live inside of our gut that we depend on

so it definitely affects us from the

microbiome level but glyphosate is in so

many different things even in non-GMO

things including wheat and other grains

not to mention soy corn it’s just all

over the place and so now I think it’s

appropriate to bring up another really

bad thing for autoimmune diseases and

that would be gluten in certain grains

okay

gluten uh is a kind of a general term

for several um types of proteins that

have a very devastating effect on our GI

system now you might think just about

Celiac which is a very severe disorder

which is um you know not as common as

other disorders but then you also have

gluten intolerance gluten sensitivity

which is pretty common but what about

for those people that don’t have a

problem with gluten right well check

this out gluten whether you have an

intolerance or not gluten is going to

increase zonulin in everyone so it’s

going to open up those tight junctions

in people that are not sensitive to it

and the big problem with gluten is that

it’s the only protein that our bodies

cannot fully digest okay so if we get

this undigested protein floating down

our GI tract and then it opens up the

hole in the gut and it goes right

through now we’re going to start to have

immune reactions or at least

inflammation Nation especially if you’re

consuming it on a chronic basis which

most people are and unfortunately

um lately in the last 20 years or more

gluten has really increased in wheat and

in other foods and so you can imagine

the amount of inflammation going on in

our guts without us even knowing it all

right let’s talk about number four okay

the food that you should be consuming

food and this is kind of just a general

category but foods high in glutamine

okay glutamine maybe you’ve heard of

this maybe you haven’t but glutamine is

a good thing to reduce inflammation in

your gut now glutamine is an amino acid

that is a precursor for

glutathione right which is one of the

most important antioxidants in your body

and so what foods are high in glutamine

well red cabbage and by the way cabbage

is just good for any type of

gastrointestinal problem grass-fed beef

eggs

fish these are all really high in

glooming now on the flip side additional

things you should avoid would be of

course glucose fructose both glucose and

fructose increase zonulin and increase

permeability alcohol is another one that

will just put a hole right through your

gut and of course vegetable oils another

big one like corn oil soy oil cottonseed

oil canola these vegetable oils are

highly inflammatory and they definitely

will create increased permeability and

of course trans fats are also really bad

for the intestinal lining and number

five food would be the omega-3 fats and

that’s another category that includes

you know cod liver oil fish salmon

sardines

omega-3 is really good for the gut and

keeping those Junctions really really

tight as well as reducing the risk for

autoimmune now this last part is very

very important too and this is not Foods

it’s just nutrients and these nutrients

that I’m going to talk about are hands

down the most important nutrients to

support the zonulin to support

autoimmune to sport the gut lining to

make it really really tight okay we have

zinc vitamin D vitamin A which is in egg

yolks beef liver butter things like that

so now you have the basic information on

what you should be consuming if you have

an autoimmune disease and since we’re on

the topic of the gut another really

important video for you to watch would

be my more comprehensive video on the

digestive system and I put that up right

here check it out