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now there is a super simple very quick

test that you can do

to figure out if you have bowel disease

or gut issues okay which i’m going to

explain at the end you can fast forward

if you want but i recommend that you

just hear me out because i have some

very important points related to

your gut whether you have celiac crohn’s

ulcerative colitis diverticulitis

small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth when we’re talking about

bowel disease

it usually relates to your microbes okay

you have trillions of microbes in your

gut and there could be some alteration

in the amounts or the type of microbes

you might have too little good bacteria

and too much bad bacteria

and so of course people will say well

you need to feed your bacteria fiber and

this is why they recommend

11 servings of grains right with at

least three of those 11 servings being

whole grains because of course we all

know

that fiber feeds the microbes right we

want healthy fiber but the confusing

part about that is pull grains doesn’t

usually have much fiber like seven

percent fiber it’s not that much it has

a lot of other things like starch but

it’s not like a very high

fiber

food

it also has phytic acid in it which if

you don’t know what that is that blocks

minerals okay specifically iron

zinc

calcium magnesium

it tightly binds minerals so if anyone

were to tell you that well grains are

nutrient dense

just bring up this point about phytic

acid that blocks the nutrition

in whole grains but in refined grains

there is not hardly any nutrition

because they’re refining it that’s why

they have to fortify or enrich the

grains with some a couple synthetic

vitamins and then they can call it a

nutrient-dense foods because you’re

adding a couple synthetic vitamins and

then we have the protein in grains which

is gluten which literally tears up

the digestive tract and creates so many

problems so even though you may not have

a gluten allergy it could be a gluten

sensitivity so that’s a real big factor

so honestly i think the worst thing you

could possibly eat for digestive

problems

is grains now when we talk about fiber

in general um people associate you have

to eat enough fiber to prevent

constipation because we all know for a

fact that constipation is just a lack of

fiber and if you just take more fiber

then you can actually go on a regular

basis now there’s a lot of different

types of fiber out there you have the

fiber from the grain you have fiber from

salad right

that’s a good amount of fiber plus the

salad has no gluten there’s very little

amounts of phytic acid except maybe in

certain things like spinach that has

oxalates and phytic acid it also has a

lot of nutrients potassium magnesium

folic acid vitamin c

so of course salad would be a much

better fiber than grains and then you

have all these new functional fibers

they’re talking about in all the keto

treats like the soluble corn fiber and

the tapioca fiber and the inulin and the

chicory root okay with so many people

having digestive bloating and gas from

these products it’s just off the chart

so what is happening in the colonies

creating all this bloating and gas well

you’re getting this fermentation okay

these microbes are attempting to break

down some of these fibers and they’re

releasing a lot of methane gas and other

gases and

all sorts of things that are creating

distension

and pain in your

colon

now relating to microbes

there’s three types of general

categories of microbes you have microbes

that are harmful okay to you those are

called pathogens

you also have microbes that help you

okay like friendly bacteria those are

called mutualists they have a mutual

relationship with you they give you

certain benefits and you give them

certain benefits you give them a place

to live right so there’s this nice

exchange then you have microbes that are

kind of neutral

they’re called commensal

they live in your body they don’t harm

you they don’t help you they don’t

bother you

so

here’s what you need to know about that

a good amount of the microbes that you

have in your gut actually can change

morph into

the bad guys so in other words you can

have a microbe that is neutral that can

turn pathogenic because if you think

about it where do these bad microbes

come from right do they just kind of

appear from nowhere no they’re actually

coming from

a condition from being neutral to now

being pathogenic or harmful and that

definitely applies to like e coli

and h pylori

and c diff

and even candida when the environment of

your gut changes

these microbes shift their state of

beingness their condition and they can

start creating trouble for you so when

the environment changes like there’s

stress in your gut

one stress would be antibiotics right

now you say well i don’t take

antibiotics

did you realize that wheat that grain

that you took

was sprayed with glyphosate which is an

herbicide and

classified as an antibiotic

in fact the company that created this

product

also got a patent

with a different application so

glyphosate is an antibiotic it kills

microbes in the soil and it kills

microbes in your gut so we can add

another one to this list with the phytic

acid the gluten and now that’s

considered an antibiotic which is really

bizarre to me that

they are recommending the majority of

your calories should be

grains

the actual thing that would create

so many problems for your gut i mean

it’s just it’s mind-blowing and of

course there’s other things that throw

off the environment you have drugs you

have junk food alcohol artificial

sweeteners that’s another one that can

disrupt your gut

i think and i predict down the road we

will see

these functional fibers like the corn

fibers and the tapioca fibers being

something that alters the environment

for the microbes to turn them from good

to bad

and so when we’re dealing with these gut

issues we do need to recognize and

understand that these microbes are very

very important they’re the most

successful in survival they’ve adapted

to the harshest conditions they can live

at the bottom of the ocean they can live

in the clouds they can live in lava

i mean it’s just incredible how they’ve

adapted they’re the most numerous

they’re the most diversified and we

depend on them and without them we would

not even be alive they’re a big part of

our immune system they help make

vitamins they help us with digestion and

they give a secondary kind of compounds

that are beneficial to our health now

let’s get to

the important way to determine

if

you

have gut issues okay here we go

step one

eliminate all fiber from your diet for

three days

okay that’s step one

see how you feel step two add the fiber

back into the diet for three days

now compare how you felt when you

eliminated the fiber

versus when you added the fiber and then

you really know for sure

if you have gut issues it could be

inflammation it could be some other type

of dysbiosis going on with your gut but

that’s a really simple way

without having to go through a bunch of

testing without having to wait for some

scientific study without having them to

put you under and having a scope go into

your intestine simply eliminate your

fiber and see if you feel better then

you know for sure something is going in

your gut and that’s the diet that you

that’s going to work best for you right

now

if you add the fiber and you feel better

chances are you don’t have a gut issue

and you just now fed the microbes and

now they’re happy because they have some

food of course the fiber i’m

recommending

is from vegetable fiber like salads but

here’s the question

if you eliminate fiber

isn’t that the only food for microbes

aren’t your microbes going to die off

because they have no more food

well like i said before microbes can

adapt to almost any condition they can

eat almost any food did you realize that

microbes can even live on

metal

plastics

and even your waste

so even in a condition called sibo

you have these friendly bacteria in your

small intestine and what are they eating

well they’re eating the fiber but

they’re also eating other nutrients

they’re eating other things they’re

eating protein so if your body does not

do well on fiber then don’t consume

fiber and i know in my books and things

i recommend seven to ten cups of salad

per day but some people can’t do that

personally when i do that i feel better

but i know a lot of people that don’t

feel good when they consume that much

fiber even if it’s salad

not even talking about grains in fact i

was puzzled back then when my when i

consumed more meat okay and not any more

grains of course at that time i wasn’t

consuming any salad

my bowels actually did very good and i

was very confused at that at the time

but over the years i’ve healed my gut

and i can tolerate more

vegetable fiber and the main reason i

personally consume vegetables is not

necessarily just for the fiber

it’s for the nutrients it’s for the

potassium magnesium vitamin c

folate things like that just as one last

side note related to this topic

when you consume fermented food like

sauerkraut or kimchi

that is way better than fiber so

let’s say for example you get off fiber

for a period of time and you want to

introduce fiber back into the diet i

would recommend introducing fermented

fiber as in sauerkraut kimchi things

like that now since we’re on the topic

of microbes okay another really good

video for you to watch would be the one

on

how microbes are affected when you fast

check it out i put it up right here