Episode 125: Digestive-Disruptors

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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, Doc, you know it's good to be back with
you this week. I wanted to spend the day today
going over one of the shows. I know it's one
of your favorites to talk about, and that is the
digestive disruptors that affect our digestive system and really our
immune system and our overall health. It's a really important
topic and I think the way to begin is to

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talk a little bit about why a healthy digestive tract
is so important to your overall well being.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Well, it's the heart of being healthy. Everything feeds off
the digestive system and the digestive system health, and so
you want to maintain a balanced, healthy, highly functioning, healthy
digestive tract in order for your body to extract all
the ingredients that it needs to repair, replace, and replenish

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and maintain normal functioning body and every aspect possible.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So how does a poor digestion actually affect your health?

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Well, if you cannot digest and absorb your food, assuming
that you're eating quality food, you will not have the
building blocks to create and maintain a healthy body.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, one of the things that has been near and
dear to this conversation is what we call the gut microbiome,
which is the microbial life. It lives inside your digestive check. So,
how does that gut microbiome influence your digestive health.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Well, it's the main controller of it. A balanced microbiome
produces health and an imbalanced microbiome produces sickness and disease.
And so what they've figured out within the last twenty
to twenty five years, probably longer than that, but it
took them a little while to bring it to market
because there's always a delay between understanding and then how

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to let it out and to influence the masses. But
we've known about the gut microbiome for as long as
we've known about microbes that influence how our body functions,
and so we just need to be more conscious and
understanding of it. Is the delicate balance within the microbiome

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and all the different microbes that live in the microbiome
that helps us break down our food properly, helps feed
our immune system, helps feed the nervous system, helps feed
all the system and allows them to maintain normal functioning,
which translates into overall health.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Aren't there actually more microbes in your body than there
are human cells?

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Well you know that to be true because you were
the one that made me aware of that. I'd never
considered what the number of microbes were compared to the
number of cells that we have in our body. But yeah,
there are more organisms that live in your digestive system
and on the surface of your body than are the
number of cells that make up the body.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Now, I suppose a good place to talk about what
would be a digestive disruptor is be what kind of
foods actually disrupt your healthy digestive tract.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Well, all the man made refined and processed foods what
I call the crap foods as an acronym for completely
refined and process So when you're putting in completely refined
and processed foods, it's going to influence how the three
main components and the digestive tract function. And some grow
more than others, or some are suppressed as a result

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of others. And so the three main components in your
digestive tract or good bacteria, high quality healthy yeast, and
high quality healthy candidia. So the bacteria, the east, and
the candidia, they work and keep each other in check
in the proper ratios. And when you eat certain foods
that affect the balance or disrupt the balance within that,

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then you're going to ultimately lead to health issues.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So what is it about processed foods? It actually is
so harmful.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
They lack the proper health building ingredients and are replaced
with artificial, fake ingredients the body cannot use for the
purposes of health, and therefore those ingredients don't help to
maintain the body in a balanced way. So the body
has to respond to that by becoming imbalanced.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I guess the big demon that we talk about all
the time in terms of foods that were sugar. So
how does excess of sugar affect your microbiome?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
It destroys the microbiome. It definitely upsets the balance between
the yeast, the candidia, and the good bacteria. It actually
feeds the yeast and the candidia, which ultimately suppresses the
ability of the good bacteria to grow and flourish the
way that they're supposed to. And so, once you have

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an overgrowth of yeast and candidia, that eventually is going
to lead to increase gas and bloating as a byproduct
of the yeast just metabolizing things. When you get bloating
within the bowel system, that's eventually going to lead to
pressure and stretching of the bowel system wall, which ultimately

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creates micro tears within the wall, ultimately leading to a
condition called leaky gut. And when one has leaky gut,
the consequences of that are a overstimulated and immune system
which eventually becomes depleted. And then once your immune system
can't defend and fight off infection, then now you're open

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to infection.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now can you combat that by using artificial sweeteners and
avoid the sugar.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Artificial sweeteners will do the same thing, except they're more
chemically based and naturally based, so they too are going
to destroy the gut health.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So, I mean, it's pretty much impossible in the American
diet to completely avoid sugar. So is there some balance
that you can use to sort of assess the best
way to approach that problem.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Well, what you want to understand is is that the
refined sugar, any amount of the refined sugar, is too
much because in the process of refining it, they strip
it of its minerals, they strip it of its cofactors,
and then when you put that stripped food subs known

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as white refined sugar, when you put that into the body,
you're going to basically no longer be able to process
your B vitamins appropriately. And your b vitamins are needed
for neurological functioning and neurological functioning specifically within the heart.
And if you can't absorb your b vitamins because you
don't have enough probiotics to absorb those b vitamins, then

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you're going to develop heart disease and have heart issues.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Wow, So heart issues are related to sugar.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Heart issues are a natural byproduct of eating sugar and
wouldn't be nice if the food industry allowed that truth
to be distributed and disseminated widely so that people would
just simply stop eating white refined sugar.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I mean that it's such a hard thing because
you know, the taste of sugar is so appealing.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yes, and we're all addicted to it. And that's by design,
and that's the foundational basis for why we develop disease.
And they like us having disease because they make lots
of money managing and treating and using technology and developing methods,
et cetera that generate lots and lots and lots of money.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
And the person never.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Gets well, and that's because they're always chasing symptoms.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now, one of the other places that I don't think
this necessarily affects everybody, but dairy products can be hard
on the digestive system, can they not.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Yes, many people do not have the ability to produce
to the enzyme called lactase. It's the enzyme necessary to
digest lactose, which is known as milk sugar. So dairy
creates that challenge that people could ultimately be solved by
taking digestive enzymes, specifically, the enzyme called lactase, which should

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be found in milk and other dairy products. But with
the pasteurization and the homogenization of all the dairy products,
the first thing that gets destroyed is that enzyme. So
if your body doesn't have the ability to produce the enzyme,
and the enzyme that's naturally found in dairy has already
been destroyed through the production process, then you're going to

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have difficulty processing milk sugar.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
But you can add the lactase in.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Well, yeah, if you add the enzyme specifically to help
break down the milk sugar, then you won't have any
problems with the milk sensitivity or dairy problems.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
What about wheat and gluten, I mean, that's another thing,
and you're seeing everywhere around you see gluten free products.
Why has that become such a problem.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Well, wheat has been bastardized and modified so often that
we no longer process the gluten portion as a protein
portion within wheat or other aspects of grains that also
contain gluten. And this is not nice to mess with
Mother Nature. And we get to suffer from our own
ignorance because we don't understand that trying to make profit

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by destroying the nutritional content of the food and altering
how the body processes. Is that nutritional content is ultimately
what's leading to people who have gluten sensitivities.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
So are there other grains similarly caused digestive problems.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Corn oats, soy.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
It all depends on the individual and their willingness to
find out if they have these issues. Fixing them is
not a problem. In fact, it takes me about thirty
seconds in order to fix those problems. But you have
to look for the problem in order to fix it.
So many doctors will gloss over the fact that everything
comes from our food is a reason for why we
have the issues. They don't either have the time or

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the expertise or truly want to understand what's going on
because they have a symptom masker in the form of
medication that they're willing to use because that's easy and
that generates lots of income for them.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Now, is excessive consumption of red meat? Does that affect
the digestive system negatively?

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well, excess of anything can and will impact the digestive system.
But what you've got to understand is what are they
doing to the red meat before it actually comes to
market and before you actually eat it. Are they injecting
those red meat producers with artificial chemicals and hormones and
hormone type derivatives in an effort to create a fat

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animal to bring it to market so that it can
claim more money. And is the animal itself healthy? Are
the meats healthy? Are their hormone derivatives that are affecting
the meat itself that now you're getting the secondary effects
of I mean, there's a whole bunch that goes into it,
and you can go down that rabbit hole, and I
have gone down the rabbit hole, and I can see

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where all the nuances within our society. Everything that goes
on in the manufacturing of food, for the most part,
violates the Healthy Food Act of nineteen oh eight.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
What about high fat foods and fried foods, those contribute
to digestive imbalance.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, if you have a gallbladder weakness and the liver
has trouble processing what is being fed, then you will
have issues with those kinds of things, And so high fat,
healthy fat is necessary in order for the body to
function properly. But if you're getting these trans fats that
have been modified and are artificial and unnatural, and now

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your body has to take those non natural ingredients and
try to figure out a workaround and an effort to
make them feed the body and nourish the body. Then
you're going to run into problems.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
What about spicy foods? Did those play a role in
exacerbating digestive issues.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
For people who are spice sensitive like myself? Yes, that
will create digestive problems. So I simply avoid the spicy foods.
I'd like to think that I'm spicy enough.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now, food preservatives that must be an air. Then the
additives that they put in those most have a problem
for the digestives.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Well, they do one of two things. They either enhance
it or they interfere with it. And as an individual thing,
it's one that should be considered that your food preservatives
and additives are going to impact the digestive system in
one way or another. And so those are the kinds
of things that you want to be aware of in
terms of how they disrupt normal digestive processes from occurring.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I know that they use a lot of artificial colors
and flavors, and one of the things I looked at
recently is that if you go to other countries where
they may have some of the same products that we
have here, they use different sources for their coloring and
the you know, for the flavors that they add. We
use a lot of chemical based additives, which I think

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would be one of the things that you say is
one of the bigger problems we have.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, it is.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Again depending upon the person the the answer can be that, yes,
artificial colors and flavors are very harmful to the gut,
and that's why they are part of the digestive system disruptors.
But it is interesting to me that as we become
more knowledgeable as human beings, somebody that's been to Europe
several times, somebody that spent their whole too little more

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than two weeks of a honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Over in Europe.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
My wife and I ate a crap load of food.
Every time we went someplace.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
We tasted food.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
We ate all day long, every day, And when I
got back home, I expected to get on the scale
and have gained thirty pounds. I didn't gain a pound.
And so I've known the difference between European food versus
American food, and what's being done to American food and

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what's not tolerated in the European Union to being done
with food, and I just find it quite hypocritical and
actually very upsetting. And it should be illegal for us
to allow the Healthy Food Act of nineteen oh eight
to be violated by turning a blind eye in an

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effort to create profits while we're poisoning our society and
growing health issues.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
That does seem to be a big problem. I mean
that we have in the differences that we're doing here
in this culture, but we have a mighty large healthcare
system that needs a lot of support.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, but if we simply fed people real food and
all those health issues that require so much money and
so much support started to go away, what do you
think would happen.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
It would be a complete reset. It would be the
way the economy works.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
And the way that we You know, you could put
more money back in the consumer's pockets so that they
would have more money to spend on the products that
are being made. But we shouldn't be making products that
we know cause health issues. There should be some kind
of mandate or some kind of law against that that
if they find out the product that you're selling or

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that you're producing creates these problems. Then you're going to
be subject to huge finds that may put you, hopefully
put you out of business so that you stop doing that.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, that would be that would be a major shift
that would be welcomed from folks like yourself and.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
For me, well, I would think is that all of
humanity would welcome that, because then we're not growing heart
to these We're not growing diabetes, we're not growing autoimmune disease,
we're not growing cancer, we're not growing all the different
health issues that we have. But the powers that be
big pharma, that wants people taking these pharmaceutical chemicals in

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an effort to suppress people's symptoms without addressing for why
they get the symptom to begin with. Yeah, they're making
a crapload of money. They're making trillions of dollars every year, and.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
You know, our.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Powers that be seem to think that that's acceptable. We
don't put laws in place that call these kinds of
people accountable for whatever. You know, it's it's like fine,
if if you're gonna hold us accountable, then we'll just
close our doors and stop producing it. And then you
get to suffer the consequences of not having food and

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so you know, the governmental policies and the way that
the politicians end up voting has to do with you know,
profits over people instead of taking care of the people.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
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Speaker 1 (19:40):
Today. We're talking about digestive disruptors and how that affects
your health overall. And one of the things we were
talking about before was some of what's happening in our
food and the food industry. And one of the things
that seems to be very problematic is the fact that
there are so many pesticides and herbicides being used. How
do those affect your digestive.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well, they changed the way that we process food due
to the pesticides and herbicides. We shouldn't have these datives,
and yet we do. And I can understand. You know,
herbicides and pesticides are basically toxic chemicals that they spray
in an effort to deter insects from eating of the

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food products. But here's the truth of it. If you
grow a healthy crop, it's going to produce its natural
deterrence so that the insects don't bother it. The reason
why the insects bother our food is because our food
is vulnerable because it's not whole food. It's been stepped
on in some way, shape or form, and so insects, etc.

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Will have a tendency to pick on things that are
already weakened. It's interesting. There was a movie a number
of years back that had Brad Pittman was called World
War Z, and in World War Z it was the
attack of the zombies and the zombies over the course
of the movie, after you got over the initial fear
as the viewer of the movie that these zombies were there,

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they slowly over time figured out, well, who were the
zombies going after? The zombies were always going after those
who were already compromised health wise. They left the healthy
people alone. So the zombies were there to thin the
herd and get rid of all the sickness.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Which would have been a good thing.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Well, insects are attacking our food because they're weak and
they're sick. If we grow healthy foods by using good
farming practices and we got good soil and we're not
using all these chemicals that are being sprayed all over
the skies in our environment, then we wouldn't necessarily need
to use.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
These herbicides and pesticides. But you know, it's what we do.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Because it's about making lots of money for these big corporations, and.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
We're kind of painted into a corner at this point.
We are. So, what are mulcifiers in processed foods that
we consume? What did those do for gut disruption?

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Well, mulcifiers are necessary for people with low functioning or
no gall bladders, as the role of the gall bladder
is to a mulcify or ultimately break down the fats
that are consumed. So mulcifiers within processed foods helped to
allow the person to better process and digest that food,
unless the way that they're manufacturing the e mulcifiers actually

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put the brakes on the body's ability to use those
emulcifiers to digest the food.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Now, metals, heavy metals in food, heavy metals in water.
I've heard a lot about lead poisoning. I've heard about
mercury and seafood things like that. How do those damage
the digestive track.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Well, heavy metals are absorbed into the blood and impact
the elimination system and the body tissues themselves. It also
sets one up for developing parasites, as parasites to attracted
to the heavy metals in an effort to feed off
those heavy metals. We shouldn't have toxic heavy metals in
our system, but due to the manufacturing processes and public

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water systems and the inability to clean up waste in
an appropriate fashion, ultimately leads to heavy metal issues.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
The good thing in my office is that.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
We evaluate people for thirty heavy metals every time they
come in the office to see if it's an issue,
and if it is an issue, then we find the
solution in order to address it.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Now, you mentioned antibiotics before. Antibiotics seem to be one
of the major disruptors that we have ingesting for our
own health issues, but we may be getting them through
other things that we're eating.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
Right, and so when they use antibiotics to treat the
farm animals that ultimately end up being the food that
we eat, then we get the secondary effects of those antibiotics.
And the antibiotics destroy the good bacteria and allow the
east and the candidia to grow without being kecked in
checked by the bacteria, and that ultimately leads to leaky gut,

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which then leads to allergies and immune system stress, and
then immune system weakness, and then pathogens can get in
because we don't have the immune system barrier the way
that we should. And all of this can stem from
taking antibiotics without following up with a good, high quality probiotic.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Now, a lot of people have acid indigestion, which is
one of the ways the digestive system is disrupted, and
one of the ways that people treat that is they
take ant acids. So what is the effect that the
ant acids have under your digestive system in the long run.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Well, ant acids are symptom based masking agents that disrupt
the body from trying to get you to stop the
foolishness in your actions. Symptoms which occur after sixty percent
loss normal function are the body's way of asking for help.
Suppressing those warnings is foolish and is very nonsensical. So
when one takes antacids to block doctors will say, well,

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your body's producing too much acid. Let's give you an
an acid to turn off your body's ability to produce
what your body needs to get value out of the
food that it eats. Plus blocking any pathogens from getting
past your stomach. That's the purpose of stomach acid. And
so when one has not enough stomach acid, the foods

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that they're eating that are high in carbohydrates will sit
in the stomach until the proteins associated with the carbohydrates
are fully broken down. So the carbohydrates start breaking down
in your mouth just simply by chewing with an enzyme
that's in your saliva called salivary amylase. It helps to

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break down carbohydrates. So if you start to carbohydrate break
down in your mouth and then it gets down to
the stomach, where the stomach now is slowly breaking down
the proteins and it doesn't have enough stomach acid to
break down the proteins, then the carbohydrates that are being
broken down will start to ferment. In the process of

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that fermentation, you will get acid. Of fermentation, that's what
creates the acid upset. It's not the acid that the
stomach's producing, it's that the stomach is manufacturing as a
result of the breaking down of the carbohydrates. If you
had more stomach acid, then you would break the proteins down,

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the fermentation wouldn't take place in the stomach, you wouldn't
get gas, you wouldn't get bloating, you wouldn't get indigestion,
you wouldn't get reflux as a result, and then your
body wouldn't have difficulties the rest of the digestive tract.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Interesting. Okay, So that's another one one of the things
that people take quite frequently. Maybe they have a headache,
or maybe they something cold or something like that. Are
over the counter medication. So do those over the counter
medications cause disruption to your digestive tract?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Well, if it blocks normal function and everything that the
body does to maintain balance, then you are inviting more
in balance and more disease over time. So, whether it's
a prescription medication, whether it's an over the counter medication,
if it's a chemical product that alters how your microbiome functions,

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that ultimately is going to influence your overall health and
lead to more health problems. So taking these over the
counter medications is a digestive system disruptor and is a
health destroyer.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is that the same for things that people tay for
mental health like antidepressants and.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Things like that, Again, they stop the gut from being
able to restore balance. Many people with mental health issues
have a gut imbalance contributing to the mental health challenge.
Don't support it by becoming bigger by giving it. Antidepressants,
address the imbalance to restore the health, and then maybe

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you won't need the antidepressants at all. I mean, that's
what I've seen in my practice. Get people's gut balanced
and give them quality food and that it stabilizes their
brain chemistry, and then they're no longer depressed and they're
no longer having any of those kinds of issues.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Another thing we like to do is people like to
have that drink, a cocktail, a glass of wine, a beer.
How do those things affect your digestive health.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Well, we understand that if you are going to receive
some kind of vaccination or some kind of shot, what
are the nurses used to clean your skin before they
give you the shot?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Alcohol?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Right?

Speaker 6 (28:57):
What's the purpose of rubbing it with alcohol? Kill all
the germs? So what happens if you drink alcohol and
mass quantities on a regular basis what happens to the
good bacteria that line your digestive system.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
So you're saying you're going to kill all the bacteria.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
The good bacteria in your digestive system. You're going to
upset that microbiome and you're going to lead to health
problems as a result of consumption of alcohol. And just
because everybody does it doesn't mean that it's healthy.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
YEP, I don't know that that's the main reason people
drink alcohols for their health. But another thing that people
drink quite a bit is caffeine through coffee and sodas
and things like that. We've already talked about sugar, but
what about the other drinks, tea, coffee, things like that.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
Well, caffeine is a chemical in an enhanced form that
will disrupt the digestive system while stimulating the nervous system
to give a false sense of balance. Once addicted, it
loses its potency and requires more, just like a drug
to get the previous response. And and so when you
become addicted to caffeine, you go from typically needing one

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cup of coffee a day to maybe several cups of
coffee a day just to help give you that little
kick in the pants to affect your mood and give
you a little bit more energy. But that's not a
healing response, that's a chemical response, and that's going to
lead to problems over time.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
So those are all things that we're eating. But what
about things like cleaning agents and things that you're using
around the house to clean.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
All of those are toxins in the product themselves that
they use as cleaning agents. So these disrupt the surfaces
of the places that they are applied, which can affect
how we function. When exposed to those surfaces, we absorb
the effects through our skin. During COVID, you couldn't go

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into a place of business where there wasn't a bottle
of what sitting right inside the front door hand sanitizer
to clean your hands in case there's those COVID germs
that are lurking around the corner. And what you're doing
by lathering up with that is you're destroying the microbiome
on everything that you end up handling, because you've destroyed

(31:14):
the microbiome of your hands, which now makes your hands
vulnerable to things getting in through your hands.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Wow. So, speaking about other things that you use set
for sanitizing, Chlorine is used in water, but there's also
they also add fluoride to water. What do those things
do to your digestive health.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Well, they are known as halides and they are toxic
for human health. And so besides blocking iodine absorption and function,
which impacts your metabolism and your immune system leading to
obesity and sickness, chlorinated and fluoridated water affect your microbiome

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and disrupt how the microbiome works and ultimately leads to
health issues.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
We get exposed to a lot of environmental pollutants. How
do those contribute to the digestive disruptors.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
Of course we do, and yet we don't consciously understand
that in the manufacturing as the average humans being exposed
to it.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
And so.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
You know, environmental pollutants which come out of all the
smoke stacks of all these different companies that are creating
products and burning whatever they burn, so that the chemicals
come out through those smoke stacks. They influence the surrounding
communities as a result, and if they get up high
enough into the air well, then those are going to

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be carried not only to the surrounding communities, but they're
going to influence communities that are even further away. And
so we need to understand what it is that we're
doing to ourselves. We need to do better at finding
ways of manufacturing that doesn't pollute our en and ultimately
pollute ourselves as consumers of whatever's being produced.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
So how do you know if the foods you're eating
or the chemicals you're being exposed to are causing these
digestive issues? And what would be the signs that you
would know it?

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Well, any health problem indicates that you could have that
as a possible source. So in my office, we simply
ask if foods or chemicals create a muscle weakness, and
then we know, and then we simply fix the communication
problem that becomes short circuited and it's no longer an issue.

(33:38):
And so it's just simply identifying what creates the imbalance,
whether it's a food or whether it's a chemical, or
whether it's a heavy metal, or whether it's a pathogen.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
We go through all.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Of that every time the person comes into the office
to make sure that they haven't picked up anything since
I last saw them, and if they have, that we
address it doesn't become a chronic problem.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now you talk oftentimes, and the last month we were talking
a lot about water health and things like that. How
big an impact does water have and the amount of
water you're drinking on your digestive health.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
It's a vital role.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Being dehydrated slows and stops the nervous system from functioning
and results in health issues. And the interesting thing is
is in order to have a symptom of any sort,
you are functionally dehydrated. And what's interesting is when you
go into the when you're ever admitted into a hospital,

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the first thing they do is hook you up to
an IV to replenish your fluids, and a lot of
times when they're done doing that, they'll repeat a repeat
a blood chemistry and if the blood chemistry seems to
be coming back to normal, then they'll just simply send
you home. And the reason why you were in the
hospital to begin with is because you were dehydrated.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Just dehydrat Yeah, I had somebody that I know that
was severely dehydrated and was in the hospital for days
just from that. Now, everything that we're talking about the microbiome,
which is, you know, living organisms in your digestive track.
But aren't just the germs the main cause for getting sick?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I'm going to say yes and no.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
I'm going to say yes, and the fact that that's
the way that we've been led to believe, but I
personally feel that the germ theory is flawed. Germs cause sickness,
but only in a person who has a weak body.
If you maintain the integrity of how your body functions,
and you maintain it by giving it proper nutritional ingredients,
then things will bounce off of you.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
I have always been influenced by the visualizations from my
childhood and when I was a little kid, we used
to watch the adventure as a Superman, and this was
even before they technicolored it, so we would see it
in black and white, and Superman would come across us
these different gangsters that either had handguns or Tommy guns,
and they would shoot Superman and the bullets would bounce

(36:06):
off and they would make a ricochet sound. Then it
was like, oh wow, he's the man of steel that
can withstand being shot by bullets. Well, that's ultimately my
metaphor for how the body should deal with pathogens. Those
pathogens shouldn't see your body as a suitable environment that
they can get in, have a good food source, set

(36:28):
up shop, call their friends, have a big party inside
of you, and create health issues. Pathogens should never affect
our body in a negative way, but yet they do.
And why is that Because the integrity of what our
health is currently is anything but healthy. We spend our
whole lives as adults managing our symptoms, which means that

(36:49):
we're functioning in and around right at roughly the forty
percent of normal functioning standpoint.

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Speaker 1 (37:47):
So as we get back to this last section of
our show to date, I really wanted to go back
and review specifically the fourteen digestive disrupts that you talked about,
and really the first of them isn't the person of
those Sugar, that's the pindative mains one.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Yeah, sugar is a drug that is not meant to
be consumed in the form manufacturers have readily made it
available to everybody, and so sugar, I see, is something
that we should eliminate from our diet. And you look
at all the media out there and all the dietary gurus, etc.

(38:30):
And how they talk about when you eliminate sugar from
your diet that your health magically improves, and then they
package it under their various brand of dietary considerations. We
need sugar for our brain and nervous system to function,
but we don't need refined sugar. We need natural sugar.

(38:50):
And so sugar is the number one digestive system disruptor.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
So and along with that goes artificial sweeteners.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
Yeah, and that's a similar disruptor. And sometimes even worse
is these are chemical based and certainly problematic because we
shouldn't be consuming chemicals, certainly not in any dosage whatsoever,
even though one considers these to be microdosing. But if
you're doing it on a daily basis, every time you
eat or every time you drink, then it becomes an issue.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Now as you go along, another thing that gets put
into these foods, particularly some of these sugary foods is
food coloring. What does that do?

Speaker 6 (39:34):
Yes, food coloring is a digestive system disruptor and needs
to be considered when purchasing foods. European manufacturers, as we mentioned,
use natural coloring from fruits and vegetables and we use
artificial chemical ones and it's not okay, And it's just
again it's due to the ignorance, but it's also due

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to the concerted efforts made within the Food and Drug
Administration to make sure that everything that we consume ultimately
leads to us needing some kind of extra expense by
taking a pharmaceutical.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Now, besides the foods, what else is there that's going
to disrupt your digestive track?

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Over the counter medications These disrupt the digestive system due
to their being chemical based, which is harmful to the
body and the digestive system because it disrupts the microbiome.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
And then is the same truth or prescription medications that
are kind of required for you to use.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
Well, even those are more harsh chemical disruptors, which is
why they are only available by prescription. They know they
need some level of oversight and shouldn't be used unless
absolutely necessary, but that doesn't stop them from being used
and actually being promoted on television and through advertising in
any way, shape or form. They want everybody taking the

(40:59):
prescription medications because then they as a business entity just
makes so much money that they are the ones that
influence politicians and the way that we end up doing
our lives.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Now, one of the other things that we talk about
is the things that you get just right out of
your drinking water. What disruptors you might you find in
just a municipal drinking water.

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Well, we did mention earlier that chlorine and chlorine being
a toxic halide, and so if they're chlorinating the water
in an effort to quote protect it from growing pathogens,
then your consumption of that chlorine. They need to put
it through another treatment process to where they extract the
chlorine from the resulting byproduct of preventing some sort of

(41:46):
pathogen from getting into the water. They need to remove
the chlorine ideally, but that's going to cost them more,
so they just it's okay, we'll just leave it in there.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Level of that chlorine it gets through to your home.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
Oh yeah, when I go out to a restaurant. There
are some restaurants where I can smell the chlorine when
the second they bring the water over to the table. Wow,
And I'm not going to drink.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
It, I guess not if it's a digestive disruptor. Right. Yeah. Now,
another thing that's been put into the food in a
lot of municipalities is fluoride to help people with preventing cavities.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Right under the illusion that fluoride helps to prevent people
from getting cavities, which has been a farce that has
been sold to society for as long as they've been
putting it in the water and as long as they've
been doing it with dental treatments. Fluoride itself is a
toxic halide, just like chloride and just like bromide, and

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they are part of the toxic halides that disrupt the
digestive system and influence your ability to dig just normally
and produce normal immune response.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
So why would we have that in our diet, why
would we.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Usemid Bromide is put into all flower based products, So
anything that is flower based, bromide is being used, and
again it's toxic.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
It's toxic for the body.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
But yet they allow it to be put into our
foods because they're not honoring and using the Healthy Food
Act of nineteen oh eight that says that you can't
add anything to food if it harms how the consumer
processes that food.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Now we talked a little bit about prescription medications over
the countermedications. Then there's a whole world of antibiotics. Now,
certainly there are those antibiotics you might be prescribed because
you're having dental work or because you've had some sort
of bacterial infection. But aren't there other ways that antibiotics

(43:57):
get into your system.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
Well, ant biox is the biggest disruptors. They destroy the
good bacteria that makes up the microbiome itself, and so
they use antibiotics in our livestock, they use antibiotics in
our own personal health, etc. And so they use antibiocteri
antibiotics or antibacterial soaps and cleaners, and all these antibiotics

(44:20):
disrupt the microbiome. For the soaps, they disrupt the microbiome
on the skin, which then allows things to get into
the body through the unprotected surfaces that were violated by
the antibacterial soaps and the cleaners, etc.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
And so.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
Antibiotics, which may help to kill an infection, come with consequences,
and so you're going to always want to make sure
that if you're using any kind of anti bacterial of
any sort, that you're also using regularly, typically with every
single meal, a good high quality probiotic.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
So if you're using the probiotics, because one of the
things your time out is the hand sanitizer, so that's
topical on my skin. If I'm using a probiotic, am
I helping to restore the loss of the microbial life
and the microbiome is on my skin.

Speaker 6 (45:16):
You're helping to re establish balance within the body by
taking a probiotic because it is your digestive health, which
ultimately influences the largest organ in your body, which happens
to be the least priority within the body, which is
your skin. And so having a good immune system and
a good surface barrier mechanism to not allow things into

(45:39):
the bloodstream and into the body by having good high
quality microbiome, even if you're just using I'm going to
suggest that you don't use alcohol based or antibacterial based
soaps or hand sanitizers. I'm going to ask you to
just go back to the good old fashioned soap and

(45:59):
just use soap to clean your hands because that doesn't
disrupt the microbiome that is on your hands, and it
doesn't lead to weaknesses and things getting into the system
that don't belong.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, I mean if we go back in time, hygiene
was one of the things that really turned societal's health
around when people started to clean and bathe and things
like that. But it looks like it became overly excessive
when we got into this whole antimicrobial kind of cleaning.

Speaker 6 (46:31):
Yeah, because again we have the misconception, which I mentioned earlier,
that germs cause sickness. No germs exist, it's the body
that allows the germs to ultimately end up causing sickness,
and so the germ theory is flawed, and we need
to understand what's important is maintaining the health and the
integrity of each of us as individuals by allowing us

(46:56):
to get good, high quality food. And since they've already
bastardized is the food processing, then you're probably going to
need to take some good, high quality whole food supplements
to fill in the gaps within your diet as a
result of what we're doing in our society right now, just.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Because we're lacking the things that we need.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
So, one of the things I think that you've mentioned
to me in the past is that pets can actually
be a digestive disruptor. Does How does that happen?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Well?

Speaker 6 (47:26):
Pets are exposed to many things if they go outside,
and the amount of medications they are required to get
when growing up through the vet creates problems such as
the caretaker of that pet. So when they show you
love by licking you and by you know, just sleeping
with you or laying on top of you, or just

(47:47):
being in your environment over time, because their whole situation
has been screwed up, ultimately that influences your situation from
getting screwed up. And isn't it ironic that when you
pay attention too if you have pets, and all pets
nowadays are developing human to conditions.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Yeah, you know, I've heard the pets with diabetes.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Right, and it's like, well, what's that about.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
Well, that's because we're feeding them crap food the same
way that we're feeding ourselves crap food. And now we're
seeing that the animal kingdom, at least our domesticated animals
are developing the same health issues that humans are developing,
which begs the question, how are you not seeing the
link between the cause of our crap food and the

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effect that it has on us with our health problems.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, it seems like now, I guess the last thing
I wanted to touch based on in terms of digestive
disruptors is just the impact of stress. We live in
very stressful times. There are a lot of different aspects
of stress that affect us, whether it's financial stress, health stress,
relationship stress, work, stress, legal stress, all these different kinds

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of things. How do those affect our digestive track?

Speaker 6 (49:03):
Well, stress is a problem if you have exposure to
all these other digestive system disruptors, and since none of
us are immune two stress, we really need to consider
all the other fourteen different disruptors to support your digestive
system health. And then once your digestive system is healthy,
then what you will find is that stress has less

(49:26):
of an impact on you. It's still going to have
an impact, but your resistance is going to be higher,
and your body's naturally breaking down as a result of
all the excess wear and tear from the stress is
going to be minimized or eliminated altogether.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
It would seem, as we come towards the end of
the show, that with everything that goes on with our
health and with all these digestive disruptors which probably most
of us are suffering from in some level or another,
what do you recommend and somebody do to sort of
bring that back into balance and to actually restore your

(50:05):
digestive health.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Well, if you really want to do that, you need
to have a sit down with a trained professional such
as myself, to where we can take a look at
your life. We can take a look at your lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
We can see what's.

Speaker 6 (50:19):
Going on with you nutritionally, we can understand where you
have nutritional deficiencies and the effects of those nutritional deficiencies,
and we can develop a plan to understand your life,
the stresses in your life, how you manage those stresses,
and how you can improve what it is that you're
doing in an effort to eliminate any and all health

(50:41):
issues that you're currently dealing with.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Okay, so it's not a simple process of just oh,
I'm going to take a probiotic and now my digestive
health is coming back.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Well, you can take a probiotic and that may start
the change, but if you're not eliminating the things that
create the need for you to take a probiotic, then
all you're doing is you're just kicking the can down
the road. You're not fixing anything. You may feel a
little bit better, but you're still growing chronic health issues.
You just won't necessarily feel them.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
M So is it really? I mean, there's fundamentally different
lifestyle changes that you have to make. So when you
talk about going to somebody like yourself who's gonna evaluate
your health, you're really taking a pretty broad look at
a person's health when they walk in into your office

(51:35):
in order to understand what's going on and how you
can help them.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
Well, yeah, I'm a holistic health care provider, so I'm
not just going to look at you as one point
or one organ or one system. I'm going to look
at you as a whole person. And how are you
functioning as a whole person? Are you even functioning whole
as a person? And if you're not, I need to
understand why you're not and then support you to that

(51:59):
end and to restore your health gets you back to
the highest level of functioning properly, and then we can
just maintain our relationship by you coming in for a
maintenance visit just to help combat the stresses that you
have in your life, because you're always going to have
those stresses and uh so they're always going to have

(52:20):
an effect. And it's my job to make sure that
we strengthen your body so much so that when you
have an effect, you're not even aware of it because
your body has what it needs in order to function
and recover.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
So if somebody's out there listening and is intrigued by
what we've been talking about and would like to find
out more directly from you, you make yourself fairly available.
What are the different ways that people can reach out
to you.

Speaker 6 (52:45):
Well, the simplest way would be to call my cell
phone directly at area code eight four to five five
six one two two two five again eight four five
five six one two two two five. My suggestion would
be to put that in your phone address books so
that when you have an issue, you can put it
under Doc Rick, or you can put it under Advanced

(53:07):
Alternative Medicine Center. And then with that way, when you
have a question or a problem, you just simply call me.
Other people like the text. I'm not very good at texting.
I don't typically notice the fact that somebody's text me,
so it may take quite a while before I get
back to you. I'm trying to do better at that,

(53:28):
But a better way to get a hold of me
because I check my email all day, every day, would
be for you to email me directly at doc rickdoc
riic kat spineboy dot com, Docrick at spineboy dot com.
And the last way that you can get a hold
of me would be to stop into my office where

(53:48):
at one thirty eight Canal Street. We're in Sweet four
zero four of building four hundred and that is in Pooler, Georgia,
and would be my pleasure to help you to better
understanding with the concerns that you have regarding your health
and to do it naturally. So I want to thank
you for tuning in this week. I want to thank
Mark for putting this show together and for producing such

(54:09):
a great show for our listenership. And I'm gonna ask
everybody to tune back in next week, same health time,
same health station. Is Doctor Richard on tune from an
advanced alternative medicine center, saying, I'll look forward to supporting
you when your health matters.

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Speaker 1 (54:32):
Just gave me a pill.

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Take one of those three times a day.

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Keep out of the reach of children, the things that
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Just come back, I'll give you what out of the film.
On top of that,