Episode 141: Small Intestine

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 6 (00:36):
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Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
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Speaker 4 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters, the
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Speaker 1 (01:41):
So, Doc, I'm great to be back again here, and
you know, we're almost getting close to summer here, and
I wanted to talk to you about some of the
things that happen at this time of year. And this
is when things warm up. It's the time when the
heat starts to come in. And in Chinese medicine, that
that's why this season actually associates with the element of fire,

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isn't it.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yes, it is, as the maximum expansion and heat within
the five elements occurs during the summer months and corresponds
to the fire element. Made primarily of the small intestine,
and what we'll cover next month, which would be the heart.
And then of course there's an endocrine component with your adrenals,
with your male reproductive system, your female reproductive system, your thyroid,

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et cetera. So the endocrine system is also associated with
the fire element. That's interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know, I would think, just from a lay person's
point of view that you would think the stomach with
all its acids kind of like an oven. You would
think almost that that might be the fire element. But
it's actually the small intestine that we're going to talk
about today.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, the small intestine is the first of the two
major organs, the heart being the other one, which we'll
get to next month. In traditional Chinese medicine, the small
intestine is associated with the fire element. It's considered the
counterpart to the heart in the fire element system and
working to further digest food receive from the stomach and

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separating the clear essence from the turbid residue. The small
intestine also plays a role in the minegut connection and
is linked to emotions like joy and its counterpart, which
would be agitation.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Interesting, now, the small intestine just physically is actually longer
than the large intestine.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
If I'm right from a distance from a length standpoint,
that would be true. It's called a small intestine due
to the smaller diameter compared to the large intestine, which
is shorter but significantly wider.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So, now, in terms of your overall health, what
is the role that the small intestine plays.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's involved with the digestion of food and the absorption
of that food versus the discernment of allowing aspects of
what we eat to pass through without being absorbed.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, and that as if the first is its role
there is actually digesting the food or is it absorbing
the food.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's a little bit of both. It's to filter through
the food material being offered and to discern what to
allow into the body, meaning crossing the digestive barrier into
the bloodstream versus allowing the unnecessary components to pass through
without absorption at all.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
The idea of crossing into the body is why the
small intestine is. In fact, your entire digestive system is
not really considered on that pathway to be inside your body.
It's only after it crosses the blood barrier into your bloodstream.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Right, So, from the mouth, the opening where food goes
into the anus where food comes out. Food passes through
the digestive tract. Technically, it hasn't entered the body yet.
It needs to be absorbed through the digestive tract into
the body in order for it to now be part
of the body. And so until then it's still technically

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considered outside of the body proper, even if it's within
the confines of the body.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now, if it's absorbed into the body, that means that
something solid is getting through the digestive trek. Is that
are those molecules that are getting into your body? What
is it actually crossing that barrier?

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, digestion is the breakdown from the macro or the
larger component to the micro or the smaller components.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Now fit to be absorbed.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
And so when we take the macro nutrients, let's say
like a piece of chicken or some leaf lettuce, we
have to chew that up from its complex macro state,
breaking it down into its component micro state. And once
it's in the proper microstate, proteins get broken down to
amino acids, Fats get broken down into free fatty acids,

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Carbohydrates get broken down into glucose. Once it's in the
final breakdown form, that's ideally when it should be absorbed
into the bloodstream through the small intestine wall.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
So is that breakdown portion of it is that digestion
and then the crossing over the barrier. Is that the
absorption process.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
That is correct.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
So the digestion starts in your mouth with chewing, and
then we add the strong acids which we'll learn about
in the month of August, of the stomach to break
it down from its macro into its micro and then
once it's in the micro then it allows for the
absorption into the bloodstream.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
So there are a lot of different components to what
actually breaks the food down. It's not just a simple
thing you're saying that chewing breaks it down. It must
break down in a variety of ways to get down
to that molecular state.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
So digestion is the breaking down from the macro or
the larger components to this micro or the smaller components
now fit to be absorbed. So digestion begins in the
mouth with chewing and the mixing of saliva that contains
a digestive enzyme to start the digestive process. And so
we start the process in our mouth with our chewing

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and the mixing with the saliva, and the does the
saliva actually break down any other food It does. It
actually starts to break down of the carbohydrates. There's an
enzyme in your saliva known as salivary amylase, and as
the amylase combines with the carbohydrates in the food content

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that you're consuming, it starts to break those carbohydrates down
into its smaller components. To continue to break down even
into smaller components. You have polysaccharides, which are complex carbohydrates.
Then you have disaccharides, which are two carbohydrates linked together,

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and then that in half and it goes down to
a monosaccharide. And ideally we want our food to be
in the monosaccharide form so that it can be absorbed
without anything else to consider, so that it just is
easy to process that food for energy.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Now, I mean in the other flot, I know we're
going to talk about the stomach later in the year,
but there are acids. So you have the saliva, which
is a fluid that's being developed in your body, but
then there are acids in your stomach that also start
to help that dividing process that digests and requires.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Right, it helps to break down the proteins from its macromolecules.
The protein chains into the micromolecules, which are the amino acids.
That's what the acid stomach acids do.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
What happens when you don't get that breakdown appropriately, you're.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Going to create stress in the small intestine. And if
the stress builds and you'll eventually develop what's called leaky gut,
where now whole food particle not being fully digested into
the microparticles are being forced through the digestive system wall
into the bloodstream. And anytime you get a foreign protein

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in the blood, the immune systems going to attack it
and that's known as a food allergy.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh really, so, I mean, how would those larger molecules
get past the barrier? I would think that the barrier
would be pretty difficult to get through. It'd be like
if you had a screen on your window and the
insects can't get through. Right.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
But if the components of the digestive system are attributed
to the quality of food that we eat, if you're
eating quality proteins to get broken down into the essential
amino acids, then the amino acids are going to repair
and rebuild and maintain the integrity of the digestive system wall.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
If you're eating.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Food that doesn't come with the essential amino acids or
the proteins aren't getting broken down to the amino acid level,
you're going to develop a weakness in that digestive system
barrier and you're going to create a leaking within that.
That's what's called leaky gut syndrome.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
And then whole proteins.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Are now able to get across that barrier because of
the leakiness of the gut due to improper assimilation of
the amino acids to help the body repair and rebuild itself.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Seems like there's two aspects to the problems that sort
of developed. One is that you're not getting the right
ingredients that you need, the lack of the correct ingredients,
and then the other is that the wrong ingredients are
getting where they don't belong right.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
So we need to eat quality food. We need the
Food and Drug Administration to get back to focusing on
quality food and not worrying about prescribing medications. And we
need to make sure that every human being has access
to healthy, true food, not bastardized crap food.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, And what we've seen now, and you and I
have talked about that at length, is that the quality
of the food is being sold to us in the
supermarkets is not at the same level of quality it
was maybe one hundred years ago.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh, definitely not.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
And since we've used a lot of different chemicals in
the farming processes as pesticides and herbicides, etc. And the
level of those chemicals and we wanting them to attach
to the fruits and vegetables in an effort to create
a protective layer. But in that protective layer, it kind

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of denatures and alters the quality of that food over time.
Then we're eating that food and we're getting substandard ingredients
to help nourish and repair and allow the body to
rebuild itself. If we're using substandard material, then that's gonna
ultimately lead to a decrease in the integrity of the

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body and the different systems within the body, and a
person's going to age and a person's going to develop
disease states as a result of that.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, and I noticed that we have developed a lot
of food in the development of food has been to
make it more truckable so that it can be delivered
from farms far away or even from completely other parts
of the world, and then bring it into your local
supermarket so you can have some exotic fruit or some

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other vegetable.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's out of season, right, And so what they're doing
to the crops that are being grown and transported and
shipped and put out in the stores so that we
as the consumer can come by them and they're going
to still look as beautiful as they've ever looked, so
that we will buy them and buy them in abundance.

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They've gone out of their way to look at the
genetics of different plants and manipulate the genes of those plants,
and these are end up being called genetically modified organisms
or GMOs. Once you start messing with the genetic material
of whatever it is that's growing into a plant or
animal or what have you. When we consume that, we

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don't get what nature intended. We get what the effect
of man's involvement in nature has now developed. And so
what ends up happening is we end up developing health issues.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, do you think that that part of the problem
that we because there's such a big obesity problem that
we have in this country is that largely because from
eating the food that we're getting, we're not even getting
the kind of nourishment that we are looking for that
our bodies are actually looking for to be healthy.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Well, that's just it. Obesity is a starvation disease. And
it sounds counterintuitive, but what your body does with the
ingredients that it gets is it tries to feed the
body so that the body can produce normal physiological outcomes
that maintains the integrity and the health of the individual.
When we start putting the completely refined and processed foods

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in the body that have been stripped of its nutrition
in an effort to give it a shelf life and
in an effort to be modified so that it looks
pretty even though it doesn't have any value. When we
eat those foods, we are now deficient in what the
body requires. And so what the body does with that
food once absorbed, it can't burn it because it's incomplete,

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so the body stores it and so you're increasing your
storage sites within the body and that's what ultimately causes obesity.
And so obesity on the outside looks like you have
an excess, so you would have it shouldn't equate to
you being starving. But when you truly scrape the surface

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and take a look on you beneath the hood, you
get to actually understand that your body's storing because it
can't burn that food for fuel, so it stores it
until it gets the other components that never come that
have been refined out of the food. So we just
become storage factories as opposed to burning furnaces. And that's
what obesity is a byproduct of.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
And as I understand that you're not getting more fat cells,
it's the fat cells that you already have that are
just getting larger and larger. That's how the accumulation of
fat happens correct.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
But you have to be feeding the fat stores, which
means that you're eating food that you can't possibly burn
for fuel because it's incomplete. So the body stores those
incomplete foods in those fat cells, and that's what leads
to obesity.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
But then you keep eating more and more food, more
volume of food, in order to try to get the
nourishment that you need. So it's a cycle that just
seems to be feeding on itself exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
And that's the sad part of it, is the fact
that we've processed our food to a point where there's
no nutritional value in that food. It's got a good
shelf life, it looks beautiful, but it's not actually nutrition,
And so our body ends up storing all that food
looking for what it needs in order to function. And
then we get disease states, obesity being one of them,

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heart disease being one of them, diabetes being one of them,
blood pressure issues being one of them, autoimmune disease systems.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
That I mean, you're just naming every long term, lifelong
disease there is.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Right, And the truth of it is is all of
those can be prevented, and can be prevented for you know,
pennies compared to what it costs to mask the symptoms
using pharmaceuticals. And the sad part is is the fact
that the industry that's making huge profits off of us
being sick are more interested in the profits than they

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are into saving the people.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, and there's a linkage between the people giving you
the pharmaceutical medications to get you through managing the disease
you have and the people who are growing the crops
that are presenting you with the food you can eat.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Right, And so the Food and Drug Administration or the
FDA is really more focused on pharmaceuticals than it is
on quality food, and so they've gone through the process
of bastardizing our food over the years, within the last century,
and we are now reaping the rewards of having had

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our food manipulated in such a way that's causing us
to have the health issues we have.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well, this is another important conversation that we're having, doct Gregg,
I want to ask you some more questions about the
Small Intestine, but before we do, we need to take
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Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now we're talking about the Small intestine today. And why
is it that or why is it that nutrition that
your body needs can make it across the intestinal wall.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, it's a couple of reasons. The first reason is
is poor breakdown of that food from the macromolecules into
the micromolecules, thus the molecules being too large to fit
through the filter system of the small intestine, and so
it's not breaking the food down far enough into its

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smallest component to be absorbed. And then because it's not
being broken down, it makes it hard and rather difficult
to absorb whatever is left over after the incomplete digestive process.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Mm hm. And what kind of issues happen when those
unwadded substances leak into your blood stream.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Well, initially, the immune system will be activated to respond
to the unwanted format being found in the bloodstream. This
is a healthy response to prevent infection. If this doesn't
take place properly, the immune response leads to attacking response
also known as a food allergy response. And if that
continues to happen because the different organs or glands aren't

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being properly repaired because they're not getting enough repair products
because of the imbalance and the digestive system. Then eventually
the organs of glands are going to start to leak
proteins out of their normal container because the integrity of
that container will.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Now be violated.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
And so when you get whole proteins that leak from
an organ or gland into the bloodstream, the immune system
will mount an attack against that, which is now an
attack against you. That's called autoimmune disease. If it's coming
in through your food route before your body breaks down,
that's called a food allergy. If it comes in through

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your respiratory out, that would be an airborne allergy, And
if it comes in through your skin, that would be
a contact allergy. And so it's just a question of
where is that immune response occurring. Is it occurring based
upon what's coming into the body, or is it occurring
based upon what's already in the body that makes up
the individual?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Uh huh. So, I mean that's interesting how that would
work now. I mean, the body needs to be able
to absorb all these nutrients it does, so what would
cause it to lose the ability to absorb them?

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Well, an imbalance and a topic that we've talked about before,
which is called the microbiome of the small intestine. If
you have an imbalance within that microbiome, it's going to
allow problems to occur as a natural outcome of that
imbalance in the microbiome. So it's kind of self fulfilling
prophecy in the sense that it doesn't allow for things

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to cross over the way that they should and allow
the body to heal itself. So, once you have that
imbalance within the microbiome, it's going to make it very,
very hard for you to get full value out of
your food in an effort to feed and nourish and
repair and rebuild the body.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, what's so interesting is that microbiome has actually more
cells that are part of the microbiome then you actually
have human cells in your body.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Right, And that's the.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Necessary for it to be that way, so that it
can respond to all the different nuances in terms of
how we feel when we're eating, what it is that
we're eating, and the effects that all of that has
in terms of how the body functions.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Well, that's interesting because one of the things you talked
about is that the small intestine is discerning, and it
would seem that you have this possibly a conflict or
possibly a synergy between the microbiome and its needs, drawing
what it needs. But then also this small intestine also
needing to be able to discern what things it needs,

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what it doesn't need, where it goes and right.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
So the small intestine has the ability to judge what
is appropriate versus what is not appropriate, and what it
holds on to versus what it lets pass through. And
if the microbiome gets disrupted to where it's not filtering
through the foods the way that it's supposed to, then
things can get to where they don't belong, and then
that creates an immune response known as the allergy.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's an interesting kind of intelligence that we're sort of
discussing about what's going on with the small intestine, which
we don't necessarily think of like you think of your
brain and its ability to think. But clearly there's an
enormous intelligence going on in that gut.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Absolutely, the whole digestive tract is intelligent, and the microbiome
within helps to feed the what's known as the enteric
nervous system, which is a second brain that is the
intelligence of the digestive system. It lines the whole digestive system.
This second brain, if you will, that makes up the
enteric nervous system.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Is that where you get a gut feeling from.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, when you get a gut feeling, it's basically pushing
up against you and something doesn't seem right. It doesn't
feel right, and therefore you get that feeling in the
center of your belly and it just basically puts the
body on alert and asks you to, you know, be
more discerning, slow down, you know, don't try to get

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through so hastily, be a little bit more pragmatic in
terms of what's going on.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
And you also said that there are very specific emotions
that associate with the small intestine. What are those?

Speaker 4 (24:16):
So the small intestine. Primarily the emotions of the small
intestine our joy and sadness. It's all about harmony. So
the negative emotions relate to feeling insecure, feeling lost, abandoned, deserted,
absent minded, or something that's always interesting to try to
wrap your head around, which is called unrequieted love.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Unrequited love. Wow, that's a lot of different emotions that
are there right in that small intestine. Absolutely, So, when
you're dealing with somebody that comes into you that has
a small intestine issue, are you dealing with the physical
symptoms that they might come in with, like leaky gut,
or are you dealing with the emotion? And how do

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you balance out what you do in terms of a treatment.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Well, it's basically by using the wonderful tool that we've
talked about many times called manual muscle testing and our
ability to ask the body what the body is looking
for and what is the imbalance that's affecting the body
from being normal. Then we can check to see is
it emotional? Is it a toxicity issue, is it a
nutritional deficiency? Is it a structural imbalance? Is it a

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physiological imbalance?

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Is it an allergy?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Isn't it going to be all of those things? Well?

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, It just depends on what the
person's dealing with. And the good news is is that
we have all the tools to evaluate all those different
aspects of what goes into a person's health and addressing
it as it's necessary based upon how the body is
presenting itself in terms of asking for help.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Well, now, in terms of food, why can't your body
just reject something that's unhealthy.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
It doesn't judge food, It simply processes what has been
presented with it and as a result, it leads to
either health or sickness over time. So if you're eating
quality food, you're going to be healthy. If you're eating
crap food, then you're going to be unhealthy, and it's
what's going to naturally develop over time.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Is there a way that you can be eating healthy
food and not being able to absorb it?

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh? Yeah. If you have a microbiome imbalance, then your
body isn't used to having the healthy food and it
doesn't know or have the ability to break it down
and get value out of that food.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
That's why you have.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
To find what works for you, and you have to
be consistent going forward, because the more consistent message that
you send to the body, the more the body's going
to develop a consistent response to that message and hopefully
that a response is producing health.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Now, I've known a few people that have something called
coeliac disease. What is that? And what can be done
to help somebody that has that?

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well, it can be corrected, and I've helped many correct
their celiac to not have it anymore. My youngest example
was a child who was just four years old, and
the nice thing was is that she responded so well
to what it is that we do.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
The difficulty was that.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
The family moved from New York, where I was helping her,
to the state of Texas, and she checked in with
me every once in a while after they had moved there,
and then eventually, uh, you know, we lost track of
each other. And that was because her daughter never had
a problem. I had helped her fix her problem, and
so because she didn't have that problem anymore, there was

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really no reason to be calling me.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Uh huh uh huh. Now there's another thing that I
think is in the same area, what's called Crohn's disease.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yes, Crone's disease has a similar em and I've helped
many people overcome that condition as well, and I've found
it to be secondary to actually having a parasite.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
To a parasite.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, so if a person has a parasite and it
impacts their intestinal system, then they can develop the symptoms
that ends up being classified as Crohn's disease.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
And would that mean it's not necessarily Crohn's disease, but
as mimicking it.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Well, at the end of the day, the label that
we give people about their condition is for all intents
and purposes, just a way to explain the condition. It
doesn't tell you why they have the condition. There's nothing
on the major website known as WebMD. There's nothing in
the WebMD website that tells you the underlying cause of

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why the person has the condition, because that's the way
allopathic medicine is oriented. They want to put fires out
without turning off the gas. They don't care that the
gas is on. They just want to put the fire out.
So there's nothing that I have found on the WebMD
website that actually acknowledges what the mechanism of cause is
for anything. They just tell you that this is the condition,

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this is how it presents, and this is what we
want you to do in order to quote remedy.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
So they're always starting post the fact that the condition
is there. You're actually looking to see how do I
dial our way or find a pathway to go back
to where it began.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
And addressing the why as opposed to the what. Medicine
addresses the what through chemicals known as pharmaceuticals and through
surgical interventions. And I can't do either of those forms
of care, so I actually have to understand, well, what
is the mechanism of cause? And effect change at that

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causal level, and then the effect goes away all by itself.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, that's a very interesting way to approach it. I mean,
when you're to talking about I mean those are Crohn's
disease or or something like that. Those are pretty severe situations.
But then you have things that are not necessarily so devastating.
What about something like an allergy or just even a
food sensitivity.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, those definitely show up in the small intestine, and
I have found that for almost forty years. They can
affect the small intestine, but are controlled by the gallbladder,
which sits at the entrance to the small intestine and
controls the small intestines function.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Now, what is the causal relationship for people to develop
those food allergies?

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Food allergies happen to be for the simple fact that
if you're not breaking your food down fully and you
have that condition known as leaky gut, if those whole proteins,
the not fully digested proteins into amino acids, if those
whole proteins find their way across the digestive system barrier,
then the immune system is going to recognize that protein

(31:00):
as being an invader. It's going to attack that protein.
That immune response is what's called a food allergy if
it's coming in through the food route.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now, is gluten intolerance the same thing as a food allergy.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Based on how you phrased it, The answer is known.
Intolerance is different from an immune response, which is the
basis for analogy, and intolerance means you have a problem
processing it, but it does not involve the immune system.
So it could be difficulty absorbing something because you're not
necessarily sure how to break it down, which is different

(31:38):
from having an immune response to that something.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well, if you're gluten sensitive, because that seems to be
there's more and more effort to take gluten out of
food and bake goods and things like that. If you
have that particular sensitivity, does that mean that you have
some kind of an immune response or some kind of
digestive response to it.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, So when one has an intolerance, it just means
that they can handle it in small dosages. They can't
handle it in large dosages. The challenge is that in
the typical American diet, you don't get small dosages of things.
You get large dosages of things. And when you consume
too much of a substance that your body hasn't inability

(32:24):
to break down fully, You're going to develop a sensitivity
to it. If you don't address the sensitivity over time,
then that will eventually lead to an allergy.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's how it becomes okay. Now, Lactose intolerance, that's another
thing that seems a lot of people suffer from.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, I actually have somebody this afternoon that has a
lactose issue and lactose intolerance. Lactose is milk sugar found
in milk and is the sugar allergy versus gluten, which
is a protein found in different grains. And so lactose
intolerance means that your body doesn't produce enough lactase, which
is the enzyme used to break down lactose or milk

(33:02):
sugar into its components for better assimilation. And so when
one has a lactose intolerance, it's more times than not,
it's about a getting the immune system to acknowledge lactose
so that it doesn't have to fight with it, and
b make sure that they have enough of the enzyme
necessary to break down the lactose, which should be giving

(33:24):
them lactase, and.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
That seems to be pretty readily available. That lactase.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
It should be.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Now, with a lot of the things that you treat,
like leaky gut and some of the other issues that
you treat, how do you approach actually the treatment part
of that.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Feed the body what the body needs to repair itself
while eliminating or correcting the intolerance or the allergy that's
creating the inflammatory response that ultimately leads to the leaky gut.
So when you put the right ingredients in so that
the body can repair itself, all health issues are a
lack of proper ingredients. When you give the body the

(34:03):
proper ingredients that it needs, then it doesn't have any issues.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
So any issue that we have is due to a lack.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Of proper ingredients, which is a starvation disease. All disease
that we suffer from is a starvation.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
By start, and by starvation you mean you're not getting
the right ingredients that your body.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Is, that your body requires in order to maintain itself right.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Because your body is in the constant state of breaking
things down and healing and putting back together. And because
we live in a world where you bump into a
chair or you bump into the wall and you get
a bruise, or something like that. Your body is constantly
dealing with that process of repairing and healing.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
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Speaker 1 (36:49):
What is the microbiome and what is this relationship with
the small intestine.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
The term microbiome refers to the collection of all microorganisms
like bacteria, fungi, viruses that live on or.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Inside the body.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
It includes the microbes in the gut, on the skin,
in the oral cavity, and any other part of the body.
The microbiome plays a crucial role in human health by
helping with digestion, supporting the immune system, and protecting against
harmful microbes like pathogens, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Now, there's a.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Big movement that we have seen that in the last
five ten years, but particularly after we had the pandemic,
where there's been a big move to get these anti
bacterial soaps and things like that that we've been putting
out there that every time you walk into a store
you might see another little push button container that you

(37:49):
can get that antimicrobial solution and put it on your hands.
But what relationship does that have to the fact that
we're using some of the health that we need that bacteria.
It's not all bad bacteria.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
No, it isn't all bad bacteria. And at the end
of the day, we live in a sea of all
sorts of microbes, and it's about balance and integrity within
each individual. Maintaining balance in the microbiome that helps coordinate
a healthy immune response versus an unhealthy immune response. And

(38:24):
so it's important to maintain the integrity of your microbiome
so that you can get value out of your food
and continue to maintain the integrity of you as an organism.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Because your microbiome is actually very intricately involved in the
breaking down of the food that you absorb.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Right, Yeah, and it's what helps to generate the immune response,
whether it's healthier, whether it's unhealthy. So when you keep
it balanced and in harmony, then you get a healthy
immune response, and when it's out of balance, then you
get sickness.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Know, does the small intestine have major effects on other
organs in the body?

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Well, like all other organs and glands, there's a relationship
with all the parts of the body. And since all
the food ingredients enter through the small intestine, it's the
organ that feeds the rest of the body.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Now I should have asked this question a minute ago.
But antibiotics, I mean, we're oftentimes people will get some
kind of a sore throat or some kind of infection
or need to have, you know, some kind of surgery
or something like that, and you're put on a program
of antibiotics. There's a good part of what they do
for people's health and recovering of their health, but also

(39:39):
the long term effects of antibiotics must have a detiliatory
effect on some of what's happening with your small intestine.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Oh absolutely, So.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Antibiotics wipe out both the good and the bad bacteria,
and it's the primary reason to avoid them in all costs.
And if you have taken an antibiotics, then you want
to restore balance to your microbiome by removing the excess
yeast and candidia and replace the good bacteria with a
probiotic while eating quality food and avoiding the crap kind.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
So what is a probiotic?

Speaker 3 (40:15):
A probiotic is a.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Is it just the anti antibiotic? Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Or well, a probiotic is a supplement that you can
take that helps to replenish the bacteria in the body
system that has been.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Lost due to.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
All the things that we do to digest upset our
digestive balance and alter our microbiome through our digestive system disruptors,
things like eating sugar, things like drinking alcohol, things like
over the counter medications, things like prescription medications, chlorine in

(40:58):
our water, fluoride in our tooth paste, bromide in our
flower based products, all the artificial colors, all the artificial flavorings,
the chemicals that find their way into our food based
upon what's used, like BPA or bisphenol A, the GMOs,

(41:21):
things like monosodium glutamate. All of these things have a
tendency to disrupt the microbiome and makes it harder for
each one of us as individuals to get value out
of our food and translate that valuable food into abundant health.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Now, in terms of inflammation and swelling, what role does
this small intestine play in that process?

Speaker 4 (41:44):
If the small intestine has a permeability problem, the leaky
gut situation, that will lead to more inflammation and swelling
and then ultimately allergies.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
And I know that you know more and more I'm
hearing about this idea of chronic and alma is actually
a major health risk. Is that because it precedes the
disease states? Or is that what is the role that
that has in getting sick?

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Well? Inflammation is the first indicator that the body is
lacking the nutritional requirements that it needs to be balanced
and to be healthy. And so when you have inflammation,
that's like the three year old who has a temper
tantrum when it doesn't get what it needs. When your
body doesn't get what it needs, its natural response is

(42:31):
to create inflammation. So anybody that has an inflammatory condition,
your body is screaming at you that it needs to
be fed real food.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
And so.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
We need to understand that the way that we look
at health is kind of backwards because we think that
we need to treat conditions when the main condition that
causes all the conditions that we have is nutritional deficiency
and we're all starving on some life level.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
M h.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
And I mean when you're sitting there and talking about
eating food, one of the things that comes to mind
is what happens if you have spoiled food, or outdated food,
or even contaminated food. What happens to your small in
tests in there.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Well, if you're healthy enough to process it, nothing will happen,
your body will deal with it. If it isn't healthy enough,
you will get symptoms of food born illness and that
ultimately blows your gallbladder circuit. And at the end of
the day, we're going to have to do a whole reset. Otherwise,
every time you put food into your body, after it's
blown the circuit because of the food born illness, you're

(43:40):
going to continue to have that nausea, that heartburn, and
you know, either potential loose vowels or potential nausea wanting
to throw up.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Now, a lot of people have those problems, and there
are a lot of over the counter medications to help
get somebody them down from a situation like that. Do
they actually help the problem or they make the problem worse?

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Well, at the end of the day, all medication, over
time are going to make things worse, even if they
address the symptoms, as the cause will always be overlooked,
and therefore the problem is going to perpetuate, and over
time things don't get better in that regard, they end
up getting worse. So all over the counter medications that

(44:26):
are designed to quote help the gut problem ultimately end
up creating bigger problems.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
They're actually just masking the problem so that you can
ignore it.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
That is absolutely correct.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
It's like the joke that the denial is not just
a river in Egypt.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
That is correct.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
And in my office, we simply test the medication to
see if it creates a weakness, and if it does,
it is going to make the situation worse over time.
And there's a way that we can help to neutralize
that so that the body doesn't with the medication and
you don't experience the side effects or the ill effects
of having taken that medication.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Oh really, So how do you address something like that
where you actually address the side effects or the ill
effects of a medication.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Well, I do the same thing as I would do
with some sort of allergy. An allergy is immune response,
letting you know that your body doesn't like the substance
in terms of how it's coming into the body and
being represented as that substance. So when somebody has a medication,
we can muscle test it to see if it creates
a strengthening, helping response or whether it creates a weakness

(45:41):
negative response, And so when it does, I can neutralize
the negative consequences of that medication so that they can
still stay on that medication and the body won't have
such a strong reaction to it while we're in the
process of healing the body so that they can get
off medication for all.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Yeah. So, because I was going to ask you if
can you can you use something that would help help
you with the symptoms that you have while still going
through the process of trying to address the major costs. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
So at the end of the day, what my job
is is my job is to restore balance as quickly
as I can. But if they're in a crisis and
they're taking something that helps to ameliorate the crisis, then
I'm not going to tell them to stop taking the
crisis ameliorator.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
M hmmm hmm. Now what I mean, what do you
recommend in terms of bringing balance into the small intestine
in a natural process? Is there some general advice.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
That you have there is I would ask everybody to
find and eat quality food, get plenty of water, and
take a good probiotic with every single meal because of
what's been done to the food and what's going on
in the industry that's going to wipe out your microbiome.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
So how long would it take for you to actually
begin to see some positive effects from the kind of
treatment you're talking about?

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Forever?

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Ever, one is different. One to three months, six to
twelve to restore balance and then maintain that balance going forward.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
So I mean, now we've talked about the small intestine,
which is really where the digestion and absorption happens. But
what about the elimination. What the role does the small
intestine play in terms of the elimination that goes on
in the digestive track.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Well, when your elimination system isn't working properly, things backing
up makes everything work worse. Getting a handle on it
sooner rather than later is the solution to that. So
if I encourage everybody to do a transit time test,
I would ask them to have a salad, let's say
Saturday afternoon, to where you're not at work and you

(47:47):
don't have to worry about what the effect of it is.
Have a healthy salad with three boiled, sliced up red
beats in the salad. And if you eat the salad
salad at noon on Saturday, that salad should have passed
all the way through you and entered into the toilet
bowl by noon on Sunday, and you'll know when it

(48:11):
leaves because of the redness of the beats. You will
see it come out of you, and you will know
that that was the salad that you had with the
red beats. So you get to actually understand what is
your transit time of going from the mouth to the toilet,
and if it takes longer than twenty four hours, you
have a problem. And if it takes less than twenty hours,

(48:33):
you also have a problem. So it's about finding that
sweet spot twenty to twenty four hours for food to
pass through you. And if it doesn't pass through you
either too fast or too slow, that now you know
for yourself that you have an issue that you need
to go get addressed.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
So and would you address those two different results the
same way or how would you approach somebody that had
one of those super.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Well, I would approach them both in a similar way
in terms of trying to understand why their transit time
is either too fast or too slow, and then addressing
the source of why it's too fast or too slow.
The ultimate cause of either one of those is going
to be different. So each person, if it's too fast,
they're going to get one type of treatment. If it's
too slow, they're going to get another type of treatment.

(49:21):
But ultimately, at the end of the day, we're just
interested in bringing them back into balance.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Now, in terms of probiotics, can you take too many probiotics?
Is there a right amount of probiotics.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Well, you can take too many. If you take too many,
then what's going to happen is you're going to overwhelm
the system and you're going to have chronic diarrhea mm hm.
And so if you are taking too many probiotics and
you're liquifying your food and it's coming out in an
unpleasant way, then you need to back off on the
amount of probiotics that you're taking. And so when you

(49:55):
come to my office, what we always do is we
always dose the probiotic first. We determine if the probiotic
is going to be beneficial for you, and if it is,
then we dose out how much should this body be
taken in order to maintain health?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Mm hmm. Well, now that sort of leads me to
where I want to sort of end our show today,
and that is to ask you if somebody is looking
for the kind of answers to the kinds of questions
that we're talking about here today, where you have a
particular health situation you're dealing with. Maybe maybe it's related
to your small intestine, which is the health issue we're

(50:30):
talking about this time of year, but you may have
any of the other kinds of health problems that you
have and wanted to get some of those questions answered.
From your perspective, what are the best ways to go
about reaching out to you, Well.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
You should uh call my cell phone directly, which is
area code eight four to five five six one two
two two five. If you want to speak to me,
that's the easiest way to do it. Again, that phone
number is eight four to five five six one two
two two five. If you're not going to call me,
lot of people are texting nowadays. I personally don't like

(51:03):
texting because they always ask questions that are incomplete and
it's ultimately going to require me to get on the
phone with them anyway, so they can save themselves a
step by calling me. But if you are going to
text me, just know that it may take a bit
for me to get back to you. The third way
to get a hold of me would be the call
would be to email me directly at doc Rick doc

(51:26):
Riick at spineboy dot com. Doc Rick at spineboy dot com.
I check my email throughout the day every single day
and I get back to people pretty quickly, and they're
always amazed at how fast I get back to them.
But at the end of the day.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
I'm here to.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
Help serve others. And so if you're having a health
imbalance and you're unhappy with the effects of that health
imbalance and it's really starting to ruin your life, I
want to have a conversation with you. I want to
understand what's going on with you and I want to
help you resolve whatever that is.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
And so you can call me, email me, text me.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Stop in the office at one point thirty eight Canal Street,
Sweet four zero four of building four hundred. I just
want to help, and I'm here to help. So I
want to thank you for tuning in. Mark, I want
to thank you for putting this show together and asking
all these important questions for the listener. And uh, thank
you for listening today. Ask you to tune back in

(52:25):
next week, same health time, same health station. This is
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