February 20, 2024 • 31 mins
It’s a concept that many people struggle to embrace or understand. But once you ‘get” it, a lot of issues in health will become clearer and you can save yourself a considerable amount of time, effort, and money. The idea is to get away from the idea of “treating” health conditions. This is the approach used in pharmaceuticals and employed by most doctors. If, for instance, blood glucose is high, drugs like insulin, metformin, or a GLP-1 agonist like Wegovy or Ozempic is introduced to force blood glucose down. If blood pressure is high, a drug such as a thiazide diuretic, beta blocker, or ACE inhibitor is prescribed to for blood pressure down. If there is an inflammatory or autoimmune condition, they pick a single inflammatory mediator and block it. But there are major drawbacks to approach health in this way that I will discuss in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast.
Instead, I would like you to consider a completely different approach. Rather than try to improve some health measure with a pharmaceutical or even a medical procedure, I would suggest that we instead address and correct the common factors that allow such health conditions to emerge in the first place. I’ll explain what that means. But it means that this approach can not just reduce blood glucose or blood pressure or reverse many inflammatory or autoimmune conditions, but also result in weight loss, loss of abdominal fat, reduce inflammation, improve insulin resistance, restore youthful characteristics, smooth your skin, restore healthy musculature and provide other effects that yield benefits that go beyond the original issue. It is not uncommon, for example, to take this approach for, say, weight loss but find yourself no longer a type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic, or no longer hypertensive, while enjoying relief from multiple forms of skin rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, fatty liver, anxiety or depression and hundreds of other conditions.
So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss this radically different approach to health.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's a concept that many people struggle to embrace
or understand, but once you getit, a lot of issues in health
will become clearer and you cansave yourself a considerable
amount of time, effort and money.
The idea is to get away fromthe idea of treating health
conditions that sounds confusing.
I know this is the approachused in pharmaceuticals and
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employed by most doctors.
If, for instance, blood glucoseis high, drugs like insulin,
metformin or a GLP1 agonist likeWeGovie or Osempic is
introduced to force bloodglucose down.
If blood pressure is high, adrug such as a thiazide diuretic
, beta-blocker or ACE inhibitoris prescribed to reduce blood
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pressure.
If there is an inflammatory orautoimmune condition, they pick
a single inflammatory mediatorand block it.
But there are major drawbacksto approaching health in this
way that I'll discuss in thisepisode of the Defiant Health
Podcast.
Instead, I would like you toconsider a completely different
approach.
Rather than try to improve somehealth measure with a
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pharmaceutical or even a medicalprocedure, I would suggest that
we instead address and correctthe common factors that allow
such health conditions to emergein the first place.
I'll explain what that means.
But it means that this approachcannot just reduce blood
glucose or blood pressure orreverse many inflammatory or
autoimmune conditions, but canalso result in weight loss, loss
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of abdominal visceral fat,reduced inflammation, improve
insulin resistance, restoreyouthful characteristics, smooth
your skin, restore healthymusculature and provide other
effects that yield benefits thatgo beyond the original issue.
It's not uncommon, for example,to take this approach for, say,
weight loss, but find yourselfno longer a type 2 diabetic or
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pre-diabetic, or no longerhypertensive, while enjoying
relief from multiple forms ofskin rashes, it'll bowel
syndrome, fatty liver, anxietyor depression and hundreds of
other conditions, despite havingintroduced no effort at
treating these conditions.
So in this episode of DefiantHealth, let's discuss this
radically different approach tohealth.
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So the pharmaceutical model isthe one that is widely practiced
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in healthcare and practiced bymainstream doctors Identify an
abnormal parameter and use apharmaceutical or procedure to
correct it, to address it Withits high blood pressure,
anti-hypertensive medication isintroduced.
It could be high cholesterol,for which a statin cholesterol
drug is prescribed.
It could be an autoimmune orinflammatory condition, such as
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rheumatoid arthritis orpsoriatic arthritis, for which a
costly biologic agent, ofteninjectable, to block some
mediator of that process that'sadministered.
It could be a GLP1 agonist,such as wegovia orozempic, or a
bariatric procedure to addressoverweight or obesity.
But there are fundamental andsometimes severe, even
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life-threatening, problems withthis approach.
One common problem with thepharmaceutical approach is that
all the phenomena that surrounda specific condition are not
addressed by the treatmentintroduced, for example, in
reducing high blood pressurewith anti-hypertensive drugs,
regardless of the form.
It could be a thiazide diureticlike chlorothaladone or
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hydrochlorothiazide.
It could be a beta-blocker likemetoprol or a tenolol.
It could be an ACE inhibitorlike lysinepro.
Well, all those drugs do indeedreduce blood pressure and
thereby reduce risk for heartattack, stroke, kidney disease,
aortic disease and otherproblems.
But here's the problem withthat approach Even if normal
blood pressure is achieved withany of those drugs, risk for all
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those conditions persists.
Let me say that again, even ifnormal blood pressure is
achieved on those drugs,increased risk for heart disease
, stroke, kidney disease, etc.
All persists.
Or how about a statincholesterol drug to reduce total
and LDL cholesterol to lowlevels?
Well, that may be the case andit reduces cardiovascular risk a
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little teensy-weensy bit, bythe way, far less than is often
discussed by doctors in thepharmaceutical industry.
But even if you do enjoy alower total or LDL cholesterol,
you're still at significant riskfor heart disease Because other
causes are not addressed.
Other causes for heart diseaseare not addressed by that statin
drug, causes such as insulinresistance that statins actually
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make worse.
That's why there's more type 2diabetes and pre-diabetes while
taking a statin drug.
It does not addressinflammation.
It doesn't address vitamin Ddeficiency or lack of omega-3
fatty acids or magnesiumdeficiency or dysbiosis, colonic
dysbiosis, endotoxemia orthyroid dysfunction.
In other words, that statincholesterol drug just helped
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improve a single marker.
Cholesterol did not address allthe other, in fact made some of
them worse.
So statin drug is not the finalanswer to heart disease.
You know all the phenomenasurrounding heart disease risk
are not fully addressed by thatstatin drug.
How about a drug by a lot ofvery expensive and very toxic
drugs such as a tumor necrosisfactor blocker that's being
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introduced, say, for psoriaticarthritis or rheumatoid
arthritis.
Well, it may be blocked at onemediator, tnf alpha, but it does
nothing for the hugelydisrupted gastrointestinal
microbiome that likely initiatethe disease.
In order to address the vitaminD deficiency, the omega-3 fatty
S deficiency that allowedinflammation to proceed
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unchecked, as those diseases so,over and over again, drugs
treat one aspect of a conditionbut fails to address all the
other phenomena of the otherassociated phenomena that
surround that condition.
A related problem with thepharmaceutical approach is that
the initiating cause istypically not addressed at all
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and, in fact, almost alwaysignored.
So if someone has bone thinningthat is, osteopenia or the
worst situation of osteoporosisand if the cause is included
vitamin D deficiency andmagnesium deficiency, which are
known to cause bone thinningcoupled with loss of
gastrointestinal microbes thatprovoke oxytocin release
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oxytocin being a master controlover bone density these causes
are simply not addressed by aprescription for phosomax or
boneva.
In other words, if the bonethinning was initiated because
of those missing factors vitaminD, magnesium, oxytocin the drug
does nothing for those causes.
It works by a differentmechanism and, of course, you're
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subject to all the nasty sideeffects of those drugs.
If you have the pain andsuffering of fibromyalgia and
it's partially suppressed by theawful drug Simbalta or Lyrica.
What about the severe smallintestal bacterial overgrowth,
or SIBO, and the accompanyingendotoxemia that initiate the
condition?
Well, those are completely notaddressed, or even made worse by
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the drugs.
So once again, the drug doesnot address the inciting cause.
The initiating cause andbecause the underlying
gastrointestinal process thatstarted this condition has been
ignored.
This sets the person up.
Though they may have less painfrom the drug, this person has
been set up for weight gain,type 2 diabetes, other
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autoimmune conditions, cognitiveimpairment, diverticular
disease, colon cancer.
So not addressing the originalcause, the initiating cause, is
a big mistake, but that iscommonly done in the world of
pharmaceuticals when they try totreat conditions.
Another major fundamentalproblem with the pharmaceutical
model of treatment is that sideeffects and unanticipated
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effects commonly developed.
Think about the marked increasein potential for developing
type 2 diabetes with statincholesterol drugs.
Or how about sudden cardiacdeath that results from taking a
thiazide diuretic because ofloss of potassium magnesium in
the urine.
Or how about the kidney failureand bleeding stomach ulcers
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that commonly result from takingthe proxen ibuprofen
chronically for back pain?
Or the increase in thyroidcancer, bowel obstruction and
the dramatic loss of muscle masswith GLP1 agonists that ensure
long-term health problems,including, by the way, regain of
the weight.
So you likely already know thatthe pharmaceutical model of
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treating conditions is a hotbedof potential for unanticipated
or adverse events, sometimesdangerous events.
So let's take an entirelydifferent, erratically different
, approach and let's, instead oftreating conditions, let's
address factors that are lackingin modern life, that allow
abnormal health conditions toemerge in the first place.
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So, rather than treat conditionsby blocking some pathway or
mediator in a pathway, orblocking some phenomenon like
high blood cluster or bloodsugar or blood pressure, let's
instead address factors thatallow all these conditions to
emerge in the first place.
The first thing we tackle, ofcourse, is diet.
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We revert back to the diet thatis programmed into the human
genetic code.
In other words, humans havelived on this planet for several
million years in this veryspecific style of eating that is
programmed into your genetics.
This is true for all creatureson the planet.
Imagine, for instance, you seea lion tackle a gazelle or a
wildebeest, tear its throat open, open the abdomen and chest and
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eat the heart, liver, kidneysand intestines.
You see this and you redisgusted.
The lion has fragments oforgans on his mouth and blood
dripping.
So you cage the animal, thelion, and you feed it kale and
spinach.
This is going to happen to thatlion.
What will be dead?
Probably in a few weeks or so,because you have violated the
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style of eating program intothis genetic code that serves
its physiologic needs.
Humans are no different, and forthe first several million years
, the first several thousandgenerations, humans hunted and
gathered.
They did not cultivate norharvest wheat or grains.
So wheat and grains are veryrecent additions to human diet.
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Even ancestral forms of wheat,such as iron corn wheat from
before biblical times, causedproblems in humans who consumed.
It caused, for instance,explosion, arthritis, tooth
decay and mineral deficiencies.
But it got a lot worse withmodern agribusiness because they
introduced extensive changesinto the plant's genetics.
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It took thousands ofexperiments to do this, but the
end result was a high yield,semi-dwarf strain of wheat that
is very harmful to modern humans.
The glyatin protein, forinstance.
People say gluten, but it'sreally the glyatin within gluten
.
The glyatin protein now causesfourfold more celiac disease,
more so-called non-celiac glutensensitivity.
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The amylopectin, a carbohydrate, causes extravagant rise in
blood sugar and therebycontributes to weight gain, type
2 diabetes and other phenomenathat are caused by insulin
resistance.
There's wheat germaglutininthat is a potent baltoxin and is
responsible for intestinalinflammation.
There's phytates that bindminerals in your gut minerals
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such as magnesium, iron, zincand calcium and cause you to
pass them into the toilet.
Even if you're eating a healthydiet, you are mineral deficient
.
Banishing all wheat and grains.
That is reverting back to thediet that humans have followed
for more than 99% of our time inthis planet reverses numerous
health conditions.
It contributes to reversingweight gain and obesity.
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It reduces blood sugar,reverses type 2 diabetes in many
instances reverses pre-diabetes, reduces blood pressure, yields
many gastrointestinal benefits.
Just that change in dietprovides you with enormous
advantage in reclaiming controlover health.
By the way, you'll end up doingthe opposite of what dietary
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guidelines and what mostphysicians and dietitians tell
you, of course, telling you tocut your fat and saturated fat,
eat planet-healthy whole grainsA very destructive message that
no one should be following.
We also address nutrients thatare largely lacking in modern
life that, in combination, yieldimprovement when restored,
yield improvements in insulinresistance and inflammation.
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There's four major ones.
There's some others, butthere's four major nutrients
that are lacking in modern lifeVitamin D, magnesium, iodine and
omega-3.
Vitamin D, because we lead ourlives indoors, we wear clothes
that cover much of the surfaceair of our skin and you're not
exposed to the sun to activatevitamin D in the skin.
We get very little vitamin Dfrom diet.
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There's a little bit in eggs,there's a little bit in liver
and some other organs, butthere's essentially very little
in diet so we rely on the sun.
But most many of us live in anorthern climate and work
indoors and wear clothing, so wecan't rely on getting sun for
everybody.
If you live in a tropicalclimate you could, but most
areas of the world you cannot.
So we supplement vitamin D.
That contributes to reversingall those phenomena insulin
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resistance and inflammation aswell as providing many other
benefits like increased bonedensity that reduce triglyceride
, reduce fatty liver, protectionfrom winter blues and many
other benefits.
Omega-3 fatty acids weresupposed to be obtained by human
consumption of brain matterfrom the animals we killed, as
well as fish.
Well, no one eats brain anymore.
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Modern people are so aversebecause, we've been told, cut
your fat and cholesterol, andmodern people have become too
squeamish about eating brain.
It would be nice if we getplenty of omega-3 fatty acids,
epa and DHA by eating as muchfish as we'd like, but you can't
In a modern world.
Modern fish is contaminated bymercury and shellfish by cadmium
, both of which can accumulateand have toxic effects as they
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accumulate in your body.
So we resort to omega-3 fattyacids.
That also makes a contributionto reversing inflammation,
insulin resistance, and has manyother beneficial effects such
as reduced risk for cognitiveimpairment and dementia, as well
as reducing endotoxemia,because it activates an enzyme
lining your intestines thatpartially deactivates the
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endotoxin from bacteria.
There's iodine that is lackingin many people.
Most modern people were gettingtheir iodine from iodized salt
ever since 1924 when the FDAfound that the science showed
that lack of iodine, that was abig problem, a major public
health problem.
Many parts of the country andother parts of the world Was
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causing goiters or enlargedthyroid glands in the neck.
As many as 60 to 70 percent insome locations of the population
had a goiter and go to is weredangerous.
That could compress your airwayand you could suffocate or you
develop in capacitatinghypothyroidism, gain a lot of
weight, retain a lot of edemaand then finally die of
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congestive heart failure or gointo a coma that's called mexid
mixidima coma, and so iodinelack was a big problem solved by
iodine.
Of course the FDA was concernedin the 1970s and 80s that their
original advice to consume lotsof iodized salt was backfiring
and people were having problemswith the salt.
What they did not right realizewas that their other advice to
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cut fat and cholesterol, eatmore healthy whole grains,
coupled with the increasedproliferation and availability
of processed foods causedinsulin resistance.
That, in turn, causes sodiumretention, so they laid the
blame on.
The wrong thing.
Wasn't the salt that waslargely to blame, it was dietary
advice that led to insulinresistance and sodium retention.
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So when you get rid of foodsthat cause insulin resistance
wheat and grains and sugar andyou address factors, nutrients
lacking that also addressInsulin resistance and thereby
sodium retention, we don't limitsalt or sodium, but we need to
get our iodine from a moresecure source.
If you get it from iodized salt, unfortunately you open that
canister and the iodineevaporates or volatilizes within
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about four weeks.
So if you're going to useiodized salt, you simply have to
buy a new canister every fourweeks.
So an easier and veryinexpensive thing to do is just
buy iodine supplements such askelp tablets, dried seaweed or
potassium iodide drops.
And then, lastly, because wehave to filter our water and
Because modern produce has about90% less magnesium than it used
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to, so we're getting almost nomagnesium in our diet.
So we need to supplementmagnesium and likewise, like the
other nutrients, magnesiumsupplementation contributes to
normalization or minimization ofinsulin resistance and
Inflammation, as well as havingother beneficial effects such as
reduction in blood pressureReduction at an abnormal heart
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rhythms and it increases bonedensity, protecting you from
bone thinning.
Put those four nutrientstogether and you get a wonderful
synergistic effect in reversingor minimizing insulin
resistance and inflammation.
Even better, combine therestoration of those four
nutrients with the diet where weremove foods that cause insulin
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resistance and inflammationwheat, grains and sugars and you
have an extremely powerfulcombination.
Let's take it even further.
We have to accept that modernpeople have massively disrupted
their gastrointestal microbiome,that is, the composition of
microbes in the GI tract.
Our overexposure to antibioticsso most people by age 40 have
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taken 30 courses on average ofantibiotics for every 1,000
children.
There's over 1,300prescriptions written every year
for an antibiotic.
We've all been exposed as asociety to a massive quantity of
antibiotics.
Plus, there's other factors foodadditives like preservatives.
Preservatives inhibit growth ofmicrobes in food but also in
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you.
Emulsifying agents that causemixing of food.
Chemicals such as polysorbate,adi and carboxymethyl cellulose
and carrageenan that keep foodslike ice cream and salad
dressing mixed but also disperseyour mucus barrier in your
gastrointestinal tract, whichchanges the microbiome and
increases inflammation body-wide.
There's other factors thatdisrupt your microbiome, such as
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stomach acid blocking drugs,non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs like ibuprofen andnaproxen, glyphosate residues in
wheat and other foods, otherherbicides, other pesticides.
There's a long list of factorsthat disrupt your intestinal
barrier and yourgastrointestinal microbiome.
For a full list, see my supergut book or my
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drdavsinfinthethelthcom, wherethere's a complete list of all
the factors that you need toknow about that can disrupt your
GI microbiome.
We work to restore a normalmicrobiome.
Another problem, though, is thatmany people by my estimation,
easily easily 50% of the USpopulation has allowed fecal
microbes.
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These are microbial specieslike E coli and salmonella and
citrobacter and campylobacterand pseudomonas.
These are typical pathogens,but they also normally live in
your colon, the last four tofive feet of your
gastrointestinal tract.
But about 50% of the populationthere's been an
over-proliferation from allthose factors were exposed to,
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allowed overpopulation of thosefecal microbes and then,
remarkably, they have beenallowed to ascend into the 24
feet of small intestine.
That is called small intestinalbacterial overgrowth, sibo or
SIBO we say that afflicts about150 million Americans now, and
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if you want to know how I gotthat number, see my super gut
book or mydrdavsinfinthethelthcom blog, or
see prior episodes of thisDefine Health podcast, where I
talk about SIBO and how, as asociety, we've allowed fecal
microbes to invade 24 feet ofsmall intestine.
Now that's a very importantprocess, this process of SIBO,
because the small intestine isby design very permeable,
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because that's where we absorbnutrients like minerals and
vitamins and amino acids andfatty acids.
So that small intestine needsto be permeable, but it is
poorly suited to housingtrillions of fecal microbes.
So trillions of fecal microbesinhabiting the 24 feet of small
intestine live and die in amatter of hours.
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Those microbes don't live verylong, they live and die and when
they die they shed some oftheir components.
One important component iscalled lipopolysaccharide
endotoxin or LPS endotoxin, andthat endotoxin penetrates the
very permeable small intestineand gets into your bloodstream
and that's where exportsinflammation and insulin
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resistance to all parts of thebody.
Lo and behold, it's now clearthat SIBO and endotoxinia are
the driving factors in so manyhealth conditions such as atrial
fibrillation, coronary disease,stroke, parkinson's disease,
alzheimer's, dementia andcognitive impairment, type 2
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diabetes and pre-diabetes,hypertension, fatty liver,
depression, anger and hatred,autoimmune conditions and other
inflammatory conditions.
In other words, any moderncondition is incompletely
addressed if you do not addressat least colonic dysbiosis, that
is, disruption, microbialspecies confined to the colon,
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or SIBO in the small intestine.
So if your atrial fibrillation,for instance, or your coronary
disease, or your hypertension,or your depression or anxiety,
hatred or rosacea or psoriasisor rheumatoid arthritis is
driven, at least in part, bySIBO and endotoxinia, giving you
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a drug to block someinflammatory pathway or a drug
to reduce blood pressure or adrug to slow your heart rate and
hit fibrillation, you canimagine this does not even come
close to addressing theunderlying causes and associated
phenomena.
So the pharmaceutical model ofa drug for every condition is
deeply flawed and very dangerousand leads to all kinds of
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unanticipated problems becausethe underlying cause has not
been addressed.
I hope you begin to appreciatethat this idea that we address
the factors that allow diseaseto emerge in the first place is
a much more powerful way toaddress health than simply
targeting as a limitedphenomenon that's associated
with some condition like highblood pressure, high blood sugar
.
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Now there are conditions wherethis is not possible.
This won't help, for instance,if there's been irreversible
damage to your pancreatic betacells.
Those are the cells thatproduce insulin.
Because you ate the glycineprotein of wheat and your
vitamin D deficient two majorcauses of type 1 diabetes those
cells don't grow back.
Pancreatic beta cells don'tgrow back and you are type 1
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diabetic for a lifetime ortherefore dependent on the
insulin and insulin's lifesavings.
You have no choice because youdamaged or lost pancreatic beta
cells.
If you ate the glycine proteinof wheat or had unrecognized H
pylori in your stomach, you'llgo back to pylori that caused
atrophy of your stomach andkilled off the parietal cells in
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the stomach that producestomach acid.
You don't get that back and youtherefore have to follow
strategies that acidify thestomach.
The most common is betainehydrochloride, a supplement
called betaine hydrochloride.
To acidify the stomach.
You'll also have to supplementvitamin B12, because the lack of
stomach natural stomach acidimpairs your ability to absorb
vitamin B12.
But you can appreciate that aperson who's lost the capacity
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to produce stomach acid needs torely on other strategies to
compensate.
Or let's say, you developspontaneous claustrodium
difficile and or colitis.
Spontaneous is really amisnomer, I think.
I believe that the evidencesuggests that if you develop
so-called spontaneous C diffthat is, c diff that occurs
without a preceding antibioticit's likely due to SIBO.
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So if somebody gives you lotsand lots of antibiotics or even
a fecal transplant to treat yourC diff and or colitis, they
have not addressed the dysbiosisor the SIBO that allowed that
condition to occur in the firstplace.
And if you do not address theSIBO, you're asking for
long-term trouble, becauseuncorrected SIBO and endotoxyma
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that accompanies it drivesinsulin resistance, inflammation
and thereby a long list ofmodern health conditions
including weight gain, obesity,diabetes, hypertension, atrial
fibrillation, depression, etc.
All those conditions I'vementioned.
In fact, you could argue thatvirtually every modern condition
not injury, not infection soI'm not saying that malaria and
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dengue fever are caused by thesethings and, of course, not
breaking your leg by falling outof a tree or chasing an animal
but the things that theconditions we're familiar with,
the conditions that are allaround you, in your family,
maybe in your friends, in yourcoworkers, the people with type
2 diabetes, obesity, heartdisease, depression all those
common health conditions aresimply not fully addressed and
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are only corrected in a limitedway by the modern pharmaceutical
approach.
So addressing the factors thatcause these conditions, or at
least make them much worse, is afar more effective way to deal
with these health conditions.
The great thing about that is,once you get this and you
address all those factors diet,those foreign nutrients and the
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microbiome, by the way we alsotake a little further by
restoring nutrients that arelargely lacking in modern life
because of the silly advice tocut your fat and cut your
cholesterol.
Another thing that peopleabandon was organ meats and
thereby collagen and hyaluronicacid.
Collagen is very rich in organmeats.
Hyaluronic acid is also rich inorgan meats such as brain and
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skin.
Well, most people don't eatthose organ meats anymore, so
you're very collagen deficient,hyaluronic acid deficient.
That has implications also.
They're not quite as powerfulas those previous things the
nutrients and diet andmicrobiome but they do have
significant effects, and theyhave effects that are youth
restoring and anti-aging.
Collagen, for instance, smoothsyour skin by increasing dermal
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collagen.
Collagen also rebuilds thecartilage in your joints and
restores the collagen in yourarteries, making them healthier.
The hyaluronic acid is a greatlubricant in skin because it
holds water, but it also furtherstimulates collagen deposition.
It also increases the lubricantin your joints, the so-called
synovial fluid, and it improveseye health and arterial health
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also.
If all this interests you, thisapproach to correcting factors
that allowed disease to emergein the first place, interests
you, I invite you to take a lookat my books the wheat belly
books, super Gut.
Look at my blog, mydrdavisinfinitehealthcom, with
over 2,000 articles on thesetopics.
Listen to prior episodes of myDefiant Health podcast, where
you are right now and I detailall these things how to do the
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diet, how to bake, how to shop,what foods to avoid, how to make
pizza, how to make donuts, howto make muffins and other foods,
so you don't feel like you'remissing out on anything.
How to replace the nutrients inwet dosage, how to manage your
microbiome, yourgastro-microbiome we have
something called SIBO yogurt.
That is a fermentation processwe follow that has been
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extremely and unexpectedlysuccessful in eradicating SIBO.
And then how to addresscollagen and hyaluronic acid,
all detailed in all those placesI make it very available.
I didn't go through that nowfor the sake of time, but you
can find elsewhere in many of myother media productions.
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It's a concept that many people struggle to embrace
or understand, but once you getit, a lot of issues in health
will become clearer and you cansave yourself a considerable
amount of time, effort and money.
The idea is to get away fromthe idea of treating health
conditions that sounds confusing.
I know this is the approachused in pharmaceuticals and
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employed by most doctors.
If, for instance, blood glucoseis high, drugs like insulin,
metformin or a GLP1 agonist likeWeGovie or Osempic is
introduced to force bloodglucose down.
If blood pressure is high, adrug such as a thiazide diuretic
, beta-blocker or ACE inhibitoris prescribed to reduce blood
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pressure.
If there is an inflammatory orautoimmune condition, they pick
a single inflammatory mediatorand block it.
But there are major drawbacksto approaching health in this
way that I'll discuss in thisepisode of the Defiant Health
Podcast.
Instead, I would like you toconsider a completely different
approach.
Rather than try to improve somehealth measure with a
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pharmaceutical or even a medicalprocedure, I would suggest that
we instead address and correctthe common factors that allow
such health conditions to emergein the first place.
I'll explain what that means.
But it means that this approachcannot just reduce blood
glucose or blood pressure orreverse many inflammatory or
autoimmune conditions, but canalso result in weight loss, loss
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of abdominal visceral fat,reduced inflammation, improve
insulin resistance, restoreyouthful characteristics, smooth
your skin, restore healthymusculature and provide other
effects that yield benefits thatgo beyond the original issue.
It's not uncommon, for example,to take this approach for, say,
weight loss, but find yourselfno longer a type 2 diabetic or
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pre-diabetic, or no longerhypertensive, while enjoying
relief from multiple forms ofskin rashes, it'll bowel
syndrome, fatty liver, anxietyor depression and hundreds of
other conditions, despite havingintroduced no effort at
treating these conditions.
So in this episode of DefiantHealth, let's discuss this
radically different approach tohealth.
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So the pharmaceutical model isthe one that is widely practiced
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in healthcare and practiced bymainstream doctors Identify an
abnormal parameter and use apharmaceutical or procedure to
correct it, to address it Withits high blood pressure,
anti-hypertensive medication isintroduced.
It could be high cholesterol,for which a statin cholesterol
drug is prescribed.
It could be an autoimmune orinflammatory condition, such as
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rheumatoid arthritis orpsoriatic arthritis, for which a
costly biologic agent, ofteninjectable, to block some
mediator of that process that'sadministered.
It could be a GLP1 agonist,such as wegovia orozempic, or a
bariatric procedure to addressoverweight or obesity.
But there are fundamental andsometimes severe, even
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life-threatening, problems withthis approach.
One common problem with thepharmaceutical approach is that
all the phenomena that surrounda specific condition are not
addressed by the treatmentintroduced, for example, in
reducing high blood pressurewith anti-hypertensive drugs,
regardless of the form.
It could be a thiazide diureticlike chlorothaladone or
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hydrochlorothiazide.
It could be a beta-blocker likemetoprol or a tenolol.
It could be an ACE inhibitorlike lysinepro.
Well, all those drugs do indeedreduce blood pressure and
thereby reduce risk for heartattack, stroke, kidney disease,
aortic disease and otherproblems.
But here's the problem withthat approach Even if normal
blood pressure is achieved withany of those drugs, risk for all
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those conditions persists.
Let me say that again, even ifnormal blood pressure is
achieved on those drugs,increased risk for heart disease
, stroke, kidney disease, etc.
All persists.
Or how about a statincholesterol drug to reduce total
and LDL cholesterol to lowlevels?
Well, that may be the case andit reduces cardiovascular risk a
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little teensy-weensy bit, bythe way, far less than is often
discussed by doctors in thepharmaceutical industry.
But even if you do enjoy alower total or LDL cholesterol,
you're still at significant riskfor heart disease Because other
causes are not addressed.
Other causes for heart diseaseare not addressed by that statin
drug, causes such as insulinresistance that statins actually
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make worse.
That's why there's more type 2diabetes and pre-diabetes while
taking a statin drug.
It does not addressinflammation.
It doesn't address vitamin Ddeficiency or lack of omega-3
fatty acids or magnesiumdeficiency or dysbiosis, colonic
dysbiosis, endotoxemia orthyroid dysfunction.
In other words, that statincholesterol drug just helped
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improve a single marker.
Cholesterol did not address allthe other, in fact made some of
them worse.
So statin drug is not the finalanswer to heart disease.
You know all the phenomenasurrounding heart disease risk
are not fully addressed by thatstatin drug.
How about a drug by a lot ofvery expensive and very toxic
drugs such as a tumor necrosisfactor blocker that's being
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introduced, say, for psoriaticarthritis or rheumatoid
arthritis.
Well, it may be blocked at onemediator, tnf alpha, but it does
nothing for the hugelydisrupted gastrointestinal
microbiome that likely initiatethe disease.
In order to address the vitaminD deficiency, the omega-3 fatty
S deficiency that allowedinflammation to proceed
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unchecked, as those diseases so,over and over again, drugs
treat one aspect of a conditionbut fails to address all the
other phenomena of the otherassociated phenomena that
surround that condition.
A related problem with thepharmaceutical approach is that
the initiating cause istypically not addressed at all
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and, in fact, almost alwaysignored.
So if someone has bone thinningthat is, osteopenia or the
worst situation of osteoporosisand if the cause is included
vitamin D deficiency andmagnesium deficiency, which are
known to cause bone thinningcoupled with loss of
gastrointestinal microbes thatprovoke oxytocin release
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oxytocin being a master controlover bone density these causes
are simply not addressed by aprescription for phosomax or
boneva.
In other words, if the bonethinning was initiated because
of those missing factors vitaminD, magnesium, oxytocin the drug
does nothing for those causes.
It works by a differentmechanism and, of course, you're
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subject to all the nasty sideeffects of those drugs.
If you have the pain andsuffering of fibromyalgia and
it's partially suppressed by theawful drug Simbalta or Lyrica.
What about the severe smallintestal bacterial overgrowth,
or SIBO, and the accompanyingendotoxemia that initiate the
condition?
Well, those are completely notaddressed, or even made worse by
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the drugs.
So once again, the drug doesnot address the inciting cause.
The initiating cause andbecause the underlying
gastrointestinal process thatstarted this condition has been
ignored.
This sets the person up.
Though they may have less painfrom the drug, this person has
been set up for weight gain,type 2 diabetes, other
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autoimmune conditions, cognitiveimpairment, diverticular
disease, colon cancer.
So not addressing the originalcause, the initiating cause, is
a big mistake, but that iscommonly done in the world of
pharmaceuticals when they try totreat conditions.
Another major fundamentalproblem with the pharmaceutical
model of treatment is that sideeffects and unanticipated
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effects commonly developed.
Think about the marked increasein potential for developing
type 2 diabetes with statincholesterol drugs.
Or how about sudden cardiacdeath that results from taking a
thiazide diuretic because ofloss of potassium magnesium in
the urine.
Or how about the kidney failureand bleeding stomach ulcers
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that commonly result from takingthe proxen ibuprofen
chronically for back pain?
Or the increase in thyroidcancer, bowel obstruction and
the dramatic loss of muscle masswith GLP1 agonists that ensure
long-term health problems,including, by the way, regain of
the weight.
So you likely already know thatthe pharmaceutical model of
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treating conditions is a hotbedof potential for unanticipated
or adverse events, sometimesdangerous events.
So let's take an entirelydifferent, erratically different
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So, rather than treat conditionsby blocking some pathway or
mediator in a pathway, orblocking some phenomenon like
high blood cluster or bloodsugar or blood pressure, let's
instead address factors thatallow all these conditions to
emerge in the first place.
The first thing we tackle, ofcourse, is diet.
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We revert back to the diet thatis programmed into the human
genetic code.
In other words, humans havelived on this planet for several
million years in this veryspecific style of eating that is
programmed into your genetics.
This is true for all creatureson the planet.
Imagine, for instance, you seea lion tackle a gazelle or a
wildebeest, tear its throat open, open the abdomen and chest and
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eat the heart, liver, kidneysand intestines.
You see this and you redisgusted.
The lion has fragments oforgans on his mouth and blood
dripping.
So you cage the animal, thelion, and you feed it kale and
spinach.
This is going to happen to thatlion.
What will be dead?
Probably in a few weeks or so,because you have violated the
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style of eating program intothis genetic code that serves
its physiologic needs.
Humans are no different, and forthe first several million years
, the first several thousandgenerations, humans hunted and
gathered.
They did not cultivate norharvest wheat or grains.
So wheat and grains are veryrecent additions to human diet.
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Even ancestral forms of wheat,such as iron corn wheat from
before biblical times, causedproblems in humans who consumed.
It caused, for instance,explosion, arthritis, tooth
decay and mineral deficiencies.
But it got a lot worse withmodern agribusiness because they
introduced extensive changesinto the plant's genetics.
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It took thousands ofexperiments to do this, but the
end result was a high yield,semi-dwarf strain of wheat that
is very harmful to modern humans.
The glyatin protein, forinstance.
People say gluten, but it'sreally the glyatin within gluten
.
The glyatin protein now causesfourfold more celiac disease,
more so-called non-celiac glutensensitivity.
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The amylopectin, a carbohydrate, causes extravagant rise in
blood sugar and therebycontributes to weight gain, type
2 diabetes and other phenomenathat are caused by insulin
resistance.
There's wheat germaglutininthat is a potent baltoxin and is
responsible for intestinalinflammation.
There's phytates that bindminerals in your gut minerals
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such as magnesium, iron, zincand calcium and cause you to
pass them into the toilet.
Even if you're eating a healthydiet, you are mineral deficient
.
Banishing all wheat and grains.
That is reverting back to thediet that humans have followed
for more than 99% of our time inthis planet reverses numerous
health conditions.
It contributes to reversingweight gain and obesity.
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It reduces blood sugar,reverses type 2 diabetes in many
instances reverses pre-diabetes, reduces blood pressure, yields
many gastrointestinal benefits.
Just that change in dietprovides you with enormous
advantage in reclaiming controlover health.
By the way, you'll end up doingthe opposite of what dietary
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guidelines and what mostphysicians and dietitians tell
you, of course, telling you tocut your fat and saturated fat,
eat planet-healthy whole grainsA very destructive message that
no one should be following.
We also address nutrients thatare largely lacking in modern
life that, in combination, yieldimprovement when restored,
yield improvements in insulinresistance and inflammation.
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There's four major ones.
There's some others, butthere's four major nutrients
that are lacking in modern lifeVitamin D, magnesium, iodine and
omega-3.
Vitamin D, because we lead ourlives indoors, we wear clothes
that cover much of the surfaceair of our skin and you're not
exposed to the sun to activatevitamin D in the skin.
We get very little vitamin Dfrom diet.
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There's a little bit in eggs,there's a little bit in liver
and some other organs, butthere's essentially very little
in diet so we rely on the sun.
But most many of us live in anorthern climate and work
indoors and wear clothing, so wecan't rely on getting sun for
everybody.
If you live in a tropicalclimate you could, but most
areas of the world you cannot.
So we supplement vitamin D.
That contributes to reversingall those phenomena insulin
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resistance and inflammation aswell as providing many other
benefits like increased bonedensity that reduce triglyceride
, reduce fatty liver, protectionfrom winter blues and many
other benefits.
Omega-3 fatty acids weresupposed to be obtained by human
consumption of brain matterfrom the animals we killed, as
well as fish.
Well, no one eats brain anymore.
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Modern people are so aversebecause, we've been told, cut
your fat and cholesterol, andmodern people have become too
squeamish about eating brain.
It would be nice if we getplenty of omega-3 fatty acids,
epa and DHA by eating as muchfish as we'd like, but you can't
In a modern world.
Modern fish is contaminated bymercury and shellfish by cadmium
, both of which can accumulateand have toxic effects as they
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accumulate in your body.
So we resort to omega-3 fattyacids.
That also makes a contributionto reversing inflammation,
insulin resistance, and has manyother beneficial effects such
as reduced risk for cognitiveimpairment and dementia, as well
as reducing endotoxemia,because it activates an enzyme
lining your intestines thatpartially deactivates the
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endotoxin from bacteria.
There's iodine that is lackingin many people.
Most modern people were gettingtheir iodine from iodized salt
ever since 1924 when the FDAfound that the science showed
that lack of iodine, that was abig problem, a major public
health problem.
Many parts of the country andother parts of the world Was
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causing goiters or enlargedthyroid glands in the neck.
As many as 60 to 70 percent insome locations of the population
had a goiter and go to is weredangerous.
That could compress your airwayand you could suffocate or you
develop in capacitatinghypothyroidism, gain a lot of
weight, retain a lot of edemaand then finally die of
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congestive heart failure or gointo a coma that's called mexid
mixidima coma, and so iodinelack was a big problem solved by
iodine.
Of course the FDA was concernedin the 1970s and 80s that their
original advice to consume lotsof iodized salt was backfiring
and people were having problemswith the salt.
What they did not right realizewas that their other advice to
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cut fat and cholesterol, eatmore healthy whole grains,
coupled with the increasedproliferation and availability
of processed foods causedinsulin resistance.
That, in turn, causes sodiumretention, so they laid the
blame on.
The wrong thing.
Wasn't the salt that waslargely to blame, it was dietary
advice that led to insulinresistance and sodium retention.
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So when you get rid of foodsthat cause insulin resistance
wheat and grains and sugar andyou address factors, nutrients
lacking that also addressInsulin resistance and thereby
sodium retention, we don't limitsalt or sodium, but we need to
get our iodine from a moresecure source.
If you get it from iodized salt, unfortunately you open that
canister and the iodineevaporates or volatilizes within
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about four weeks.
So if you're going to useiodized salt, you simply have to
buy a new canister every fourweeks.
So an easier and veryinexpensive thing to do is just
buy iodine supplements such askelp tablets, dried seaweed or
potassium iodide drops.
And then, lastly, because wehave to filter our water and
Because modern produce has about90% less magnesium than it used
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to, so we're getting almost nomagnesium in our diet.
So we need to supplementmagnesium and likewise, like the
other nutrients, magnesiumsupplementation contributes to
normalization or minimization ofinsulin resistance and
Inflammation, as well as havingother beneficial effects such as
reduction in blood pressureReduction at an abnormal heart
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rhythms and it increases bonedensity, protecting you from
bone thinning.
Put those four nutrientstogether and you get a wonderful
synergistic effect in reversingor minimizing insulin
resistance and inflammation.
Even better, combine therestoration of those four
nutrients with the diet where weremove foods that cause insulin
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resistance and inflammationwheat, grains and sugars and you
have an extremely powerfulcombination.
Let's take it even further.
We have to accept that modernpeople have massively disrupted
their gastrointestal microbiome,that is, the composition of
microbes in the GI tract.
Our overexposure to antibioticsso most people by age 40 have
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taken 30 courses on average ofantibiotics for every 1,000
children.
There's over 1,300prescriptions written every year
for an antibiotic.
We've all been exposed as asociety to a massive quantity of
antibiotics.
Plus, there's other factors foodadditives like preservatives.
Preservatives inhibit growth ofmicrobes in food but also in
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you.
Emulsifying agents that causemixing of food.
Chemicals such as polysorbate,adi and carboxymethyl cellulose
and carrageenan that keep foodslike ice cream and salad
dressing mixed but also disperseyour mucus barrier in your
gastrointestinal tract, whichchanges the microbiome and
increases inflammation body-wide.
There's other factors thatdisrupt your microbiome, such as
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stomach acid blocking drugs,non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs like ibuprofen andnaproxen, glyphosate residues in
wheat and other foods, otherherbicides, other pesticides.
There's a long list of factorsthat disrupt your intestinal
barrier and yourgastrointestinal microbiome.
For a full list, see my supergut book or my
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drdavsinfinthethelthcom, wherethere's a complete list of all
the factors that you need toknow about that can disrupt your
GI microbiome.
We work to restore a normalmicrobiome.
Another problem, though, is thatmany people by my estimation,
easily easily 50% of the USpopulation has allowed fecal
microbes.
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These are microbial specieslike E coli and salmonella and
citrobacter and campylobacterand pseudomonas.
These are typical pathogens,but they also normally live in
your colon, the last four tofive feet of your
gastrointestinal tract.
But about 50% of the populationthere's been an
over-proliferation from allthose factors were exposed to,
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allowed overpopulation of thosefecal microbes and then,
remarkably, they have beenallowed to ascend into the 24
feet of small intestine.
That is called small intestinalbacterial overgrowth, sibo or
SIBO we say that afflicts about150 million Americans now, and
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if you want to know how I gotthat number, see my super gut
book or mydrdavsinfinthethelthcom blog, or
see prior episodes of thisDefine Health podcast, where I
talk about SIBO and how, as asociety, we've allowed fecal
microbes to invade 24 feet ofsmall intestine.
Now that's a very importantprocess, this process of SIBO,
because the small intestine isby design very permeable,
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because that's where we absorbnutrients like minerals and
vitamins and amino acids andfatty acids.
So that small intestine needsto be permeable, but it is
poorly suited to housingtrillions of fecal microbes.
So trillions of fecal microbesinhabiting the 24 feet of small
intestine live and die in amatter of hours.
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Those microbes don't live verylong, they live and die and when
they die they shed some oftheir components.
One important component iscalled lipopolysaccharide
endotoxin or LPS endotoxin, andthat endotoxin penetrates the
very permeable small intestineand gets into your bloodstream
and that's where exportsinflammation and insulin
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resistance to all parts of thebody.
Lo and behold, it's now clearthat SIBO and endotoxinia are
the driving factors in so manyhealth conditions such as atrial
fibrillation, coronary disease,stroke, parkinson's disease,
alzheimer's, dementia andcognitive impairment, type 2
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diabetes and pre-diabetes,hypertension, fatty liver,
depression, anger and hatred,autoimmune conditions and other
inflammatory conditions.
In other words, any moderncondition is incompletely
addressed if you do not addressat least colonic dysbiosis, that
is, disruption, microbialspecies confined to the colon,
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or SIBO in the small intestine.
So if your atrial fibrillation,for instance, or your coronary
disease, or your hypertension,or your depression or anxiety,
hatred or rosacea or psoriasisor rheumatoid arthritis is
driven, at least in part, bySIBO and endotoxinia, giving you
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a drug to block someinflammatory pathway or a drug
to reduce blood pressure or adrug to slow your heart rate and
hit fibrillation, you canimagine this does not even come
close to addressing theunderlying causes and associated
phenomena.
So the pharmaceutical model ofa drug for every condition is
deeply flawed and very dangerousand leads to all kinds of
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unanticipated problems becausethe underlying cause has not
been addressed.
I hope you begin to appreciatethat this idea that we address
the factors that allow diseaseto emerge in the first place is
a much more powerful way toaddress health than simply
targeting as a limitedphenomenon that's associated
with some condition like highblood pressure, high blood sugar
.
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Now there are conditions wherethis is not possible.
This won't help, for instance,if there's been irreversible
damage to your pancreatic betacells.
Those are the cells thatproduce insulin.
Because you ate the glycineprotein of wheat and your
vitamin D deficient two majorcauses of type 1 diabetes those
cells don't grow back.
Pancreatic beta cells don'tgrow back and you are type 1
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diabetic for a lifetime ortherefore dependent on the
insulin and insulin's lifesavings.
You have no choice because youdamaged or lost pancreatic beta
cells.
If you ate the glycine proteinof wheat or had unrecognized H
pylori in your stomach, you'llgo back to pylori that caused
atrophy of your stomach andkilled off the parietal cells in
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the stomach that producestomach acid.
You don't get that back and youtherefore have to follow
strategies that acidify thestomach.
The most common is betainehydrochloride, a supplement
called betaine hydrochloride.
To acidify the stomach.
You'll also have to supplementvitamin B12, because the lack of
stomach natural stomach acidimpairs your ability to absorb
vitamin B12.
But you can appreciate that aperson who's lost the capacity
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to produce stomach acid needs torely on other strategies to
compensate.
Or let's say, you developspontaneous claustrodium
difficile and or colitis.
Spontaneous is really amisnomer, I think.
I believe that the evidencesuggests that if you develop
so-called spontaneous C diffthat is, c diff that occurs
without a preceding antibioticit's likely due to SIBO.
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So if somebody gives you lotsand lots of antibiotics or even
a fecal transplant to treat yourC diff and or colitis, they
have not addressed the dysbiosisor the SIBO that allowed that
condition to occur in the firstplace.
And if you do not address theSIBO, you're asking for
long-term trouble, becauseuncorrected SIBO and endotoxyma
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that accompanies it drivesinsulin resistance, inflammation
and thereby a long list ofmodern health conditions
including weight gain, obesity,diabetes, hypertension, atrial
fibrillation, depression, etc.
All those conditions I'vementioned.
In fact, you could argue thatvirtually every modern condition
not injury, not infection soI'm not saying that malaria and
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dengue fever are caused by thesethings and, of course, not
breaking your leg by falling outof a tree or chasing an animal
but the things that theconditions we're familiar with,
the conditions that are allaround you, in your family,
maybe in your friends, in yourcoworkers, the people with type
2 diabetes, obesity, heartdisease, depression all those
common health conditions aresimply not fully addressed and
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are only corrected in a limitedway by the modern pharmaceutical
approach.
So addressing the factors thatcause these conditions, or at
least make them much worse, is afar more effective way to deal
with these health conditions.
The great thing about that is,once you get this and you
address all those factors diet,those foreign nutrients and the
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microbiome, by the way we alsotake a little further by
restoring nutrients that arelargely lacking in modern life
because of the silly advice tocut your fat and cut your
cholesterol.
Another thing that peopleabandon was organ meats and
thereby collagen and hyaluronicacid.
Collagen is very rich in organmeats.
Hyaluronic acid is also rich inorgan meats such as brain and
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skin.
Well, most people don't eatthose organ meats anymore, so
you're very collagen deficient,hyaluronic acid deficient.
That has implications also.
They're not quite as powerfulas those previous things the
nutrients and diet andmicrobiome but they do have
significant effects, and theyhave effects that are youth
restoring and anti-aging.
Collagen, for instance, smoothsyour skin by increasing dermal
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collagen.
Collagen also rebuilds thecartilage in your joints and
restores the collagen in yourarteries, making them healthier.
The hyaluronic acid is a greatlubricant in skin because it
holds water, but it also furtherstimulates collagen deposition.
It also increases the lubricantin your joints, the so-called
synovial fluid, and it improveseye health and arterial health
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also.
If all this interests you, thisapproach to correcting factors
that allowed disease to emergein the first place, interests
you, I invite you to take a lookat my books the wheat belly
books, super Gut.
Look at my blog, mydrdavisinfinitehealthcom, with
over 2,000 articles on thesetopics.
Listen to prior episodes of myDefiant Health podcast, where
you are right now and I detailall these things how to do the
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diet, how to bake, how to shop,what foods to avoid, how to make
pizza, how to make donuts, howto make muffins and other foods,
so you don't feel like you'remissing out on anything.
How to replace the nutrients inwet dosage, how to manage your
microbiome, yourgastro-microbiome we have
something called SIBO yogurt.
That is a fermentation processwe follow that has been
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extremely and unexpectedlysuccessful in eradicating SIBO.
And then how to addresscollagen and hyaluronic acid,
all detailed in all those placesI make it very available.
I didn't go through that nowfor the sake of time, but you
can find elsewhere in many of myother media productions.
Now, if you learned somethingnew by listening to this Defiant
Health podcast, I invite you tosubscribe to your favorite
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