200: The Top 10 Most Important Lessons from 100 Episodes

In this massive milestone episode, we're took your 10 favourite expert guests (from episodes 101-199) and pulled the most profound clips for you to listen to. 

You'll hear the most important segments about things like:

• stress
• fungus and mold
• immunity and autoimmunity
• bacterial overgrowths, SIBO and dysbiosis of your gut microbiome
• heavy metals
• dental and oral health and how it creates or prevents disease
• environmental and cellular toxicity
• sex hormones and how your thoughts, feelings and emotions actually change your physical biology, and your genetics

This show has had some of the world's best and most famous expert guests, and we've got their most important knowledge nuggets for you, right here on episode 200.

 

If you want to listen to the full episodes mentioned, this is the list that made our top 10 (in numerical order):

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the 200th episode of ReversABLE!! This podcast is dedicated to making complex health subjects feel simple so you can heal yourself and your gut naturally. And to celebrate this major milestone, as is tradition on this show, we’re going to look back at your favourite episodes to give you the top 10 most important lessons that we’ve learned from interviewing the world’s best and most famous health experts over the last 100 episodes.

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We looked at the last 100 to see which were your favourites based on how many downloads they had and how much of the episode was completed to get the 10 best; then we reviewed each episode for the most important takeaways and put the clips right here.
That means we’re going to rapid fire some powerful knowledge nuggets at you. We’ll be talking about stress, fungus, mold, immunity and autoimmunity, bacterial overgrowths, SIBO and dysbiosis of your gut microbiome, heavy metals, dental health, environmental and cellular toxicity, sex hormones and how your thoughts, feelings and emotions actually change your physical biology, and your genetics.
Before we get into it, I want to thank you for listening and taking this podcast so far. 47% of podcasts don’t get past their 3rd episode, only 6% reach 100, and less than 2 ½ percent of all podcasts actually make it over 200 episodes – and we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you listening, so thank you so much for being so dedicated to your health and for allowing me to be that medium to bring these knowledge nuggets to you.
Let’s get it started.
Coming in 10th place is Ep 193 with Dr. Jade Teta. His episode was just recently released and still made the top 10, which is incredible. Dr. Teta talks about stress, trauma and emotions, and how your body is actually holding onto these things in your physical tissues – kind of like burning a song onto a CD – it’s imprinted in your muscles, joints, in your gut, or somewhere else in your body, which is what’s causing your illness.

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And it’s this repeat exposure, or “auto-inoculation” of stressors stuck in your body that keep coming out when you have a muscle ache or pain (that’s where the emotion is stored) and these self-triggering stress states that are making you sick. And we all face stress, it’s unavoidable, but it’s what you do with it that makes all the difference.
Listen to what Dr. Teta has to say about how your body holds trauma and stays in fight and flight, even when you think the stressor is gone.
Let's imagine we're out on the plains of Africa on the savannah and what happens is we're fine at this point, but we see a lion coming towards us, right? We see that lion coming towards us. This is a stress reaction that usually will result in a threat mode response. So, we go into threat that could be fight, flight, freeze responses. Now, most people understand this approach, right? This kind of thing that our body does. When the lion goes away, what we think happens is that that threat response goes away. But the truth of the matter is if the lion leaves and is no longer there, but we're still on the plains on the savannah of Africa, we will be in hyper vigilance mode looking around expecting that lion to come back. And maybe the lion never comes back, but as long as we're out on the savannah, we're going to be in hyper vigilance mode. We're going to be in striving mode.
This is where stress gets stuck in the body. It is not until we go into a house or a shelter, we get off the savannah that we can then go into safety and rest and digest mode or parasympathetic mode. And so what people don't understand is these misguided unconscious decisions, this mud that we get stuck in, come from traumatic events. And it doesn't have to be trauma, but it can come from events of struggle, trials, tribulations, difficulties, anything that when we are in our development as a child, an adolescent, a young adult, and even in adulthood, anything that is misguided in the sense that we don't have the knowhow, the maturity, the wisdom, or the tools to deal with it. It's unconscious because we're not aware that it's impacting our mindset, our bio field, and our biochemistry.
It's this thing that lives within us, follows us around like a shadow that we don't know is there. And here's the critical part. It's a decision because whether we're aware of it or not, we made the choice to see that event a particular way. Now, we can easily go into the mind, to the subconscious, and begin to unpack this. And this is the thing that people don't understand. We can easily do this. We have tools and techniques that allow us to go into the subconscious and begin to unwind some of this misguided unconscious decision that keeps us stuck in struggle and striving mode. So if you encounter a lion and you get stuck in that state, that's what is happening to a lot of people and it is related to gut function and full metabolic function. We just don't realize it's coming from a story. And this is why it's stressful for some and not stressful for others because it's the underlying stories we're telling. And this to me is a profound insight if it's something that you've never heard before.

Now, the good news is that you’re not stuck with this stress state – you can actually begin to identify and then process it by doing something as simple as breath work to trigger that fight and flight stress response, which allows you to look into your subconscious mind, almost like a crystal ball, identify where that stressor is coming from so you can process it. This can allow the stress stored in your physical body (00:55):
your muscles, joints, gut or anywhere else you’re sick or in pain, to leave your body, allowing it to heal.

Here's the thing with these misguided unconscious decisions. They can get stuck in our body and they can also get stuck in sort of more of our brain. The stories we tell, we absolutely can unwind these and when we do, we will oftentimes notice changes in the tissue and emotions coming from those tissues. Let me give you an example. So one of the tools that we use to unwind these misguided unconscious decisions is breath work. So breath work many different types (01:00):
holotropic breath work, kundalini breath work but I use basically a type of breath work that I call breath enhanced emotional processing. So it's very fast breaths focusing on the inhale, longer inhales, shorter exhales that put you in more of a sympathetic dominant state in a controlled way.

And what ends up happening is during this breath enhanced emotional processing, we can prompt you and what I'll do is prompt the individual to go back to a memory, go back to emotion, or go back to a feeling in the body. And what will happen in this process as they are breathing and focusing on where these feelings are in the body, you'll oftentimes find they're most often going to be in the gut, interestingly enough. But once we do that and they begin to emote, they will oftentimes see imagery, symbolism, feeling. Here's the thing to understand (01:05):
the subconscious mind does not think in logic and linearity. It is more symbolism. It is more feeling. It is more metaphor. And so during these breath work processes this is one technique, not the only technique you will oftentimes see individuals begin to feel discomfort in certain areas of the body. And instead of avoiding that and trying to distract themselves, if they go into it, we have them name the emotion.
We have them almost dialogue with the emotion as if it is a best friend that's trying to give them information. And when they do this, they will oftentimes have flashbacks to memories. They will oftentimes see the pain or dysfunction in that area move to other parts of their body and/or dissolve. And what oftentimes happens is as soon as we finish that breath work, we do the next piece that also gets after this mud, which is exposure therapies. There's been a lot of research with something called written exposure therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.
This is a technique that essentially goes back to these uncomfortable feelings, these traumatic events, or these memories, and essentially writes about what happened, what it felt like, and then writes into the future of the lessons that these emotions gave you. And what oftentimes happens is people begin to understand their symptoms and their management of their symptoms begins to change. For example, I've seen stark differences in HRVs pre and post that last. I have seen mood shifts pre and post some of these treatments that last far beyond the treatments. I have seen conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and other things that last long that you know sort of wrap themselves up or essentially become lack of a diagnosis, cure is a bad word, but they're essentially cured for lack of a better term simply from working on these emotional states. And of course the treatments that a lot of people you and I know in this field use supplements, drugs, other kinds of things, vagus nerve stimulation, all that kind of stuff starts to work better.
These tools are tools you can own, because what’s provided to you by your doctor is a painkiller or other medication to manage the symptoms that these stressors are causing. And they do this with all sorts of different things, and these pharmaceuticals actually make you worse. Medical intervention is actually the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States – things like misdiagnosis or polypharmacy deaths, which is mixing drugs that accidentally kill patients).
And these drugs that are only masking symptoms, if they’re not killing you quickly, are often killing you slowly because they create overgrowths in microbes like candida. Candida is a fungus well known to cause nearly every disease you can imagine, but it’s almost never talked about by your doctor.

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In fact, if you have an illness or a gut issue, instead of getting to the root cause, your doctor may even throw antibiotics at you, which make things worse, because it kills the good gut bacteria and gives room for a nasty fungus called candida to overgrow. And even simple painkillers do the same.
Which brings us to 9th place which is Episode 143 with Doug Kauffman who’s been studying fungus for over 50 years.
I asked Doug, “why is fungus (candida) such a problem for our health and what’s causing this overgrowth?”

The question is a good one and it begs this question (01:45):
what is fungus doing down there? God put it there. Candida Albicans, we must activate it to make it ugly, right? Candida Albicans is a commensal organism. It's there with bacteria in our gut and it thrives on our nutrition, good nutrition, good bacteria, and symbiosis. Good bacteria, good yeast, etc. Antibiotics are one of the things, chemicals that are in our diet that can change the milieu. Dr. Ghannoum at Case Western University, who's a mycologist, calls this the microbiome, not micro meaning tiny, but myco denoting fungus. And so what changes the terrain of the intestine? I've got to tell you, I'm staring down the pipe at, at my age, 54 years into this study, realizing, oh my gosh, antibiotics start all this. The damage done by antibiotics doesn't get fixed. The killing of the good bacteria, how do we make some B vitamins, vitamin K? This good bacteria in our intestine is erased. And then we begin craving the wrong foods that's how ugly these fungi are. To kill fungus, first of all to diagnose fungus this is where we're sorely inadequate in America. We guess

If they only knew who's going to kill the goose laying the golden egg, and tell the pharmaceutical industry your antibiotics are quite harmful, especially when taken for long periods of time. And for Lyme disease what do you do for Lyme? And here, Mera, you know, these are antibiotic-driven problems. We have a compulsion, an addiction, to prescribe antibiotics. One antibiotic can begin altering the terrain of the intestine. We don't take one antibiotic as I spoke about earlier, a couple of years ago there were 200 million prescriptions just in America in one year, 30% of which aren't necessary. Houston, we have a problem. We are making ourselves sick with this overuse of antibiotics. And if I can just shout out to all my friends who are physicians and dentists (01:50):
look, behind every successful pediatrician is a lawyer. “What, you didn’t? Her eardrum is now burst because you didn’t put her on the antibiotic.” Well, her fever was low, I didn’t think this was bacterial. She lives in a moldy home. You know the rule
If you and I were doctors, Josh, and we both have similar medical training, I can’t speak for you, I’d probably be prescribing antibiotics. I’ve got 5,000 lawyers ready to defend me in the pharmaceutical industry. You’re almost required to do it- it’s mandated. You graduate from medical school learning to do this, scratching the pen pad. If you’re not prescribing hundreds of medicines a week, something’s wrong with you and you’re going to be questioned, and your license is going to be questioned. “Why did you become a doctor and you’re not prescribing? What are you, a quack putting people on diet and supplements? They’re not FDA approved.” So you know, I understand. These last few years have opened my eyes to what doctors must go through to maintain the Porsche and the two homes and the beautiful clothing and the private schools and so forth. It’s easy for me to chip away at them and say, shame on them, but the last four or five years I’ve dropped back and said, wow, they’ve got a problem. They have a degree that enables them to medicate.”

Now, it’s not just medication that’s making or your doctor’s pills that are making you sick, but also your lifestyle habits. What you eat and drink, how you sleep, what you spend your time doing (02:00):
sitting down, stressing out or being outside.
So, Doug goes on to talk about someone he worked with on his antifungal program who was addicted to Dr. Pepper – he drank that pop his whole life. And after the fungal program finished, he wanted one so bad – so he walked into the 7-11, cracked that can of Dr. Pepper open after months of not having it, and for the first time in his life, he hated the way it tasted. Because your habits change everything about you – from what you do for fun, your, right down to your taste buds. Which is why it’s so hard to get healthy, but easy to stay there. Doug will explain how this works:

Folks, we become addicted to certain things smoking, drinking alcohol, etc. And we believe it’s really good for us because it tastes so good. Your taste buds, your whole physiology changes when you realize the etiology, the root cause of what’s bugging you, is Dr. Pepper is your diet. He told that story to patients coming in (02:10):
“Dr. Pepper tasted different, now I can’t stand the taste of it.” And many of us go through that. Through my 20s, I think I had post-traumatic stress coming out of Vietnam. In my 20s it was a bit of a blur. I drank alcohol because it was okay and it made me not be so scared.
As I look back now, Josh, on those years, I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Went out with a friend of mine the other day who had a beer, and she brought it over to the table and pops the top and that smell just made me sick. It wouldn’t make any other 75-year-old guy sick, but it made me sick. So there are addictions we get into. Sugar is another one it just doesn’t taste the same anymore. So as you lean toward good health, your body will respond by saying “well done, high five.” And that’s what I learned. The fascinating thing, Josh, was these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of patients I went on to work with now doctors in that building began to refer their patients upstairs because we could help them get better on an anti-fungal program. So many diseases heart disease, diabetes, cancer
But candida isn’t the only fungus that’s causing diseases and making you sick. Another type of fungus that’s in 70% of US homes in mold. The CDC says mold is responsible for 40% of all cases of asthma, and I see it in nearly 80% of my clients suffering from Crohn’s, colitis and irritable bowel syndrome. It’s connected to autoimmune diseases, arthritis, gut issues, brain fog and brain diseases, and so much more – nothing is off limits.
And don’t let your newly built home fool you either – because new doesn’t mean mold free. I had a client who’s home was less than 4 years old and it was FULL of hidden mold; it wasn’t on the surface, but under the drywall, right down to the studs – this has to do with modern building materials and cheap, corner cutting building practices, but it happens all the time.
Our 8th place episode is #153 with Michael Rubino who’s a celebrity mold expert. He works with A-list athletes, actors and actresses; and he even found mold on Gwenyth Paltrow’s home. So, no one is immune to it.

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Here’s what Michael Rubino has to say about how you’re getting infected by mold:

I want to put something in a perspective for you. Probably the two most common ways you would be exposed to mold is one called dermal exposure, that’s the skin, skin being the largest organ. The second greatest route of exposure though is going to be inhalation. Now inhalation is really interesting because most people think, “When I inhale something, oh, that means it’s affecting the lungs,” of course lungs being the first line of defense. However, when you’re talking about particles like mold, like bacteria, more often than not these particles are so small they’re actually bypassing the lungs and the self-defence mechanisms which are going to be your mucus membranes and your lungs. And when they bypass those, they get right into the bloodstream, and at that point you then ingest it. So when we’re talking about microorganisms such as mold and bacteria, we’re actually worried about two pathways here (02:40):
inhalation, then leading to ingestion. That can cause disruption two times over.
And then you have the skin exposure, where you see so many people dealing with mold exposure and when I say mold exposure, I mean overgrowth of mold inside of a home, not normal mold exposure you experience out in the world. When you’re dealing with that, you’re typically seeing skin issues, which can be representative of dermal exposure but also could be representative of gut issues, right? You can have microbiome imbalances from it. Now what kind of things do we see? People dealing with SIBO, Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, inflammation in the gut which can lead to inflammation in the brain, brain fog, chronic fatigue, things like that. But let’s rewind another second what about just the dysbiosis it can cause? What happens when we have dysbiosis, we can have overgrowth of yeast, overgrowth of candida, we are talking of any sort of infection that can then take shape because of the dysbiosis.
That’s not even including some of the more toxic effects we can experience from mycotoxin exposure, which can actually be created by mold colonized in your body. This is where things get complicated, where we start worrying about carcinogenic effects of these toxins, cancers, and all these things. The research that’s really started to come out over the last year is showing air pollution as the largest cause of cancer outside of smoking cigarettes itself. That’s really astounding, because we didn’t know about this for so long. I mean how many people out there think it’s no big deal? “Mold’s no big deal, air pollution’s not a big deal, oh there’s a forest fire down the street, alright I’ll just close my windows.” We have to start to wake up a little bit.
If you think about this from a health perspective, I see two different exercises to think about. One, you can't go more than a few minutes without air, that's how important air is to the human body. Now, obviously we can go longer without food, you know. We can obviously go longer without water, water being the next most important thing. From there, there's this other perspective of, think about how much you consume. Okay, consumption is another factor here. You consume enough air every single day to fill up a normal-size swimming pool with the 20,000 breaths that you take on average. A baby takes 65,000 breaths on average, right? It's why it's so important as kids are developing to have good air quality.

When we go from that perspective, you're not, you shared with me just a minute ago, you had about a pound and a half of steak for lunch. Well, that's not a swimming pool full of steak, right? That's, you know, it's not a swimming pool full of water you're drinking. Heck, I don't care if you're swimming in that swimming pool, you're still not absorbing that much water through your skin. So I want to put things into perspective (03:00):
air is extremely vital for humans, but what's in that air and how that impacts the body that's something that we have not been thinking about.
And it's like, if you're listening to me right now, I'm hoping, I'm praying that a light bulb goes off in your head and you're saying, “Eureka, wow, how have we missed this?” Well, honestly, there's been a lot of studies for many, many years going back hundreds of years on the importance of air quality. But, you know, as technology is advancing, we're becoming more aware of it, and where we are today is, you know, we're getting through the bell curve a little bit, but there's a lot more we're going to learn, probably over the next 50 years, over the next hundred years. But don't wait that long. I mean, start to take this seriously now, because this could be just the hurdle you needed to take back your health and wellbeing.”
Michael goes on to talk about how to clean mold, different types of tests you can get your home tested, but he also says something extremely powerful that you need to hear. If you’re thinking “well, I can’t see it so it doesn’t exist – or it can’t be hurting me”… you couldn’t be more wrong
“I mean, I would look at mold like an erupting volcano. It is constantly, constantly spewing out spores. If mold feels threatened, it will also spew out mycotoxins along with those spores. Now, what makes mold feel threatened? Typically, other types of molds you might have, like Stachybotrys and Chaetomium, fighting for the same real estate underneath your sink. They’re trying to kill off each other, and we’re innocent bystanders to this chemical warfare happening.
But no, you think about it from that perspective it’s constantly spewing. If I just close the door, it’s going to be constantly spewing in there. And look, every time your HVAC system turns on, every time you open your front door, open a window, do anything, even move through the room, you are pushing and pulling air around.

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So that crack and crevice that you have in your cabinet is enough for something so small 25 to 50 times smaller than what the eye can actually see. Think about that for a second. It’s like a theme park entrance. All these cracks and crevices you have in your home, if it’s behind your wall, it’s coming from underneath the baseboard, it’s coming through the paint. That’s how small we’re talking.”

If you want to learn more about mold in your home, it’s connection to health issues and autoimmune diseases, make sure to listen to that in full (03:30):
Episode 153 with Michael Rubino.
And speaking of autoimmune diseases… what if your health issues, and what your doctor might be calling autoimmune isn’t actually that at all? What if your body isn’t attacking itself. Well, I’m not the first person to think this – in fact. Dr. Jeffrey Bland, the father of functional medicine and founder of the Institute for Functional medicine also believe that your body doesn’t attack itself – in most cases; but with more research over the years, we might even see that autoimmunity doesn’t exist at all…
Our 7th place episode is #130 with Dr Jeffrey Bland. This was actually an interview from the Eudemonia Summit in November 2024, which a massive event in bringing together the world’s best health experts and I got to meet Dr. Bland in person. And you can get your tickets at eudemonia.net and I’d love to meet you there in person too.

In this episode, I told Dr. Bland that I don’t believe autoimmune disease is what we think it is and that it’s really just a hyperreactive response to 3 main things in your body. The first is toxins (03:45):
being mold, heavy metals, chronic stress, pesticides, food, and any other toxin you may be exposed to; the second is microbes
I asked him what’s causing autoimmune diseases to skyrocket, and here's what he has to say:
“So Josh I really agree with the whole theme that you’ve been developing in your exploration and your kind of evolution of understanding, that this concept that we are allergic to ourselves, autoimmune, just doesn’t make sense. We don’t wake up in the morning saying our immune system doesn’t like us. What happens over time is our body starts changing as a consequence of injuries that it is subjected to, foreign chemicals, even drugs, that can react with our body’s tissues in such a way that they produce not us, a new “non-us.” Because the chemical reaction of those substances with our body tissues produces something that is foreign.
Now, what happens is our immune system, which is there to protect us against foreigners, says, “Ooh, I better go out and do something to help them.” And now what we call autoimmune is not autoimmune. It’s our body actually trying to do something against foreigners that we have been subjected to as a consequence of bad diets, environmental toxins, hormones, drugs, alcohol things that injure our body parts.
So to be more accurate, then, we’re actually seeing sort of a declassification of a lot of autoimmune inflammatory conditions, and to call it “immune mediated” rather than truly autoimmune autoantibodies- very well said”

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We go on to talk about what is happening in your body to create these responses, and what you’re doing (or not doing) that is causing your immune system to hyper-react. So naturally, I asked Dr. Bland “what can we do about it?”
“Animal studies have demonstrated that you can remediate these problems just by changing the ecology of the animal. We are animals in this environment, and we have the ability, cognitively, to make those changes. So what does it look like to change the ecology? What is that tangibly with human beings living in the modern world we live in? We're surrounded by EMFs, we eat this food, we have high-stress lifestyles, we're go-go-go, we're not sleeping, it's blue lights here. We get a hundred times too much light at night and a hundred times too little during the day because we're indoor creatures, as we were talking about here.
What does it actually look like to change the ecology, given the environments that way? Thank you. So, it starts at home. Our home has many things in it, and how do we stack these so that we have a hierarchy of where we start? You can't do everything at once, so if you get yourself into a state of panic and you're saying, “I’ve got to do it all at once,” it's likely you’re not going to do what you need to do to really turn this thing in the other direction.
I start with food. As I said, we eat 20 to 50 tons of food depending on who we are in a lifetime. That's a big lever, and we’re generally eating food that’s highly processed from industrialized soils. That is creating a big message on our immune system, creating dysbiosis, leaky gut, and all these kinds of things. If you don't start there and put full intention on that, then the other things, yes, they're important but they're not going to stack up against this first level.
Then you start asking, “Okay, if I get that solved, how does it translate down through, say, vagal nerve tone? How does it actually relax my system, putting me more in a parasympathetic rather than a sympathetically driven nervous state? How do I then use relaxation therapy, proper sleep patterns, proper exercise and activities, proper hydration, and making sure I’m getting proper fluid in my daily diet?” All those things stack, but you first have to make sure your diet is feeding your friendly bacteria.

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Remember, we have three types of critters living in our gut. We have the symbionts that are doing goodness for us, they're producing vitamins, producing propionates, and improving our immune system. You have commensals that are capable of just taking up real estate; they're not hurting or harming, but they're friendly. Then you've got parasitic species, which should be very, very low in number. As we grow older, generally, they become higher in number and start taking over. They're the insurgents that are creating the difficulty.
By introducing a proper diet, hygiene, proper lifestyle, prebiotics, and probiotics, you’re recreating the system that gives rise to the stability of your gut immune system. Then you can start working on the second and third tier things. I know, if you're listening or watching right now, that was not the sexy answer you were hoping for. Jeffrey Bland is not a sex symbol; he's a physician and a professional, so it's all about what makes sense.

It really is so simple (04:45):
change your food, change your diet, change your lifestyle. But I want to circle back to that initial question a bit ago
Well, I think that this whole concept of rewilding is so important, because we get associations to friendly microbes through all sorts of things in the soil, in the air, and in our foods. We think our food is clean, but actually it brings microbes. If our microbes have come from food that's been sterilized with agriculturally depleted soils and chemical agriculture, then we’re going to have a different set of microbes that we're exposed to.
So I think this concept of getting out in nature, being present, getting in the dirt, and renourishing our soils, these all fit together as part of this model.”
Now, this was Episode 130, which was a short one, but if you want to hear more from Dr. Jeffrey Bland, head over to episode 63 which is a jam-packed hour all about your immune system and how to heal it.
And when it comes to healing your immune system, something you may or may not be aware of is that poor gut health is one of the 3 pillars of autoimmune disease, and it’s actually implicated as a primary force in almost every disease you can possibly imagine.

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One of the problems with the food and chemicals you’re eating, the stress you’re under that gets stored in your tissues, the mold in your home, or any number of factors is what it does to your gut microbiome – this is your gut bacteria. There’s a condition called SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) which Dr. William Davis says could be brewing inside 150 million Americans – that’s 45% of the entire country. These overgrown microbes are toxic to your body and are a major driver in your disease.
This is why for our 6th place episode we’re jumping all the way back to episode 101 with Dr. William Davis titled “The quickest fix for SIBO”. Doctors will throw antibiotics at you, but it almost always comes back worse, which is why Dr Davis came up with a brilliant way to help you reduce this overgrowth of bacteria.
10:15 - “How do you get rid of it? Well, you could take an antibiotic, but you know, Josh, you know, antibiotics got us in this mess, so taking more antibiotics doesn't seem like a good idea. But you could. You could take Zyfaxin, and it has an efficacy of about 50 or 60%. It's very costly, of course, and it has side effects like Cdiff.

So what I did was this (05:25):
I asked this question, what if we had somebody we know has SIBO because they have maybe a condition like restless leg syndrome, it's ssynonymous with SIBO? What if you took a probiotic, a commercial off-the-shelf probiotic, a haphazard collection of microbes that's what probiotics are, sure, it's gasoline on a fire. Will your SIBO go away? No, right? You might have some reduction in bloating if you're lucky or something like that, but what if we chose microbes that colonize the upper GI tract, the small intestine, where SIBO occurs? That's where the battle is. And choose microbes that produce what are called bacteriocins. These are natural antibiotics effective against the species of SIBO, the fecal microbes.
So I chose three originally. I chose a strain of Lactobacillus reuteri, upper GI colonizer, produces up to four bacteriocins. Lactobacillus gasseri, likewise colonizer of the upper GI tract, produces up to seven bacteriocins. I'm not sure how necessary it is, but I also add a strain of Bacillus coagulans, just because it has a good track record in reducing IBS symptoms and produces one bacteriocin. We make a yogurt. Now, I don't want people to confuse this with the yogurt you buy in the store. The stuff you buy in the store has almost nothing in it, and that's because you generate microbes via fermentation. They don't have sex, right? There's no male and female microbes. They just have asexual reproduction. Sure, it's too bad for the microbe, but right, so one microbe just reproduces itself and becomes two, two becomes four.
Well, reuteri one of those ingredients doubles every three hours at human body temperature. So we're going to make a yogurt at human body temperature with those three microbes, and we let them double a minimum of 12 times. We count the number of microbes using a method called flow cytometry, and we get about 300 billion, with a B, counts per half-cup serving. And so far, Josh, of about 40 people who've consumed what I call SIBO yogurt, 90% have converted to H₂ breath negative and had some kind of breakthrough in their health.

Very common situation (05:40):
somebody says, “I lost 73 pounds on your program, but I have another 40 to go and I'm stuck.” They test positive or they think they have SIBO. They do the SIBO yogurt, weight-loss plateau breaks. Or they had a diabetic hemoglobin A1C, let's say 11.7%, on insulin and two drugs, right? They go on the program, they get off insulin, get off the drugs, hemoglobin A1C drops to 6.1%, much better but still not great, because 5% or less is the ideal. They address their SIBO and endotoxemia with the SIBO yogurt, A1C drops to 4.8% or some other great number like that.
So over and over again, Josh, what I've seen is people who've addressed the SIBO and you know what, if I said the solution was to remove your colon or some nasty thing like that, or exploratory laparotomy, you'd better be damn certain that's necessary, right? What if the solution is something akin to yogurt? We don't have to be quite crazy confident.
Well, I think big pharma's gonna have something to say about that. You know, Bill, you might end up in a ditch somewhere if you're not careful; they don't like this kind of talk. We'll do the formal clinical trial to validate this, but I think I'm convinced it works. We have a way to validate that it works like this, right? And of course, people enjoy the effect. I also encourage people, once they have four weeks of the yogurt and eradicate their SIBO, it's probably a good idea to continue the yogurt on occasion, because those, especially the gasseri and the reuteri, are not only upper GI colonizers and bacteriocin producers, they're also what we call keystone microbes. They're foundational, or very important for other microbes.
And so what you're really doing is replacing microbes by making this yogurt, replacing microbes that you should have had all along, your entire lifetime, but they got wiped out because you took maybe amoxicillin for an upper respiratory infection 30 years ago. So you're restoring it. Now, if we really knew everything about the microbiome, you should be able to take the yogurt once and never have to do it again, because it should colonize you. But it doesn't colonize forever, only colonizes for a few days. So it's probably a matter of not having the full, what we call consortium or guild, of microbes. Microbes are just like humans, they collaborate in families and communities and co-workers. Well, microbes are the same way, if you only replace one or a few microbes that might not be sufficient for long-term colonization.
So we don't have that information, no one's got it yet. Long-term, it will come. So right now we're left with, if you have SIBO, four weeks of the SIBO yogurt, if you want to do it that way, and then occasional, like a couple times a week, consumption just to keep those keystone microbes going.”

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One of the biggest health risks that comes from SIBO is “endotoxemia” which is when the toxins these overgrown bacteria produce get into your blood and circulate around your body – this is huge player in how your gut is connected to every disease imaginable. So if you want to learn more about how to heal and rebalance your gut, make sure to listen to Episode 101 with Dr. William Davis.
Now, eating SIBO yogurt is a cool solution, but it may not be the only thing contributing to the problem, which means you might need to do more investigating. Afterall, your gut is a self-regulating ecosystem, and it can’t screw itself up. Heavy metals are a nasty byproduct of our modern industrial world and they’re causing all sorts of illnesses, including gut symptoms and gut diseases.
Our 5th place episode is #107 with Dr. Stephen Cabral covers heavy metals in detail, but how do you know if you have them. For this episode, I actually ordered his HTMA (that’s hair tissues mineral analysis) which is a free lab that you can order from him, which gives you all sorts of information about stress levels, heavy metals, detoxing troubles and all sorts of stuff that may be going on inside your body. In this episode, we actually dove into my personal HTMA so you can use me as an example of what not to do, so you can heal yourself.

In this episode I was telling Dr. Cabral about when my gut was messed up in my early 20’s (06:20):
I was using the bathroom up to 15 times a day, sometimes less than 10 minutes after eating, I had blood and mucus in my stool; I had severe ADHD and was even having panic attacks and battling crippling depression – all because of my gut. And after he reviewed my heavy metals and minerals test, here’s what he said:
“If you ran your minerals and metals test back when you were being medicated for ADHD, your numbers would have been radically different. Your numbers are because we run these labs on children and adults with these, and you’re going to see very high levels of calcium. Very, very high levels of calcium. If your body is strong, we see in the beginning it’ll be four elevated electrolytes calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium.
The way that you view this isn’t necessarily, “Am I taking enough sodium or potassium?” It’s actually that those are the stress barometers of the body. When your body is in fight or flight, it’s actually drawing calcium it’s using it from food or drawing it from your bones, as the way that it can very easily constrict and get you into fight or flight very, very easily. Now, magnesium is known as the calming mineral to fight or flight. So, if your body has enough stores of magnesium, magnesium will follow suit to bring that calcium back out of the bloodstream and back to the bones, and it’ll use vitamin D and a few other factors to get it back there.
If sodium and potassium are elevated, that’s more of an adrenal output issue because we know the adrenals don’t just affect norepinephrine and cortisol, they also affect aldosterone. Aldosterone actually regulates sodium and potassium, so it will retain more sodium as you need it for fight or flight, raising blood pressure, etc. We already now know we just stated kind of one cause for high blood pressure that medical doctors don’t look at, and another one is also calcium and magnesium for fight or flight so, vasoconstriction versus vasodilation.
The last part is potassium. Potassium is the mineral that turns on rest and relax, rest and digest, and it’s more intracellular than extracellular. Sodium is more extracellular it’s outside the cell whereas potassium is more intracellular. So, when we look at these things, we can actually get a very good look at whether this person is really stressed out. The medication for anything ADD or ADHD is typically going to push you too far into the sympathetic nervous system, and when that happens, it shuts off rest, relax, and digest.

If you’re stressed, are you digesting? No. Think about this (06:45):
sometimes when you go to give a public speech or you talk, you get really nervous, right? You get a little queasy, you need to go use the restroom. Well, that’s that sympathetic nervous system tone causing you to have multiple bowel movements and poor absorption. How are you absorbing when you’re not producing the right amount of stomach acid, digestive enzymes, pancreatic enzymes, and bile? It’s just not happening. So, it’s a way that we look at what is going on upstream from digestion, and that’s just using those electrolytes.”
Something else Dr. Cabral found in my test was very high levels of mercury and aluminum, which not only make me prone to gut issues, which I had a lifetime of, but also neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and all sorts of other conditions. Now, I’ve got a lot of tattoos – 2 full sleeves, my ribs, leg, feet and some small ones on my hand, but even without tattoos, heavy metals can come in from so many places:
“I can see, you know, with your tattoos, keep in mind tattoos have high levels of copper, especially in blues and greens for ink. I don’t know if you have blues or greens, but quite a fair bit of… actually, yeah, okay. So we know that those two colors are made with copper, and we also know. I’m going to finish the last part of your minerals and metals test right now, you don’t have high lead, you don’t have high arsenic, you do not have high cadmium, but you do have elevated mercury and elevated aluminum.
Now, aluminum is very pervasive in the environment. Antiperspirants, right? Ice or tap water that many people consume. It’s from different injectable that contain typically an adjuvant to the body for the immune system so that it has a greater uptake. And when we look at that, there are other ways as well, aluminum foil, aluminum pans. Believe it or not, a lot of water filters have an aluminum mesh, like the original ones, and so that puts more aluminum back in. It takes out maybe some chlorine, but it puts aluminum back in.

Then the mercury, so last time I checked, it was about two-thirds of tattoos that have mercury and/or lead in them. When we look at that, it’s not the only reason, but we say, okay, this could be one more factor. I can’t go back over the last decade, two decades, or so of your life and figure out every little thing, but I can share with you (07:05):
this is what it may have been from, let’s not do that again, this is what it is now, and then let’s now remove it.
So we do a heavy metal detox protocol, which is essentially a biofilm raptor, because it can get trapped in the biofilms. We use vitamin C, not super high dosage but a good enough dosage. We use an herbal-based chelator, so all of the favorites that are out there, chlorella, spirulina, many others and a higher dose. You can’t use a small dose now because if you don’t want it to go through IV chelation, then you need to use the best of nature. We use that to draw it out, and then we typically add the universal binder to that. The universal binder, when it gets to the gut, will bind those up and help to pull them out of the body.”
Something you didn’t hear in this clip is how deadly mercury fillings can be, being a major source of heavy metals. In fact, every aspect of your oral health is directly connected to your gut health – and if your gut causes all disease, then your mouth also causes all disease; because your mouth really is just the top of your butt, with your intestines in between them.
Our 4th place episode #149 is with Dr. Gerry Curatola, an internationally renowned dentist specializing in the rejuvenation of your teeth, your body and overall health through your oral microbiome. Listen to what Gerry has to say about how your mouth is connected to disease:
“When you have halitosis, when you have a sticky film on your teeth, when you have bad breath that is known as dysbiosis or imbalance, imbalance of bacteria. The objective here is not to camouflage it, not to treat the symptom, but to get to the root cause. The root cause is an imbalance, or what we call dysbiosis, of the oral microbiome.

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When we get to balance, or what we call homeostasis microbial homeostasis that’s what we really have to aim for. So, how do we get there? In this book, by the way, in this Mouth-Body Connection book (and this came out in 2017 ,there’s a sequel coming, because I have a whole part on…)In this book I just wanted people to know that your mouth is a mirror of what’s going on in the body.
There’s upwards of 80 to 85% of infectious diseases that have manifestations in the mouth. Lots of systemic illnesses have manifestations in the mouth, including cancer, HIV, and diabetes, I mean, that can go on and on. So, you really need to see the mouth as a mirror and understand the mouth as a mirror.
I wanted people to understand that it’s also a gateway. You have this mirror and a gateway. It’s a gateway to disease in the whole body. If you have gum disease, it will lead to increased risk of everything from Alzheimer’s to colorectal cancer, or what I say, “the brain to the drain.” You are really at risk of pregnancy complications, preeclampsia, and premature low-weight baby births (most often delivered with developmental issues), type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart attack, and seven types of cancer, by the way.”

Now, your oral microbiome has been under attack with mouthwash, toothpaste, fake foods and so much more and there’s a very specific connection between your oral microbiome and your overall health (07:45):
your blood, teeth and saliva all work together to keep your and your teeth healthy.

“There is something that we discovered it’s called the Dental Sialo Microbial complex. Fancy words (07:50):
“Dento” means teeth, “Sialo” means saliva, and “Microbial” means microbes. Right, teeth, saliva, and microbes work in unison. This dental Sialo microbial complex is amazing for your teeth healing themselves, for regenerating enamel, and for remineralization of teeth. You do not need fluoride, everybody. You need to understand that you have an amazing capacity to self-regulate and heal.
The way it works is that when the oral microbiome is in balance, the microbes transport, it’s an intelligent, semi-permeable membrane that transports ionic minerals from saliva to the surfaces of your teeth. It also transports molecular oxygen that you breathe in to the surfaces of the gums, and it takes free radicals (or what we say, reactive oxidative species or ionic oxygen) away from the gums. It has this amazing self-regulating, self-healing capacity. This is the oral microbiome the stuff we were trying to kill for 75 years.”
There was so much to cover with Dr. Curatola that we actually did 2 episodes with him – Episode 149 and 151. He went on to talk about how 80% of people who had their wisdom teeth removed have cavitations that breed microbes like parasites, which leak intro your blood stream; and we even talked about how your teeth are living organs that connect directly to every other organ in your body, and have a huge role to play in those organs – this means that the health of your teeth impact the health of your brain, reproductive organs and breast tissues, your digestive system, and even your eyes.
I asked him about this idea, and this is what he said
“I do have a theory. You know, we look at acupuncture, we look at acupressure, these meridian lines. We look at yoga as massaging of the nervous system. I have this running theory, with no dental knowledge, that chewing your food is actually a neurological response back to organs to massage and stimulate certain responses. Can you prove or disprove that, or elaborate on the role of our teeth particularly teeth like wisdom teeth or other ones and how they connect to our organs and our digestive system? Absolutely, you know, I love these questions, by the way, thank you. I’m really, really impressed with your depth of knowledge. I have to tell you that I do a lot of interviews, and for lack of a better word, dental IQ is so high that I’m enjoying this.

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Your question actually gets to the point of how absurd root canals are to start with. The philosophy behind doing a root canal and by the way, you’re talking about the upper first molars, the upper molars right behind the bicuspids are energetically on a meridian for your breast, for your thyroid, and for your stomach. On the upper right, it’s the pancreas. On the upper left, it’s the spleen. So you have, like, Grand Central Station of organ meridians that are connected to the upper back molars. And you’re right not the third molar, not the wisdom teeth, but the first and second molars.
You’re absolutely right. As Dr. Jorgenson was saying, I often see people I had a woman today, I had a woman with breast cancer on her left breast. She had one root canal in her mouth guess where? Right on the upper left molar, which is connected on the breast meridian for the left breast and it was infected. The whole theory behind root canal is that your teeth are these inert organs, you know, inert things, like inert pieces of bone, the hardest bone, right? Your teeth are harder than your bones. But it’s like it’s inert, and we just take the guts out, you know, we do taxidermy or what I call embalming the tooth. When I came out of dental school, they were actually using material that had formaldehyde in it to stick in teeth. It was called Sargenti paste, and people were getting sick. Then the FDA here, and I think the FDA in Canada, banned it. And so now we have gutta-percha and other materials.
But the absurdity is thinking of a tooth as an extension of bone that has a nerve and a blood vessel. Well, no there’s an entire circulatory system, lymphatic system, nervous system, skeletal system. There are dentinal tubules that have fluid flow, which is very, very essential this dentinal fluid flow and all this stuff that makes your teeth living, breathing organs. Each one is like an organ unto itself. And now you have these micro-organs connected to macro-organs with meridian flow and all this stuff.

So the idea that you can take all the guts out and fill it with whatever you’re embalming you know, some people call it taxidermy on teeth one thing is for sure (08:30):
it is the only procedure in the history of medicine where we keep something dead inside you and think it’s okay.”
So we create all of this damage in our body through root canals and removing wisdom teeth, by eating junk food, stressing out and being exposed to toxic chemicals in our food, air and water every single day; we accumulate heavy metals and stress out about everything – these are all macro issues.
And they affect you on both a macro and micro level. You can see your skin breaking out, your can smell your breath and know it’s bad, you can feel like garbage after eating certain foods and know your gut is taking a hit - these are macro problems – but what about the micro problems? What about your cellular health, environmental toxicity and everything around you that is breaking you down slowly like “death by a thousand cuts”?

Well, in our 3rd most popular episode in this run is episode 139 with celebrity doctor (08:45):
Dr. Daniel Pompa, where we talk about how we can heal ourselves on a cellular level in an increasingly toxic world. When I asked him what’s causing our recent inability to heal ourselves from sickness and disease, this is what he said:
“If we go back to the Industrial Revolution after World War II, it’s known for something else, the chemical revolution. It really did happen after World War II. It’s interesting because I just did an Instagram video tracking girls’ cycles, periods, when they first entered into their period. I went back to the early 1900s and it was like 17 and a half years old. Then, you know, there was a slow decline until the 1950s and 60s, and then we saw a more massive decline. All of a sudden it was 14, and then all of a sudden it was 12, and today it’s like 11.6.
This decline and in the last 10 years, I think, I forget what it did, but it was the most dramatic decline. So, you know, why is that? Well, if you look at it, it is this chemical revolution and the things that we’re exposed to massively. The amount of plastic that we’ve been exposed to has escalated dramatically in the last 10 years even more forever chemicals. These are hormone disruptors, these are microbiome disruptors, cancer-causing agents we can go down the list. And once again, we can look at DuPont and 3M and how all these things came into our industries and into all the products that we use daily, our food supply, our water supply.
In the last 10 years, things have gotten worse. If you just correlate glyphosate and you’ve had people… I don’t want to bore people with the same information but if you look at these trends in the 90s, late 90s, it went out, and then in the 2000s, we see this dramatic rise. That’s one chemical that we know opens up the gut barrier and the blood-brain barrier. But Josh, it’s a perfect storm now we have all of these things massively increasing and it’s not good.

I’ll tell you something else that changed in the last 10 years (09:05):
we’re putting aluminum in jet fuel bromine and aluminum. Both are hormone disruptors, both are thyroid disruptors, both are toxic for the brain. They’re doing that just to improve the efficiency of jet fuel. It saves money, it’s not a conspiracy, they’re not trying to kill us but the fact is that the new fuels have these as additives and it’s falling down on our supply. So in the last 10 years, we’ve been exposed to massive amounts of aluminum that we’ve never been exposed to before.
You put aluminum and mercury together and you have a toxic suit for the brain. Then glyphosate keeps going up. Stephanie Seneff, in her 2012 study, showed that glyphosate opens up the blood-brain barrier and allows these metals that we’re already exposed to cross deeper. She believes its driving autism, all of the dementia, and, you know, where does it start? Brain fog. This is the explosion.
Thyroid what has it done? I mean, my gosh, the last 20 years, what is going on? It’s just going up and up. And yet, it’s subclinical, meaning you can’t even just look at the number of diagnoses and get a good picture of what’s happening with thyroid because its subclinical meaning it’s not diagnosed. How many people have brain fog, hair thinning, skin issues, hair getting brittle, skinny-fat body composition (losing muscle, gaining fat), no energy, constipation? All of these are thyroid issues. And this is what has happened in the last 20 years.”
Now, all of these micro toxins accumulate like a thousand cuts, and many practitioners look at your and your hormones and just throw a replacement in – Well, Dr. Pompa actually cautions against hormones saying that these are a downstream problem – a cause and effect, and addressing them might do more harm than good.
“You just said something, though, that triggered something in me. I’m thinking about our listeners and our viewers, and I know what they’re dealing with out there. You just kind of hedged on something, it’s like, you know, how many people out there know they’re hormonally not right? Hormone havoc is happening.

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Thyroid, we’ve talked a little bit about. They have adrenal issues, they have estrogen, progesterone, low testosterone, it might be 80 to 90, close to 100% of our listeners out there in our space. Bioidentical hormones have really caught on. I think it’s almost like we have to have this conversation if we want to really impact our listeners.
It’s a hard conversation, Josh, because I think we would all agree there’s a time and a place for hormones. But what I teach my practitioners and doctors is it’s not as easy as we think. Just giving people hormones is a very static treatment, and the reason I say this is because we’ve talked about this innate intelligence, right?
If we looked at hormones daily, hormones change moment by moment, need by need. It’s so complicated, but innate intelligence has this perfect control. Yet we live in this world of plastic and forever chemicals and all these stressors that we’re talking about that are decimating our hormones. So, don’t we need them? Yes but it’s not that easy.
Most people listening to my voice right now are probably taking hormones, being supported by hormones. Yes, maybe your audience is probably on bioidentical hormones, which is better, but yet they would all say, “Yeah, but I still don’t feel great. I felt best when I started them, and now maybe not so much.” And there are reasons for that , it’s because it’s not getting to the real cause.
Again, I’m not saying that there’s not a time and a place to take it, but this hormone game that we’re trying to win, it’s not the answer, Josh. Unfortunately, alternative medicine has fallen into making the right hormone fix the thing that’s going to fix you up, and it’s not so simple. I want to bring some sanity around it, because again, my hormones were horrible. But the bottom line is that hormones aren’t going to be the ultimate solution.”

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This was a 2 part series and Dr Pompa gives so much information that you can use to heal yourself. He talks about our toxic world, water, air, food and he even gets into how you can use different diets and diet variations you can use for therapeutic fasting, the psychology of food and how it can help you or harm you, and so much more.
Since we’re on the topic of hormones, you should also know that your hormones can be rebalanced – you don’t have to be stuck feeling like crap, even though your doctor probably told you it’s just genetic or because you’re aging.
Our 2nd place episode is with Jenn Pike, who’s a women’s hormone specialist. In this episode we talked about rebalancing female hormones, which can feel so complex, and she explains how our modern world is actually the thing creating your hormone problems to begin with – Jenn talks about how and why certain cycles are different, optimizing your exercise around your period, birth control pills and IUDs, estrogen dominance and the failure of the medical system to treat women’s hormones properly.
She even talks about the differences between your hormones and the hormones of women in hunter gatherer tribes.
But because this episode was so packed full of information on regulating your period, we had to pick just one clip to help you understand one of the biggest players wreaking havoc on your hormones – and that’s parasites. So I gave Jenn a scenario of a typical client that I see – tell me if this sounds like you:

“I want to throw a curveball at you here, Jen, because you’re a functional diagnostic practitioner. You’ve got a wealth of knowledge around this stuff in the gut space. A major, major cause of gut issues we see is parasites. I’m sure you’ve experienced that, you’ve seen that, we’ve got people passing two-foot snakes, like unbelievable things that come out of people. A lot of parasites, as I’m sure you’re aware, operate on a moon cycle. There’s a lot of species that will do that, they hatch an egg and they grow, which can trigger more immune responses. How is this going to be affecting someone’s, we’ll say, hormonal cycles? Hypothetical example (10:20):
a woman comes in, she wants to lose weight, she wants to exercise, her cycles are a little bit of a mess, and they’re mostly in line with the moon. She’s also got parasites which happen to be hatching and growing in line with the moon, so increasing and ramping up her GI symptoms and messing with her hormones. What kind of steps would you look at for a woman in this position?
We do a lot of stool testing in our practice. We have a very busy account with CellCore, which is the main company we use and run. We do parasite protocols with them. The very first thing I’d be doing with this woman is getting her digestion, her drainage, and her elimination on point. I would make sure, before we get in and try to do big eradication and things like that that the exit path is working well.
If we try to move things and detox somebody too quickly and they are a poor drainer meaning they don’t have healthy bowel movements, they’re not sweating, their lymph is junked up, they’ve got a lot of stagnation this is the place we have to work first. We’ve got to get them breaking down the food they’re eating, absorbing more nutrients, pooping, sweating, hydrating, and getting minerals into their body. That is Ground Zero, number one. Once we have a lot of these things happening, first of all, I know her symptoms are already going to be improving because she is actually breaking down what she’s eating and eliminating the byproduct of that.
The second step is making sure her system is primed and ready to go to actually do a protocol that’s going to address the parasite. If I know, because I’ve run stool testing or based on her symptoms that this is what we’re dealing with, for me to try and go and throw a whole bunch of hormone supplements at her isn’t the place I would begin. I would probably give her some adrenal support, some B vitamins, and some mineral support for sure. I’d help support her liver with bitters and herbs like dandelion and milk thistle.
If I’m supporting her liver with those, I’m already starting to take the load off her hormonal symptoms, because our liver and our gut are first-pass Phase One of how we’re breaking down hormones. We make a hormone, we use it, and now we have to take it and ship it out. Then I’d be working on a protocol specifically for those parasites. I would do something that’s going to be a biofilm reducer so that these suckers are primed and ready and we can actually find them. Then I’d be using specific supplements and nutrients, and I’d be timing her parasite cleanse.

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I would do a little bit of getting some of the products and bowel movements into her system leading into the full moon. The first round I would do with her, I would have her take the products one or two days before the full moon, on the full moon, and a couple of days after, then bring her back down. This is the whole protocol we’re talking about here. But it is important for people to understand, rarely, if ever, have I seen it in practice where you can simply do one full moon round, wipe your hands of it, and be done.
Parasites have cycles. Their larvae cycles are often two to four to six weeks long, so you may have caught what is happening right now, but if you also have adult parasites that have taken up space in tissue and organs for a long time, these buggers are stealth. They know how to hide they’ve been doing it for a long time. You have to potentially move through a few rounds and make sure that lymph support is on point.
Exercise, infrared sauna if possible, dry brushing, there are a lot of different techniques we could talk about. I wouldn’t be so much worried about anything happening in the moon cycle other than the fact that if her symptoms are amplified coming into the full moon, and we know we have a parasite, we have to address that.”
So we have physical organisms like fungus, mold, parasites and bacterial overgrowth that make us sick, but what about how we make ourselves sick?
Our first place episode is #105 with the world-famous Dr. Bruce Lipton, a stem cell biologist, who’s been leading the charge on what’s called “The Biology of Belief” and how your mind very tangibly effects your physical body.

This can be explained very simply with these examples (11:10):
think of a hypochondriac, (someone who always thinks their sick), they tends to get sick more often – or the opposite which is the placebo effect, those who believe they will get better often do. Or with the fact that happy tears and sad tears have different chemical compositions showing us how our emotions, thoughts and moods change us; we’ve seen this in the rice experiment where positive words can keep cooked rice from spoiling, whereas negative words make it mold faster.
It’s these things that formed Dr. Bruce Lipton’s world renowned book “The biology of belief” which, simply put, is about mind over matter. And this isn’t hoaky hippy stuff – this is real science from a famous stem cell biologist.
Just to give you a feel of what I mean, I asked Bruce to dive into what we miss in our reductionist medical world, where everything is disease management and medication. And he talks about some of the most important forms of healing that we ignore, neglect or forget.
“Energy and psychology are the two forms of healing. Now, food is energy, okay, and it’s important, while we’re on the topic for a second, please, a body’s lifespan, get ready, get hold on now, a human body’s lifespan is minimum 150 years. One hundred fifty years. You know, I just turned 80 does that mean I’m halfway through? No. In our world, I’ve gotten more years there, something like that.
Then, how come? What happened to 150? You ready? When you burn fuel, the process of burning fuel gives you energy, but it leaves behind toxic waste products. So, for example, you don’t breathe the gas from your exhaust pipe from your car that’s the toxic stuff coming out after you burn the fuel. When we burn food, which is called digestion and the burning is why you have a 98° temperature, because it raises the heat when you burn food as fuel, there are toxic byproducts called free radicals.

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These are highly charged atoms and molecules with a high electrical charge to them. They act as bullets they shoot holes in the cells, they kill the cells. The more you eat, the more cells you kill, and there’s a point where we are eating way too much food and killing ourselves before you, because you’re going to kill not just the ones that you have. Remember I said the stem cells, you need to keep them going to keep it going, and you could kill them. You kill them as well. One hundred years is like, “Oh wow, I lived to 100.” See, you should be at a halfway point at this moment. We eat too much food.

I’m going to give you a secret that’s not even available to most people, because I read it in a couple of scientific papers, and it’s like, how amazing this hasn’t been picked up on yet. But I’ll tell you what it is. Start with a story (11:40):
Chernobyl. The reactor explodes. They closed off the whole world out there, “zone of exclusion” they called it no people allowed here. But every year they put a robotic camera, a robot that carries a camera through, and it takes pictures of the interior. What happened in this collapse?
In the fifth year, they brought the camera into the reactor area and they saw black fungus growing on the walls the black fungus like on shower curtains or in wet, moist places. That black fungus is growing in the reactor. This is challenging all of our belief systems about everything. How could they do that? Everything gets killed. No, it turns out the black is a pigment, and you ready for this? The pigment is called melanin. That’s the pigment in human skin.
What was it doing? It was transducing radioactivity energy into biological fuel. That’s the truth. And then people say, “Well, what about this melanin stuff?” There are physicist researchers that reveal that we are like plants. Plants, chloroplasts take the energy, especially photons, out of the environment and use that to generate energy and food.
Melanin takes energy from the spectrum out from the outside and converts it into biological fuel. That has been recognized by physicists that up to 90% of the body’s energy comes right out of the atmosphere. Why is this significant? Because we’ve been programmed that it’s the food that keeps you alive, when in fact the food, at the levels we eat it at, is toxic.”
So, as a science and evidence based practitioner, I asked Bruce what I (and any other practitioner) could do to immediately enhance my practice and client outcomes, going beyond just supplements, medication, lab testing and food. And instead of giving us another test, he actually puts the power directly into your hands, showing you that you have more control over your healing than any doctor or practitioner ever could.

“Consciousness is the issue. There’s no chemistry, there’s knowledge. Knowledge is teaching; a doctor, by definition, is a teacher, I think, in the original word. And the idea about it is (12:05):
do you know that stress is causing the illness on this planet? Do you know that programming determines your way?

Oh yeah. What’s that? Subconscious. Especially women have to deal with this, and that is this (12:10):
I’ll tell you two belief systems that are programs, 80 to 90% of the people are negative in these two belief systems that are fundamental to your life.
Number one is “I love myself.” Eighty to ninety percent of people will not test positive for “I love myself.” That has very deep, profound effects because if you’re trying to create a relationship of love with somebody else and you don’t love yourself, that’s a monkey wrench in the game right there that’ll blow the whole thing out of the water.

The second one and this is the one I wanted to bring up first, really, but it’s the second one is the statement “I am safe.” Women do very badly with that statement because their whole life is fear-based (12:20):
“I could be attacked. I’m a woman. I could be attacked.” That’s built into life. Weight plays a big role in this.
Why? Because there’s a consciousness that says, “If I have this weight, I won’t be attractive. If I’m not attractive, I won’t be attacked.” This is not in the conscious mind, folks this is down here in the program. You’re not dealing with the program; the program is working below. And the program is fear, and weight becomes a factor.
So where’s the weight set? Not in the conscious mind, not controlled by the conscious mind it’s controlled by the subconscious program. You say, “Yeah, but if I work real hard, I can diet, I can work, work, work… and look, I lost the weight.” And I say, turn around in another month or two and you’re going to see this weight is going to come back. Why? You didn’t change the program.
You fought to lose the weight. If you change the program, you lose weight without fighting to lose the weight. It will automatically go down. Consciousness plays the bigger role in all this. This is the machine below the neck; this is the control above the neck.
When things go wrong down here, we can say, “Oh, the machine is broken, let’s put some new parts in.” Turns out less than 1% of illness is the broken part. So if there’s something wrong down here, where the hell is the problem coming from? The only other place is up here, consciousness. What’s your belief? What’s your program?

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When I was young, Josh, we had family practitioners. Long before the pharmaceutical industry was selling all those drugs, we had family practitioners. What was unique about them? They knew the dynamics of the interaction in the family, the stresses that come from those kinds of interactions, and they dealt with people in their environment.

Today, you go in, you sit in the doctor’s chair (12:50):
“What’s your blood pressure? What’s your heart rate? What’s your secretion?” Blah, blah, blah. In the old days, you’d sit in the chair and they’d say, “So, how’s your family? How’s work going for you? What are you eating? How’s your diet? How’s the environment you live in? ”
Bruce continues to talk about the power of fasting and reduced calories for extending life span, the power of thoughts and emotions, affirmations, controlling your genetics and epigenetics with thoughts, and how those thoughts. Affects all 10 trillion cells in your body; and so much more in this 80 minute episode.
That’s our top 10 and there are some honourable mentions. Episode 99 with Dr Jill Carnahan on curing Crohn’s diseases was easily a top but since it was so close to the 100th episode recap, her episode wasn’t given a fair shot, but it’s just brilliant, and our team’s favourite was episode 175 with Michelle Chalfant on healing triggers, trauma and emotions, and we got pretty raw and pretty real in that episode.
I’m going to put all of these episodes for you down below in the show notes so you can review them, grab titles and episode numbers and give those a listen for the first time, or again for an incredible recap if you missed what these amazing guests have had to say.
Thank you again for listening and making 200 episodes of the ReversABLE podcast possible.