October 28, 2021 • 29 mins
Amy takes a probiotic daily, so she was excited to sit down with CEO/co-founder of Just Thrive, Tina Anderson, to talk about her spore-based probiotic and why a good probiotic is important to overall health. Amy switched to Just Thrive's spore-based probiotic a few months ago and has been loving it...she also takes Gut 4-tify...but they have several other products to check out. FYI: if you go to JustThriveHealth.com and enter promo code AMY that will save you 15%.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
A little food for you. So life. Oh it's pretty Bay,
It's pretty beautiful. Thanks, beautiful laughs, A little mouth kick. Four. Okay,
So I'm joined today by Tina Anderson, and you're the
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CEO and co founder of just Thrive. You'll have a
lot of different products, but I take the probiotic and
the gut Fortify. So I'm a legit fan, which is
why I wanted you to come on. And I think
gut health is so important and I think it can
be confusing though at times, because we hear things like
your God is your second brain, and we know it's important.
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But I feel like having you on as an ex
spurt will break down how we can best take care
of our gut and then why you are so passionate
about it, because I know that you didn't start off
in this field at all. You were actually a trial attorney,
So I first of all want to hear from you, Tina,
like what that transition looked like and why you made
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that move, because to me, that's pretty fascinating. Yeah. Well, thanks, Amy,
I'm so excited to be here. I love talking about
gut healthier. Absolutely right, lots of passion there. But yeah,
I did have a pretty interesting journey. I was in
litigation for many years, um right, you know, out of
law school when I was in my twenties. And I
did that for many years. But just I started to
have children and I wanted more of a work life balance.
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I was working crazy hours, and um so I went
into a family pharmaceutical business where I was able to
have a way, you know, lighter's workload and I was
able to spend more time with my kids and and
and do all those kinds of things. And I was
excited to be in the pharmaceutical industry because I love
the idea of delivering life saving medic pasians to people
and really making a difference in the world. But after
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being in the pharmaceutical industry, I started to notice a
lot of the abuses, and I, like I sorted to notice.
My husband and I particularly noticed. There was one situation
where uh, pharmaceutical rep came in and was like, oh,
this is great. We won this big bid. It was
a huge bid for a huge hospital system. And this
pharmaceutical rep came and said, my job now is to
go to every cardiologist in this hospital system and tell
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them to lower the number that they prescribe a particular
drug to like lower the threshold, so that in essence,
they were prescribing more of their medications to increase sales.
And UM, it was really eye opening and UM. But
then we started thinking more about it, and we're like,
you know what, we see this with our own family members.
You know, we had a family member that started on
one pharmaceutical for a knee issue, then it caused stomach issues,
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and then she was on you know, more medication for
the stomach issue, which then led to joint issues, and
she was on another medication and before you know what,
she was never getting any better. And you know, there's
there's a play for pharmaceuticals. I think emergency type medicine situations,
acute situations, but I just don't feel like it's the
place for chronic conditions. And my husband and I felt really,
you know, deeply about that. We Um, we're really deep
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thinker as we read a lot of Norman, Vincent Peale,
Wayne Dyer. UM, we are huge, huge fans of doing
your life's work, and so we pivoted completely, we you know,
through our life savings into a new company. We were
able to purchase these really incredible unique strains of probiotics,
and we created a whole new category of probiotics in
the in the probiotic field, and it's been a great,
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amazing because it's been so life changing for so many
people and the best thing I've ever done. So I
always encourage people to follow their passion because it's just
it's so much fun. You mentioned Wayne Dyer, and a
couple of weeks ago, I had his daughter, Serena Dyer
on the podcast because his daughters wrote a book too,
can no way. Yeah, they're continuing on their dad's legacy. Oh,
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I love that. I am a huge fan of Wayne Dyer,
I mean huge, And when he passed away, my sisters
and I thought like a family member had passed away,
Like my dad loves him, I mean we all so,
oh that's great. So I got a text from my
mother in law. I just pulled it up. It was
last week. She's like, I've heard you talking about this
probiotic that doesn't dissolve in the stomach maybe or something.
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I don't know what she heard. Sometimes when you hear ads,
you remember, like key things are talking about it. But
I take your products and I talk about it. And
then yes, I have friends that will ask me or
even my mother in law for instance, and then I
replied back to her and I was like, just thrive.
She's like, that's it. That's it. Thanks. And so why
why was this strand of probiotics so super special or different?
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And why did you and your husband lean into that
one and put all your savings into it. Obviously you
believe strongly in it, but just I guess breaking down
why it's different than any other probiotic that might be
out there. Yeah, So the biggest difference is its ability
to survive the stomach acid. So most probiotics, they will
get hit the stomach acid and they will die. The
stomach is meant to be the gastric barrier. They call
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it the gastric barrier because it kills a lot of
things that come through, so it doesn't enter into our body.
And so, but a probiotic needs to get into the
intestines alive. Just the very definition of a probiotic is
to arrive alive and the intestines and confer a benefit
onto the host, which the host is the body. So
most probiotics don't even meet the first part of that
definition because they're dying by the time they get to
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the intestines and that's the key. So that's what my
mother in law was referring to because to make it
there okay, right, and they need to survive. I mean
that is very fundamental. And yet like the overwhelming majority
of probiotics. That was the first study that we did
was a gastric survivability study and um, a layob outside
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of Chicago took the leading selling probiotics sold at a
major health food store and took our strains, the spore
based strains, and found out that that other probiotic died
off by the time it got to the intestines. So
in essence, it's add bacterial therapy. Yeah, and that's what
I just want to be able to educate myself and
listeners on. You can go anywhere and there's probiotics all
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over the place, and then it gets overwhelming because you're like, well,
which one do I get, And it's like, I don't.
I don't want to waste money myself. I don't want
my listeners to waste money just grabbing any old probiotic
on the shelf because they hear, oh, I should take
a probiotic check and just because they're taking it doesn't mean,
it's actually having an impact, right right. And some people
will get some symptomatic relief from those the dead bacteria
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probiotics that are on the market. Um, they will get
some symptomatic relief maybe you know, but they're not getting
to the rook cause. And that's really the difference between
the spores these are. This category is called spore based probiotics.
These spores actually have the ability to not only survive
the gastric system, but once they get there into the intestines,
they actually are making a difference. They're making a change.
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So we want to have more good bacteria that we
have bad bacteria, and so just actually a great way
to envisi and this is if you look at a garden.
Envision a garden and it's been stepped on and trampled on,
and there's weeds growing all over that garden, and you
kind of compare that to your gut, and your gut
has good bacteria and bad bacteria. We want good bacteria
just like the garden. We want plants. We want these
plants to be flourishing and thriving in our garden. And
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so the probiotics, the spore based probatics, actually get to
that garden alive. They have the ability to attach to
the soil in the garden, they have the ability to
get rid rid of the weeds in that garden, and
then they have the ability to help those plants that
have been stepped on and trampled on come back to life.
So if you compare that to your gut, you have
like a lot of bad bacteria. These spores actually have
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the ability to help get rid of some of that
bad bacteria. Then the good bacteria that is there, but
maybe it's not thriving and it's not doing all these
great things that should be doing. The spores actually go
in there and help them, you know, come back to life,
and and then they stay there. These spores actually stay
in the gut for about twenty one to twenty eight days.
So the best way to describe it is like we're
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like the gardener of the gut. We're going in there
and we're picking out those weeds and we're helping those
plants come back to life. And so it's it's really
such a different approach. The other approach of most probatics
on the market that are made up of lacto bacillus
inm Bifidobacterium strains. If you take that garden alogy, you
throw the seeds in that garden, most of them never
get to the garden alive at all. But even if
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they did, they would just pass through, you know, they
wouldn't attach to the soil in the in the garden.
I'm just gonna throw this out here. It might be
t m I for some of my listeners, but I
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feel as though the reason why I can tell my
gut is reacting to this proper gardening is I'm more regular.
I feel like I'm using the bathroom more regularly where
previously and I've taken all kinds of probiotics before, and
this this more so is just kind of a conversation
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of little things we can do to be taking care
of ourselves so that we're functioning at our best level.
But when it comes to our gut and taking care
of that part of our body, why is the gut
so important? Yeah? No, I'm so glad you asked that,
because I definitely wanted to talk about that, because I
think this is just coming to the forefront now. About
ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health conducted one
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of the largest studies out there the Human Microbiome Project.
That project told us more about the gut than we
ever knew before, and now we know. You know, we
always associated an imbalance on our gut with gas and bloating, diarrhea, constipation,
and those are all certainly indications that you have some
imbalance going on. If you're not going regularly, you have
an imbalance going on. If you have gas and bloating,
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you have an imbalance going on, and that most people know.
But now what we found out through the Human Microbiome
Project is that we are ten times more bacterial cells
than we are human. So like we have we always
thought we were these human species, you know, made up
of human cells, but we are really more bacterial cells
than we are human. And yet we live in this
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very antimicural, bial, antibacterial world. And yet, and this is
why we find out that all of disease states, it's
hard to find any disease that's out there that's not
associated with an imbalance in your gut. So when you're
talking about heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, all of
those types of conditions are all associated with an imbalance
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in our gut our immune system I mean, my gosh,
I mean, has there ever been a time that we've
been more in tune with our immune system? And the
number one, I mean, sev of our immune system is
found in our gut lining. And so if we have
imbalanced in our gut lining, our immune system will cease
to function. It will not function if our gut is
you know, imbalance and not operating properly. So it's so
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important to be taking all of these things like vitamin C,
vitamin D, zinc, all these things to be supporting our
immune cells absolutely, but our immune cells won't even know
that there's an invader if our gut is not functioning properly.
So from all these disease claims to our immune system,
to you know, gas and bloating, all of these things
are all associated with an imbalance in our guts. So
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this is why I get so passionate about it because
it is ground zero for health. I mean, people will
be eating, you know, if you're eating you know, really
healthy foods and you're doing all taking really great supplements,
but if your gut is imbalanced and is inflamed at all,
it's not absorbing those nutrients. So the number one thing
we could be doing for our health is to support
our gut and like I said, unfortunately, the world we're
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living is so offensive to our gut health. I mean
from antibiotics that we take, antibotics that are in our
food supply. I mean, there's a study that showed that
a single course of clendonmiacin and antibiotic that's used you know,
quite often is basically reeks havoc on your gut for
up to two year period of time. So we know
that and I'm not suggesting you don't take antibatics. Antiabatics
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save lives, but we shouldn't be taking them so quickly.
You know, there was a study that's the CDC showed
that fifty of antibatics aren't necessary and and some of
that is because doctors prescribe them, but some of them
is because doctors get pressured, you know, to prescribe them
because patients are going out of town or whatever it
may be. But you know, of our serotonin is produced
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in our gut. Serotonin of course as our happy hormones.
So you know, there's a massive correlation between your gut
and your brain. And um, we can't underestimate that. We
cannot underestimate how important it is to try to be
calm and do meditation to help support your gut health,
but also to support your gut health, to help support
your mental health and your mood. Because when you're supporting
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your gut health, it will directly relate to the you know,
your mental health, and your moods one big ecosystem. It's
all working together, exactly. And that's what I'm so passionate about.
And that's why I've I've definitely gone the more functional
medicine route, and I one of the core of values
of our company is empowerment because we really want to
empower people to take control of their health. Um. I
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think now more than ever we see that we need
to start taking care of our immune system, we need
to start taking care of our overall health. But functional
medicine I love because they're really looking at the whole body.
They're looking at the whole ecosystem. And an ecosystem is
the perfect word amy, because that's exactly what this is.
This the microbes that live in and on us are
microbiome is an ecosystem and they all it all needs
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to work in perfect balance. And and like I said,
unfortunately we are living in a world that's so disruptive
to that ecosystem of the microbiome. Oh yeah, I want
I want to buy everything that says kills like give
me all that. I like knowing that, But I also
am aware enough from different things that I've read from
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people that I trust, you know, saying that, Yeah, I mean,
we're like the future generations that continue to get this
like squeaky clean atmosphere, they're not going to grow up with,
you know, kind of how our parents did or grandparent instead.
And there's even a saying like just parents talk about
just let your kids go out and get dirty and
like eat the dirt basically because they need it. Yes,
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I could not agree with that more. I mean they
even say households that have dogs that come in and
out of the house and you know, in cats to
a certain extent if they leave the house and come
back in, because they're bringing in the dirt and the soil.
I mean, unfortunately, the soil these days is pretty over
contaminated and overfarmed, and you know, it's not the best soil,
but we are still getting some of those microbes and
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the bacteria, which is really good. And I mean as
far as household cleaners. I just use like water and
I put in some essential oils, and you know, when
it comes to the toilet and those types of places,
I'll start using some of the other stuff. But for
the you know, on my counters and things like that,
I just try to be really clean. I try to
be clean with what I put into my mouth too.
You know, I really try to eat organic. It's it's
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not easy and it's not cheap, and I recognize that,
and I know, but even if you could make baby steps,
I'm just a believer in baby steps to do these
things to supp our overall health and particularly our gut health.
It's about being proactive as possible instead of reactive and
dealing with things down the line that maybe could have
been preventative. And I'm I'm all that. Like you said,
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thank you for recognizing a lot of this stuff may
not be easy and it can be overwhelming for people
to implement. But even just starting with one probiotic, like
doing taking a daily probiotic, Okay, boom, that will be
a step in the right direction, which again I implemented
yours and I really think the gut fortify I want
you to explain to me exactly what that is. And
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in case anybody else is curious. But the probiotic I
just take one pill. But the gut Fortify I take
three pills a day. So why do I love that
one so much? Well, while you love it is the
role of the gut Fortify is to actually help repair
the new coastal lining. So you have a gut lining,
you have your intestinal cell wall, and then you have
the new coastal We need to protect that lining. I
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can't explain that andover over emphasize that about that lining
from your intestines. If that lining has any holes in it,
I don't know if the let me back up, I'm
gonna go to leaky gut, so um. Leaky gut is
basically um where it's It's exactly what it sounds like.
It's basically holes in the intestines where toxins seep out
of your gut into your blood stream and then your
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your immune system causes this inflammatory response. And so this
is where people get autoimmune disease. This is where people
this is where when those LPs toxins seep into the bloodstream.
This is the cause of most you know, the majority
of non communicable diseases. So what we do the probiotic.
We have a study on leaky cut for the probiotic
already showing that it's actually tightening up those tight junctions
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and sealing up that leakiness of the gut, which is profound.
I don't know if any probiotic, I don't know if
any pharmaceutical that has a study of that magnitude that's
showing that it's actually reducing the amount of toxins seeping
into your bloodstream from your gut. The gut fortified is
like an extra barrier. It's helping rebuild. So the probiotic
is to recondition the and then we have our prebiotic
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which reinforces. It's like that food for the garden. And
the gut fortify is it's helping rebuild that new coastal barrier.
It's as amino acids and there are some polyphenals that's
helping rebuild the new coastal barrier, which is so so
critically important to protect that intestinal lining. Yeah, my mom
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had anal cancer. I know it's not totally it's not
even related. She desperately wanted the doctor to keep telling
her that she had colon cancer or something that sounded
a little bit better than anal cancer. She you know,
it's what fair a faucet it had. So she would
often say, I have what fair fauce it had. And
so she dealt with that from two thousand and twelve
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to two thousand and fourteen, and um, she's no longer
with us, but you know, thinking of just anything that
I can do to be proactive in taking care of
my body. My father also had cancer as well, and
we lost him this year, and I'm just constantly trying
to think of ways to be proactive in taking care
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of my health and getting some of my power back
because there are so many disruptors out in the world.
And for some reason, I focus on my gut, even
though I know my mom's disease didn't necessarily come from
having gut issues or anything like that, but just knowing
that it's attached to that and it's all the same
or in that same region, that's always something that's on
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my mind. So I appreciate when I can lean into
experts that are super passionate about something and help educate
me further and something I'm already trying to do anyway,
but just kind of give me that affirmation that I'm
on the right track to taking care of my body
as a whole and and the gut being the place
where that seems to start, right, you know, absolutely, First all,
I'm so sorry about your losses, and I I do
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want to tell you that there is some good news
in that, and that you know, your genetics are just
a very small part of what determines your health. I mean,
it is your microbiome that is determining so much of
your overall health. And I think people have to be
reminded that because I have a friend who who lost
her mom at a younger age, and she was she's
so worried about her genetics, and of course the fear
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and the worry could make the matter worse. We don't
want to do that. We want and and you know
your mom's got did have something to do with I
mean there it's hard to find, Like I said, it's
really hard to find any disease that's not associated with
some type of imbalance in our gut. Remember, our immune system,
sevent of it is in our gut lining. I mean,
it is the health of our gut that determines how
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we fight disease, how we you know, handle pathogens, that
come our way. So, um, the good news is there
are lots of things to do. Of course, taking a
high quality probiotic is super easy and super you know,
especially when you take one that has studies behind it
and like just thrived us. But there are other things
that we could do that are free, you know, like,
you know, we could meditate, and I know that sounds
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so woo woo, but just calming ourselves down is really
really important too. Has supporting our gut health and living
a more mindful lifestyle. Um, getting outside, being in the outdoors,
all those things are really really helpful to our gut health.
Eating a diverse group of foods. That's another thing that
people don't realize. I think our ancestors used to eat
six hundred different types of foods a year, and we
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eat like sixteen different types of foods a year. So
eating a diverse group of foods, and you know, unfortunately
in our world we're so you know, pigeonholed in certain
you know, paleo, keto, vegan, whatever it may be. And
I'm just more of a fan of trying to eat
go to diverse ethnic grocery stores, try different roots and
tubers and getting a diverse group of food that helps diversity.
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We want a diverse microbiome, We want a diverse gut bacteria,
so eating a diverse group of foods helps with that.
Just trying to, like it said, the baby steps, trying
to do all these you know, trying to add a
new food once a week that you've never tried before,
and then and just taking a spore based probiotic, I mean,
easy step to just supporting that gut health, increasing diversity,
tightening up that lining of the gut, rebuilding them u
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coastal barrier with the gut fortify. It's amazing the profound
effects that people will say to me, like, oh, I
have like more energy and my mood is better. And
it's like you know, with pharmaceuticals, you know, side effects
may include suicidal thoughts and all these awful things, where
with this, it's like your side effects are like increased energy,
better mood, all of these great things are coming from
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taking care of your gut, even though maybe you started
taking it for some other particular reason. But this is
just like a multi item. It's ground zero for health.
It's where you start with health. I mean, there's there's
really nobody I could think of that shouldn't be taking
a spore based probiotic because it is that supportive of
your health, including children. I'm particularly passionate about kids. You
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know kids. Um, when I was a child, which was
a long long time ago, I knew one kid that
had a peanut allergy. Um. Now you know, we know
that there's peano free tables. There's kids have allergies, they
have autoimmune diseases that are rampant. Kids are suffering from
autism there on the autism spectrum. So we know that
this is because of a dyspiotic or imbalanced gut. We
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know that this is disrupted to the guts. So I'm
particularly passionate about kids. I'm a mother of three now
adult children, but I can't emphasize enough that we need
to be supporting our kids guts. A minute ago you
had mentioned like the stress causing issues in the gut
and so sometimes, yeah, I like that you mentioned like
going on a walk or taking time to breathe. And
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you know, yes for some people the meditation or something
like that, or prayer time. It may sound woo woo,
but there is something to be said of calming your
body and how when it's in freak out mode. It
affects everything and when you're if you're stressed even about
I have a podcast that is for eating disorder recovery
called Outweigh, And sometimes you know, I've had doctors on
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talking about the stress and anxiety we call as ourselves
around maybe having an oreo or something. The chemicals that
were released in our body are worse than if we
would have just maybe taken the time to eat the
oreo and instead of freaking out about it. But it's
just I say that as a reminder of like, sometimes
we can get wrapped up in like all these like
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details and we don't think of how our worry and
anxiety around all of this stuff is freaking us out
more than the actual whatever we're putting in our body.
And then too that baby steps, Like I think it's
just important to remember and not get overwhelmed by all
this information and know that like if you just take
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a baby step, there's no reason to stress yourself out
over this, you can be proactive in your health and
take some of that power back. That's right exactly, And
that's all I want to do for people is just
help them take that power back. I mean, we just
I want people to just realize they could control their
destiny to certain I mean, we don't want you to
focus so much on control and everything, but there are
things you want to feel good when you're alive. You
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want to feel good, you know, and you want to
I mean, my husband and I are committed to just
living a long life, being and feeling good that all
those years of our life, and and by taking care
of our gut. I think that that's a huge That's,
like I said, ground zero. It's a basic step, and
so let's just keep taking baby steps. And the one
thing I just wanted to mention to you guys is that, um,
there's something called the vaguest nerve, and that's the nerve
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between the gut and the brain stem. It's the largest
nerve in the body and it's literally sending messages back
and forth to each other. So yes, please try not
to worry. I mean, you know, I can't say I'm
always good at that, but I try my best and
put it in a jar or somewhere, put it somewhere away,
worry for a minute, and then move on, because that
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is really breaking havoc on your gut. And we don't
want to do that. We really want to support our
gut health and we want to support our mental health
by taking care of our gut absolutely. Well, thank you
for sharing your wisdom with us. And before you go,
I'd love to hear four things that you're thankful for,
specifically a book that you're thankful for, a show, and
then a drink that you're thankful for, and an Instagram follow.
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It's so funny the book. I'm just I'm dying over
here that you had Wayne Dyer's daughter on your podcast.
I've got to go listen to it. Because my book,
for sure I always talk about is I Can See
Clearly Now, which was written by Wayne Dyer. I think
it's such a fabulous book and it um it's just
it's so great when he it's basically him looking back
at his life and how all these things that happened
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to him happened for him. And you know, at the
time we go through I have this mantra that my
family and I always say, is everything works out perfectly
for me. And it doesn't mean that everything is the
way I wanted it to happen. I just know that
it's working out perfectly the way it should. So I
mean Wayne Dyer's book I could see clearly now it's
the easiest read. I would tell everybody to read it
because I think it's fantastic. And then TV show. Okay,
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The funny thing is I really never watch TV. I
I just have never been a TV person. I mean,
if I read People magazine, I would not know anybody
that's in it. I don't know any actors and actresses.
I'm just it's not my thing. But when COVID hit,
that kind of all changed, and so I learned how
relaxing TV could be because I started watching Heart of Dixie.
Have you ever heard of Heart of Dixie? Yes? My
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daughter and I love watching that together. Oh good, okay,
because I love it because I don't like any suspense.
I don't like to like freak out and be stressed.
I watched things that are just calming, and I thought
that was so calming. But then I also loved Ships
Creaked too. I mean, oh my god, I watched that,
and we've watched that twice now already. My husband and
we love it so so good. I have you seen
the Farewell documentary that's on Netflix? Oh my god, I
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loved it. It's like I just oh, I loved it,
So those were good. I'm using TV as a way
to just further relax and calm myself down. But and
I realized, like I should have been doing this a
long time ago, you know, because it's kind of but
so we've got the Wayne Dyer book, We've got herd
of Dixie and Ship's Creek for TV. Do you have
a drink that you are thankful for? I really just
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drink water, but I will our pre biotic drink because
I love it because it's our prepioetic drink. Either you
love it or you hate it, like I'll admit my
daughter does not like it at all, but I love it,
and I put our pre biotic drink and it's like
my treat because all I ever drink all day is water, water, water,
and you kind of get like sick of water. So
this is a little treat in the day. And I
know it's so good for me because it's got all
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these illegal sack rides in it. So that's definitely my favorite.
So I think it's fair to even be thankful for
clean water because we have that, Like we can go
to our faucets and get as much water as we
want any given time, whereas other places it just doesn't
come that easy. Absolutely, that's a great point. Yeah, and
now I'm going to have to try the pre biotic drink. Yeah.
I love it, but again, not everybody loves it. It's
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got like a it's kind of like a tropical flavor.
But I think it's amazing. So and what about an
Instagram follow or something on social media that we need
to check out. I love the Daily Stoic. I don't
know if you ever heard Ryan Holliday The Daily Stoic.
It's loving what is. It's kind of a lot of
what Wayne dire. Obviously, you know I read a lot
of these things and this is this is a lot
of who I am. But the at lea Stoic is
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just a great reminder of just to love what is
and a lot of great quotes and just you know,
it's like brushing your teeth. You have to do these
things up. You have to fill your mind with these
thoughts on a regular basis because it's so easy to
get caught up in life and stress. So I really
love to follow that one in particular, Daily Stoic. Awesome. Well,
thank you for sharing all of this with us. And
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where can they find your products. Oh um, at just
thrive health dot com. I think we have a coupon
code for Amy Amy for fifteen percent off, So yeah,
give it a try. It's so it's like you said,
it's the easiest baby step. One capsule a day with food,
so easy to start with that, and then you could
introduce the other products. But even if you just start
with the probiotic one capsule a day with food, m
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a great baby step. Just thrive health dot com and
then on Instagram or just thrive Health. Okay, so just
thrive health dot com and then yeah, don't forget Amy
for fifteen percent off. And you know, obviously anything that
I talk about I am a fan of, but actually
getting you on as a special treat because I do
like the product so much and just wanted to know
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more myself about what I'm taking and why I'm loving
it so much. So thank you for for breaking that down, Tina,
You're welcome, and Amy, thank you so much for this opportunity.
Thank you for being a fan of our products. I'm
really beyond grateful and you have no idea, so thank
you
A little food for you. So life. Oh it's pretty Bay,
It's pretty beautiful. Thanks, beautiful laughs, A little mouth kick. Four. Okay,
So I'm joined today by Tina Anderson, and you're the
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CEO and co founder of just Thrive. You'll have a
lot of different products, but I take the probiotic and
the gut Fortify. So I'm a legit fan, which is
why I wanted you to come on. And I think
gut health is so important and I think it can
be confusing though at times, because we hear things like
your God is your second brain, and we know it's important.
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But I feel like having you on as an ex
spurt will break down how we can best take care
of our gut and then why you are so passionate
about it, because I know that you didn't start off
in this field at all. You were actually a trial attorney,
So I first of all want to hear from you, Tina,
like what that transition looked like and why you made
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that move, because to me, that's pretty fascinating. Yeah. Well, thanks, Amy,
I'm so excited to be here. I love talking about
gut healthier. Absolutely right, lots of passion there. But yeah,
I did have a pretty interesting journey. I was in
litigation for many years, um right, you know, out of
law school when I was in my twenties. And I
did that for many years. But just I started to
have children and I wanted more of a work life balance.
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I was working crazy hours, and um so I went
into a family pharmaceutical business where I was able to
have a way, you know, lighter's workload and I was
able to spend more time with my kids and and
and do all those kinds of things. And I was
excited to be in the pharmaceutical industry because I love
the idea of delivering life saving medic pasians to people
and really making a difference in the world. But after
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being in the pharmaceutical industry, I started to notice a
lot of the abuses, and I, like I sorted to notice.
My husband and I particularly noticed. There was one situation
where uh, pharmaceutical rep came in and was like, oh,
this is great. We won this big bid. It was
a huge bid for a huge hospital system. And this
pharmaceutical rep came and said, my job now is to
go to every cardiologist in this hospital system and tell
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them to lower the number that they prescribe a particular
drug to like lower the threshold, so that in essence,
they were prescribing more of their medications to increase sales.
And UM, it was really eye opening and UM. But
then we started thinking more about it, and we're like,
you know what, we see this with our own family members.
You know, we had a family member that started on
one pharmaceutical for a knee issue, then it caused stomach issues,
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and then she was on you know, more medication for
the stomach issue, which then led to joint issues, and
she was on another medication and before you know what,
she was never getting any better. And you know, there's
there's a play for pharmaceuticals. I think emergency type medicine situations,
acute situations, but I just don't feel like it's the
place for chronic conditions. And my husband and I felt really,
you know, deeply about that. We Um, we're really deep
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thinker as we read a lot of Norman, Vincent Peale,
Wayne Dyer. UM, we are huge, huge fans of doing
your life's work, and so we pivoted completely, we you know,
through our life savings into a new company. We were
able to purchase these really incredible unique strains of probiotics,
and we created a whole new category of probiotics in
the in the probiotic field, and it's been a great,
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amazing because it's been so life changing for so many
people and the best thing I've ever done. So I
always encourage people to follow their passion because it's just
it's so much fun. You mentioned Wayne Dyer, and a
couple of weeks ago, I had his daughter, Serena Dyer
on the podcast because his daughters wrote a book too,
can no way. Yeah, they're continuing on their dad's legacy. Oh,
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I love that. I am a huge fan of Wayne Dyer,
I mean huge, And when he passed away, my sisters
and I thought like a family member had passed away,
Like my dad loves him, I mean we all so,
oh that's great. So I got a text from my
mother in law. I just pulled it up. It was
last week. She's like, I've heard you talking about this
probiotic that doesn't dissolve in the stomach maybe or something.
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I don't know what she heard. Sometimes when you hear ads,
you remember, like key things are talking about it. But
I take your products and I talk about it. And
then yes, I have friends that will ask me or
even my mother in law for instance, and then I
replied back to her and I was like, just thrive.
She's like, that's it. That's it. Thanks. And so why
why was this strand of probiotics so super special or different?
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And why did you and your husband lean into that
one and put all your savings into it. Obviously you
believe strongly in it, but just I guess breaking down
why it's different than any other probiotic that might be
out there. Yeah, So the biggest difference is its ability
to survive the stomach acid. So most probiotics, they will
get hit the stomach acid and they will die. The
stomach is meant to be the gastric barrier. They call
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it the gastric barrier because it kills a lot of
things that come through, so it doesn't enter into our body.
And so, but a probiotic needs to get into the
intestines alive. Just the very definition of a probiotic is
to arrive alive and the intestines and confer a benefit
onto the host, which the host is the body. So
most probiotics don't even meet the first part of that
definition because they're dying by the time they get to
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the intestines and that's the key. So that's what my
mother in law was referring to because to make it
there okay, right, and they need to survive. I mean
that is very fundamental. And yet like the overwhelming majority
of probiotics. That was the first study that we did
was a gastric survivability study and um, a layob outside
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of Chicago took the leading selling probiotics sold at a
major health food store and took our strains, the spore
based strains, and found out that that other probiotic died
off by the time it got to the intestines. So
in essence, it's add bacterial therapy. Yeah, and that's what
I just want to be able to educate myself and
listeners on. You can go anywhere and there's probiotics all
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over the place, and then it gets overwhelming because you're like, well,
which one do I get, And it's like, I don't.
I don't want to waste money myself. I don't want
my listeners to waste money just grabbing any old probiotic
on the shelf because they hear, oh, I should take
a probiotic check and just because they're taking it doesn't mean,
it's actually having an impact, right right. And some people
will get some symptomatic relief from those the dead bacteria
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probiotics that are on the market. Um, they will get
some symptomatic relief maybe you know, but they're not getting
to the rook cause. And that's really the difference between
the spores these are. This category is called spore based probiotics.
These spores actually have the ability to not only survive
the gastric system, but once they get there into the intestines,
they actually are making a difference. They're making a change.
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So we want to have more good bacteria that we
have bad bacteria, and so just actually a great way
to envisi and this is if you look at a garden.
Envision a garden and it's been stepped on and trampled on,
and there's weeds growing all over that garden, and you
kind of compare that to your gut, and your gut
has good bacteria and bad bacteria. We want good bacteria
just like the garden. We want plants. We want these
plants to be flourishing and thriving in our garden. And
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so the probiotics, the spore based probatics, actually get to
that garden alive. They have the ability to attach to
the soil in the garden, they have the ability to
get rid rid of the weeds in that garden, and
then they have the ability to help those plants that
have been stepped on and trampled on come back to life.
So if you compare that to your gut, you have
like a lot of bad bacteria. These spores actually have
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the ability to help get rid of some of that
bad bacteria. Then the good bacteria that is there, but
maybe it's not thriving and it's not doing all these
great things that should be doing. The spores actually go
in there and help them, you know, come back to life,
and and then they stay there. These spores actually stay
in the gut for about twenty one to twenty eight days.
So the best way to describe it is like we're
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like the gardener of the gut. We're going in there
and we're picking out those weeds and we're helping those
plants come back to life. And so it's it's really
such a different approach. The other approach of most probatics
on the market that are made up of lacto bacillus
inm Bifidobacterium strains. If you take that garden alogy, you
throw the seeds in that garden, most of them never
get to the garden alive at all. But even if
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they did, they would just pass through, you know, they
wouldn't attach to the soil in the in the garden.
I'm just gonna throw this out here. It might be
t m I for some of my listeners, but I
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feel as though the reason why I can tell my
gut is reacting to this proper gardening is I'm more regular.
I feel like I'm using the bathroom more regularly where
previously and I've taken all kinds of probiotics before, and
this this more so is just kind of a conversation
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of little things we can do to be taking care
of ourselves so that we're functioning at our best level.
But when it comes to our gut and taking care
of that part of our body, why is the gut
so important? Yeah? No, I'm so glad you asked that,
because I definitely wanted to talk about that, because I
think this is just coming to the forefront now. About
ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health conducted one
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of the largest studies out there the Human Microbiome Project.
That project told us more about the gut than we
ever knew before, and now we know. You know, we
always associated an imbalance on our gut with gas and bloating, diarrhea, constipation,
and those are all certainly indications that you have some
imbalance going on. If you're not going regularly, you have
an imbalance going on. If you have gas and bloating,
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you have an imbalance going on, and that most people know.
But now what we found out through the Human Microbiome
Project is that we are ten times more bacterial cells
than we are human. So like we have we always
thought we were these human species, you know, made up
of human cells, but we are really more bacterial cells
than we are human. And yet we live in this
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very antimicural, bial, antibacterial world. And yet, and this is
why we find out that all of disease states, it's
hard to find any disease that's out there that's not
associated with an imbalance in your gut. So when you're
talking about heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, all of
those types of conditions are all associated with an imbalance
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in our gut our immune system I mean, my gosh,
I mean, has there ever been a time that we've
been more in tune with our immune system? And the
number one, I mean, sev of our immune system is
found in our gut lining. And so if we have
imbalanced in our gut lining, our immune system will cease
to function. It will not function if our gut is
you know, imbalance and not operating properly. So it's so
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important to be taking all of these things like vitamin C,
vitamin D, zinc, all these things to be supporting our
immune cells absolutely, but our immune cells won't even know
that there's an invader if our gut is not functioning properly.
So from all these disease claims to our immune system,
to you know, gas and bloating, all of these things
are all associated with an imbalance in our guts. So
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this is why I get so passionate about it because
it is ground zero for health. I mean, people will
be eating, you know, if you're eating you know, really
healthy foods and you're doing all taking really great supplements,
but if your gut is imbalanced and is inflamed at all,
it's not absorbing those nutrients. So the number one thing
we could be doing for our health is to support
our gut and like I said, unfortunately, the world we're
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living is so offensive to our gut health. I mean
from antibiotics that we take, antibotics that are in our
food supply. I mean, there's a study that showed that
a single course of clendonmiacin and antibiotic that's used you know,
quite often is basically reeks havoc on your gut for
up to two year period of time. So we know
that and I'm not suggesting you don't take antibatics. Antiabatics
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save lives, but we shouldn't be taking them so quickly.
You know, there was a study that's the CDC showed
that fifty of antibatics aren't necessary and and some of
that is because doctors prescribe them, but some of them
is because doctors get pressured, you know, to prescribe them
because patients are going out of town or whatever it
may be. But you know, of our serotonin is produced
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in our gut. Serotonin of course as our happy hormones.
So you know, there's a massive correlation between your gut
and your brain. And um, we can't underestimate that. We
cannot underestimate how important it is to try to be
calm and do meditation to help support your gut health,
but also to support your gut health, to help support
your mental health and your mood. Because when you're supporting
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your gut health, it will directly relate to the you know,
your mental health, and your moods one big ecosystem. It's
all working together, exactly. And that's what I'm so passionate about.
And that's why I've I've definitely gone the more functional
medicine route, and I one of the core of values
of our company is empowerment because we really want to
empower people to take control of their health. Um. I
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think now more than ever we see that we need
to start taking care of our immune system, we need
to start taking care of our overall health. But functional
medicine I love because they're really looking at the whole body.
They're looking at the whole ecosystem. And an ecosystem is
the perfect word amy, because that's exactly what this is.
This the microbes that live in and on us are
microbiome is an ecosystem and they all it all needs
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to work in perfect balance. And and like I said,
unfortunately we are living in a world that's so disruptive
to that ecosystem of the microbiome. Oh yeah, I want
I want to buy everything that says kills like give
me all that. I like knowing that, But I also
am aware enough from different things that I've read from
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people that I trust, you know, saying that, Yeah, I mean,
we're like the future generations that continue to get this
like squeaky clean atmosphere, they're not going to grow up with,
you know, kind of how our parents did or grandparent instead.
And there's even a saying like just parents talk about
just let your kids go out and get dirty and
like eat the dirt basically because they need it. Yes,
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I could not agree with that more. I mean they
even say households that have dogs that come in and
out of the house and you know, in cats to
a certain extent if they leave the house and come
back in, because they're bringing in the dirt and the soil.
I mean, unfortunately, the soil these days is pretty over
contaminated and overfarmed, and you know, it's not the best soil,
but we are still getting some of those microbes and
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the bacteria, which is really good. And I mean as
far as household cleaners. I just use like water and
I put in some essential oils, and you know, when
it comes to the toilet and those types of places,
I'll start using some of the other stuff. But for
the you know, on my counters and things like that,
I just try to be really clean. I try to
be clean with what I put into my mouth too.
You know, I really try to eat organic. It's it's
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not easy and it's not cheap, and I recognize that,
and I know, but even if you could make baby steps,
I'm just a believer in baby steps to do these
things to supp our overall health and particularly our gut health.
It's about being proactive as possible instead of reactive and
dealing with things down the line that maybe could have
been preventative. And I'm I'm all that. Like you said,
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thank you for recognizing a lot of this stuff may
not be easy and it can be overwhelming for people
to implement. But even just starting with one probiotic, like
doing taking a daily probiotic, Okay, boom, that will be
a step in the right direction, which again I implemented
yours and I really think the gut fortify I want
you to explain to me exactly what that is. And
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in case anybody else is curious. But the probiotic I
just take one pill. But the gut Fortify I take
three pills a day. So why do I love that
one so much? Well, while you love it is the
role of the gut Fortify is to actually help repair
the new coastal lining. So you have a gut lining,
you have your intestinal cell wall, and then you have
the new coastal We need to protect that lining. I
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can't explain that andover over emphasize that about that lining
from your intestines. If that lining has any holes in it,
I don't know if the let me back up, I'm
gonna go to leaky gut, so um. Leaky gut is
basically um where it's It's exactly what it sounds like.
It's basically holes in the intestines where toxins seep out
of your gut into your blood stream and then your
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your immune system causes this inflammatory response. And so this
is where people get autoimmune disease. This is where people
this is where when those LPs toxins seep into the bloodstream.
This is the cause of most you know, the majority
of non communicable diseases. So what we do the probiotic.
We have a study on leaky cut for the probiotic
already showing that it's actually tightening up those tight junctions
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and sealing up that leakiness of the gut, which is profound.
I don't know if any probiotic, I don't know if
any pharmaceutical that has a study of that magnitude that's
showing that it's actually reducing the amount of toxins seeping
into your bloodstream from your gut. The gut fortified is
like an extra barrier. It's helping rebuild. So the probiotic
is to recondition the and then we have our prebiotic
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which reinforces. It's like that food for the garden. And
the gut fortify is it's helping rebuild that new coastal barrier.
It's as amino acids and there are some polyphenals that's
helping rebuild the new coastal barrier, which is so so
critically important to protect that intestinal lining. Yeah, my mom
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had anal cancer. I know it's not totally it's not
even related. She desperately wanted the doctor to keep telling
her that she had colon cancer or something that sounded
a little bit better than anal cancer. She you know,
it's what fair a faucet it had. So she would
often say, I have what fair fauce it had. And
so she dealt with that from two thousand and twelve
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to two thousand and fourteen, and um, she's no longer
with us, but you know, thinking of just anything that
I can do to be proactive in taking care of
my body. My father also had cancer as well, and
we lost him this year, and I'm just constantly trying
to think of ways to be proactive in taking care
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of my health and getting some of my power back
because there are so many disruptors out in the world.
And for some reason, I focus on my gut, even
though I know my mom's disease didn't necessarily come from
having gut issues or anything like that, but just knowing
that it's attached to that and it's all the same
or in that same region, that's always something that's on
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my mind. So I appreciate when I can lean into
experts that are super passionate about something and help educate
me further and something I'm already trying to do anyway,
but just kind of give me that affirmation that I'm
on the right track to taking care of my body
as a whole and and the gut being the place
where that seems to start, right, you know, absolutely, First all,
I'm so sorry about your losses, and I I do
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want to tell you that there is some good news
in that, and that you know, your genetics are just
a very small part of what determines your health. I mean,
it is your microbiome that is determining so much of
your overall health. And I think people have to be
reminded that because I have a friend who who lost
her mom at a younger age, and she was she's
so worried about her genetics, and of course the fear
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and the worry could make the matter worse. We don't
want to do that. We want and and you know
your mom's got did have something to do with I
mean there it's hard to find, Like I said, it's
really hard to find any disease that's not associated with
some type of imbalance in our gut. Remember, our immune system,
sevent of it is in our gut lining. I mean,
it is the health of our gut that determines how
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we fight disease, how we you know, handle pathogens, that
come our way. So, um, the good news is there
are lots of things to do. Of course, taking a
high quality probiotic is super easy and super you know,
especially when you take one that has studies behind it
and like just thrived us. But there are other things
that we could do that are free, you know, like,
you know, we could meditate, and I know that sounds
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so woo woo, but just calming ourselves down is really
really important too. Has supporting our gut health and living
a more mindful lifestyle. Um, getting outside, being in the outdoors,
all those things are really really helpful to our gut health.
Eating a diverse group of foods. That's another thing that
people don't realize. I think our ancestors used to eat
six hundred different types of foods a year, and we
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eat like sixteen different types of foods a year. So
eating a diverse group of foods, and you know, unfortunately
in our world we're so you know, pigeonholed in certain
you know, paleo, keto, vegan, whatever it may be. And
I'm just more of a fan of trying to eat
go to diverse ethnic grocery stores, try different roots and
tubers and getting a diverse group of food that helps diversity.
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We want a diverse microbiome, We want a diverse gut bacteria,
so eating a diverse group of foods helps with that.
Just trying to, like it said, the baby steps, trying
to do all these you know, trying to add a
new food once a week that you've never tried before,
and then and just taking a spore based probiotic, I mean,
easy step to just supporting that gut health, increasing diversity,
tightening up that lining of the gut, rebuilding them u
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coastal barrier with the gut fortify. It's amazing the profound
effects that people will say to me, like, oh, I
have like more energy and my mood is better. And
it's like you know, with pharmaceuticals, you know, side effects
may include suicidal thoughts and all these awful things, where
with this, it's like your side effects are like increased energy,
better mood, all of these great things are coming from
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taking care of your gut, even though maybe you started
taking it for some other particular reason. But this is
just like a multi item. It's ground zero for health.
It's where you start with health. I mean, there's there's
really nobody I could think of that shouldn't be taking
a spore based probiotic because it is that supportive of
your health, including children. I'm particularly passionate about kids. You
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know kids. Um, when I was a child, which was
a long long time ago, I knew one kid that
had a peanut allergy. Um. Now you know, we know
that there's peano free tables. There's kids have allergies, they
have autoimmune diseases that are rampant. Kids are suffering from
autism there on the autism spectrum. So we know that
this is because of a dyspiotic or imbalanced gut. We
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know that this is disrupted to the guts. So I'm
particularly passionate about kids. I'm a mother of three now
adult children, but I can't emphasize enough that we need
to be supporting our kids guts. A minute ago you
had mentioned like the stress causing issues in the gut
and so sometimes, yeah, I like that you mentioned like
going on a walk or taking time to breathe. And
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you know, yes for some people the meditation or something
like that, or prayer time. It may sound woo woo,
but there is something to be said of calming your
body and how when it's in freak out mode. It
affects everything and when you're if you're stressed even about
I have a podcast that is for eating disorder recovery
called Outweigh, And sometimes you know, I've had doctors on
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talking about the stress and anxiety we call as ourselves
around maybe having an oreo or something. The chemicals that
were released in our body are worse than if we
would have just maybe taken the time to eat the
oreo and instead of freaking out about it. But it's
just I say that as a reminder of like, sometimes
we can get wrapped up in like all these like
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details and we don't think of how our worry and
anxiety around all of this stuff is freaking us out
more than the actual whatever we're putting in our body.
And then too that baby steps, Like I think it's
just important to remember and not get overwhelmed by all
this information and know that like if you just take
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a baby step, there's no reason to stress yourself out
over this, you can be proactive in your health and
take some of that power back. That's right exactly, And
that's all I want to do for people is just
help them take that power back. I mean, we just
I want people to just realize they could control their
destiny to certain I mean, we don't want you to
focus so much on control and everything, but there are
things you want to feel good when you're alive. You
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want to feel good, you know, and you want to
I mean, my husband and I are committed to just
living a long life, being and feeling good that all
those years of our life, and and by taking care
of our gut. I think that that's a huge That's,
like I said, ground zero. It's a basic step, and
so let's just keep taking baby steps. And the one
thing I just wanted to mention to you guys is that, um,
there's something called the vaguest nerve, and that's the nerve
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between the gut and the brain stem. It's the largest
nerve in the body and it's literally sending messages back
and forth to each other. So yes, please try not
to worry. I mean, you know, I can't say I'm
always good at that, but I try my best and
put it in a jar or somewhere, put it somewhere away,
worry for a minute, and then move on, because that
(24:42):
is really breaking havoc on your gut. And we don't
want to do that. We really want to support our
gut health and we want to support our mental health
by taking care of our gut absolutely. Well, thank you
for sharing your wisdom with us. And before you go,
I'd love to hear four things that you're thankful for,
specifically a book that you're thankful for, a show, and
then a drink that you're thankful for, and an Instagram follow.
(25:07):
It's so funny the book. I'm just I'm dying over
here that you had Wayne Dyer's daughter on your podcast.
I've got to go listen to it. Because my book,
for sure I always talk about is I Can See
Clearly Now, which was written by Wayne Dyer. I think
it's such a fabulous book and it um it's just
it's so great when he it's basically him looking back
at his life and how all these things that happened
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to him happened for him. And you know, at the
time we go through I have this mantra that my
family and I always say, is everything works out perfectly
for me. And it doesn't mean that everything is the
way I wanted it to happen. I just know that
it's working out perfectly the way it should. So I
mean Wayne Dyer's book I could see clearly now it's
the easiest read. I would tell everybody to read it
because I think it's fantastic. And then TV show. Okay,
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The funny thing is I really never watch TV. I
I just have never been a TV person. I mean,
if I read People magazine, I would not know anybody
that's in it. I don't know any actors and actresses.
I'm just it's not my thing. But when COVID hit,
that kind of all changed, and so I learned how
relaxing TV could be because I started watching Heart of Dixie.
Have you ever heard of Heart of Dixie? Yes? My
(26:13):
daughter and I love watching that together. Oh good, okay,
because I love it because I don't like any suspense.
I don't like to like freak out and be stressed.
I watched things that are just calming, and I thought
that was so calming. But then I also loved Ships
Creaked too. I mean, oh my god, I watched that,
and we've watched that twice now already. My husband and
we love it so so good. I have you seen
the Farewell documentary that's on Netflix? Oh my god, I
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loved it. It's like I just oh, I loved it,
So those were good. I'm using TV as a way
to just further relax and calm myself down. But and
I realized, like I should have been doing this a
long time ago, you know, because it's kind of but
so we've got the Wayne Dyer book, We've got herd
of Dixie and Ship's Creek for TV. Do you have
a drink that you are thankful for? I really just
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drink water, but I will our pre biotic drink because
I love it because it's our prepioetic drink. Either you
love it or you hate it, like I'll admit my
daughter does not like it at all, but I love it,
and I put our pre biotic drink and it's like
my treat because all I ever drink all day is water, water, water,
and you kind of get like sick of water. So
this is a little treat in the day. And I
know it's so good for me because it's got all
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these illegal sack rides in it. So that's definitely my favorite.
So I think it's fair to even be thankful for
clean water because we have that, Like we can go
to our faucets and get as much water as we
want any given time, whereas other places it just doesn't
come that easy. Absolutely, that's a great point. Yeah, and
now I'm going to have to try the pre biotic drink. Yeah.
I love it, but again, not everybody loves it. It's
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got like a it's kind of like a tropical flavor.
But I think it's amazing. So and what about an
Instagram follow or something on social media that we need
to check out. I love the Daily Stoic. I don't
know if you ever heard Ryan Holliday The Daily Stoic.
It's loving what is. It's kind of a lot of
what Wayne dire. Obviously, you know I read a lot
of these things and this is this is a lot
of who I am. But the at lea Stoic is
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just a great reminder of just to love what is
and a lot of great quotes and just you know,
it's like brushing your teeth. You have to do these
things up. You have to fill your mind with these
thoughts on a regular basis because it's so easy to
get caught up in life and stress. So I really
love to follow that one in particular, Daily Stoic. Awesome. Well,
thank you for sharing all of this with us. And
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where can they find your products. Oh um, at just
thrive health dot com. I think we have a coupon
code for Amy Amy for fifteen percent off, So yeah,
give it a try. It's so it's like you said,
it's the easiest baby step. One capsule a day with food,
so easy to start with that, and then you could
introduce the other products. But even if you just start
with the probiotic one capsule a day with food, m
(28:43):
a great baby step. Just thrive health dot com and
then on Instagram or just thrive Health. Okay, so just
thrive health dot com and then yeah, don't forget Amy
for fifteen percent off. And you know, obviously anything that
I talk about I am a fan of, but actually
getting you on as a special treat because I do
like the product so much and just wanted to know
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more myself about what I'm taking and why I'm loving
it so much. So thank you for for breaking that down, Tina,
You're welcome, and Amy, thank you so much for this opportunity.
Thank you for being a fan of our products. I'm
really beyond grateful and you have no idea, so thank
you
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