Your Gut is Full of Bugs: Why This is Great News with Dr Will Bulsiewicz
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- You may have heard there are bugs in your gut. But do they matter?
Today, the evidence shows the answer is a resounding yes. This ecosystem of tiny microbes living in our bodies is one of the most exciting areas in medical research, linked to everything from metabolic to mental health.
So while many of us have heard that gut health is essential, few of us understand why and what we should do to support our gut bacteria.
In this episode, Jonathan speaks with Will Bulsiewicz to find out when our microbiome begins to form, the most effective ways to support our gut health, and the role these gut bacteria play in controlling our weight.
Will Bulsiewicz is a board-certified gastroenterologist, and New York Times bestselling author of the microbiome book Fiber Fueled.
If you want to uncover the right foods for your body, head to joinzoe.com/podcast and get 10% off your personalized nutrition program.
Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Topic introduction
01:26 - Quickfire questions
03:04 - What is the microbiome?
09:21 - The role of the microbiome?
12:25 - The microbiome as an organ?
17:54 - Why does the microbiome matter?
22:04 - How does the microbiome affect our metabolism and weight?
25:46 - Do we have a microbiome before we are born? How does it develop?
35:01 - What can you do to improve your gut health?
38:22 - Analyzing the microbiome to know more about your relationships
41:58 - 3 health tips to improve our microbiomes
44:21 - Summary
47:38 - Outro
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i’ve always heard about Gut health but until you get sick you understand i got sick with C. diff from to much antibiotics from the dentist and was missed diagnosed saying it was the flu after two weeks of being so sick and losing 20 pounds in two weeks they finally decided to test my stool and they found it so i’ve completely changed my diet and learned about prebiotic and probiotics i do both i love prebiotic foods and a very healthy diet thank you for this wonderful information so important our Gut health is true i’m living proof i have a whole new digestive track i’ve learned so much!!
As always, I enjoyed this very much.
I found all the backdrop of the particular microbe that developed without oxygen particularly fascinating. The astonishing research on newborn babies being exposed to these microbes so early left in awe. Knowing how my own babyhood was swamped in antibiotics for various illnesses which then led onto lots of autoimmune disease later in my life also gave me lots of interesting insights.
The final message that a great variety of plants in the diet, good relationships and sleep, most health issues are fixable, is always a great way to finish.
You may find limiting sugar it's also helpful. I found eating low sugar in the afternoon along with following Zoe recommendations really helped me sleep better. Then my relationships improved LOL.
I'm finding all these podcasts on the micro biome very interesting. It confirmed my suspicions that despite having an excellent organic high veg diet as an adult and good lifestyle habits, my gut health is not good (I'm Ceoliac various auto immune diseases) and this may have started from childhood where I was bottle fed and neglected, poor diet etc. As a young adult I also had a couple of years where I had quite a few rounds of antibiotics. These talks are fascinating and furthering my understanding on the topic. Hopefully we will get to that stage where we can have an injection of healthy micro biomes that will drastically help people not just like me, but with more serious health issues
This gives me an idea for a sci fi novel. Or a conspiracy theory. What if, the gut microbes are actually an ancient intelligent race, who genetically engineered organic machines in which to live, and for transportation. They engineered their organic machines to feature complex computers and a massive array of sensors so it could be semi autonomous. Then with each subtle improvement of their design, they developed artificial intelligence, and their huge, organic machines, became self aware, and started to believe that the community that built and maintains them is nothing more than a worthless sludge of insignificant microbes.
Write it 🙂
Brilliant and fascinating! Truly amazing how much science is revealing about the human body and health.
Hi Kay, so glad you enjoyed this episode 🙏
As a retired scientist who saw a hint of this amazing journey in the early 2000s, I saw the difference in the immune cells in piglets raised in a sterile environment (gnotobiotic) and normal ones, I am incredibly excited to hear this. The gnotobiotic ones had no immune cells at all in their guts.
I recommended that my grandson born in 2005 should not be kept too clean….
At 36:22 your guest mentioned spending time outdoors as an aspect of a healthy lifestyle. I noticed you did not include this in your summary. I may have missed it, but I don't think Zoe has addressed the beneficial effects of *light exposure*. (I am working my way through the Zoe podcasts in original order. I am hugely impressed with the quality of information and it is already influencing my life-choices, particularly with regard to diet. Thank you so much.)
Wow! What interesting information and theories to consider. What an amazing Designer-Creator we have!
What an absorbing and inspiring podcast. Thank you Zoe for making this vital stuff available to all, and for your life-changing personalised programme which I’ve just signed up to.
So much fascinating information, presented in such a friendly, accessible way. Very encouraging ; thank you,
Fascinating. Thank you. And enjoy yes/no quick fire questions in all interviews
This is a life changer. Thankyou so much for this information.I follow Clean Food Living on youtube. Its all about fermenting foods for health.
Fabulous presentation. Dr Will you are so inspiring.
Wow! Absolutely fascinating.
Absolutely fascinating topic and discussed in a way everyone can understand.
Absolutely fascinating, and mind-blowing. And more than a little humbling: our amazing bodies. I could listen to this conversation all day long, so thank you Zoe and Dr Will Bulsiewicz. Buying your book immediately! :)
Excellent presentation! Thank you!!!
I've watched several quite plausible UA-cam videos recently that suggest that having sufficiently strong stomach acid is vitally important to digesting proteins properly before they are released from the stomach into the gut and that having stomach acid that is not sufficiently strong might be a root cause of some food allergies. Is this true and, if so, is betaine HCl likely to help or would other treatments be better? Are there any tests for stomach acidity? How long would it take to build the strength of stomach acid to the necessary levels if it is too weak? How long would it take for a leaky gut, caused by allergies to proteins, to heal?
Mind blowingly excellent talk! Thank you!
Super informative. Some information for everyone. I’m not sure the issue of Probiotics was discussed. But I did find on the internet Dr. Bulsiewicz discussion of Probiotics. The discussion of anaerobic bacteria was fascinating. Thanks, ZOE!
Thanks for watching Raphael!
Thanks for sharing😇
Thank you. Absolutely brilliant as ever! More please!
AMAZING! I THANK YOU
I LOVE THIS TOPIC.❤️
Thanks that was a interesting talk
Absolutely fascinating! I’m stuffed for increasing my plant based foods intake though… I have HFI. I do my best!
Very informative video with excellent tips on how to improve your gut biome. Question - would kissing a health person help ?
Great podcast
Excellent information. Excellent summary. Many thanks.
NB That's my gut response!
😂 Glad to hear it Bob!
@@joinZOE would love to know if grinding nuts and seeds, whizzing oils and blitzing fruit in a bullet has any negative effects.
Ps can't wait to take part in the UK personalised nutrition programme.
Lightbulb coming on. It suggests a solution to the puzzle that I lose weight when I add potatoes to my diet.
very interesting
This is fascinating. Here's a possibility that may be worth consideration. In my 20s I was married to a woman who was very skinny. I had always been skinny since childhood. I got divorced and formed a new relationship with a woman who whilst not obese is a lot heavier than my first wife. Within 12 months of us living together I started to put on weight and over the last 30 years together I have put on a lot of weight to the point that I am slightly obese. Could it be that my current wife's microbiome has transferred to me and caused my increased propensity to being overweight?
@@Ohnoitsruthio too technical for me. I weigh 2KG above the max for my height
@@BelCantoLari Very true, but food has never been an issue previously . My dietician said it was because I was more contented with my life, which is also true, but the transfer of biome is as likely a candidate as anything.
Equally valid would be she would get slimmer because of your slim size so your explanation is only looking one way on a two way street. Lifestyle factors and aging perhaps more likely? Interesting question, though.
@@kst157 True but from what was said it is perfectly possible for it to be a one way transfer. May be I need to find another slender woman to trans the transfer on🙂
Even I knew that the liver exists twenty years ago. Twenty years ago is recent. Maybe you mean in twenty years you know more about it.
Fascinating video, thank you. Just shows how the modern attitude to microbes and "kills 99.9%" is not doing us any good.
So glad to hear you enjoyed it Jo
Genetics, or something must be very important with disease - eg, vaginal delivery, breast fed for 16 months, still get asthma, eczema🤷🏼♀️
8:51 funny you should mention the skin microbiome - I had a red patch of skin on my face, diagnosed as seborrheic dermatitis since the age of 16; I've had it for decades and used all sorts of treatments. As soon as I understood it was caused by a strain of yeast that's evolved to digest sebum, and the waste product is a fatty acid which causes the red skin irritation, I stared taking extra care to use soap (kills microbes) and use a face cloth to exfoliate _in a deliberate attempt_ to alter the conditions on my skin to make it less hospitable to whatever was there - it works and as long as I keep my particular morning abultions the symptoms are held at bay indefinitely (several years, so far).
38:30 - Quick: Write a Pantent !! That idea is worth some money … 😁 Cheers !!!
How reparable is the gut after the micro biome has been regularly damaged/destroyed? In the 1950s, my father, who had Victorian rules, lined up his 5 small children ( under 10 years old) and fed us laxatives, weekly! He maintained, perhaps partially correctly, that if people’s bowels were clogged up they would have really bad skin: spots, boils etc. Well none of us ever had acne but as we are all now in our seventies and suffer bowel problems. For a couple of years I have concentrated hard to repair my system but don’t think I’ll ever win. Any thoughts?
It would be good to know how to improve microbiome health following repeated UTIs requiring antibiotics.
Lots of info on Zoe and online in general. More important how to prevent chronic or repeated problems like UTIs, instead of just throwing endless antibiotics at it, people are often massively under-hydrated or eating inflammatory foods - excess salt, too processed, lots of additives
For the western audience this is a wonderful information but funny enough some of these issues discussed are well known in some cultures in African societies not vandalized by the brutality of western imperialism and in China and India and it subs.
I say this because what my grand parents who departed many years ago knew about medicine appears to be far more advanced than what the western medical society is talking about. Their incredible knowledge of plants and it medicinal importance and a whole lot of stuffs. Ability to diagnose medical abnormalities accurately and simple treatment and lifestyle changes amazes me when I looked back at how humanity has drifted from sanity in the name of modernity.
Some of these knowledge well communicated to us without even knowing that's what our parents are doing. Today I treat cancer, ulcers, stroke, diabetes, arthritis and many more medical conditions with simple things in nature. I hope the medical societies will be more broaden in their understanding of what medicine is.
None of the things you list need “treatment” the body is entirely available of healing itself, we just need to get out of the way. Adding more pollutants and toxins, even plant based and “natural” remedies increases the burden. Cancer is the body’s way of packaging up those toxins, but if people keep living like they were, or worse, going nuclear on themselves with chemo etc, it puts even more strain on the body. All the other conditions you listed are also able to be relieved/reversed by removing the causes of inflammation. Totally preventable and reversible by taking away not interfering harder.
I've had all but 300mm of large bowel removed and have a stomer.the lower part of my bowel is not functioning. I'm having trouble to find out does this mean in the mean time I have no immune system ? Can anyone help I have asked my Surgeon and they either don't know or prefer not to comment. They removed stage 1 Cancer. I don't require Chemo. They have checked the condition of the bowel is all normal so they have approved a reversal of the stomer. Any suggestion as to where I could get answers would be appreciated.
Interested in the definition of 'human'
Plants? Really? Meat is what cured me and made my bloating and intestine issues go away. Since I eat mostly meat I feel amazing.
Need a video on Monkeypox, thanks
We didn’t know we had a liver ? I don’t get the joke .
Would being punched, by twenty boys, in the gut affect the gut flora, when a seven year old girl. I noticed my hormones went mental and I grew long straggly wide eyebrows. This was not a one off, it happened every week and arms twisted behind do my back ws arched. Not easy to strengthen belly to protect it when it's curved backwards.
It’s great against inflammation ….. except inflammation in the actual intestine !
We are wonderfully made and are given all we need to survive in this world apart from our fellow humans wishing to kill us before we’re born. Life is a miracle
Please, just stop
Having lived a long time I find in my old age an out let to the thing I think about and so until I’m band or die I will keep having my comments may the Lord bless you
12:37 HUH ?
We were created together.
It’s like a toothpaste you cant use if you have gum decease 😳
Ok good stuff. Now if you were really concerned about not being confused with pseudoscience it would help if you could list trials, studies and peer reviews. This I find is regularly neglected in diet advice.
Hi David, thanks for this feedback to the team. If there are any specific studies you are interested in learning more about let us know and we can share the reference with you ☺
@@joinZOE Perhaps you should start by explaining your claim that as recently as 20 years ago we didn’t know that we had a liver. That is a bizarre statement.
Great content But PLEASE PLEASE JONATHAN STOP WAVING YOUR HANDS AROUND!
It would be great to have these opinions from the United Kingdom why is it so often we are told USA is the authority on all things health while having so much destructive life stile, we are just about as bad we are wonderfully made we are with all that makes a being includes all the bugs that are us without them we would not have life we are from the earth so all that make up this make up us as well being a Christian I can’t believe that we happened with all that make us living beings and what make us so my bible talks about us being made from the earth so this mean we have all that made the clay us
Zoe is/was British ... Our very own Prof Tim Spector is the chief researcher for Zoe ... Take a look at Prof Spector's (Twin Studies ) work going back over 25 years ... This is very much UK lead ... Dr B works with Zoe ... I think there have definitely been "Funding" difficulties here in the UK, so perhaps for this vital research to continue funding has to be found elsewhere ...??
So far I am in agreement with what he is saying apart from going into Evolution Theory & stating an exact time these things existed on the Earth which was without oxygen. Who really knows? I also do not like the way this person states you are are not a 100% a man etc. Speaks about gut bacteria but leave Evolution & when the Earth was created & existed out of this. I came to listen about
gut bacteria & how to improve it. it. I happen to be a Christian who does not believe in the Evolution Theory. I think it takes more faith to believe a person, man, happened to be created by chance. With everything we know now that Darwin did not know, even about a cell thinking it was so simple when it was so complex. The world had moved on now & we know so much more. A great designer had to create us as complex as we are & every living thing on our planet & that great designer I believe to be God.
@Auld Lang Syne it is a matter of belief & is still a theory. You were brought up to believe this so why don't you go & think about all the impossible & implausible ways we came into being from nothing.
@@leialee6820 …if god created the earth, who created god? Check mate! Five years at catholic school, thankfully as an adult I don’t have to listen to this dross anymore.
@@Ohnoitsruthio By definition, God is uncreated. He is outside time. Science suggests that the universe has not always existed - there was a point at which it began. So what, or who, began it?
Time and space did not exist before the universe existed. Therefore whatever caused the universe to begin had to be timeless.
This is the Kalam cosmological argument:
- Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
- The universe began to exist.
- Therefore the universe has a cause.
(For anyone interested, there are two short videos with more information about this on the drcraigvideos channel. Just search for The Kalam Cosmological Argument Part 1 and Part 2.)
@@BelCantoLari Why should I be embarrassed? I have nothing to be embarrassed about whatsoever.
@Auld Lang Syne Where did this whole expanding Universe came from then, nothing in your theory. Most normal explosions create chaos. You don't know how to debate and accept anything with opposing views. Your mind has been made up by what you have been taught rather than you looking into it for yourself. Intelligent people question everything and are open to other viewpoints.