Podcast 159: How fiber can improve your mental health! With GI specialist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- We all know fiber is good for us, but did you also know that it can help with your mental health? In this week’s blog and podcast, I speak with GI specialist and epidemiologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz about how a high-fiber diet can help boost mental and brain health, heal food sensitivities and reduce inflammation in the brain and body!
In his amazing new book, Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome, Dr. B notes how even though he was very successful as a medical doctor, his processed food diet was making him miserable, tired and anxious. When he met his wife, he began to understand how real, healthy whole foods could transform his life, which led him on the path he is on today: meeting people where they are in their journey and helping them live their best and healthiest lives.
As Dr. B points out, although the current healthcare system is really good at treating acute illnesses, it falls short when it comes to preventative medicine and chronic health issues. Indeed, as a medical doctor with multiple qualifications, he was taught little about the impact lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise could impact our mental and physical health! Thankfully, times are changing, especially as more and more research is being published on the importance of our lifestyle choices. We now know that pills and procedures are not everything; around 20% of diseases are genetic, which means 80% are related to our diet and lifestyle. This is great news! It means that our health is largely in our hands, which very empowering.
Podcast Time Stamps
6:25 What transformed Dr. B’s life, and why he loves helping people regain their health and live their best life
18:02 What is the difference between disease prevention and disease management?
24:29 The gut-brain connection, and why your gut should be your brain’s best friend
30:22 The gut is an endocrine organ, as much as the ovaries and testes are
30:50 The gut produces post-biotics, which happens when you combine prebiotics and probiotics
37:00 What is the one golden rule when it comes to eating?
43:50 Is meat okay to eat?
48:22 Food sensitivities and what you can do about them
55:00 How fiber-rich diets can prevent heart disease
57:20 Why diet is not everything
1:00:00 Current health trends to be excited about and health trends to avoid
1:02:02 What if you live in a food desert?
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Dr B is the first dr that has given me hope and less anxiety about food and health. No restrictions and nothing you have to give up with all fruit vegetables and grains. My gut thanks you.
This was seriously one of the best podcasts I have ever had the pleasure of listening to! Such brilliant doctors and humans, thank you!!! I wish everyone could listen to this.
Amazing. Eating plants way to go for a healthy gut. Fatty acids can reverse mind fog? Learning so much... keep doing this Dr Leaf, you’re saving lives!
DR Leaf, thank you so very much for this interview 😘... What an INCREDIBLE BLESSING ❣️💯!! Two BRILLIANT humans who CARE about people & their LIVES... I would never in a hundred years be able to have an appointment with this man, or you Dr. Leaf, for that matter, yet, you have made this possible for such valuable information merely by JUST LISTENING 👂... Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you 🙏🙋🏻
Love how he commends Dr. 🍁 and how Dr. 🍁validates her ideas through clinical trials that Dr. 🍁heads up.
I have listened numerous of professionals talked about their food plan or diet, by far , doctor B is the one makes more sense then any of those doctors, he is not only knowledgeable in his own Gut field, he also is very compassionate person by supporting the bookstores , he is kindly suggesting that we buy the book from the book stores to support our local bookstore that really hurting by this pandemic instead of buying from Amazon Which already made more money then ever been during this pandemic .
Thank you for this video. I have been shifting our family to be free from medicine and chemicals and unhealthy food more and more so I am always grateful for another encouragement along the way.
I love Dr B. I am happy to hear him on your podcast. I have his book. Fiber has changed my life
Thank you doctors
Great! I am grateful for your podcast, learning a lot. Thank you
I love Dr. B. and I am also thriving on a plant-based diet.
I am ethically opposed to eating animals but it’s a nice bonus to feel so great as a result!
I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast. The concepts were so easy to follow and understand. Pre, pro and postbiotics...learned something new.
I love the energy and enthusiasm of your guest Dr. C. I am going to ensure I have a more diverse plant based diet.
I absolutely love this woman, I seen her on pastor Steven. On detoxing your mind. Where can I get his book?
Eating habits is very very important
This podcast has been so useful and relevant and I sincerely hope for myself and the families I work with. Life changing . Thank you
Amazing talk!!!
"Truth among all the noise". Thank you both for giving and serving doing the hard work. Love in action. Keep up the great research.
Thanks, I'm watching a lot of Will's talks. I thought I got the 'gut' message (yeah yeah fibre), but it is a hundred times more interesting than that.
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Two of the best! But Dr. B shouldn’t need to feel he has to soft pedal the animal flesh issue.. Please always present the TMAO and inflammatory evidence and then let people decide in addition to facing the violence, suffering, and moral ethical environmental issues in animal agriculture. Animal products are only about habit or addiction. I just finished his fabulous book. now i must decide if I’m going to compromise and continue enjoying nice microbrews, wine and a lovely margarita now and then knowing that it will destroy my good bacteria. I’m Italian too. there are fabulous clean vegan Bolognese recipes! ❤️✌️🥑🌱
Is there anything I can do for intestinal metaplasia squamous columnar junction naturally. Please!
Gio Sarran
Change your diet , lifestyle and use quality supplement and a plant based diet can help you for sure
Dr in lifestyle medicine MD
@@wellnessdr5572 Thank you! I got ave been in pain for like 8 months where my spleen is at. I got a CT scan done and it said my liver was borderline enlarged and my spleen was enlarged 2 months ago and 4 weeks ago I got a endoscopy so 1 week a go thay said I have IBD and pre cancerous cells in my stomach. I turn vegan and now the pain in in my kidneys and liver area I'm so scared of leaving my family it's got me stressed out sorry had to vent
What about the person that has gastroparisis?
Yea it works against us