Gut Health - Ben Warren's top 10 tips for a healthy gut.

Make it wonderful, good morning and thank you very much for inviting me here. It's a real pleasure to be in a sort of Les Mills venue and obviously I hope you're enjoying your instinctive week so far at the beginning of the week on Tuesday, but obviously there's a lot to get through during the week so it's It's a real pleasure for me to talk to you about your gut, where

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begins this morning. For those who don't know me, my name is Ben Warren. I am a clinical nutritionist. So I have a master's degree in nutrition, among other qualifications.

I'm clinical director of the BPO

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clinic, so help BPO health clinic we're probably the largest natural health clinic in New Zealand. We did a lot of the program I called overseas VLP. program, which is a program where we do a lot of intensive pathology testing to look at what's going on in people, a lot of things around the gut and things like that and some of those things I'll share with you today as we go through this. but it's not uncommon for us to do at least 60 blood tests when people come in with twelve to fourteen vials of blood and then we test all the major metabolic pathways within the body so there's no way to hide if someone has something wrong. with them we will find you and then we will start using those biomarkers to then track your health and then obviously we will look to implement diet and lifestyle factors to reverse those parameters and improve metabolic pathways for optimal expression of health, so it's really fun. and for us a big part of where we work is around the gut, so for me I never intended to be a nutritionist.

I always intended to be a golfer, which is another strange choice as I'm actually from North London. very good golfer from North London and got a scholarship to the University of South Carolina with a golf scholarship, I went to play golf and represented the University and studied experimental psychologists, my university degree I met my wife who is New Zealand, so I'm like An early memory of her that brought me back to New Zealand, very grateful for that. I had a really bad back injury even at that stage coming out of university, so I tried to turn pro and lost my tour car, bought a shop, which was devastating. and I was proclaimed as a Pressburg golf coach professional for two or three years and I was as a professional golf coach that something happened that changed my life and chained the direction of my life that led me to nutrition and I was in a field learning about optimal joint mechanics and a lady looked at me on about the third or fourth day of this course and said Ben, I hope you don't mind me saying this Beck, so you have back problems and I was like, yeah, how do you?

You know she went on to say that I have? You can see she twisted my pelvis, scoliosis in the spine. She had one shoulder higher than the other and when I swung the golf club, my normal transverse muscle didn't fire. everything and I had no support for my back and I was probably devastated now that I knew most of it I was working without a back physiotherapist. I had an osteopathic chiropractic massage therapist and then she went on to tell me that it was probably driven by a food intolerance and it was probably dairy that surprised me and being very scientific in my thinking I thought, well okay and how does it work and she She started explaining how when you have plums in your digestive system you start to close the muscles that are in the same nerve innervation of the spinal segments and she just understands that I was assuming it was dairy because I didn't breathe very well through my nose and my head had I migrated forward to be able to breathe better through my mouth, so my posture back then was more or less visible. which is probably pretty obvious and very scientific in my thinking, so I'm cool, surely there must be a test I can run for that and she says, well, yeah, you need to do an IgG and IgA test and ELISA that goes back to USA. then it was about $400 about 15 years ago and im cool i want one of them please where can i get them?

She goes. I can arrange that, so I got tested a few weeks later, the tests came back that I had a very severe food intolerance to whey protein, which is a protein that is obviously found in dairy products and is eliminated by whey protein. and on dairy products, and my back didn't get better right away, but what started happening very quickly was for the first time in my life. I crushed my wall of dominance, which basically feels like I've been drinking a dozen beers a day my whole life like one of my first memories was having a belly here, you know, in the bathroom next to my brother and looking up. down and have a belly. here and I was always bloated and then my asthma after a few weeks my asthma just mysteriously disappeared and it has never come back and I had severe asthma as a child and as an adult and I was like this it's amazing that what you eat can have this kind of effect on your health and how you think and feel, so I went and retrained at one of the biggest health formulary institutes in the world, the Czech Institute in California, some of you probably heard about pull check and then I ended up doing a master's degree in nutrition and I'm currently doing a PhD at Canterbury in nutritional genetics and mental health, so it's an area of ​​real interest for me, so when we start looking at the gap, we start looking at you.

Know this, essentially this tube that is 20 to 30 feet long. Different sections inside the tube. A lot of people say this is the key to their health and I certainly agree with that and there are a couple of reasons why people say it's the key. The key to health, the first reason is that this is where food is broken down into the basic nutrients where you can absorb them so you can rebuild your body, so if the system is not working very well, you will not absorb the nutrients very well. and if you are not absorbing nutrients very well, you are not going to build the 75 trillion cells that make up your body very well.

The second reason people say this is the key to your health is because 80% of your humoral immune system, so 80% of your immune system is what protects you from the outside world, is located in your digestive system, so 80% and one hundred percent of the regulatory T cells that regulate your immune system are located in the digestive system, so this is your digestive system. It is the home of your immune system and the reason for this is that our largest surface area of ​​exposure to the outside world is actually not our skin, it is actually our gut, so if you look at your skin, the surface of your skin can be In a couple of square meters, the surface area of ​​your digestive system, particularly the small intestine, is 20 to 30 square meters, so it's like 2 or 3 tennis courts if you unfold it, it has a huge surface area and the reason The reason you have these folds is called villi and it is to increase the surface area so that you can maximize the absorption of nutrients from the food you just ate and therefore it really is the key to digestion for your immune system. , so whenever you do. eat any food, your body and your body's immune system look at those foods and if your body has to decide if those foods are our virus or if they are foods and particularly proteins, your body will look at those proteins and decide if that is that protein food . or that protein is a virus or a bacteria because viruses are bacteria it's a product so your body has to differentiate with every food it reads if it's that food or it should attack it and what we're looking at so let's jump directly to a very common food that a lot of people like to eat and that we know triggers a lot of immune responses and we'll talk about it quite a bit as we go on today is gluten, so for 70% of the light skinned people tested and is clear.

Light-skinned people because laboratories in the United States and African Americans are genetically much better prepared to eat gluten and light-skinned Americans, but 70% of light-skinned Americans, when they eat foods containing gluten, their immune system labels gluten as essentially an invader. They take it as a virus and then they get some kind of immune reaction to it, okay, and this has far reaching effects beyond the gut, so what then starts to happen is something called intestinal inflammation or leaky gut syndrome, like that. that this is when the joints in the intestines become loose and then half-digested food can enter the bloodstream and cause an elevated immune response, so it starts with this intestinal inflammation that leads to nutrient malabsorption and then you get a elevated immune response. of people have gastrointestinal problems, multiple food enhancers, so they can suffer from diarrhea, acid reflux, bloating, good gas production and that can lead to overregulation of the immune system and the pathogenesis of autoimmunity, so in the Clinically we find that eighty to ninety percent of people have autoimmunity that comes from their digestive system, so I'll give you an example of this.

We just had a fantastic result on an 11-year-old girl, so we told this 11-year-old girl her name. Is it Genevieve? She was basically 18 months old when she was walking and walking and peeking while walking and apparently something was wrong, so she ended up on Starship and she was diagnosed with juvenile reactive arthritis, an autoimmune arthritis where her body's immune system was attacking. his joints and since then he has had 11 specialists, he is a banana spaceship, he has gone through times where he had to inject himself with cancer drugs like methotrexate on a Friday, but then he couldn't eat until Monday, and so when he came to see us about 18 months ago we were so confident that we could reverse this condition in her that we hired a film crew from Auckland to film it before we started and it was quite interesting because that, but pretty much the entire film crew was crying hearing this, You know, 10 more years in office, two and a half years of history and it's great news, it seems like it's common in my mind right now because last week we signed her and that's why she's been in remission for six months, so she's been pain free for six months no medication for six months when we interviewed her beforehand she just wanted to be able to play sport that's all she wanted she didn't want to be an Olympic athlete she just wanted to be able to play netball and now she can do these painless things.

How did we do that? We did that primarily by getting her gut working really well, so we found that she had significant immune responses, especially to gluten. She had a pathogenic bacteria that was living inside her intestine that was causing a lot of these problems, so we corrected all of those, rebuilt the immune system and yes, right now she is in full remission, so it's exciting and it has the ability to help. a A lot of people have gut problems that they don't even realize it's a gut problem, so when we start to look at this leaky gut it really affects the entire body, so you know, it affects the sinuses in the mouth, so Yes Many of you have a dairy intolerance, your body will eliminate the antigens in your sinus tracts and clog your nose, so you may need to breathe quickly through your nose.

They must know how to breathe through their nose. If you don't have a cold and you find that you invariably can't breathe through your nose, that's probably a good indicator that you're not going to be doing well, so it can definitely be like that, then your body will start to tick. proteins that look similar in your body and can cause rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia. This type of thing has a big effect on the adrenal glands which cause the production of hormones and energy during the day, so over time it leads to fatigue, obviously there are direct responses in the body. arch and colon constipation diarrhea irritable bowel disease even Crohn's disease all of these things are a major association with inflammation within the digestive system powerful effects as well as powerful effects on the thyroid, so the conditions that Hashimoto's Graves disease are autoimmune thyroid diseases for all of us we have reversed many people with underactive thyroid for every case of underactive thyroid we have ever seen gluten has been a problem in all of those cases and then it affects your skin because essentially your liver becomes overloaded and then the toxins. then it will start to spill through your skin, so these immune molecules will start to move up through your skin and you'll see things like acne, plus Isaiah's eczema and autoimmune psoriasis and then you'll also see where my area of ​​interest is. . depression anxiety ADHD in massive association with disordersmental and so so far literally what you eat directly affects how you think and feel when you start to look at the gut brain axis that that brain axis is a three way intersection between your brain and your gut. digestive system and the microbiome, so the bacteria that live inside your digestive system, so I know you've all been enjoying some kombucha, which is fantastic, so you've been supporting that microbiome and we're going to do that. to talk about that in the future, so what we're going to do, we're going to summarize some like my top 10

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to make your gut work as well as possible, and we'll start to build this up, so when you start looking at your digestive system it What we're looking at here is your autonomic nervous system has two branches your parasympathetic and sympathetic so your relaxation responses your parasympathetic your stress responses your sympathetic what I'd like you to notice is that this vagus nerve the innovation nerve that supplies what's on the side parasympathetic, supplies the flow of saliva and therefore your ability to break down those foods, controls your peristalsis and secretion of pancreatic enzymes and controls it and stimulates the release of bile to be able to break down fats. so your whole digestive system is on your parasympathetic or relaxed side, so if you're stressed while you're eating, you won't be able to break down the food that you're eating, so now it's very difficult, you know, to just relax, so if I tell you to like right now, okay, go and relax.

I mean, some of you already seem pretty relaxed, but you know, if I tell you to go away, it's very difficult to learn if nothing else. train through meditation and things like you have to instantly get into that relaxation response so one of the best ways to get into these relaxation responses through breathing because you can control your breathing and your breathing has a control direct on your autonomic nervous system so I'm a big fan of diaphragmatic breathing so I'm sure most of you know how to die because we breathe but for those who don't you can just place your hand on your chip on his belly and a hand on his chest.

I'm going to need to sit forward, just sit forward on the bed, good posture so you can go ahead and do this and we're going to go ahead and have you breathe into your belly, so as you breathe, your belly should come out for you to breathe. in Tommy comes out and then when you exhale, you have your belly in, so we're going to get into this type of yoga, breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, which causes your nervous system to go down, which then when you're eating, it will be of great help. You break down food, so the number one tip will be to breathe into your stomach when you eat, which is why I had a client who came to me to lose weight.

She was a mother of three and she heard that I was pretty good. She's just trying to lose like four or five kilos and the diet was pretty good, the exercise was really good and we just couldn't achieve it or lose those last four or five kilos and I was wondering what's going on here and I told you that you're quite relaxed because she seemed very relaxed when she every time I saw her and she goes, she goes. I'm more relaxed when I come to see you because that's my time out of the week and I'm like, okay. and you know some of you probably get that greeting, you know exercise is your free time when you come see your personal trainer or do a fitness class, so I said, well, when is your most stressful time of the day? and she says what is when me?

I'm cooking dinner, you know? I have three children under five years old. I'm cooking dinner, which is carnage in the background, and when I sit down to dinner I'm so stressed I don't even know you're there. He was hungry and all we asked him to do was breathe into his stomach when he was stirring the pots, that's great this week, what we can do is breathe into his stomach, wait, he's stirring the pots and that's what she did and she. You lost five pounds that first week, you didn't even change your diet, okay? because she was stressed while she was eating, so it was shutting down her entire nervous system, so really yeah, it puts an end to in-dash eating, you know, like eating in the car. and while you're running, the next tip I'd really like to give you is to chew and chew how many times you think is the average number of times people Regards, I guess five is a big guess, four times is fine, so if you're not chewing correctly, you won't be able to move the slider around the food, you know there are enzymes on the slider, you won't be able to move the food, so it will be much harder for your body to break down that food, etc. we want people to chew more, ideally, liquid.

Now I will be honest with you about all the things we recommend, the hardest thing to do is chew too much liquid, having said that it is an incredible gain for weight control and the The reason is that the hormones that control the feeling of satiety, Ghrelin and leptin work in a feedback loop, so if those hormones don't activate really quickly, then we tend to overeat. Well, we all have a good example. of this, you go to a restaurant, you order a meal, you eat the food at a regular pace, you know, average for two, bye, you know, and then the waiter comes up and says: would you like a dessert?, you go, yeah , you have a little space and you look.

So you know, you order dessert, but when a dessert arrives ten, twelve, fifteen minutes later, you're actually full and then you struggle, but it looks so good, you pay for it, so you eat it anyway, so this really helps with the weight. management from that aspect I have a gentleman and he lost 20 kilos in ten weeks he just bites and I changed his chew that's all I did I changed his chew and it was funny because I cook with him I caught up with him after four weeks and I say, "how do you wow", he says "I'm doing it", "it's great", "you're already losing a lot of weight" and I say: "there's a problem, I can only eat about 1/3 of the steak I used to eat." and I say, why is that? and he says well, my jaw saw and I'm sick of chewing and I say, well, that's perfect, that's probably how much you should eat, okay, so tip number two is going to be chewing liquid and like I said, that's not easy to do, but the more you work on that relaxation, make sure it will really help your digestive system so that the food goes down to your stomach and so your stomach is where your body produces. and releases hydrochloric acid, it is a very strong acid that drops to a pH of 1.5 to 2, very, very strong, to break down proteins into these amino acids so that the body can use them later, so many people with problems Stomach conditions are traditionally going to have things like indigestion, heartburn, acid reflux, these types of things, so 80% of people who have these types of conditions are often given medications like lowsec or metro sole or proton pump inhibitors to reduce the amount of acid they have.

We know that 80% of people who have these conditions actually don't have enough stomach acid, so what that means is that this valve at the bottom, this pyloric valve, will only open when the pH is very, very strong, 1.52, to find out if this is the case. If you only have a pH of 3, this valve doesn't open and then food stays in your stomach for a long time and can bubble up and cause acid reflux, so there are a couple of things you can do to see if that's you. or not, so the next time you have these acid reflux symptoms, what I would like you to do is literally take a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and it will make you worse or better.

Now if it gets better for you then we know you don't have enough stomach acid and we need to support the stomach acid so you know doing it regularly will help you and if it gets worse then you know. take some sober baking soda so let's use stomach acid alkalis or over the counter pharmacy medications that neutralize that acid because actually you know you already have a lot of acid and if that's the case you have a lot of acid it's usually the case. that these valves do not work properly and that is often the case that the valves do not work very well or correctly due to food intolerance in the small intestine, so you have to look further down the tube now if you have a problem anywhere of this tube, you're going to have problems elsewhere, so I had an example of this: I had a fourteen-year-old girl who came to my clinic with really bad stomach ulcers, she had just come back from Hamilton and the gastric and endoscope specialist and she had stomach ulcers.

She's low security, so she came to see me for a nutritional consultation and one of my first questions that I always like to ask people is how were your bowel movements? By the way, you were lucky to get in here without me asking you that. so how your bowel movements and the mother were instantly like Arch really struggles in that department once every 7 days, it's pretty common and I'm like, okay, you know, I instantly started thinking it's the troops' fault, you know. , as soon as she eats she gets acid reflux, no matter what she eats, the food can't go anywhere and therefore she is full, so anyway we got a bhau to work, she had an intolerance food that was causing that so we eliminated it and it went to work and defecated daily and and that also just disappeared and I mean everyone was looking at the wrong end of the tube, they were looking at this end of the tube and the problem is in that end of the tube and so, if you have a problem anywhere your digestive system can back up and then affect your stomach as well, but a good way to support stomach function is to start your day with lemon and water, so squeeze half a lemon in a glass of water, ideally warm water.

It will help you absorb the water faster and then you can drink now and what that does is it just sets up your digestive system, so okay, the days here, the foods that are coming will make your digestive system work and other aspects related to this They are to participate. yourself with food is fine, so you actually have to go see what foods look good so they come, you know you're going to engage your nervous system with food, whereas if you like to watch TV and something there, your The nervous system is responding to that, it's not responding to this and we need our nervous system to respond to the food to be able to break it down so the food slowly goes down into the small intestine and this is actually where most of the food is broken down. nutrients and when you start to look at the small intestine, this is where food intolerance really occurs, so how can you tell if you have a food intolerance or if you have any symptoms after symptoms in the lower abdomen? bloating loose stools diarrhea burping or belching after meals headaches after an hour of eating excessive appetite lack of appetite feeling worse after eating craving certain foods dominant pains or cramps, so if you have two or more of those symptoms, so it's a good sign that you need to improve your digestive system obviously if you have a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome or acid reflux then you know we actually know if you have eczema so if you have an autoimmune disease again these are really important.

The indicators, if you have a medical diagnosis of these things, indicate that something is happening in your digestive system, so you need to focus on the effect of food as much as possible, so you really need to start listening to your body and seeing . What do you get from certain foods? Know? When do you swell? When are you bloated? Are you bloated all the time? I was bloated for the time I was bloated for 27 years and I didn't really know I was just because I was always bloated by boat so if you're always bloated you don't really know any difference and that was for me so it's really hard or if you had asked me if I had a day in hell, then I said no, I'm not bloated.

I'm always like that, so I watch the effects of foods, so when you start dealing with these food intolerances, you really have to avoid foods that inhibit a response in your nervous system, so gluten is going to be the number one medical medication. in dairy industries, so things like aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories like Voltaren, cause a lot of leaky gut and can lead to a lot of these problems. hostile bacteria that then give us some of what's called dysbiosis, which is too much hostile bacteria even though the bacteria are salicylates and sulfites, they are invariably more associated with liver dysfunction, okay, so we don't actually eliminate them, will know if there is sulfite sensitivity, if those of you who really can't handle some types of white wine and the reason is that you have used sulfite as a preservative and then you have a glass and then you have a massive hangoverwhich is a good indicator that your livers can't handle sulfites so you want to increase the quality of the food, so if you consume dairy you can try to consume raw dairy because raw dairy straight from the cow has the enzyme still intact, The beneficial bacteria still intact, have much more vitamin content, making it much easier for your body to digest.

If you are looking at bread, you may want to improve the quality of the bread, so if you look at a whole grain spelled instead of a traditional white, you will see better and your body will be able to tolerate it much better, but for many people, If you have a gluten or dairy intolerance you have to eliminate the food for a period of time, so in my case I eliminated dairy for two years and then reintroduced raw dairy at a much lower level and now I can tolerate dairy. I've known for the last 12 12 years that there's nothing wrong with dairy, that's fine, but certainly if I had a lot of poor quality dairy and I started consuming a lot of it again, probably my body would start labeling that protein as an invader and my asthma would come back and then you can control these things, as I mentioned by a health specialist and I found out that 70 percent of white-skinned people are ever intolerant to gluten, so we want to reduce their food. intolerance by rotating your foods as much as possible, ideally over four days, so it's a good idea to try to do this at least with your proteins, particularly dairy and eggs, so don't eat eggs every day for breakfast.

Clinically these days we see a lot of people who have followed the Paleo diet for two years like it because they have digestive problems, but the Paleo diet has not helped them and what we do when we try their foods sometimes is that they come back as highly intolerant almonds and the reason is that they are eating almonds all they know, they are eating almond bread than eating arms and muffins, laughing almonds as snacks, so they already have leaky guts, the immune system then labels the almonds as an invader and they are having very strong reactions to almonds, so you know it's simple things like rotating the nuts.

You're snacking throughout the day and I have walnuts, Brazilian hazelnuts and so you're rotating the presentation of those proteins to your bodies, your body is not labeling them as a verse and then the emotional responses to the food can also I set up these childhood food intolerances, memories and foods, so for many years I couldn't eat cabbage and the reason is that one of my earliest childhood memories is a school dinner in the UK when I was five, the lady at dinner. Whose name I still remember, Mrs. Plummer tells you, you know I wasn't allowed to leave that room until I finished my cabbage and therefore every time I looked at the cabbage I thought of the lady.

Plummer and created a stress response and you know, connect the cabbage so it doesn't get introduced with personal growth courses called, you know, you open the box, you pick it up and you say, oh look, there's the lady. Plummer and you really see what's going on so gluten is really the big problem for a lot of people these days and you're probably wondering why gluten is such a problem because you know we've definitely eaten it you know a lot of people. our grandparents ate a lot so I'll explain why but first of all let's see if gluten is safe for non cex people so in this study they looked at the safety of gluten so there is a spectrum of gluten intolerance in an extreme.

On the spectrum there are people with celiac disease who have a severe immune reaction to 20 parts per million of gluten, so then they have a little bit of bread or a little bit of food that contains gluten and they have a severe immune reaction, so that's a percentage. very small of the population up here, there is a whole group of people in the middle here that do not suffer that serious reaction but they still react to gluten, they are still building immune molecules and that is why in this study that they were analyzing, gluten is safe for non-celiacs, they observed the production of interleukin 15, which is the inflammatory marker when non-celiac CXN individuals were basically challenged with gluten, so they gave gluten to both CX and non-CX and found that gluten listed its harmful effects to through an interleukin 15 innate immune response in all individuals with and without celiac, which basically shows that even if you're not a CD AK, everyone gets some kind of low-level immune response from eating gluten, okay, since inflammation and chronic inflammation are really at the root of many of today's modern diseases, if we can reduce this low grade inflammation as much as possible, it will be good when you think I know inflammation seems like a word that exists , inflammation, you can really talk about it as aches and pains, so at some level, when you start to have more inflammation, the aches and pains will increase, so we can certainly see that gluten really is a problem for everyone and that's why I would like you to introduce Norman Borlaug.

So Norman in the 1970s was nominated and actually received the Nobel Prize for his life's work and his life's work is that he developed a high-yielding dwarf variety of pest-resistant wheat that we all now eat, but unfortunately what he didn't know in this hybridization. process that basically concentrated the levels of lectins, which are a molecule that plants make to protect themselves from the environment, and therefore, by making this high-yielding, pest-resistant dwarf wheat, the levels of lectins in that variety are ten to one hundred times greater than those of the traditional weed and so scientists are now studying these dietary legends of lectins as toxic substances that cause disease, lectin-based food poisoning and a new mechanism of protein toxicity, so lectins on weight are now being intensely investigated for the increased inflammation associated with mon communica lifestyle diseases, so the point of this being is The bread you're eating now doesn't look anything like to the bread your grandmother used to eat.

Well, because of dietary legends, it cools down leaky gut and then your body labels gluten as an invader, which is a non-digestible protein. Okay so we are starting to understand the kind of pathogenesis of why this happens, when it comes to testing for food intolerances, there are medical tests and other tests that really only test the IgE immune response, so they are testing an immune response. very strong, very severe immune response that we really want. to test i GA and IgG, foods are enhanced to match a low level immune response and that is often delayed, so just so you know, in New Zealand, from a medical point of view, there is no funding for testing Of these IgG immune responses, only they are really funded. do a test to see if you're celiac, so I certainly highly recommend that people get tested and get tested for celiac disease because it's becoming more and more common, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're okay with it. gluten, so at least one test is an antigen test, it's quite expensive, so nowadays it costs about $500 to do this blood test and it only shows up if you've eaten the food recently, so there are some limitations.

Kinesiology uses your nervous system to respond to tests to see how your body responds, we do not use this clinically, we only use gold standard medical tests in the clinic. I'm actually trained at a lot of chiropractors for muscle testing, okay, and a friend of mine, Dennis Tuvi, was the chief pharmacist at Tauranga Hospital. He arrived there when he was 50 years old. He was diagnosed with any chronic fatigue syndrome and he did not want to take any of the medications because, as a pharmacist, he knew the side effects of the medications. He didn't want to take any, so he went to the doctor and ended up finding a doctor who did muscle testing.

He did muscle testing and found out that he was deficient at birth and zinc gave him birth and zinc and his Emmy went into remission. Okay, now it's there. About 14 years ago the ladies wrote a book about it, then he basically didn't want to be a pharmacist anymore and he's a big proponent of natural health, so applied kinesiology can be very, very useful, well, pulse, you can even just Take your pulse and take measurements before and after you have eaten the food and what you will be able to do is if you have a severe immune response to that food, your pulse will increase and you will have a stress response to that food. food, obviously, you know you have to control as many variables as possible, so make sure you're sitting still and you've been sitting for a while, but you know, with the advent of the Fitbit and things like that.

It's very easy to tell, just to check how my surveys are going now, in general, it's a good example, this is like coffee, a coffee will be worth 10 beats per minute, okay, because it increases the response of your nervous system, your cortisol , so there is a good species. There are many ways you can take a look and see, so tip number four, obviously, is to avoid foods that contain gluten as much as possible. There are many gluten-free alternatives. Basically, I'm not saying don't use grains because you just use buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth. millet, so these types of rice grains, you still know they're whole grains, they're incredibly nutritious and they're prepared correctly, so you can still eat these foods, but we're actually moving away from gluten-free foods as well.

When you start looking at your overall diet, you're not going to shy away from processed foods, obviously you're going to minimize processed sugar. Processed grains because they act on your body faster than sugar, so your body can get the sugar from those grains faster. than sugar and then obviously staying away from gluten as much as possible so you can then do some food elimination challenges, if you have concerns about food intolerances, so the first thing to remember is that you will be addicted and intolerant to your favorite. food so for those of you who like dairy and just have to eat a piece of cheese before going to bed, that's a good sign, he really looks very guilty now I'm not looking at anyone in particular, so that's a good sign or you know you just have to eat some crackers or a piece of bread with your dinner, that's another good sign that you know you're intolerant to that food, it's easier for your immune system to group it together. so it takes four to seven days for those cravings to subside, you want to eliminate the suspect food for at least 21 days, so you want to go gluten-free for 21 days and then reintroduce the suspect food and monitor the responses you already have. known. answers to be aware of the swelling, you are going to be close to tiredness, fatigue, racing heart, problems with sleep, then you do not sleep very well, you can even monitor, do you know how to ski, how are your reactions when skiing and things like that, okay so there's a lot of things that will be good to monitor right now is that there's talk that people shouldn't eliminate gluten because when you eat gluten you're going to get an elevated response and for me, I'm not a fan of that. .

I think if someone is gluten intolerant they should eliminate it because you don't want to have that low grade inflamed response all the time and when you do, you eat gluten, that elevated response is actually the true response. from your body to that antigen, then it's like smoking, if someone smokes every day, your body gets used to the toxins from cigarettes and you don't make coffee with your lungs, but if you stop smoking for six months and then smoke a cigarette your coffee raises your lungs because you are seeing your body's true response to that exposure.

Another option is that you can just drink juice quickly or follow a simple foods diet. Well, just brown rice, chicken and broths and then for three days and then start slowly. introduce other foods so you can start introducing vegetables and then three days later add fruits and then three days later start adding animal proteins like eggs and then continue three days later with legumes and continue introducing foods until your symptoms recover . Well, Ravana, I had a woofer who is a willing worker, an organic farm, so in BP I live on a farm and I'm soybeans in Hawke's Bay, so we did it.

He only stayed with us for two weeks, so no. I don't have time to do the IgG IgA test, which is what we normally do, so we just put him on a plate, basically put brown rice, chicken and some broths and that's all he ate and we got rid of his Ask me give him a spare one. All his life he has been taking steroids when he was 21, so we were able to completely get rid of his asthma, but the problem is that he couldn't really eat any otherfood without having asthma, which is then a problem.

Then we had to rebuild their system. By then he was already traveling all over the country, but everything was fine, so he can be very, very useful. Looking at these things is fine, so supplements and foods to improve your digestive function, obviously apple cider. vinegar in a tablespoon of warm water lemon juice squeezed from half a lemon in a cup of warm water aloe vera aloe vera is an amazing healer it has many amazing healing properties and the aloe vera plant contains chemicals that cause your cells to replicate very quickly, so it is very beneficial for the intestinal tract, so drinking aloe vera juice we often give it as a drink with a little manuka honey and it is very well tolerated, but I always like that people if they never have tried it before it's just for Try a little on your skin, just make sure they don't have an allergic reaction and then eat five meals twice a day, which is very beneficial for healing the intestines.

L-glutamine, which is the amino acid that is the fuel that rebuilds the calf's eye or fingers in the small intestine a teaspoon of hot tea before bedtime colostrum, so colostrum has many immune factors IgA IgG, so which is immune intelligence from the mother and breast milk and that helps modulate the immune response within the digestive system so that people with a lot of intestinal problems in all terms, really beneficial digestive enzymes to help the digestive system set the pH and within the digestive system they can be really helpful and then chicken broth and homemade bone broths are fine so they have a lot of gelatin in their game very beneficial for the gut and also a lot of like, I mean our glycans, which again They are used as fuel to heal the intestines, so big fan tip number five is to incorporate broths as much as possible into your day.

It's not uncommon for us to give people between 500 milliliters and a liter of broth a day, so they have to drink a liter of broth a day and help heal their digestive system, so maybe later on you'll start moving some broths. in a large intestine okay so the large intestine is the number one way we get toxins out of our body so I don't know about you but I have a five and eight year old so who is our hot topic on my house, so let's go. To talk about the perfect poop it must have a good consistent shape in the contour it passes easily light brown natural smell and floats without needing several attempts the flash no one likes that you can't flush it down the toilet and then we look at the poop Dark Patrol and it sinks that is a sign of dehydration or transit longer times white and does not turn red is a sign of excess fat, diarrhea or loose stools bodies try to get rid of toxins at all costs food intolerance allergies stomach bugs recognition of food particles you know that you shouldn't be able to go all there is that blueberry muffin I just ate I shouldn't be able to do that for two The reasons are obviously due to your medium blueberry muffins, but it's our different conversation anyway, so that's an indication of insufficient enzymes, poor chewing, and two shorter transit times, so food literally passes through you so fast that you can't absorb it, which is why these people are often thin. fatigued because they are not absorbing nutrients from food or eating often have a diagnosis of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis pebbles pebbles chronic constipation indication of dehydration eat dysfunctional gallbladder well, then there is an opportunity with this bowel movement you know on a daily level to really check in and see what's going on with your digestive system, so you really want to use this as an opportunity to see what's going on, so when you start looking at elimination through the intestines, you really want to check your transit time .

Time is the waiting time so it is the time when the food is really inside you and it should be 12 to 24 hours and you can check this with an ear of corn and beet in the best way so with beet All you need is a bunch of beets, start the clock and then when the stool turns red, stop the clock, corn on the cob, that's the exception to the chewing rule, so just bite and swallow and then you can play spot. corn, so it should be 12 to 24. Ideally, for many people less than this, the food doesn't stay inside long enough to get adequate nutrition, but for many people, you know, people say, " Oh, my transit times are fine, but really when we look at the transit times they are 40 to 50 hours, so even though they have a daily bell movement, there is another aspect of not being constipated and, for me, that is what I like about people who eliminate 30 centimeters of fecal matter a day every 30 days. centimeter poop I don't care if it's 1:30 to 15 or three tens, it doesn't matter how you get there, 6 5 is no good again, it goes so fast that a lot of people will say, oh, you know, Ben, I have daily. bowel movements, but yeah, you know, I'm not going to get my 30 centimeters, but yeah, I'm having a bowel movement daily and then we're going to do the transit time test and the transit times are going to be 4050 hours, so the food is just going to stay en they are hostile for too long and then they spread a lot so we are having a lot of problems for more than 24 hours and it is basically poisoning you from the inside out, so top tip number 6 is to really know your transit time, you really want to know your transit time so you know exactly what's going on so there are things that help with testing obviously probiotic foods so probiotic foods are probiotics are actually defined as a bacteria that has been shown to have a health benefit and so some of the probiotic foods are foods that have these beneficial bacteria that have a health benefit, so as far as dairy goes, there's raw milk kefir, yogurt and yogurt that contain cultures, if your dairy is tolerant, all very good vegetables, sauerkraut, understand something a little.

I'm going to show you how to make some fermented vegetables later in a week, which will be fantastic. Pickled foods. Kimchi Natto Tempeh. As far as grains go, it's got sourdough bread and then probiotic drinks, kaffir tea kombucha, which you've all tried. It's been a sampling today, it's fantastic, now these things are really powerful. You guys gotta be a little careful with the kombucha so some of you guys are going to have fun for the next 24 hours in the frame so yeah it's all good so a friend. One of mine was traveling with me on my seminars and I often drink kombucha as, you know, a good drink at a CAF, so I ordered a bottle of kombucha and I didn't even think about it and he was like, oh, what is that?

I'm mad, but I guess I'll take one of them so he can take one too, so I just drank the bottle and didn't think about anything else because I'm used to it and he drank the bottle and had such a death from his hostile bacteria, he basically did it. They put them in bed for 24 hours, so yeah, if you're not used to eating a lot of fermented foods, just take it easy, start slow and build up, it can be a bit of fun. it's very cleansing so everything is good juvik fermented cavasso so this is a fermented beet drink from Russia and then your cult will be familiar with this type of similar drinks and then apple cider vinegar or apple cider vinegar, so you already know many of you.

You'll probably use apple cider vinegar in your salads and buy the raw one, okay, so you'll get some beneficial bacteria every time you put it in there, so tip number seven is to eat fermented foods daily. So traditional cultures show that they get 12 to 15 servings of probiotics every day. Why, since they didn't have refrigerators, they basically had to ferment their food and that's why Ricola is looking at getting all these different beneficial strains of bacteria in the gut as they go and then we also want to feed these beneficial bacteria, okay, like this that we want to do it because they need specific foods and they need, actually, specific types of fiber, so garlic and onion will probably be garlic and onion.

The leek will be in the beet root. Peas, so you know, all of these are going to be very beneficial. A lot of fruits are very, very beneficial, especially, and then legumes will be chickpeas, lentils, beans, baked beans, so we have to eat. these foods in our diet to feed the beneficial bacteria, so they are not just probiotic foods, so for many people, you know, eating these foods will really help them with constipation, especially with children, if any of you have constipated children or have slow transit. times you know by eating these foods they're going to feed those beneficial bacteria and that's going to be really beneficial: walnuts, cashews, pistachios and then obviously some grains as well, so a lot of you know again going back to these Whole Foods, yeah, yeah. you certainly could, if you have a digestive issue you can rotate them as much as possible, often with food intolerance, often it's protein that is the problem, so most of the time it's with protein, so that many people You don't necessarily need to rotate garlic from onion and things like that, it's more protein.

Great question, okay, supplements and foods for a better large intestine, so probiotic foods prebiotics, basically, including them in the diet makes the large intestine work better, you know, probiotics. I'm actually taking a probiotic, I think it's been mentioned talking about bio cult. I'm a big fan of bio cult, which is a fourteen-strain acid-resistant probiotic that makes it easier for some people to get better. It is an insoluble fiber that simply adds bulk to the stool and may help. a lot of people, but again, everyone is different for some people, psyllium husks will block them okay, so you just have to see if it works for you.

Slippery elm is an herb that causes the intestines to increase the secretion of mucus from the intestine. it makes everything nice and slippery and helps food go down and through vitamin C, intestinal tolerance can be very good, even with magnesium, intestinal tolerance as well, so magnesium and vitamin C when you start to consume too much and if you don't absorb it, it will draw water into the intestine and then give you a loose bowel movement, so it's a pretty nice, gentle way to get things moving without having to take a laxative and then a trifler, which is an Indian herb for constipation and digestive health is very, very nice just for people who, as you know, generally have a slower type of constitution around their bowel movements, they always tend to have transit times. longer just to keep things moving.

It's really very important, so when everything else doesn't work, sometimes you have a colon. I have to reset the arch and because there can be a lot of impaction of fecal matter over years of build up then there is no surface for the beneficial bacteria to really thrive and live on so that just involves colonics and I am cleansing the gut to have a nice clean surface to work with. For many of our chronic patients, we often do not see progress in their health status until they have undergone a series of colon surgeries. and we refer them for that and then we often see progress in their condition and improvement in blood parameters so tip number eight is to defecate daily or is it a must then this really has to happen and for many people there is only one once a day for this to happen so you have to schedule it for it to happen you actually have to make time in your day because for many people if they have missed this opportunity they will have to wait until tomorrow now and instantly at that stage you have a transit time of 48 hours, which is a problem, so when you start troubleshooting in the digestive system there is something called bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine, so this is where there is literally no bacterial growth in the small intestine. , so the bacteria should be mainly in the ascending colon here, but what happens when the pH goes out in the digestive system, there is an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine and therefore these people will bloat no matter what they eat.

So, particularly carbohydrates, when they contain carbohydrates, like cumin or pumpkin soup, they bloat, okay, so this is a good sign that the small intestine has returned to its overgrowth; probably for a couple of you, drinking kombucha will make you feel more. bloated and that is potentially because you have SIBO in the small intestine, your growthexcessive, so with this at least the bloating every time you eat carbohydrates there is a urinary test that we can do to find this and it basically requires minimizing probiotics and probiotic foods in the short term using a bacteria killing agent to kill the bacteria in the small intestine before you can go ahead and eat those foods again, okay, so just to keep in mind that it's not just a case where everyone should have lots and lots more probiotic foods because for some people that's going to make them worse. , then we start looking at yeasts and things like that, and you start looking at gut pathogens, so if you're already doing all of these things and you're still experiencing a lot of gut problems, then potentially there will be pathogens in the gut, so we do the most amount of parasitology testing than anyone in Australasia and we find many pathogens and these things can be worms, roundworms, hookworms, pinworms, we see neighbors, we even see very disparate bacteria, even with isolated strains of bubonic plague, a laboratory called us from United States saying that we had a health emergency because we isolated their superior from one of our samples, so we found some pretty gnarly bacteria in the intestines and these people are often generating chronic fatigue and other problems within more of the individuals or it overflows and affects other systems, so you know that being aware of these things is removing everything within the digestive system, any problems, the blood from the intestines, the large intestine, everything directly to the liver, so you look for more than C. liver problems, okay, so for liver problems in men, invariably there is an increase in abdominal fat, you may see an increase in LDL cholesterol in women, there will be increased storage of body fat in the hips and a menstrual imbalance.

Can hormonal imbalances cause the liver to be unable to eliminate hormone metabolites? Okay, so I wanted to give you an important tip for your exes for liver function, which is exercise. It's okay, exercise helps cleanse the liver as much as any food can. I'm going to give you absolutely amazing exercises to cleanse your liver so I'm a big fan of exercise for that reason and then the liver proteins will overflow and start damaging your kidneys so I want to give you some advice for your kidney. function and that is drinking water, so I go to dr.

Batman is high league in water recommendations, he is one of the best doctors in the world, so if you weigh 60 kilos, it is 2 liters per day, 75 kilos, 2 and a half liters per day, 90 kilos, 3 liters per day and then for every hour. you're exercising, you're going to drink another liter of water, ideally with good electrolytes, so you know that cellular hydration is really very important, so when you start to look at your digestive system, it really is, to me it's the key to your health. It is the basis for rebuilding your body and the nutrients in your diet, it is also the key to the immune system and it is also the key to pain and inflammation, so the digestive system is working very well, so I hope you know So you've got some good strategies with those 10

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Any questions? You're in shock, you're like, oh, what kind of teachers, so yeah, yeah, how do you do this? boss, so basically you could start if you roast a chicken, you just take that carcass and throw it in some water with some carrots, some onions and some garlic, boil it, start by boiling it overnight and then you already have chicken broth , then you can use it as a base for a soup and then drink it. that way and like thatThere are a couple of ways to incorporate it, so that will be one way to make bone broths a little more intense, so invariably with bone broth you take the bones and you buy a specific type of bones for soup that have been cut in half.

Put them in a large pot, a little apple cider vinegar and boil it a little. You generally boil it for about 48 hours. The whole house stinks. You have to have really friendly roommates to do that and then you can use it and just drink. There's a great place in Auckland, war essentials, royal essentials and they're actually a pet food company but they make some fantastic drafts, great value, they make really good broth so we're pure , we have accounts with them, etc. For me, I usually order around 24 or 24 liters a month and then in the afternoon I just have a big cup of chicken broth every afternoon as it's like a nice warm afternoon hug in the winter, it's lovely and So yes, there are a few different ways on our website VPO Code in New Zealand.

We have how to make chicken. How to make drafts. We have how to make fermented vegetables with sauerkraut. Our crafts are really easy and also require a bit of a timer. you know you can get a nice jar like this of sauerkraut for literally a couple of dollars so if you buy our jars for $10 it's very cost effective to do so yeah well yeah mm-hmm yeah it will be. It works like an allergy, but with most allergies you will know if you have a food allergy because as soon as you eat it you will get an immune response, like with peanuts or strawberries, people will give you hives and make you snore, so with an ocular immune response Dae is a direct severe immune response, so you'll usually know it with foods anyway, so yeah, it's not a test for IgA IgG S, which are those lower level immune responses, yeah, I would have done it, yes.

I'll definitely delete it, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely delete it for a while and after about 21 days, and, and, and, and we'll just monitor how it goes. She would also like to catch up and catch a lot of mistakes and things, so we know her. immune systems under load and yes, that's, yes, that's ovary because I think it's a virus and so, yes, yes, and so, yes, so it's good that you can start, you can start to put all these things together and you can see , start to see why people's immune systems are under load and not as strong We want your immune system to be like a dog heading for sheep, so you want your immune system iver eSchool DUP to know exactly when to come in and when to return, while the immune system of many people with autoimmunity you We will see that people's immune systems are more like a couple of farmers with sheep, so the immune systems go around causing a carnage, but in reality They're not doing what you want them to do, so they have low grade systemic inflammation which then you know, causes a bunch of other problems depending on your genetics, so yeah, yeah, yeah, the main ones will probably be apricots. royal oranges and dried apricots, so they are cured with sulfites, but what you can do invariably we have found people with a sensitivity to sulfites do not convert sulfites to sulfates very well, which is a liver pathway, so they often We find that we give them Epsom salt baths, which is magnesium sulfate, which helps this pathway in the liver to make them more tolerant.

No it doesn't justify drinking white wine, but it just makes them more tolerant to the sulfites in their diet, so yeah, you know, magnesium salt baths, so just a couple cups of Epsom salts in the bath. a couple of times a week and that just increases magnesium levels in the blood fourfold, which is very good, it helps the muscles relax for many people and then it just helps this specific pathway with respect to the liver and the sulfate. I guess I'm not sure, no, yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure anyone knows, go ask the audience about that.

Yeah, I'm not sure about red wine. My understanding is that they are mainly used in white wine due to the levels of antioxidants as preservatives, but yes. Not sure Not sure exactly on the very good wine front yes, it's pretty much the same thing yes, for some people they don't, for some reason, they don't necessarily get along with lemons, so figure it out in a good way. time. and basically what you're doing is introducing a little bit of acid into your stomach to activate your digestive system and that really helps when you're eating that your systems have already started to activate. rather than just putting food in and expecting it to appear straight online, that's a good point, those are good questions, so probably 10 to 15 minutes before will be good, the water in which we don't necessarily want a lot of water. in the stomach when you are eating because you will dilute the hydrochloric acid to some extent and so with warm water you will probably know that this is just an experience, but with warm water your body will only absorb water from the stomach when it arrives. at body temperature and that's why if you go to the gym you buy a cold pump bottle and drink it, then you can be on the treadmill and you can literally hear it sloshing around, it's because it has to reach body temperature before it can be absorbed, so which warm water at body temperature will be absorbed faster, so I like a little bit of warm water with lemon juice just to get it through the system a little bit faster very good good good good, the coffee is very The coffee is very acidic Anyway our systems are very robust and really only if you have problems in the system do you have to start worrying about that so you know our system can handle the combination of multiple different proteins, carbohydrates and fats so it's more or less like that. pretty robust so I would say the coffee is pretty acidic so I've never seen any research on that or anything like that but I suspect for most people that won't be a major issue yeah yeah probably elite electrolytes, which are literally just electrolytes, no sugar, the reason they put so much sugar in electrolyte drinks is because the glucose actually helps drive the electrolytes all over the place to be absorbed and having said that , most people don't.

You don't need additional sugar, which is why elite le le tes is an elite electrolyte brand. I'm sure you can get them. Well, it's Graham online. Well, I think it's my time. I am very happy to stay. Answer any personal questions you may have. I just want to thank those foods again for inviting me here and thank me for scaring me and organizing all of this and yeah just check out BPO K&Z if you need help at any time feel free to contact us. so thank you very much