April 8, 2025 • 24 mins
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How to fight the Post Vacation Blues.
Avoid the sleep destroying Alarm Anxiety.
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Unknown (00:07):
Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Todaywe have another special
intelligence for your healthwith Connie Celica, edition of
the show, and our interview iswith cardiologist Dr William
Davis, he is also author of thebook super gut. So we have all
kinds of information about howimportant a healthy gut is and
what to do with an unhealthygut. So without further ado,
(00:31):
here is intelligence for yourhealth with Connie selika,
studiesshow a third of us experience
post vacation blues once we gethome, because the happiness
chemicals we built up over ourbreak are dissipating. To hold
on to those happy brainchemicals longer. Have something
fun to look forward to when youcome back, like dinner with
friends, because according toCornell University researchers,
(00:53):
you get as much happiness fromanticipating a good time as
having one. Also put a couple ofpictures from your vacation
where you can see them whileyou're working. Studies show
that visualizing yourself in aplace where you felt good can
mentally bring you back to thatfeeling and immediately boost
your mood. Try this test tocheck your balance. Act like
(01:17):
you've been pulled over for aDUI and try walking in a
straight line, putting one footdirectly in front of the other
with the toes of your back foottouching the heel of your front
foot. Neurosurgeon Dr Nancy Tsaifrom Medical University of South
Carolina says if you can't takemore than four steps without
wobbling off center, yourbalance needs work, so try
(01:39):
standing in that same position,one foot directly in front of
the other, and raise your armsabove your head. Hold that
position as long as you can,because with good balance,
you're less likely to fall andinjure yourself. And that's
important, because 20% ofelderly hip fracture patients
die within a year due tocomplications from the trauma.
(02:01):
You can also try Tai Chi. Astudy found that people who do
Tai Chi once a week have muchbetter balance than people who
don't practice it at all. Comingup, we'll talk to cardiologist
Dr William Davis about some ofthe good things we can expect to
happen with our health when weadd one specific probiotic to
our diet, but first, if you'respending a week at the beach, is
(02:24):
your beach towel, a bacteriabomb that needs washing every
day. No microbiologists from theUniversity of Arizona say it's
okay to use the same towel forseveral days running if you hang
it in direct sunlight and let itdry completely. The sun's UV
rays will kill 90% of the germs,leaving bacteria levels too low
(02:45):
to make you sick. But if thetowel still damp the next day,
toss it in the dryer, becausewith moisture, bacteria can
multiply 100 fold after eachuse. So you got a sunburn and
now it's peeling. Should yougive in to the temptation and
peel off the flakes of deadskin, or just leave it and let
(03:06):
nature take its course? Well,according to dermatologist Dr
Sonja Batra, peeling a sunburncan provide psychological
satisfaction, because somepeople find it relaxing and even
soothing like scratching anitch. But here's why you should
resist the urge. First, if yourskin is peeling, it's a sign
(03:27):
that significant damage hasoccurred. It's your body's way
of getting rid of damaged cellsthat could potentially turn into
skin cancer, and your body healsitself by forming a new layer of
skin underneath. It takes aboutfour to seven days for a new
layer of skin to fully form, andthat's when the dead skin
protecting the new layer beginsto peel off. But at that point,
(03:49):
your skin is really vulnerable,and peeling off dead skin
prematurely can interfere withthe healing process and make the
new skin susceptible toinfection because it gives
bacteria a way to enter yoursystem. So as tempting as it may
be to peel off sunburned skin,don't do it just like you
shouldn't pop a blister, becausethe damaged skin protects the
(04:13):
new skin growing underneath.
Okay, listen to this if you wantto cut your risk of head and
neck cancer by 400% brush andfloss on a regular basis.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute inNew York found that people with
chronic gum disease have a 400%higher risk of developing
(04:35):
cancers of the head or neck, butyou can slash your risk by
taking three minutes to brushand floss every day, the
recommended length of time forbrushing two minutes and
flossing One Minute. Today, ourspecial guest is Dr William
Davis. He's a cardiologist who'sbest known for writing the New
York Times best selling book,Wheat Belly. He also has a book
(04:57):
called Super gut a four week.
Plan to reprogram yourmicrobiome, restore health and
lose weight. The book exploresthe link between our gut health
and our overall health. So Iasked Dr Davis why some of us
might need to considerreprogramming our gut Well,
we've done a real number on ourmicrobiome. That is this
(05:18):
collection of trillions ofmicrobes that live in your
gastrointestinal tract, all thethings we've been exposed to as
modern people, multiple coursesof antibiotics. Not uncommon
Johnny, for a person by age 40to have taken 30 courses of
antibiotics. Then we haveglyphosate, the herbicide that's
also an antibiotic. We haveother herbicides and pesticide
(05:39):
residues and food and water,we've got food additives like
preservatives and emulsifyingagents like polysorbate 80 in
your ice cream or saladdressing. Other prescription
drugs like stomach acid blockingdrugs, statin cholesterol drugs,
birth control pills, on and onand on. We swim in an ocean of
(05:59):
factors that have disrupt thehuman microbiome. Now, one of
the effects is that we've lostvery important species that did
important things for the humanbody, and then beyond that, with
loss of those helpful microbeunhealthy species, largely oddly
stool species have proliferatedin their place and then did
(06:20):
something else that's reallyimpacting modern health. They've
ascended up into the smallbowel, the 24 feet of ilium
jejunum, duodenum and stomach,and we now have 10s of millions,
I think, over 100 millionAmericans with 30 feet of all
the proliferated stool microbesthat impact your health,
(06:41):
more intelligence for yourhealth. From cardiologist Dr
William Davis. He was justsaying that many of us need to
reprogram our gut because it'slikely swimming with harmful
bacteria linked to our exposureto pesticides, antibiotics, food
additives and other dangeroustoxins. He says those exposures
(07:02):
are a top reason most NorthAmericans are seriously
deficient in a microbe calledLactobacillus Rotary. So I asked
Dr Davis what we can expect tohappen if we make changes to
restore just that one microbe.
When you restore it, wonderfulthings happen. We restore
Rotary, it, interestingly,colonized the entire GI tract,
(07:24):
not just the colon, but theentire length of the GI tract,
where it sends a signal to thebrain, to the hypothalamus, to
release the hormone oxytocin. Alot of your listeners likely
know what oxytocin is, becausethey've heard of it as the
hormone of love and empathy.
Well, when you restore Rotary,that's exactly what happens. You
say, I love my partner better. Ilove my children, my family
(07:45):
better. They're less annoying tome. I like my coworkers better.
Get this one. I understand otherpeople's points of view better.
But the ladies love thisrestoration of Lactobacillus
reuteri, because they get anexplosion in dermal collagen,
and they start to lose theirskin wrinkles at about eight
weeks of getting it. Guys loveit because you get a boost in
(08:08):
strength and a huge increase inmuscle. You get a restoration of
youthful muscle and strength.
You get deeper sleep. Itpreserves bone density and
ladies, very important effect,it suppresses appetite, so
you're no longer having to fighttemptation. And so we have
marvelous effects. And this isjust the effects of restoring
(08:31):
one microbe we've lost. Ifyou're
interested in restoring thatmicrobe, Google lactobacillus
Rotary. Rotary is spelled R, E,U, T, E, R, I. There are plenty
of probiotics on the market tochoose from. You can also get it
from foods like yogurt with livecultures, sauerkraut, real
sourdough bread and kimchi. Ifyou're exercising in hot
(08:53):
weather, make sure you havesomething cold to drink, because
the temperature of your drinkreally does make a difference.
In a study from the Universityof Montana, scientists monitored
people walking briskly on atreadmill for three hours in 90
degree heat, and the exercisershad either ice water to drink or
(09:13):
lukewarm room temperature water.
The result study subjects had todrink twice as much lukewarm
water compared to ice water tomaintain a healthy skin
temperature and heart rate.
Also, when exercisers drank icewater, they were better able to
regulate their core temperatureand they experienced less
(09:33):
fatigue and muscle pain. So ifyou'll be out exercising in the
heat or working in the heat,find an insulated bottle you can
fill with ice water. Today'smedical term stiff person
syndrome or SPS, you may haveheard it's what Celine Dion is
experiencing. Well, it's anumbrella term for a group of
(09:55):
autoimmune and neurologicaldisorders that cause stiffness
and spasm. Symptoms throughoutthe body. The problems typically
start in the legs, which canmake it difficult to walk and
maintain your balance, but overtime, the stiffness and spasms
can spread to the torso, armsand face. And symptoms are often
accompanied by heightenedsensitivity to loud noises and
(10:17):
even being touched by a lovedone. Until recently, there
wasn't much doctors could do totreat stiff person syndrome, but
research from Johns HopkinsUniversity says patients can get
some relief from SPS with ablood plasma exchange. In other
words, by replacing the oldplasma in your blood with
(10:37):
donated plasma from someonewho's healthy. In a new study,
more than half of people withSPS who tried this new treatment
saw immediate improvement intheir symptoms. If you've
watched the Celine Diondocumentary, she gets a plasma
exchange, and that's today'smedical term, stiff person
syndrome, or SPS coming up.
We'll hear more fromcardiologist Dr William Davis.
(11:00):
He'll explain why beans areamong the best foods you can eat
to stay healthy, even if theysometimes make you gassy. But
first, to reduce your risk ofdeath by heart attack, go to bed
two hours after your last biteof food. The American Heart
Association says we tend to eata third of our food after 6pm
which raises our risk for prediabetes and high blood pressure
(11:24):
by 21% one reason late nightmeals are typically unhealthy
and processed because we're tootired to cook, plus eating
within two hours of bed islinked to visceral Fat packed
between our organs, which alsohurts our heart. That's why
researchers recommend havingyour last mouthful of food two
(11:45):
hours before bed. If you've beenmore forgetful than usual these
days, you just need more laughs.
Research from Loma LindaUniversity found laughing makes
your brain process memories moreeffectively. For the research,
one group of study subjectswatched a short funny video
(12:06):
while another group just satcalmly in the study room with no
video to watch afterward, allthe participants were given
memory tests and had theirstress levels measured. The
result, those who watched thefunny video, scored far better
on the memory test and had lessstress during the test. The
researchers confirmed what otherstudies have proved, that the
(12:30):
less stress you have, the betteryour memory will function. So
here's the way it works. When welaugh or just even smile, those
actions reduce stress hormones,lower our blood pressure and
send more feel good dopamine toour brain. That's a chain
reaction that alters our brainwaves and increases gamma wave
(12:51):
activity, and the scientistsconclude that those brain waves
improve our memory and recall.
So the bottom line is prettystraightforward, we now have a
terrific reason to watch standup comedy shows or hang out with
our funniest friends, becauseit's a fact that laughing makes
the brain work a whole lotbetter. Okay, listen to this.
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Are mosquitos keeping you fromenjoying your backyard? Try
attracting hummingbirds, becausethey eat mosquitoes.
Hummingbirds love tubularflowers like petunias or day
lilies. They'll also come todrink homemade nectar left in
your yard. Just mix one parttable sugar with four parts warm
water and fill a hummingbirdfeeder, or just use a red solo
(13:35):
cup and cut little holes rightabove the water line for the
birds to dip their beaks in, andthe influx of hummingbirds can
help keep mosquitoes from eatingyou alive. Back with more health
intelligence from cardiologistDr William Davis, and in his
book super gut, he shares lotsof research on a gut condition
called SIBO, or small intestinalbacterial overgrowth. It refers
(13:59):
to having excess, unhealthy orbad bacteria in the upper gut.
And it's estimated that as manyas one in three North Americans
have some form of SIBO. So Iasked Dr Davis to share some of
the health conditions now beinglinked to having this overgrowth
or harmful bacteria.
(14:22):
When you have this situation,these microbes don't live for
decades, right? They live forminutes to hours. So there's
very rapid, constant turnover,trillions of microbes when they
die. There's a very important,recently discovered process
where the breakdown projectsthese microbes enter the
bloodstream, that's calledendotoxemia, finally validated
once and for all, 2000 stepsrelatively recently, but that
(14:44):
process, SIBO, endotoxemia inthe bloodstream now tells us
with confidence, how microbes inthe GI tract can be experienced
as rosacea or psoriasis oreczema in the skin. So. Or as
depression or Alzheimer'sdementia or Parkinson's disease
in the brain or the muscle andjoint aches of fibromyalgia or
(15:06):
restless leg syndrome orrheumatoid arthritis. In fact, I
believe virtually all commonchronic conditions need to be
re, examined, reconsidered inlight of its connection with the
human microbiome.
Today we're talking tocardiologist, Dr William Davis,
and he was just talking about acondition called SIBO, which
(15:27):
refers to having an unhealthyovergrowth of harmful bacteria
in the small intestine. Dr Davissays there's a fairly easy way
to start treating SIBO, juststart adding more legumes to
your diet. So legumes, likewhite beans, black beans,
chickpeas, hummus, all thesethings we're familiar with are
very important sources of socalled prebiotic fibers,
(15:50):
specifically the galactooligosaccharide form of fiber,
probably among the mostimportant prebiotic fibers that
you can get because they come tothey very healthy species in
your GI tract. So if you say,Oh, I can't eat beans or peas or
chickpeas or whatever, becauseit gives me excessive gas and
(16:11):
bloating, the problem is not thefood. The problem is your
microbiome. And so that's yoursignal. Something's gone
haywire. Maybe it wasantibiotics, maybe it was your
statin cholesterol drug. Maybeit was the anti inflammatory
drug you took for your menstrualcycles or for your knee pain. So
if you had those kinds ofexperiences, legumes, think
(16:32):
about disruptive microbiome allbut specifically, consider SIBO.
If you have something you'redreading to do, do do it after
you've taken your daily walk,and that will make it easier.
That advice comes from IowaState University. They found
that people who rode a bike ortook a walk for 30 minutes
(16:52):
experienced a mood boost thatlasted more than an hour
afterward, and that helped themfinish a difficult task during
that time back with more healthintelligence from cardiologist
Dr William Davis in his booksuper gut, he breaks down some
of the ways we can reprogram ourgut and replace many of the
harmful bacteria that causehealth problems with more
(17:14):
beneficial gut bugs. He says themost common method of
reprogramming is with dietarychanges combined with taking
probiotics. But Dr Davis saysanother proven way to start
adding more good bacteria to ourgut is to simply eat more
fermented foods,far more important than a
probiotic, very costlyprobiotic, is to get fermented
(17:34):
foods do what your greatgrandmother did and ferment
sauerkraut, ferment vegetableson your countertop, get kimchi
and kombucha and kefir andyogurt. And the basics of how to
ferment food is ever you can getthis many books, including my
book. It's very easy and it's ait's event. It's effectively
(17:55):
cost free. Should be veryinexpensive outside the cost of
your vegetables, but this is howyou re implant very important
microbes, crazy names likeleuconostoc, mesenterides,
pediacos, pentaceous. Now thesemicrobes play kind of a traffic
cop function on the othermicrobes, they bring order back,
and they allow the restorationof the microbes you may have
(18:17):
lost or are lacking. It's notquite clear how that happens.
Are they latent? Are you morereceptive from your environment?
But somehow, very good studiesfrom a husband wife team at
Stanford, the Sonnenberg isshowing that vigorous and
enthusiastic consumption offermented foods something we
forgot about ever since 1927when frigid air came out with
(18:39):
affordable home refrigerationbecause of the discovery of
Freon as a refrigerant. Eversince then, Americans forgot
that fermented foods are notonly tasty, they're essential
for health. If afriend develops poison ivy or
poison oak, can you catch itfrom them? No, that's according
to the Mayo Clinic, the rashisn't infectious and cannot be
(19:02):
transmitted by touching blisterson someone else's skin. It's an
allergic reaction caused only byan oil on the plant's leaves
called urushiol, which cantrigger a painful rash up to 48
hours after contact. The onlytime you could get it from
someone else is if you touch theclothes or shoes they were
wearing when they werecontaminated, which still have
(19:24):
the oil on them, generallyspeaking, to protect yourself,
remember the saying, leaves ofthree, let it be and if you
suddenly realize you've touchedpoison oak or Ivy, you may be
able to avoid the rash if Youwash the area thoroughly with
water and dish soap. Within 10minutes, the dish soap will cut
through the plant oils and rinsethem away. Here's an email I
(19:47):
received at Connie atintelligence for your
health.com. It comes from CAMIMosher, who writes, I've heard
that we can do better atsomething when we visualize
ourselves. Doing it. How doesthat work? Well, Cami mental
practice or visualization canhave great results. It's
something athletes have beendoing forever. They use mental
(20:08):
imagery to enhance theirphysical performance, and it
works. Research shows that goingthrough the motions in your
head, like sinking a free throwor even nailing an important
speech, can improve ourperformance as much as actually
physically practicing, andsometimes the results are even
better. In a study from Texas Aand M medical students learning
(20:31):
to draw blood received 30minutes of instruction that was
followed by either 30 minutes ofadditional hands on training or
30 minutes of guided mentalpractice, the result the groups
performed equally well, meaningthe mental practice was just as
effective as the hands onpractice. So if you want to
perform better practice, butalso visualize the results you
(20:55):
want, and you're more likely toget them. Thank you for your
email. Cami, I hope this helps.
Okay, listen to this. For astronger immune system, be more
compassionate. Research from UCRiverside found people who spent
five minutes a day feelinggrateful for a loved one, saw a
(21:16):
spike in immunoglobulin, a anantibody that fights up viruses.
Even better write a letter ofappreciation, the research shows
it will boost your happiness,even if you never send the
letter, because just puttingyour thoughts on paper makes you
feel more connected to theperson, more humble and more
likely to do good deeds forothers. Do you have alarm
(21:38):
anxiety? See if this scenariosounds familiar, you set your
alarm before bed, set a backupalarm just in case, and even
wake up in the middle of thenight to check the time that is
alarm anxiety, the fear of analarm not going off or not
getting enough sleep before itgoes off. Alina winel is a
(22:00):
master sleep coach, and she saysalarm anxiety becomes a vicious
cycle. We can't sleep becausewe're anxious about the alarm,
which stresses us out so much wecan't sleep. And when else? Says
alarms are aptly named becausehearing it puts you into an
alarmed state, shocking youawake with a rush of stress
(22:20):
hormones. So how can weeliminate alarm anxiety? When
else says the first step is toface your alarm clock or phone
away from you, or put your phonefar enough away from the bed
that you can't check it. It willgo off whether you can see it or
not, but looking at the timekick starts your stress hormones
and choose a more gentle alarmsound that's not so shocking,
(22:44):
instead of something that soundslike an air raid siren. More
intelligence for your healthfrom cardiologist Dr William
Davis, if you'd like to knowmore about him or his book,
super gut, check out Dr Davis,infinite health.com and earlier,
he talked about some of thehealth benefits associated with
restoring the microbe,lactobacillus rotary in our gut.
(23:07):
They include giving us a happiermood, deeper sleep and less of
an urge to overeat. But Dr Davissays there's another benefit we
can expect with more healthymicrobes in our gut, they'll
help us look and feel muchyounger.
So think about it, if yourestore this lost microbe, lost
by most of us because ofantibiotics, etc, we restore it,
(23:29):
and you get a restoration ofyouthful muscle and strength.
Most of us lose about a third ormore of our muscle and strength
as we get older, starting atabout age 30, so it comes back,
preserved bone density,increased libido. Many med
experience an increase oftestosterone, back to youthful
(23:49):
levels, levels you had at age 18or 20, better sleep, by the way,
smoother skin, thicker hair,reduction of appetite, increased
libido. These are all signs, Ithink, of greater youthfulness.
And you can see this, peopleshare their before after photos,
and you can see that many peopleyou'd say, Oh yeah, this person
(24:10):
looks 10 or 20 years younger.
That's it for our show today,our special intelligence for
your health with Connie Selig.
Edition of the podcast, I'm GibGerard. Don't forget to rate
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(24:32):
ultimately, we do the show foryou guys. So thank you so much
for listening. You.
Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Todaywe have another special
intelligence for your healthwith Connie Celica, edition of
the show, and our interview iswith cardiologist Dr William
Davis, he is also author of thebook super gut. So we have all
kinds of information about howimportant a healthy gut is and
what to do with an unhealthygut. So without further ado,
(00:31):
here is intelligence for yourhealth with Connie selika,
studiesshow a third of us experience
post vacation blues once we gethome, because the happiness
chemicals we built up over ourbreak are dissipating. To hold
on to those happy brainchemicals longer. Have something
fun to look forward to when youcome back, like dinner with
friends, because according toCornell University researchers,
(00:53):
you get as much happiness fromanticipating a good time as
having one. Also put a couple ofpictures from your vacation
where you can see them whileyou're working. Studies show
that visualizing yourself in aplace where you felt good can
mentally bring you back to thatfeeling and immediately boost
your mood. Try this test tocheck your balance. Act like
(01:17):
you've been pulled over for aDUI and try walking in a
straight line, putting one footdirectly in front of the other
with the toes of your back foottouching the heel of your front
foot. Neurosurgeon Dr Nancy Tsaifrom Medical University of South
Carolina says if you can't takemore than four steps without
wobbling off center, yourbalance needs work, so try
(01:39):
standing in that same position,one foot directly in front of
the other, and raise your armsabove your head. Hold that
position as long as you can,because with good balance,
you're less likely to fall andinjure yourself. And that's
important, because 20% ofelderly hip fracture patients
die within a year due tocomplications from the trauma.
(02:01):
You can also try Tai Chi. Astudy found that people who do
Tai Chi once a week have muchbetter balance than people who
don't practice it at all. Comingup, we'll talk to cardiologist
Dr William Davis about some ofthe good things we can expect to
happen with our health when weadd one specific probiotic to
our diet, but first, if you'respending a week at the beach, is
(02:24):
your beach towel, a bacteriabomb that needs washing every
day. No microbiologists from theUniversity of Arizona say it's
okay to use the same towel forseveral days running if you hang
it in direct sunlight and let itdry completely. The sun's UV
rays will kill 90% of the germs,leaving bacteria levels too low
(02:45):
to make you sick. But if thetowel still damp the next day,
toss it in the dryer, becausewith moisture, bacteria can
multiply 100 fold after eachuse. So you got a sunburn and
now it's peeling. Should yougive in to the temptation and
peel off the flakes of deadskin, or just leave it and let
(03:06):
nature take its course? Well,according to dermatologist Dr
Sonja Batra, peeling a sunburncan provide psychological
satisfaction, because somepeople find it relaxing and even
soothing like scratching anitch. But here's why you should
resist the urge. First, if yourskin is peeling, it's a sign
(03:27):
that significant damage hasoccurred. It's your body's way
of getting rid of damaged cellsthat could potentially turn into
skin cancer, and your body healsitself by forming a new layer of
skin underneath. It takes aboutfour to seven days for a new
layer of skin to fully form, andthat's when the dead skin
protecting the new layer beginsto peel off. But at that point,
(03:49):
your skin is really vulnerable,and peeling off dead skin
prematurely can interfere withthe healing process and make the
new skin susceptible toinfection because it gives
bacteria a way to enter yoursystem. So as tempting as it may
be to peel off sunburned skin,don't do it just like you
shouldn't pop a blister, becausethe damaged skin protects the
(04:13):
new skin growing underneath.
Okay, listen to this if you wantto cut your risk of head and
neck cancer by 400% brush andfloss on a regular basis.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute inNew York found that people with
chronic gum disease have a 400%higher risk of developing
(04:35):
cancers of the head or neck, butyou can slash your risk by
taking three minutes to brushand floss every day, the
recommended length of time forbrushing two minutes and
flossing One Minute. Today, ourspecial guest is Dr William
Davis. He's a cardiologist who'sbest known for writing the New
York Times best selling book,Wheat Belly. He also has a book
(04:57):
called Super gut a four week.
Plan to reprogram yourmicrobiome, restore health and
lose weight. The book exploresthe link between our gut health
and our overall health. So Iasked Dr Davis why some of us
might need to considerreprogramming our gut Well,
we've done a real number on ourmicrobiome. That is this
(05:18):
collection of trillions ofmicrobes that live in your
gastrointestinal tract, all thethings we've been exposed to as
modern people, multiple coursesof antibiotics. Not uncommon
Johnny, for a person by age 40to have taken 30 courses of
antibiotics. Then we haveglyphosate, the herbicide that's
also an antibiotic. We haveother herbicides and pesticide
(05:39):
residues and food and water,we've got food additives like
preservatives and emulsifyingagents like polysorbate 80 in
your ice cream or saladdressing. Other prescription
drugs like stomach acid blockingdrugs, statin cholesterol drugs,
birth control pills, on and onand on. We swim in an ocean of
(05:59):
factors that have disrupt thehuman microbiome. Now, one of
the effects is that we've lostvery important species that did
important things for the humanbody, and then beyond that, with
loss of those helpful microbeunhealthy species, largely oddly
stool species have proliferatedin their place and then did
(06:20):
something else that's reallyimpacting modern health. They've
ascended up into the smallbowel, the 24 feet of ilium
jejunum, duodenum and stomach,and we now have 10s of millions,
I think, over 100 millionAmericans with 30 feet of all
the proliferated stool microbesthat impact your health,
(06:41):
more intelligence for yourhealth. From cardiologist Dr
William Davis. He was justsaying that many of us need to
reprogram our gut because it'slikely swimming with harmful
bacteria linked to our exposureto pesticides, antibiotics, food
additives and other dangeroustoxins. He says those exposures
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are a top reason most NorthAmericans are seriously
deficient in a microbe calledLactobacillus Rotary. So I asked
Dr Davis what we can expect tohappen if we make changes to
restore just that one microbe.
When you restore it, wonderfulthings happen. We restore
Rotary, it, interestingly,colonized the entire GI tract,
(07:24):
not just the colon, but theentire length of the GI tract,
where it sends a signal to thebrain, to the hypothalamus, to
release the hormone oxytocin. Alot of your listeners likely
know what oxytocin is, becausethey've heard of it as the
hormone of love and empathy.
Well, when you restore Rotary,that's exactly what happens. You
say, I love my partner better. Ilove my children, my family
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better. They're less annoying tome. I like my coworkers better.
Get this one. I understand otherpeople's points of view better.
But the ladies love thisrestoration of Lactobacillus
reuteri, because they get anexplosion in dermal collagen,
and they start to lose theirskin wrinkles at about eight
weeks of getting it. Guys loveit because you get a boost in
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strength and a huge increase inmuscle. You get a restoration of
youthful muscle and strength.
You get deeper sleep. Itpreserves bone density and
ladies, very important effect,it suppresses appetite, so
you're no longer having to fighttemptation. And so we have
marvelous effects. And this isjust the effects of restoring
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one microbe we've lost. Ifyou're
interested in restoring thatmicrobe, Google lactobacillus
Rotary. Rotary is spelled R, E,U, T, E, R, I. There are plenty
of probiotics on the market tochoose from. You can also get it
from foods like yogurt with livecultures, sauerkraut, real
sourdough bread and kimchi. Ifyou're exercising in hot
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weather, make sure you havesomething cold to drink, because
the temperature of your drinkreally does make a difference.
In a study from the Universityof Montana, scientists monitored
people walking briskly on atreadmill for three hours in 90
degree heat, and the exercisershad either ice water to drink or
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lukewarm room temperature water.
The result study subjects had todrink twice as much lukewarm
water compared to ice water tomaintain a healthy skin
temperature and heart rate.
Also, when exercisers drank icewater, they were better able to
regulate their core temperatureand they experienced less
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fatigue and muscle pain. So ifyou'll be out exercising in the
heat or working in the heat,find an insulated bottle you can
fill with ice water. Today'smedical term stiff person
syndrome or SPS, you may haveheard it's what Celine Dion is
experiencing. Well, it's anumbrella term for a group of
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autoimmune and neurologicaldisorders that cause stiffness
and spasm. Symptoms throughoutthe body. The problems typically
start in the legs, which canmake it difficult to walk and
maintain your balance, but overtime, the stiffness and spasms
can spread to the torso, armsand face. And symptoms are often
accompanied by heightenedsensitivity to loud noises and
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even being touched by a lovedone. Until recently, there
wasn't much doctors could do totreat stiff person syndrome, but
research from Johns HopkinsUniversity says patients can get
some relief from SPS with ablood plasma exchange. In other
words, by replacing the oldplasma in your blood with
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donated plasma from someonewho's healthy. In a new study,
more than half of people withSPS who tried this new treatment
saw immediate improvement intheir symptoms. If you've
watched the Celine Diondocumentary, she gets a plasma
exchange, and that's today'smedical term, stiff person
syndrome, or SPS coming up.
We'll hear more fromcardiologist Dr William Davis.
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He'll explain why beans areamong the best foods you can eat
to stay healthy, even if theysometimes make you gassy. But
first, to reduce your risk ofdeath by heart attack, go to bed
two hours after your last biteof food. The American Heart
Association says we tend to eata third of our food after 6pm
which raises our risk for prediabetes and high blood pressure
(11:24):
by 21% one reason late nightmeals are typically unhealthy
and processed because we're tootired to cook, plus eating
within two hours of bed islinked to visceral Fat packed
between our organs, which alsohurts our heart. That's why
researchers recommend havingyour last mouthful of food two
(11:45):
hours before bed. If you've beenmore forgetful than usual these
days, you just need more laughs.
Research from Loma LindaUniversity found laughing makes
your brain process memories moreeffectively. For the research,
one group of study subjectswatched a short funny video
(12:06):
while another group just satcalmly in the study room with no
video to watch afterward, allthe participants were given
memory tests and had theirstress levels measured. The
result, those who watched thefunny video, scored far better
on the memory test and had lessstress during the test. The
researchers confirmed what otherstudies have proved, that the
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less stress you have, the betteryour memory will function. So
here's the way it works. When welaugh or just even smile, those
actions reduce stress hormones,lower our blood pressure and
send more feel good dopamine toour brain. That's a chain
reaction that alters our brainwaves and increases gamma wave
(12:51):
activity, and the scientistsconclude that those brain waves
improve our memory and recall.
So the bottom line is prettystraightforward, we now have a
terrific reason to watch standup comedy shows or hang out with
our funniest friends, becauseit's a fact that laughing makes
the brain work a whole lotbetter. Okay, listen to this.
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Are mosquitos keeping you fromenjoying your backyard? Try
attracting hummingbirds, becausethey eat mosquitoes.
Hummingbirds love tubularflowers like petunias or day
lilies. They'll also come todrink homemade nectar left in
your yard. Just mix one parttable sugar with four parts warm
water and fill a hummingbirdfeeder, or just use a red solo
(13:35):
cup and cut little holes rightabove the water line for the
birds to dip their beaks in, andthe influx of hummingbirds can
help keep mosquitoes from eatingyou alive. Back with more health
intelligence from cardiologistDr William Davis, and in his
book super gut, he shares lotsof research on a gut condition
called SIBO, or small intestinalbacterial overgrowth. It refers
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to having excess, unhealthy orbad bacteria in the upper gut.
And it's estimated that as manyas one in three North Americans
have some form of SIBO. So Iasked Dr Davis to share some of
the health conditions now beinglinked to having this overgrowth
or harmful bacteria.
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When you have this situation,these microbes don't live for
decades, right? They live forminutes to hours. So there's
very rapid, constant turnover,trillions of microbes when they
die. There's a very important,recently discovered process
where the breakdown projectsthese microbes enter the
bloodstream, that's calledendotoxemia, finally validated
once and for all, 2000 stepsrelatively recently, but that
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process, SIBO, endotoxemia inthe bloodstream now tells us
with confidence, how microbes inthe GI tract can be experienced
as rosacea or psoriasis oreczema in the skin. So. Or as
depression or Alzheimer'sdementia or Parkinson's disease
in the brain or the muscle andjoint aches of fibromyalgia or
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restless leg syndrome orrheumatoid arthritis. In fact, I
believe virtually all commonchronic conditions need to be
re, examined, reconsidered inlight of its connection with the
human microbiome.
Today we're talking tocardiologist, Dr William Davis,
and he was just talking about acondition called SIBO, which
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refers to having an unhealthyovergrowth of harmful bacteria
in the small intestine. Dr Davissays there's a fairly easy way
to start treating SIBO, juststart adding more legumes to
your diet. So legumes, likewhite beans, black beans,
chickpeas, hummus, all thesethings we're familiar with are
very important sources of socalled prebiotic fibers,
(15:50):
specifically the galactooligosaccharide form of fiber,
probably among the mostimportant prebiotic fibers that
you can get because they come tothey very healthy species in
your GI tract. So if you say,Oh, I can't eat beans or peas or
chickpeas or whatever, becauseit gives me excessive gas and
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bloating, the problem is not thefood. The problem is your
microbiome. And so that's yoursignal. Something's gone
haywire. Maybe it wasantibiotics, maybe it was your
statin cholesterol drug. Maybeit was the anti inflammatory
drug you took for your menstrualcycles or for your knee pain. So
if you had those kinds ofexperiences, legumes, think
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about disruptive microbiome allbut specifically, consider SIBO.
If you have something you'redreading to do, do do it after
you've taken your daily walk,and that will make it easier.
That advice comes from IowaState University. They found
that people who rode a bike ortook a walk for 30 minutes
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experienced a mood boost thatlasted more than an hour
afterward, and that helped themfinish a difficult task during
that time back with more healthintelligence from cardiologist
Dr William Davis in his booksuper gut, he breaks down some
of the ways we can reprogram ourgut and replace many of the
harmful bacteria that causehealth problems with more
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beneficial gut bugs. He says themost common method of
reprogramming is with dietarychanges combined with taking
probiotics. But Dr Davis saysanother proven way to start
adding more good bacteria to ourgut is to simply eat more
fermented foods,far more important than a
probiotic, very costlyprobiotic, is to get fermented
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foods do what your greatgrandmother did and ferment
sauerkraut, ferment vegetableson your countertop, get kimchi
and kombucha and kefir andyogurt. And the basics of how to
ferment food is ever you can getthis many books, including my
book. It's very easy and it's ait's event. It's effectively
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cost free. Should be veryinexpensive outside the cost of
your vegetables, but this is howyou re implant very important
microbes, crazy names likeleuconostoc, mesenterides,
pediacos, pentaceous. Now thesemicrobes play kind of a traffic
cop function on the othermicrobes, they bring order back,
and they allow the restorationof the microbes you may have
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lost or are lacking. It's notquite clear how that happens.
Are they latent? Are you morereceptive from your environment?
But somehow, very good studiesfrom a husband wife team at
Stanford, the Sonnenberg isshowing that vigorous and
enthusiastic consumption offermented foods something we
forgot about ever since 1927when frigid air came out with
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affordable home refrigerationbecause of the discovery of
Freon as a refrigerant. Eversince then, Americans forgot
that fermented foods are notonly tasty, they're essential
for health. If afriend develops poison ivy or
poison oak, can you catch itfrom them? No, that's according
to the Mayo Clinic, the rashisn't infectious and cannot be
(19:02):
transmitted by touching blisterson someone else's skin. It's an
allergic reaction caused only byan oil on the plant's leaves
called urushiol, which cantrigger a painful rash up to 48
hours after contact. The onlytime you could get it from
someone else is if you touch theclothes or shoes they were
wearing when they werecontaminated, which still have
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the oil on them, generallyspeaking, to protect yourself,
remember the saying, leaves ofthree, let it be and if you
suddenly realize you've touchedpoison oak or Ivy, you may be
able to avoid the rash if Youwash the area thoroughly with
water and dish soap. Within 10minutes, the dish soap will cut
through the plant oils and rinsethem away. Here's an email I
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received at Connie atintelligence for your
health.com. It comes from CAMIMosher, who writes, I've heard
that we can do better atsomething when we visualize
ourselves. Doing it. How doesthat work? Well, Cami mental
practice or visualization canhave great results. It's
something athletes have beendoing forever. They use mental
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imagery to enhance theirphysical performance, and it
works. Research shows that goingthrough the motions in your
head, like sinking a free throwor even nailing an important
speech, can improve ourperformance as much as actually
physically practicing, andsometimes the results are even
better. In a study from Texas Aand M medical students learning
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to draw blood received 30minutes of instruction that was
followed by either 30 minutes ofadditional hands on training or
30 minutes of guided mentalpractice, the result the groups
performed equally well, meaningthe mental practice was just as
effective as the hands onpractice. So if you want to
perform better practice, butalso visualize the results you
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want, and you're more likely toget them. Thank you for your
email. Cami, I hope this helps.
Okay, listen to this. For astronger immune system, be more
compassionate. Research from UCRiverside found people who spent
five minutes a day feelinggrateful for a loved one, saw a
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spike in immunoglobulin, a anantibody that fights up viruses.
Even better write a letter ofappreciation, the research shows
it will boost your happiness,even if you never send the
letter, because just puttingyour thoughts on paper makes you
feel more connected to theperson, more humble and more
likely to do good deeds forothers. Do you have alarm
(21:38):
anxiety? See if this scenariosounds familiar, you set your
alarm before bed, set a backupalarm just in case, and even
wake up in the middle of thenight to check the time that is
alarm anxiety, the fear of analarm not going off or not
getting enough sleep before itgoes off. Alina winel is a
(22:00):
master sleep coach, and she saysalarm anxiety becomes a vicious
cycle. We can't sleep becausewe're anxious about the alarm,
which stresses us out so much wecan't sleep. And when else? Says
alarms are aptly named becausehearing it puts you into an
alarmed state, shocking youawake with a rush of stress
(22:20):
hormones. So how can weeliminate alarm anxiety? When
else says the first step is toface your alarm clock or phone
away from you, or put your phonefar enough away from the bed
that you can't check it. It willgo off whether you can see it or
not, but looking at the timekick starts your stress hormones
and choose a more gentle alarmsound that's not so shocking,
(22:44):
instead of something that soundslike an air raid siren. More
intelligence for your healthfrom cardiologist Dr William
Davis, if you'd like to knowmore about him or his book,
super gut, check out Dr Davis,infinite health.com and earlier,
he talked about some of thehealth benefits associated with
restoring the microbe,lactobacillus rotary in our gut.
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They include giving us a happiermood, deeper sleep and less of
an urge to overeat. But Dr Davissays there's another benefit we
can expect with more healthymicrobes in our gut, they'll
help us look and feel muchyounger.
So think about it, if yourestore this lost microbe, lost
by most of us because ofantibiotics, etc, we restore it,
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and you get a restoration ofyouthful muscle and strength.
Most of us lose about a third ormore of our muscle and strength
as we get older, starting atabout age 30, so it comes back,
preserved bone density,increased libido. Many med
experience an increase oftestosterone, back to youthful
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levels, levels you had at age 18or 20, better sleep, by the way,
smoother skin, thicker hair,reduction of appetite, increased
libido. These are all signs, Ithink, of greater youthfulness.
And you can see this, peopleshare their before after photos,
and you can see that many peopleyou'd say, Oh yeah, this person
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looks 10 or 20 years younger.
That's it for our show today,our special intelligence for
your health with Connie Selig.
Edition of the podcast, I'm GibGerard. Don't forget to rate
comment and subscribe on Applepodcast. Spotify, wherever you
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All of our links are listed downin the show notes. We try to
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ultimately, we do the show foryou guys. So thank you so much
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