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Unlocking Gut Health Secrets. (JP TV #154 with Josh Deck)
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In this episode, we delve into the transformative work of Josh, a former paramedic turned Holistic Nutritionist specializing in gut health. His remarkable success in helping clients overcome complex digestive diseases, previously deemed insurmountable, led him to collaborate with leading medical experts worldwide.
Episode Highlights:
Josh's Journey: From Paramedic to Holistic Nutritionist
Pioneering Holistic Approach to Gut Health
Success Stories: Overcoming Complex Digestive Diseases
Connecting with Renowned Medical Professionals
Role at Priority Health Academy: Educating on Holistic Gut Health
The Power of Holistic Wellness in Digestive Health
Key Takeaways:
Insights into Gut Health Revolution
Understanding the Holistic Approach to Digestive Issues
Impactful Success Stories
Collaborations with Renowned Medical Experts
Josh's Contribution to Priority Health Academy
Resources Mentioned:
Priority Health Academy
Gut Health & Holistic Wellness Books and References
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Transcript
00:00:17
Speaker
All right, how's it going everyone?
Introduction to Josh Deck and His Focus on Gut Health
00:00:20
Speaker
Welcome back to the Jimbo Parish show. Today we have Josh Deck. He's an ex-paramatic and holistic nutritionist. So he does everything, but he is specifically focused on gut health and sort of how, I'm assuming it's how the foods we ingest can sort of make us healthier, happier, better people. So yeah, how you doing Josh?
00:00:46
Speaker
Hey Jimbo, I'm doing really good. That is a very overview term of things. There's a lot more to it for sure. I'm excited to get into about the gut and how it works and really the importance of it in our body, which I think more people really need to understand like the depth of what it is. Right. So what is gut health? Because when I think of gut health, I think about a lot of things. I think about the gut feeling, I think about, you know,
00:01:11
Speaker
the food we eat and how it may affect us and maybe cause things like inflammation or those types of things. What do you focus on and how is that sort of holistic in a sense? Gut health is pretty easy for the most part when it comes to symptomatology. That's what we call our basis of symptoms, how I feel or don't feel. And if somebody feels good, they eat food, they're eating good food, they're not bloated, they're not gassy, they don't stink when they pass gas, their bowel movements are normal, everything's healthy, you probably got a good gut.
00:01:40
Speaker
However, if you have other issues in the body, you're dealing with anxiety, depression, skin issues, irritability, sleeplessness, introversion can actually be a sign of poor gut health. Our gut bacteria are arguably as important as our DNA and so we can trace almost every medical condition on earth in some way either back to the gut as a sole cause or
00:02:02
Speaker
a very notable contributing factor. And so it always has a role to play. So we're talking about gut health. How does my gut feel on the inside versus how is everything else managing for me? Interesting. And what got you interested in gut
Josh's Journey from Paramedic to Nutritionist
00:02:18
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health?
00:02:18
Speaker
It was a bit of an accident, honestly. So I used to be a paramedic. That was my first career. And when I started doing that, I realized pretty quickly within the first couple of months, I picked up a lot of the same patients over and over for the same sicknesses, same conditions. And they just brought them to the hospital. They got an update on medication. They got sent home. And I realized very quickly we were performing sick care. We were not performing health care.
00:02:40
Speaker
And so after I left my career as a paramedic, I got into the fitness industry. I've been in there for years and decided I'll go all in. Let's do some personal training. And so training and nutrition are hand in hand. They always work together. And so when I got my first job there, I was working professionally for a gym. That was my full time career.
00:02:56
Speaker
There was a lady who came to see me, she was 57 years old. She was on 17 pills and insulin for breakfast in the morning, nine pills with more insulin at nighttime. She was taking all kinds of medications. She had blood pressure issues, borderline, what we call congestive heart failure. She slept with a CPAP machine. She was on disability at work, just in really medically very rough shape. I was 57 years old when she came to see me. By age 59, she broke her first world record as a weightlifter in the raw powerlifting division at that age division.
00:03:23
Speaker
And so this really started this journey of going deeper and deeper into the gut and digestion. One of the reasons gut was anchored for me, she did have a gastric bypass surgery, which they took 76% of her stomach. And so she had all kinds of gut issues and they started exploring this and diving in and we science the crap out of her stuff. And she kept breaking records all the way to age 61, 62 when she retired. And so that really set me off on the stage of what is the gut? How does it work? This is my early twenties, went back to school, became a nutritionist, started diving more. And as time went on,
00:03:53
Speaker
I started seeing weight loss resistance where people can't lose weight. We're seeing a lot of that today. People just, no matter how many diets they try, how much they exercise, they don't lose weight. I've seen PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome. I was seeing a lot of respiratory distress, asthma, anxiety, and every time we address the gut, these things improve. People would lose weight.
00:04:11
Speaker
their hormones would improve dramatically, their asthma would go away, their anxiety, depression would go away. And so I went all in on the gut. And then the more I did that, the worse and worse the gut diseases that came to see me and the more connected we got in this world. So I think there's, you know, a lot of healthy foods out
Controversial Foods and Health Risks
00:04:28
Speaker
there. And you know, what are some of the healthy foods that are sort of banned in other countries?
00:04:34
Speaker
Are you referring to some of the content I've made in the past? There's a lot of reasons these foods are banned, and that's because they recognize in other countries, look at certain food dyes. We look at American imports of meat in particular. We look at a lot of these different things. They're banned because these other countries recognize them. If you look at the amount of food dye in something like fruit loops, right? The UK and the EU, you have to put a warning label on them like we do with cigarettes in America.
00:05:00
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In North America, we have a cigarette label that says, hey, if you ingest these, it causes cancer, it's inflammatory, it's this, it's that, it makes you sick. They show pictures of fetuses and lungs. So you know how bad it is. They do the same with food dyes in a lot of places in Europe. And so they recognize they're bad for the brain, they're bad for the gut, they're bad for all kinds of things, a carcinogenic in nature. A lot of these sweeteners, artificial sweeteners, aspartame, highly neurotoxic. There was a case many years back of a girl in the States who was drinking four liters of Diet Coke a day.
00:05:28
Speaker
And she developed MS. That's generation of nerves. It's called multiple sclerosis. We basically lose this ability to use your nerves and move your body. And anyway, so she cut her diet coke, which was full of aspartame. And her MS symptoms began to go away and they're alleviated because aspartame is neurotoxic. And these things affect your gut, your body, your nerves, your bacteria wearing and tearing. And if we're messing up our bacteria, we're opening doors to things that even today we still don't fully understand.
00:05:57
Speaker
I mean, I argue our gut bacteria is as important as our DNA. So you mentioned aspartame. So what about the more natural stuff like honey or I'm not even sure, but Stevia, I'm no expert here, but are those better? Absolutely. Stevia, I'm actually a fan of for a lot of reasons. It's actually shown to be beneficial in a lot of ways. It's been shown to be beneficial in gut balancing or gut microbes. If there are situations where somebody might have excesses of biofilms, where they have too much bacteria producing too much of this mucusy,
00:06:25
Speaker
stuff. It's protective until it's not. It can break down some of that. So there's much better options. Whereas honey, like proper honey, and that's the issue we have now in the States, a lot of these foods that we see like honey, for example, is often mixed with high fructose corn syrup, which is one of the leading causes of fatty liver disease and will be or predicted to be for liver transplants by 2025 is this high fructose corn syrup we see in pop and all kinds. So it's not real honey.
00:06:51
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but real honey quality honey from real bees comes from the forest and make it from flowers no additives has antimicrobial benefits and it can be really good for you provided you don't have a ton of overgrowth of bacteria that feed on sugar. Okay so I'm gonna assume you're also an advocate of maybe I don't know but maybe raw things like raw milk raw cheeses too or
00:07:14
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Absolutely.
The Benefits of Traditional Foods
00:07:15
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The thing about when we look at our food, we have to recognize that humans have survived for whatever you believe, thousands of years, millions of years, doesn't matter. We have survived from the beginning of time eating raw milk, eating raw things, eating things from trees, and eating ferments and all these foods. A lot of the stuff we have today, some of it hasn't existed more than 10, 20 years, some of it 50 or 100 years. Oils that we have now, vegetable oil, canola oil, they never existed before. And we've seen a rise in disease. We look at the charts, they're just
00:07:42
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straight up this climb like a roller coaster. And that comes from these new foods. Now, a lot of nutritionists, a lot of scientists will say, well, the correlation does not equal causation. What that means is even though we see the correlation, we can't say it's caused it for sure. But what else has changed? Our food is the biggest changer. The chemicals in our water, in our products, in our shampoos, all these things, it creates a toxic burden. And it's almost as silly to me to deny this.
00:08:10
Speaker
There's a story that goes back. Every medical student's ever graduated medical school knows a story of Ignaz Semmelweis. He was a Hungarian physician back in the 1950s. In 1956, they were doing some discovery and he was trying to figure out why women kept dying in childbirth. And so he actually looked at two different pediatric wards. One was doctors, the other was just midwives, midwives and priests. And he found the one that had doctors, these women delivering babies, died at a rate five times higher than this other pediatric ward.
00:08:38
Speaker
Do you think doctors would be better? But it turns out these doctors were coming in with bloody clothes, working on emergencies and trauma. They were doing autopsies and using their same hands unclean after touching dead bodies and injuries to deliver babies. And they wondered why these women kept dying. It was called child bed fever. Ignaz Semmelweis said, why don't we start washing our hands?
00:08:57
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And the death rates dropped dramatically in the wards that he was overseeing. And they didn't like that. You'd think they'd celebrate, yay, look at this great thing. But they didn't want to be blamed for death. They didn't want to feel that they were dirty. And all the doctors, he got fired, lost his job, and ended up dying alone many years later. And that obnoxiousness to deny the possibility
00:09:15
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We can connect the dots to see the data. We cut these things out when you wash your hands. We can connect the dots to see the data today when we clean up our diets, when we change things out, when we take out these artificial fake foods we've had around for less than 50 years, people start getting better. We still have physicians and specialists going, yeah, well, we can't prove it. One day they're going to look as archaic and silly as these doctors in 1856.
00:09:36
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, I would say to a lot of these retail companies also, you know, it makes, it's so hard to access organic foods like raw milk, raw cheese, you know, it can be very expensive. And a lot of times if you want raw milk, you have to actually buy the cow in some areas because it's illegal. So, so, so what is
The Carnivore Diet Debate
00:09:56
Speaker
your diet like? I was assuming it would be a bit more, you know, flexitarian, more greens than animal, but you seem big on animal products. What's your diet like?
00:10:05
Speaker
Today I've had two steaks covered in butter so far. Yeah. I'm a big fan of red meat, animal-based meats, organ meats, liver, kidney, heart. Like eating these types of things, they're extremely nutritious. If we look at what we've been eating since the beginning of time, since humans walk the earth, the first things they would have eaten would have been meat.
00:10:21
Speaker
because it was accessible, you can find an animal, hunt it, kill it, and we've been fined. And then the agricultural revolution started. And this is really interesting in my podcast, episode 15 with Dr. Anthony Chafee. He's a very well-known carnivore. And he was talking about, you know, we can see through isotope technology, what people were eating back three, 4,000 years ago, through the agricultural revolutions in Egypt, and they're eating more grains and wheat than there were animal products. We can see
00:10:45
Speaker
The statues of the artwork and how soft people became where body fat started to happen in the old ancient scripts of medical literature that was being recorded at the time they didn't have a word that was cardiac disease but we can see in the literature where they would have had what correlates today to heart disease we can see the symptoms.
00:11:03
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And so it looks like the evidence is showing for those who are willing to look at it, the more grains and plants and other things people begin to eat, the softer, the fatter, the sicker we start to get. And it's actually the carnivore base, which we've been eating since the beginning of time that we've seen this. We can back it up with info that's still alive today.
00:11:21
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I did another episode with Brian Sanders. He's got a documentary coming up called Food Lies. And he was talking about these African tribes. He went over to visit and he was going into these countries and they don't know what heart disease is. They don't know what diabetes or obesity. They don't know what Alzheimer's is, all these things. But what do they do? They eat things off of trees?
00:11:40
Speaker
and they eat meat, they hunt baboons, they cut goats, they kill these animals, they eat the animals. But these animals, there's a lot of junk in vegetables and other things as well, which are dangerous to humans and dangerous to other things. Whenever something eats, something it should not. It gets sick, right? When dogs eat dog food, they get goops under their eyes, their coats get really dry, their hair gets really gross. But if they eat meat in raw things and carcasses,
00:12:05
Speaker
They are healthy. They have shiny coats. They have more energy. Their stools are a lot cleaner, not as smelly. Their breath doesn't stink as bad. And so if we got to go back to our roots, but unfortunately there's been a big push lately, in my opinion, it's unfortunate for vegan, for plant-based, which is all just artificial chemicals anyway, and our traditional ancestral diets, in my opinion, are the best way to go. You know, I heard a little bit about me only being traditional ancestor, you know, this whole carnivore
00:12:31
Speaker
I don't think I could do only meat, but you know, I think that's a really fascinating thing because I think a lot of scientists will say it was only like the Neanderthals that ate only meat and you know, we didn't really do that so much. I'm not really an expert.
00:12:46
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I agree with you. I mean, yeah, the Neanderthals would have, maybe they even ate each other. We don't know. We're only guessing, right? And so that the technology we have, who knows how accurate it is, even carbon dating, right? There were some instances that, oh, this is 72 million years old based on carbon dating. Then they take something that was like two years old and it showed 50 million years. So who really knows? But we can say is that there are a lot of evidence out there for a lot of people who are eating a
00:13:12
Speaker
carnivore diet, strict carnivore, and I'm not. I still eat some fruits and I'll have vegetables. We make a soup or go to my in-laws. But these animals are filters. So a lot of the junk that can be in these vegetables, a lot of these plant-based materials that could make people sick or cause low-grade inflammatory conditions filter through the animal. We eat the animal and we're good. Again, we look at these affluent areas. We eat a lot of plants and vegetables and things. Is it the pesticides? Is it the vegetables? What's making them sick and causing these diseases over time?
00:13:41
Speaker
That's the question to answer. So the next big question I have is, you know, can, can vitamin overdose cause death?
Understanding Vitamin Overdose
00:13:49
Speaker
That one is also grayer, and some instances will say absolutely. If someone has too much of something, your body's supposed to get rid of it, but we do know that there are toxic levels of certain things. We can say, well, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin D, we can see toxicity if your levels go over X, Y, and Z, depending on the lab ranges we're using for blood work. But also, we have to keep in mind, your body should be able to excrete excess.
00:14:12
Speaker
If you have a healthy kidney, healthy gut, healthy liver, healthy limbs, healthy skin, you're getting sunshine, contacting the earth and you're discharging all these negative ions and you're balancing your pHs and basically living ancestrally, we'll have what we need and your detox mechanisms can detox the excess.
00:14:28
Speaker
But if we look at B vitamins, look at the back of the next energy drink, 14,000% vitamin B12 of daily value, take a B vitamin, 10,000% of, you know, we got 50,000% of all these excesses of artificial vitamins anyway. And so again, is it the artificial vitamins causing the problem or the natural, right? Now we take reference ranges from blood work, and this is what gets interesting. If I were to look at blood work, for example, from a client of mine,
00:14:50
Speaker
One of them came in with thyroid issues. We checked out a hormone. It's called TSH. It's thyroid stimulating hormone. And the normal reference range was 1.0 to 4.0. That was what it used to be. Now it's 1.0 to 6.5. So we've increased by 67% this lab value of what we allow to be normal.
00:15:08
Speaker
It's not what's optimal or doing a sliding the scale of normal based on a population of people who are chronically ill. It's something like Dr. Joel Fairman told me, something like 97% give or take of people are not metabolically healthy. The BMIs aren't healthy due to a healthy body, but maybe to eating disorders, drug use, sickness, or something else. And so we have the vast majority, dramatic 90 plus 97% of people who aren't actually healthy
00:15:35
Speaker
by good standards. And so we're using our values and our reference ranges for blood work and dosing and vitamins and all these things based on a sick population which can only skew the data. And so I would argue the best data we have again is indigenous tribes who still live on the land who still walk around bare feet. These are things we have to consider as being different.
00:15:54
Speaker
So, you know, I think you mentioned a lot, you know, this idea of following a more primal life, a more healthier life, you know, so how do we actually make this a bit more sustainable?
Gut Health Tips for Travelers
00:16:06
Speaker
How do we like, like, for example, let me give like a really tough situation here. How do we kind of maintain gut health
00:16:12
Speaker
maybe while traveling. Well, those get really tricky. I mean, I went to the UK two months ago and I felt like garbage. It was very difficult for me to find good quality food. I was in Ireland. I was in a little town of Donegal about 4,000 people. And for a smaller town, they had
00:16:30
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great amount of access. They have sheep everywhere and cows and all kinds of like farm animals, but even then it was hard to go to a grocery store from going to Aldi or Lidl or something else. It's really hard to find quality food, right? So it gets very challenging unless if I lived there, wasn't there for 10 days passing through, you know, I'd go and talk to farmers and make relationships that way. So when you're traveling, one of the best things would be prepared. That would be my advice. I was not prepared on this trip. I think, oh, we're going to Ireland. We're going to a small town. There'll be food there. There wasn't.
00:16:59
Speaker
It was all packaged, full of phosphates and full of all kinds of preservatives in these meats. And so what are nitrates and nitrates? But we know sodium nitrate as a preserve in meat is actually on the carcinogen list next to plutonium and nicotine. So we know it causes problems, but it's in all these preserved meats. And so we're trying to find natural organic stuff about a whole chicken, just made chicken soup. So I was able to find things. But had I been better prepared,
00:17:26
Speaker
I would have gone on a Facebook groups, local groups, try to figure something out that way. But if you're here for a day or two, man, it's really tough to travel, especially if you're on the road constantly. So I recommend dried foods. Bring in nuts, bring in dried fruits. Now, again, watch dried fruits are often covered in sugar and full of other junk. You have to go to a proper store. Beef jerky. But again, watch for like teriyaki flavor full of sugar. So talk to a farmer or a butcher who makes jerky by themselves and it's high quality. It's often cheaper than Costco. And so there's a lot of things we can do, but it is preparation and moving out of comfort.
00:17:56
Speaker
I may not eat at restaurants anymore. I may not be able to go to a gas station and grab a snack out there because it's all junk anyway. We can change around from our comforts to going to what we need. That's a better option. But a lot of these things, they're always better than options. They're not always perfect. So the crumpets and the fish and chips, that wasn't an option there.
00:18:18
Speaker
I did have fish and chips. I did. Absolutely. I picked a lot of the batter off, but again, it's fried in like a vegetable or canola or something else. And that's a really, really tough oil on the gut. And so we had fish and chips and guess what?
00:18:29
Speaker
I was bloated. I felt like trash. And so next time I said, just make it like, just give me a plain old filet. And so, you know, you lose a lot of tastes, but I think we often associate food with culture and fun and enjoyment, which is fine. But when it's always my taste buds over my health, that becomes an issue. So I was kind of thinking here, you know,
00:18:51
Speaker
If a person were to hypothetically ask you, you know, why do my knees hurt when I squat? How would you talk to them about that regarding gut health?
Gut Health and Joint Pain
00:19:02
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Is that connected to gut health in any way? Quite a segue. I'm into that. So I actually just released an episode today on how your gut can influence your joints. But with my history working in as a strength coach and understanding, you know, the mechanics, the physical mechanics of the body,
00:19:17
Speaker
There are two reasons why I'll see someone's knees hurt. And so I'll kind of hit those both really quick so I think it's relevant. And that's what I got to be careful with. I'm a nutritionist. I specialize in gut. Give me a hammer. Everything looks like a nail, but there are, it's multifaceted. If your knees hurt when you squat, it's probably a functional. The most common thing I see is a functional mechanical issue, which means you're using too much quad. And so I'm actually wearing shorts here. So you can see, I'll bring this mic up.
00:19:38
Speaker
So, for example, Jimbo, this muscle up top, right? So my quad, if this here is really tight, there's a tendon above and below my knee. So if that pulls, that tendon gets really tight and I put pressure, that knee can grind instead of gliding really nicely. So what I need is more hamstring activity. If my glutes and my hamstrings are working properly and functioning, I'm not distributing that weight forward. I'm not overusing my quads and straining my tendons.
00:20:03
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causing this grinding on my patella we can get that tissue loosened up foam rolling acupuncture dry needling chiropractic make sure your spine is open so the nerves conduct the glutes and hamstrings properly that's number one number two if your gut is leaky absolutely right leaky gut is a good thing
00:20:20
Speaker
But it's a defense mechanism, but sustained leaky gut is a problem. And so if somebody comes to see me and they've got, I could tell they've got leaky gut, most people, if you're inflamed do what happens. If say, for example, you eat something, you shouldn't might you eat gluten, gluten's really bad. Your body actually identifies gluten proteins as a pathogen, which is a dangerous bacteria. And it flags it when it comes in and says, Hey, this is a problem. It looks bad. So it creates leaks in the gut to draw water in like a hose on a drive when it flushes things out.
00:20:48
Speaker
And that's how we get rid of things. That's why people might drink something in five minutes. They got diarrhea. It's because the body created leaks. It was like, this is bad. Let's get rid of you. But if you have chronic inflammation, chronically bloated, these leaks become bigger and it becomes bidirectional. So not only does water come in to flush out, but things exit from your gut. Jimbo, you're a small intestine. It's a one cell between your small intestine and your bloodstream.
00:21:12
Speaker
So things pass through very easily. Your blood and lymphatic, it's all connected in there. And so that leak, it's only two cells in your large intestine, so these leaks happen. Things start to leak out. Macromolecules that are too big to be into the blood. We get pathogens and bacteria and inflammatory things we call these endotoxins, byproducts of bacteria. They get into the blood, they circulate around, they can get into your joints. And so if someone's having joint pain, stiffness, arthritis, their hips always hurt, their knuckles always hurt, they're always tight and stiff. If it's not a movement problem,
00:21:41
Speaker
it's probably a gut problem because all this toxicity circulating in the system. So you want to look at leaky gut, you want to look at bacterial imbalances or pathogens is the next one we want to look at. So again, those endotoxins being created, there's all kinds of reasons why nutrient efficiencies.
00:21:56
Speaker
Now if your body, your bacteria are out of balance, they're not producing nutrients that are anti-inflammatory. So we're not breaking down polyphenols or these anthocyanins, they're very antioxidant. If you're not making these short chain fatty acids in the gut, you're not getting lubrication in the joints, you're not getting these anti-inflammatory properties. We need all these things from the body. On another hand, if you have an inflamed gut,
00:22:17
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nutrient efficient because not only is our soil completely devoid of nutrients today, it's terrible. There are some studies suggesting you need eight oranges today to get the same nutrients your great grandmother would have in one orange. And so we're depleted because we're not getting enough. And then we're stressed all the time, not just physical, psychological, but being sick, being bloated, that's a stressor, right? Technically digesting food is a stressor. It's anything requiring excess nutrients from the body to perform actions.
00:22:43
Speaker
And so now we're nutrient deficient, we're burning through nutrients rapidly, we're not absorbing them, and you're bloated. So even if you're taking supplements, you have this bloat, you have defective tissue not getting nutrients in properly, you're in debt. So you start pulling it from other places. You pull nutrients, vitamins, minerals from your joints, from your teeth, from your skin, from your hair, and we start seeing breakdowns throughout the body.
00:23:05
Speaker
You know, that is very interesting because you mentioned on digestion being a stressor.
Fasting and Meal Frequency
00:23:10
Speaker
So what's your opinion on skipping meals, fasting, you know, there's all kinds of fasting now you got
00:23:17
Speaker
all kinds of fasting or you have people saying, no, we're not feasters, we're grazers. We need tons of small meals throughout the day. Do you skip meals and how do you sort of prioritize your nutrition just to kind of wrap this? Sure. Y'all clarify about stressors and digestion. I mean a stressor, there's distress and there's eustress, right? Eustress, it's like cramming for a deadline. You're really getting something done and it feels amazing. Distress is like my dad died and I'm in a really bad place. Like that's distress, right?
00:23:46
Speaker
So digestion is a stressor in the form that it requires a lot of energy to digest food. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, obviously want to digest. But as far as meals are concerned, personally, I just came off a 48 hour fast. I did one earlier this week. My wife was sick and I was like, I'm not getting sick. So I fasted 48 hours, didn't eat. That's great for the immune system. Your body can use up all that excess junk.
00:24:07
Speaker
For me, I prefer to eat two, three times a day. I do advocate for intermittent, like an eight hour window. And a lot of that has to do with our cells and mitochondrial health and your mitochondria. They're often thought to be just like, we refer to them a lot as just the powerhouse, the battery of the cell or the battery of the
00:24:23
Speaker
the body really and so it takes at least 12 hours of non-consumption of food for these mitochondria to start turning up and producing excessive energy so you can be more energized during the day. You'll be prone to noticing there are a lot of people who eat like grazers and they're kind of sluggish all the time especially if you're eating junk or you're picking
00:24:41
Speaker
Grazers tend to be more overweight because it's hard to manage how much you're actually consuming or what you're consuming. I'm an advocate for, you know, eight hour window, six hours. Again, as a strength athlete for me, I'm going in, I kai kwon do a couple nights a week. I'm on the rings, you know, gymnastics rings for my workouts and stuff like that. So I need to get enough calories. I can't do it in two hours. I got to eat over eight. If I want to get at least 3000 calories, otherwise I feel sluggish, right? Because of the level of activity.
00:25:05
Speaker
But then if people have severe gut issues, trying to eat in a two hour window is really tough because picture taking someone who's never gone for a run before they sat on the couch for the last 10 years. They're like, cool, go run a marathon. It's a lot of work on a system not capable of doing it. And so people who have digestive issues or are inflamed, they're not capable of
00:25:25
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of actively digesting these things in these large amounts. We need to give them some smaller breaks. So my clients with gut disease like Crohn's colitis and severe IBS, I will give them formulas today to spread things out because that's our priority. Very interesting. And kind of this has been an amazing interview just to end this off here. How do you think we could get people to sort of prioritize their gut health, prioritize
Educational Importance of Gut Health
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nutrition? Do you have any basic advice you could sort of throw out there to kind of wrap this up?
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Yeah, I mean, we gotta get educated, right? Like I said, your gut's more important than your DNA. We can connect gut health to 93% of the leading causes of death in North America. We know our gut bacteria outnumber our own cells 10 to 1. They're integrated and woven into every aspect of our being. We are what we break down, digest and absorb, and our gut bacteria are everything. We can predict certain diseases and disease pathways and patterns based on the bacteria in your gut profile. We know all these things.
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There's so much to it that we just need to learn and have some reverence for. We know drinking that drink of alcohol, here's what it's going to do to my gut. Whether you do it or not, that's fine. It's up to you. But you should know what's happening when you do it. When you consume that ibuprofen instead of maybe a more natural or an herbal-based anti-inflammatory, know what it's doing to your body and how it's affecting your gut. And that's really what my podcast is all about. It's all about the ways the gut is connected to every aspect of our lives.
00:26:47
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Excellent. Now, speaking of your podcast, how can we reach out to you? What are your social media outlets? You know, maybe a bit more on your podcast.
Connecting with Josh and His Podcast
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Do you have, you know, Twitter, Facebook, social media?
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Yeah, I'm on Facebook. I got some groups on Facebook for sure. The best way to get in touch just to keep things simple would be to look up reversible. You do have it across the bottom. It's called reverse able, the ultimate gut health podcast. And what that is, it's just about making sure we're happy or healthy. We have some of the world's best doctors and influential personalities. If you actually head over to the, to the top there, that website, you can go to the episodes and you'll see some of the guests that we've had. It's at the very, very top of the webpage.
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So at the top of the page, we have a tab you can click it's in the top, right. It's called episodes. And you'll see, we have some of the world's best. We have Dr. Steven Gundry. We have William Lee. We've got Mindy Pels. We've had Lisa, Bill, you, um, coming on to talk about it, just the best of the best on earth to talk about their take on the gut, why it's so important, how it works, how to keep it healthy, what's causing these problems. And it's just an amazing, amazing show. And I've just been so blessed to meet with these people and talk to them. They're.
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in the world are leading the charge on gut health and everything connected to it. And so it's been a pleasure to have them on. Excellent. So this has been a great pleasure. Thank you again, Josh for being on the show. And I'll be seeing you all next time. Appreciate you having me Jimbo.
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