291. Get the Gut Science: How Healing Your Gut Can Improve Your Physical (and Mental!) Health with Dr. Steven Gundry #WellnessWednesdays
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for a gut check! I’m honored to welcome Dr. Steven Gundry, one of the world’s top cardiothoracic surgeons and a pioneer in the nutrition space. He hosts the top-rated health show, The Dr. Gundry Podcast, and is the founder and director of the International Heart & Lung Institute and The Center For Restorative Medicine.
He is also the New York Times bestselling author of The Plant Paradox, and he recently released his latest book, Gut Check: Unleash The Power Of Your Microbiome To Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health.
Today, we’re talking all about the gut – the root of so many health outcomes. Dr. Gundry explains what happens in the gut doesn’t stay in the gut, revealing how the gut microbiome impacts our brain health, reproductive health, and more.
But this one’s full of solutions, too. Dr. Gundry breaks down the markers of leaky gut syndrome, and how he treats it, inspiring us with the life-changing results his patients have experienced.
He offers his top tips for individuals and families to heal their guts. Plus, we get into what everyone is missing about probiotics. This is a fascinating episode for anyone who’s ever experienced stomach issues, or simply wants to optimize their overall health, starting with their gut.
We also cover:
(00:01:57) Healthy Gut vs. Leaky Gut
(00:07:09) Identifying Markers of a Leaky Gut
(00:16:41) What’s Breaking Down the Gut Wall?
(00:22:43) Exploring the Gut-Brain Connection
(00:28:43) We’re Destroying Our Best Friends
(00:39:08) Dr. Gundry’s Top Tips for a Healthy Gut
(00:45:43) Why We’ve Been Misled About Probiotics
(00:48:41) Lifestyle Shifts To Heal a Leaky Gut
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Website: drgundry.com
• Website: gundrymd.com
• Gut Check: drgundry.com
• Dr. Gundry's other titles: drgundry.com/books
• Podcast: The Dr. Gundry Podcast
• Instagram: @drstevengundry
• Instagram: @gundrymd
• YouTube: @DrGundry
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| 0:00.0 | what happens in the gut doesn't stay in the gut. The gut is not like Las Vegas says. |
| 0:06.4 | When things leak across the wall of the gut in the immune system not only says, okay, we're going to handle business here, but we're going to handle business here but we're going to call |
| 0:15.9 | the various organs we're going to call up to the brain and say hey guys we got a problem |
| 0:21.1 | down here bad guys are on the way and we'll try to hold them off for as long as we can, |
| 0:27.0 | but you right now should start preparing and fortify your defenses. |
| 0:33.6 | Dr. |
| 0:36.6 | Dr. Stephen Gundry is one of the world's top |
| 0:42.2 | cardiothoracic surgeons and a pioneer in nutrition. |
| 0:45.9 | He hosts the top rated health show, The Dr. Gundry Podcast, and is the founder and director of the International |
| 0:51.2 | Heart and Lung Institute Center for Restorative Medicine, |
| 0:55.0 | and the founder of Gondry MD, a line of wellness products and supplements. |
| 0:59.4 | He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox and has had more than 300 articles published in peer review journals on using diet and supplements to eliminate heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and multiple other diseases. |
| 1:14.0 | He released his latest book, Gut Check, |
| 1:17.0 | Unleash the Power of your Microbiome to reverse disease |
| 1:20.0 | and transform your mental, physical, and emotional health |
| 1:23.3 | on January 9, 2024. |
| 1:25.8 | And he's here today to talk about how |
| 1:28.6 | all disease begins in a leaky gut. |
| 1:31.0 | Let's get into it. Welcome back to the show. I'm so excited about your new book, |
| 1:35.0 | Gut Check. I had my highlighter out, |
| 1:38.0 | writing all the fun notes in the sidebars. |
| 1:40.0 | It's a good one. |
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