Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Now out of all the things that can improve your health, this one thing is pretty much

at the top of the list. But I thought that recently I've never done a video on this one

specific topic and that has to do with diversity of your microbes in your gut and how to increase

your own diversity of the microbiome. So first of all, what is this word, diversity? Well,

it's the number of different species that you have in your gut, okay? And you also have

a factor of richness, which is the total amount of microbes. So ideally, you want to

reach microbiome with a lot of different species, you know, and this kind of goes against

this idea of like health is being clean, right? Free of germs. Well, apparently, it's just

the opposite of that. You want a lot of germs in your body, but inside and you want them

friendly. If you don't have this diversity, believe it or not, you actually get more

unfriendly pathogens. I'm talking about like Salmonella, H. Pallori, C. Diff, E. Coli,

you know, all these microbes do live in your body in a healthy environment and they don't

bother you until the relationship changes because of the environmental changes. But if

you're missing this diversity, all sorts of issues can happen. Diarrhea, inflammation

in your gut, you get more toxins, obesity, your metabolism slows down, your mood is lowered.

And this all relates to something called dysbiosis. In fact, this biosis is pretty much involved

or associated with every single illness out there, even Alzheimer's Parkinson's, ADHD, schizophrenia,

bipolar, having anxiety, depression. So I think this topic is really, really important.

Even cancer. Yes, there's usually always dysbiosis when you have cancer. So it's so important

to have a wide variety of these species to make vitamins for immune protection to keep your

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