so many people when they started fasting they started to watch their body heal and my brain went to yeah because you're taking a break from the horrific food so then I started to shift some of the way that I was educating this and I was trying to let people know like fasting is a healing state but then when you go into food you really need to look at food as medicine and that led me into to some interesting research and studies on what controls our taste buds and one of the things that I found out
was what controls our taste buds is actually the microbes in our gut and then when you start to go into this microbe area and you're talking about inflammation and immune system we also have microbes that start to break estrogen down called the estrobolome so all of a sudden like for me food all roads point to the microbiome the area of the microbiome that sort of ecosystem in our body is one of the most exciting frontiers of understanding ourselves and I you know I when I've had the opportunity to Mentor young people who are going to
medical school or trying to choose their career I tell them that if I were starting out now I would immediately know to dive into the microbiome as a place that's going to change everything in the future so you know I read about this need to be diseased we have so many bacteria in our body that we are it's about one: one actually the last estimate some people say we got 100 times more bacteria it's about one to one so we're part human and part bacteria the important thing about the research that is being done about
the gut microbiome is we're understanding some of the things the gut microbiome does the gut microbiome lowers inflammation which is really important for all cancers including women's cancers right number two including breast cancer ovarian cancer endometrial cancer cervical cancer melanoma you know lung cancer colon can coloral cancer so you know we we can't easily just slot cancers this is the women's cancer this is the men's cancer it's not that easy but women are actually increasingly affected by colon cancer and lung cancer women who never smoke at lung cancer so I think that you know we
don't want to put an artificial gender line either by saying well we need to actually things so gut microbiome actually critical for lowering inflammation boosting immunity 70% of our immune system by the way lives inside the walls of our gut now I was never taught that when I went to medical school that wasn't even known I think we thought that the immune system was like in the thymus gland the spleen some other places lymph noos nope yeah actually it's mostly in our gut and so our gut bacteria talks to our immune system in order to
be able to shore it up to be able to knock down cancer and you know I always tell people the analogy of how our gut bacteria tox to our immunity immune system is that our gut wall is kind of like the thin cheap walls of a freshman dorm in college right if you got two roommates that live next to each other that wall is paper thin you can hear everything and so what did you do on a Friday night you yelled through the wall hey what kind of pizza do you want what kind of top
you want your pizza and they could give you the answer right back through the wall and that's basically what our gut bacteria and our immune system do they're talking to each other through that and the gut bacteria can text message our brain in ways that actually can influence our mood now something that I learned from this amazing researcher Dr Susan Erdman who is a veterinarian at MIT Massachusetts technology in Boston she taught me that there there's certain bacteria in the gut and you can eat these bacteria and the bacteria also found in food but you
can get it as a probiotic and one of them is called lactobacilus ruteri okay uh that assus rudite in the gut text messages our brain and what it does is it causes the brain to release oxytocin oo now oxytocin is a social hormone it's it's the hormone that when the one minute old infant is given skin time and starts to suckle on the nipple it releases oxytocin is Rel releases the milk let down oxytocin is also important for uterin contractions when you're when you're you're delivering the baby and also oxytocin is important for social connection
so when you're at the airport or at the train station or at the bus station and you haven't seen a relative in a long time or a good friend and they come through the arrivals area and you run up there and you give them a great hug and you're really just happy to see them your brain is flooded with oxytocin oxytocin also comes out of your brain when you get a kiss and and I'm not talking about Grandma's peck on the cheek when you get a good deep French Kiss oxytocin is that same feeling that
when you're seeing your friend at the airport and the other time that oxytocin floods out of your brain is during orgasm all right so this is actually an incredibly important social hormone that has in women a very very important reproductive and also connection between Mom and baby so you know this is an important hormone well it turns out that lopus ruai text messages your brain to be able to release this so there's been studies that have been shown that in the lab lactobacillus ruteri when fed in the lab to animals just do their drinking water
you know like you ever had a hamster or gerbal and you got to put the water bottle up with the little metal nozzle and the animal goes up there and starts licking it if that's all you do is you put the laop ruai powder into the water mix it all up shake it all up and let them drink it no biggie if these animals were prone to develop breast cancer guess what it would reduce the size and reduce the incidence the development of breast cancer breast wow amazing wow right I don't want to make make
sure we stay on the rudai thing because William Davis wrote a book and he had a whole Community online that I remember I brought him on this podcast a couple years ago and they made lactobacilus ruteri they took it out of a supplement and they put it into yogurt and they fermented it and then they had everybody eat a cup of this yogurt for x amount of days and measure what they noticed in moods and it was an incredible mood booster do familiar with that there there you go the gut being happy and having a
new partner the electop text message to the brain releases social hormones which influence your mood and it can really be quite profound but here also lowering inflammation also boosting immunity the the the cops on a beat winging by maybe that's how they were actually working the other thing about lactus ride that's really interesting is that when you eat it in foods lacab Rai is also in your mouth fights the bacteria that causes cavities all right okay so what foods do you get it in I only not it through the yogurt technique yeah well so first
of all going back to the original yogurt I want to talk about yogurt in a second because it's so important from gut health and overall human health and and and Women's Health by the way so oldfashioned yogurt that it's hard to find anymore used to have many more organisms when it was sort of made on a small scale you know small local farms are making the yogurt and supplying it once it it became a big Factory the probiotic quality started to go down but like ausis R ey it can be found in some yogurts I
I don't know which ones but I'm always on the hunt so if anybody knows look for it yeah let let's you definitely look for it and please you know DM me on social media on Instagram or something and let me know if you find one that has lopus Rai that would be a winner uh but you can also find lactus in sourdough bread here's the thing lactobacillus rudai lactobacillus is named l so lactobacillus is a first name rudai is a last name that's you genus and species but let's call it first name and last name
everybody understand that lactobacillus is called that because it creates lactic acid lactic acid is what makes sourdough Tangy what we like about sourdough and that's and so people going back hundreds of years like in France where they started a sourdough bread they actually would take a little pinch of starter material that had lacobus Rai and use that into the yeast to make the dough for sourdough bread and then before they baked it they would pinch it off and save it for next so there are hundreds of years of save leop bacillus ruteri that have been
pinched off and saved over the years so if you're going to try this by the way make sure that you're getting real sourdough bread and not sourdough bread made in a factory where they didn't want to waste waste time and they just put a little vinegar in there to make it seem like a taste of Tangy you want the real lactic acid from lactobacillus so I came up with this idea of how do we use our community and come together to support organizations that are lifting women up I will be profiling some of these incredible
nonprofits that are raising up women that really need some extra support give like a girl we are more powerful together and I'm so excited to announce this project to you now that's only one place to get it a lot of people might not realize thato basilis rudai is the starter bacteria not only for sourdough bread but also for the real Italian parmesano regano cheese really yep you know it's funny because these you're just named two foods that I love and I can't quite figure out why I love them they're because I typically don't eat wheat
and I don't do a ton of cheese but those two pull me and I'm wondering if it's because the oxytocin it might be but and by the way I'm not talking about factory made you know copy paste you know something that's called par parmesan cheese you know the stuff you shake out from a can no no we're talking about Big Blocks that you would see yes in Italy and you can find them in the US you can order it that way and it's expensive okay and so you don't need a lot of it and you
shouldn't have a lot of cheese anyway I mean you know cheese is a probiotic food but it also has a lot of saturated fat and lot of salt so moderation can be good for you but many people are surprised to find out that lactobacilus also found in parmeson Ran cheese yeah the real it that's amazing okay that's amazing um so yeah so we and and I did some research on laop bacillus rud and we found that in the lab if you are studying wound healing that animals that eat Ry they take that it actually speeds
up the healing of the wound as well that's crazy so in fact it doubled the rate of wound heal so amazing well and the real point is really that we're just beginning to discover the we're at the beginning of the journey to discover the miracle of our gut bacteria okay you trying to maximize your weight loss apple cider vinegar may be the key go check out this video where I show you exactly when how and why you want to use it for weight loss apple cider vinegar changes your microbiome of your gut this good bacteria
is going to help to bring your blood sugar down and make it so that you can switch over into the fat burning state
