That basically ... And, this is something that you say all the time. Everything you do in a day essentially kills your good bacteria. That's just the reality of the world that we live in. Everything you do in a day essentially kills your good bacteria.

Now, why is this a bad thing? Well, and this is the key here and this is what we're going to show you and this is so important to understand, your gut is connected to absolutely everything.

I can't stress that enough. [00:00:30] Your gut is connected to absolutely everything. Let's go through the evidence. Again, as a jury, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let's go through some of the evidence here. Let's talk about how your gut and your brain are connected. Think about that. Your gut is directly connected to the health of your brain.

We're just going to go through some studies and we'll go through some of them quickly because we have so many of them. But we just want to overwhelm you in a sense with evidence showing this. Here is a [00:01:00] study done that shows that gut bacteria actually regulates nerve fiber insulation.

Not only does it affect stuff like they say here, we'll go through this in a second, but it affects your thoughts, your mood and your behavior. But the bacteria actually plays a role in the development of the structure of your brain and actually affects how your nerves talk to each other. That's how crucial gut bacteria is.

Also here is what study is showing that antibiotics actually kill bacteria [00:01:30] that helps grow new brain cells. Gut bacteria plays a role in the growth of new brain cells. Think about that.

Also, here's a great study showing that strokes, so blood-brain vessel lesions which are strokes caused by intestinal bacteria gone bad. 

Unreal.

It's incredible. Here's another one. [00:02:00] A lot of research is being done on one aspect of Alzheimer's in some people, may actually be caused by the path of infection because of your gut, things getting to your brain because your gut is not doing its job. One of the researchers, it's actually interesting what he says there. The things creeping around in your brain will scare the heebie-jeebies out of you.

But isn't that incredible? Because at the office, we often show our patients their blood [00:02:30] because we like to put it up on the big screen for them and they can actually see their blood. They're always fascinated by it. It's true because when you have leaky gut, there's usually creepy heebie-jeebies running around in the bloodstream. It's amazing.

Well, there was another study here. Well, let's just go through this quickly here. Here's another one. How your gut microbiome is actually linked to the development of dementia. Here they talk about how the gastrointestinal tract [00:03:00] microbiota are directly linked to dementia pathogenesis, so the creation of dementia, through the triggering of metabolic diseases. It's incredible that even your gut bacteria is associated with dementia. Dementia and Alzheimer's has overtaken heart disease as the number one killer over in Britain.

Yeah, it's incredible. People are outliving ... Their bodies are outliving their brains, right?

Yeah, that's a big problem.

That's a big fear in people [00:03:30] today because they see people with dementia and Alzheimer's and it really is sad, isn't it, when your brain isn't working. I wanted to mention one thing and just a by the way, by the way the Martin Clinic has said this for a long time.

Because there's a lot of stuff out, when you think of cause and effect because we always talk about the cause and effect, just something I want our listeners to think about [00:04:00] for a minute, we see an enormous increase in autism today.

That is a disorder in children that is really in epidemic proportions. As a matter of fact, when I was in school, autism was just unheard of. I mean it. Unheard of. But today, what are they saying now? 1 out of 50 kids, or whatever, born are going to be autistic. They got some kind of developmental ...

Yeah, the number is even [00:04:30] by 2025 basically are terrifying. I can't remember at just the top off my head. However, it was incredible.

It's incredible. It's an epidemic, but I just want people to think about this because think about, well, if autism was unheard of in the 1970s, I mean unheard of, why is it so prevalent today? I tell you that the Martin Clinic has been seeing this for many, many years. We always believed it to be at the source of the problem was [00:05:00] the microbiome. It was the gut of that little baby, could have happened right in the placenta. Mommy had leaky gut.

Yeah, a lot of research connecting the health of the digestive system of the mother to the baby. Yeah, you're right. That's why there's a term that we've been using for a long term which is leaky gut, leaky brain. 

We talk about this. Even gut health, so neurodegeneration, so we know that gut bacteria plays a part in regeneration and we know that bad bacteria plays a part in [00:05:30] neurodegeneration, so it actually causes the breakdown and the destruction of the brain. They looked at that and they found that there's an actual link to the composition with people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

This is another study showing the direct link to gut health and Parkinson's disease. There's another study that was done not long ago showing that a lot of people with Parkinson's disease actually have fungus in their brain that's causing a lot of their issues and of course how does it get there? It gets [00:06:00] there by a leaky gut.

Here's another one showing increased intestinal permeability. Now, intestinal permeability is just a fancy way of saying leaky gut. Basically it means that the intestines are more permeable. They allow more things to get into the blood and they found that it's an increase in a significant proportion in people with Parkinson's. 

Here is the thing that we tell people all the time with minimal gastrointestinal symptoms. Just because you're not getting [00:06:30] a digestive symptom, it does not mean that you're not having a problem with leaky gut. They found even with people with Parkinson's disease that had very minimal gastrointestinal symptoms they still had a significant amount of leaky gut. It's incredible.

That's the gut-brain. Let's talk about even something that's so common today which is obesity. Let's talk about the gut-obesity connection. Well, research has shown this and actually studies even going back even further than this have shown this that [00:07:00] an excess of bacteria in the gut can change the way the liver processes fat and could lead to the development of metabolic syndrome.

Even gut bacteria, too much bad, will change the way that your liver processes fat and that can be the starting point that leads to insulin resistance. It could be the starting point that leads down the road to conditions such as type two diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar. It's incredible.

Here's another one. There's a [00:07:30] causal link. They're saying there's an actual causal link between your gut microbes, body weight gain and glucose metabolism in humans. Your gut bacteria plays a crucial role in even your glucose metabolism that can lead to body weight gain. 

Let's even go one step further, look at the connection between gut and diabetes. Type two diabetes is an absolute epidemic. It's growing at an unprecedented [00:08:00] rate. Let's look at that.

Here's another study not too long ago actually that shows that increased intestinal permeability, so increased leaky gut, is a risk factor for type two diabetes. That's one study showing that again. I mean there are a lot of studies that do show this so that your gut, it directly influences your risk factor for type two diabetes. 

Here's another one showing that increased leaky gut also found in obese patients are correlated with metabolic [00:08:30] syndrome risk factors, incredible. Truly incredible that, again, your gut ...

Here's another big thing. We say this all the time. Outside of an injury, so we're not talking about somebody who blows their knee out and ends up with arthritis after, outside of an injury, there are two big causes of joint pain. One is insulin resistance and the other one is leaky gut. 

Here, let's talk about the gut-joint. They call it the joint-gut axis so that's a direct connection [00:09:00] between your joint health and your gut. If your gut isn't healthy, your joints won't be healthy.

It's a fact.

Here's another article that was done highlighting some research showing that joint pain that comes from the gut.

When we test for leaky gut and people that have rheumatoid arthritis, people that have an inflammatory type of uric acid, arthritis like a gouty arthritis or whatever, there's always a [00:09:30] connection. They always have leaky gut when we test them. Dysbiosis and overgrowth of candida albicans has a major effect on the joints.

Also here's another one again showing that with leaky gut they allow more food allergens to cross over into the blood. It leads to autoimmune, which we'll talk about in one second here.

Let's talk about your skin. Your skin is your largest organ. It only makes sense that your skin is heavily influenced by the health of your gut. 

[00:10:00] Here's a study showing leaky gut equals leaky skin and this is something that's interesting as well. Just like the bacteria, the good bacteria plugs the hole in your gut, it also does the same for your skin. It protects the barrier that your skin has.

When you have a leaky gut, you have leaky skin. It breaks down that layer that protects your skin, causes a whole bunch of problems. That's a direct connection there.

Here's another study showing that direct connection between [00:10:30] leaky gut and acne. Here's another one showing leaky gut, rosacea. Here's another one showing intestinal permeability in patients with psoriasis. Again, people with psoriasis, a lot of times leaky gut, directly connected.

Let's talk quickly about the gut and your aging. Most people don't understand this. A lot of money is spent on anti-aging stuff. But the number one influence on aging has to do with the health of your [00:11:00] gut. If your gut isn't healthy, you're going to age quicker. 

I found this study funny but it was a well done study showing that ridiculously healthy elderly had the same gut content, so the same gut microbiome, as healthy 30 year olds.

If somebody wants to ... Work your way backwards on this. If you want to stay healthy and be ridiculously healthy as you're older, you want to make sure that your gut microbiome stays healthy. One of [00:11:30] the things that happens as you age is your gut microbiome changes for the worst. People that doesn't happen to, they stay a lot healthier than somebody who doesn't.

Here's another one. Another interesting study showing that the balance of intestinal, so that good versus bad bacteria balance affects the onset of age related diseases. A lot of the diseases that come along as you age is actually influenced by the balance between good and bad bacteria.

Here's [00:12:00] another one. This is important as well. One of the problems as I mentioned with aging as well is what they call age-associated inflammation. As you get older, you start to create more inflammation. Your body parts break down and leads to a whole bunch of bad things. That's one of the things that happens when you age. There's a few other things as well such as your body becomes more insulin resistant and you get more free radical damage.

Yeah, free radical damage.

One of the things that happens is that as you age, there's this problem that they [00:12:30] always knew that happens was you start to create inflammation but they never quite knew why that was. Why is it that as you age, you start to create inflammation? Well, now they're starting to find out that one of the reasons for that is it's the microbiome. If it's unhealthy, as you age, it starts to create more inflammation. One of the key aspects of getting rid of inflammation as you age is keeping your gut microbiome healthy.

Here's another one. We just saw how gut microbiome [00:13:00] will actually contribute to inflammation if it's bad. Here's why that's a big deal. Chronic inflammation is one of the main accelerators of biological aging. We always talk about your actual age versus your biological age. I'm in my 40s. However, there's something they call biological age. How old are my cells? How old is my actual body?

There could be a difference. Some people they could be in their 50s but their biological age is in their 30s or they could be [00:13:30] in their 30s and their biological age can be in their 60s. That's important. One of the key accelerators of your biological age has to do with inflammation. We just saw that that is associated a lot of times with your gut microbiome. Your gut plays a massive role in aging.

Here's another common thing that we see today, allergies. Not only seasonal allergies but also food allergies.

There's so much more allergies, isn't there, today. [00:14:00] When I was in school as a kid, I never saw an asthma puffer. I never saw it. I'm not saying there was no allergies. Of course there was some hay fever around and a few things. But the amount of food allergies, the amount of environmental allergies today, well, it's incredible. There's a hundred thousand new chemicals that have been created since [00:14:30] World War II and generally they're found in our homes. These things and the problem with chemicals is exactly what they do to that microbiome, right?

They kill a lot of that. Let's look at a couple of studies here. Here's a study showing that leaky gut in patients with eczema and food allergies. They found again that leaky gut was found in these patients with not only eczema but also related to food allergies. Here's another one showing that intestinal permeability in patients with adverse reactions to food. [00:15:00] They found again that impaired intestinal permeability, which again is just a fancy way of saying leaky gut, measured in our conditions is present in all subjects with adverse reactions to food. If you have a food allergy either an anaphylactic type or what they call just a food sensitivity, you have leaky gut.

100%.

Guaranteed. 100%. They found that in all subjects. Here's another [00:15:30] one showing ... I found this study kind of interesting here because they're showing that the younger that a child is exposed to antibiotics, the more likely they are to develop a food allergy risk of course because your food allergy risk is determined about the health of your gut.

They found that normal gut flora is critical for developing the body's tolerance to foreign proteins that are found in foods. Key. Your gut health determines the extent of food. It's amazing.

That's why today we [00:16:00] see ... There has been books written and everything about gluten, what they call a non-celiac gluten intolerance where people are saying, "Well, I cut down on my gluten and I felt better and even though I was never diagnosed- "

They're not officially celiac. 

Yeah, they're not celiac but they have leaky gut. This is what I tell them. I said, "Well, yeah. But at the end of the day, you've got leaky gut so you got to fix your leaky gut. The gluten [00:16:30] that's coming in isn't really the issue. The issue is because your microbiome that you've got a dysbiosis due to leaky gut and that is what's creating that allergy."

It's really an amazing thing. Again, there's so many food allergies. It's always tied to leaky gut, always. Here's another one that people don't realize that your gut is connected to your sleep, how well you sleep.

Here's another one. Sleep loss is tied to changes of gut microbiota [00:17:00] in humans. Of course the study mentions that they've already found a link between your gut health and obesity and type two diabetes in humans, but they also found that people that aren't sleeping well have different gut microbiome. It's incredible. 

Here's another one. People found in obstructive sleep apnea and sleep apnea so common today. The two biggest causes of sleep apnea are insulin resistance and leaky gut. No question. Here's another one they found that it was very common with people with obstructive sleep apnea. Let's look at the gut [00:17:30] autoimmune. Now, autoimmune diseases have been increasing like crazy.

A hundred fold.

Oh, like crazy. We attribute that to vegetable oils a lot of times, not the only cause, but the increase in use of vegetable oils leading to gut irritation leading to this gut autoimmune connection. Here's a study showing that your microbiome ... This is a study done titled The Microbiome-systemic Disease Connection. They found a connection in rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus. [00:18:00] They found that in chronic inflammatory state, just on and on,

MS.

On. Yeah, here's another one. In celiac disease showing that a big problem that they have is leaky gut. Here's another one showing exactly what you just mentioned. A big problem in multiple sclerosis, MS, is the unhealthy gut microbiome.

Let's talk quickly about the gut-cancer connection. There's a strong connection between your gut health and cancer. Here's one showing [00:18:30] leaky gut in patients with one type of cancer. We could go on and on with these studies. The point that we want to make is this. Your gut is connected to absolutely everything. We just went through a few studies. I have a folder of a thousand studies on gut connection to different organs. I could have showed you some on liver. I mean on and on.

Here's the thing. How do you keep your gut [00:19:00] healthy or how do you fix a broken gut even if you're not getting any symptoms, by the way, so that you can have healthy skin, you can sleep better, you can strengthen your immune system, keep your joints healthy, protect your brain, improve your mood, fight allergies and stay young looking? How do you do that? Well, this is the question that we get asked a lot of times. The question you may be asking right now is so how do I make that happen? What do I do to make that happen? Well, we always tell people there are two ways to do that. [00:19:30] The first thing you could do is make sure to avoid antibiotics, chemicals, sweeteners, plastics, even though you're breathing it in, avoid it, stress, vegetable oils, anti-inflammatories.

Tap water. 

You can avoid all these things. Basically meaning you can't live on the planet Earth or ...

Change planets.

Or, take probiotics.