Welcome to fit to be real and a little extra. We're talking about the human bodies
to brains
What?
Carly has negative one.
I was just gonna say I have two
That's what the gut is called. It's called our second brain
Is a brain gut connection. There's like a pathway where they are
Connected I was just gonna say I think I know this word. It's connected
and
so the reason that it's even interesting to talk about it besides the fact that it's very interesting to talk about is
What affects your gut affects your mental health what affects your mental health affects your gut? I agree I
Can't wait to hear everything you know about it without looking at a book or a phone. I agree. I
Object
We're getting right into it
I'm Victoria. Hey guys, I'm Carly. Let's talk about the good
somebody
suggested this to us and said I
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I liked the suggestion
Stop summer. This is amazing. I'm so happy for you. Thank you for that insight summer. You're amazing
So yeah, I started looking into it. I've had I mean TMI here
But like I've always had digestive issues always and I think I call them digestive issues, but I think it's
like my
Microbiotic system is messed up. It's fascinating
What's going on in our body that you don't as a normal person who doesn't look into this stuff and just like knows that you need
To eat to live and drink water to live and sleep
There's so much happening. Well, I have so many people that I know Andrew being one of them
My best friend Pat being another that after they eat a specific food. They'll be like, oh, I hate
I don't know why I do that to myself because my stomach feels so bad afterwards
But I love pasta or like I love meatball sandwiches. We're gonna talk about it. Yeah, and I I'm always like, oh my god
Stop just eat it and be you're fine. You're fine. You're very annoying. I know you know how empathetic I am
All of that is true. All of that plays a part. You have to listen damn it to your body
but what's interesting is
That we I think we were born to not
Listen to our bodies. We're born to ignore our bodies. Like what's the first thing that we we can think of when it comes to dinner time?
Finish your plate finish your plate. So already we're ignoring our hunger
Signals to the brain of like, hey, we're full. We're good
We don't need to keep going because we have to finish our plate, right? Mm-hmm
and now we watch screens and we do seven thousand million other things while we eat and
And we're completely distracted. So we have no idea
How it actually felt to eat
said, you know food item and also you just eat what's put in front of you obviously children do that eat what's put in front of you
however
some things might not be
Agreeable to your gut that might be to your sibling. So there's all of that stuff like things that are fine for me are not fine for you
Exactly. So that was that's another thing that I wrote down from all of this. You can't change your genetics
Mm-hmm, but you can change
your microbiomes and we're gonna talk about what that is but you can change your gut health you can change
how your body processes things and
in turn
Change the chemical things that are happening in your brain and your mental health
Is that like you can't pick your family, but you can pick your chosen family? Yes, like if if
depression severe depression is in our
genetics or our family bloodline
You can't decide all of a sudden to be born into a different family
But you can change what's happening in your gut to either lessen the severity of depression and or completely eradicate it
I was making a joke, but that was actually very insightful. Go me
Where am I getting all this information? I'm so happy that you asked
It's called hack your health the secrets of your gut. It's a documentary on Netflix hack your health
I
Immediately started taking notes
I restarted it after five minutes and started taking notes and I was like this is what we're gonna talk about
because it it's so fascinating so
You're an odd duck you should
You should always
Shut up
You should always one of the first things that they said is you should always pay attention to our language and I was like
Yeah, it's like what does that mean like cursing? No, oh, I would like to curse at you
But no, no, he was like when we're disappointed we're gutted
Hold on when we're disappointed. We're gutted like a few things you yeah something bad happen in the gut or punch you in
The gut is not a good thing right and like oh it felt like I got punched in the guy
Yeah, when something bad happens or someone says something mean to you if
You're brave you're gutsy you got guts. Yes, you're right
You're gutsy if you're nervous there's butterflies in your stomach
because it's such a central part of
How we're made up and that brain gut connection is so strong that
Our language right mimics it and we don't pay I don't pay attention to that
He said that and I was like, why do I feel like that's the most brilliant thing I've ever heard of my life
I mean, it's true. You don't think about it until somebody says it. I
Would never have thought of that. I know but I say it all the time. Oh, you got guts. Yeah, or you say that to me
No, no, yeah, I think so. I've never heard that. I say I would like to gut you
Still part of the language
Right now somewhere Carmella is shaking her head very upset of mom is so upset that I said you only have a negative brain
Right. Oh my god, and that was 10 minutes ago. Okay, so yeah our brain
Which we I think you have a little guess it deserves a lot of credit
But I think we decide our brain is the deciding factor for everything and what the documentary and then of course
I went into you know some articles and research stuff, but what the documentary was saying
Was that it is possible they're trying they're doing all these studies of
Trying to really figure out the ecosystem of our like bodies gut
Yes, but mainly the prebiotics probiotics
We're gonna talk about all of that good things that we think we know but we don't know right
Like you know that that's healthy, but you know what it is. I'm actually doing that right now
I'm drinking a prebiotic a probiotic every day, and I'm like, I don't know why I'm not sure if this is working
Should I be doing this? But it seems like I should be exactly and I totally agree with you and
I've heard this is what you should do
Yeah, and like you need to be doing this and make sure it has four thousand million
Contrillion live bacteria. Yeah, why what does that mean?
But we decide that our brain makes all these decisions and what these studies are showing or what they're trying to figure out is
That it's very possible that these bacteria and think of think of that commercial. What's the commercial?
For me is it mucinex with the little green guy? Yeah, so that's for mucus, right?
But think of the little bacteria the microbes the microbiotics. I'm talking about are these little creatures, okay, right?
They're live in our gut in our system in our intestines our colon everything and
They call the shops so they decide that we're hungry for chocolate
What like these studies are showing that it's very possible like the more sugar you eat the more you create
Sugar-loving bugs in your body. I like the way you're describing this because this makes sense is what they said
It's this none of this is me
none of this is me
The more you eat salt the more you create salt-loving bugs that are very possibly
What's telling your brain that you want something that's a craving for you?
I am going to back that up by I stopped eating sugar for seven to nine months and
The first two weeks were hard, but after I gave after my body
Adjusted to no sugar. I no longer craved it and I was like, yeah, I don't I don't want it
Well because you change the micro biomes in your gut
Which is what I were going to
Basically ask you all to do and think about is to change what's happening by changing what you take in so diet change for nine to twelve months
Is what will change your gut environment? So it's exactly what you just said exactly what happened and
It takes that long to fully change the environment in there where eating a burger again isn't going to destroy you
Right so where it would really have affected your body, which you didn't really even know it was affecting your body
I didn't
Now when you eat it because it's not your regular
Intake it won't bother you so much if if let's pretend that a burger was something that bothered you before I mean
You know what I mean? I could eat an enormous
Blue burger like nobody's business and feel horrendous afterwards
But I did it anyway, right? So there's things in there that your body didn't agree with and now if you had one it would just be like I
Enjoyed that yeah, whatever so I
Feel like I'm all over the place because there's so many things that I want to say but going back to
Listening to our bodies the goal one of the the big parts of this conversation
It is truly and we've said it a million times in many different episodes before but mindful eating
noticing what you're eating paying attention to what you're eating because two hours after is
When your body is going to tell you whether it liked it whether it was bothered by it or any other type of conversation
It's interesting that you said that because your body might not be able to tell you you're full until a little bit later
It happens to me every day at lunch. I'm starving. I'm starving. I eat my lunch and then immediately
I want something that's sugar because I'm like, oh, I want I'm not full yet and then afterwards
I'm like, oh my gosh, I am stuffed. I didn't need to be stuffed. I was full after lunch
I didn't need anything else, but I didn't wait. I was just like I'm gonna eat it right after and then
completely full and didn't feel don't feel good and I
Literally, it's the definition of insanity. I do it every single day and so that's what that study
I was talking about was trying to figure out that after you eat your lunch where you're completely
Asiated or full let's say it hasn't decided what what it is yet
The little bug that's the dessert bug wearing the two-two because it's time for some fun
Food is going over to the computer and pressing my turn my turn my turn versus your brain actually wanting something right because you've created
that
Conditioning just like we condition ourselves to go to the gym every day
And we condition ourselves to do our morning routine or our nighttime routine you condition the dessert bug in your microbiome
To tell you that you want a piece of chocolate and when I changed that for seven to nine months
That never happened that bug dances away. I never felt that need of being like I'm still hungry
Right, I never felt that right so that is I'm today years old and I went through this already
And I think that's exactly what mindful. That's what it means to be mindful eating like when we'll you know you
You've made fun of it before I make fun of it. I'm gonna make fun of it today
But that's what mindful eating is is that eat what you have had the healthy items that you've given yourself to eat at a meal and
Then walk away for two hours and then listen to what your body's telling you about it because it could be hey
You didn't eat enough. You got to eat a little bit more or it's I'm good
Can I tell you in Spain Italy in Europe? That's their dinners
Take hours. Yeah, because they don't eat it all at once and then they sit and they talk and they take their time
They don't eat as much as we do because their body is telling them
We're not hungry because we're taking our time. Yep, and they eat very similarly and
And that's a general statement, but similarly to how our ancestors ate versus what the 60% of the world is eating processed food
Yeah, so they're eating the same foods
that created the
microbiotic system of
Who we are as humans now because that's what they used to eat many many many many many years ago and
Not eating as much processed
Excuse my French crap which completely creates bad bugs in our system and that creates depression anxiety
IBS immune system issues cancer
I mean the list is like insane and it's directly affected to the food
So that's the connection to the brain and the gut is that?
Yes, what you take in we said it before what you take in and what you eat if you're gonna eat a bunch of
You know McDonald's and fast food you start to not feel great about yourself. Yeah, yes
That's a fact however it quite literally is that the chemical fact you're changing
How your brain processes chemicals so now you're a negative person and now you're not happy because you're literally not happy
Yeah, so it's not just like a mood. It is interesting. That's why we're gonna talk about it today
The gut pathway
Connection
Is how you take food and where like where does it go right so it goes in your mouth
Starts in your mouth. Well that I understand cool
Then to the esophagus. Okay. I'm still with you
You know when you eat that blue burger too fast and it gets yes
Cuz I'm like oh, this is so good
Then it goes to the stomach and the stomach's not I always think like how to my stomach like it's the last process
I made it. No, it's the first one goes to the stomach and from the stomach
It goes to the small intestine and from the small intestine. I'm losing you but stay with me
Can you see it in my eyes? Yeah, you should see your face
From the small intestine it goes to the large intestine, which is the colon okay, and then from the colon it goes to the butthole
You brought me back. I'm back. I'm back
That's literally what they said so I thought it was appropriate say that's what the scientists said mom's going
Oh Victoria listen, we all have one. Okay, that's the track and it's not a straight line
No, I've seen intestines. Yeah, it's not have you I mean I
Wow that was a really fast from confident to completely uncomfortable. I did not have the guts. That's a man
It was not gutsy
It's not a straight line like not life is a straight line, right?
So when it's going through all these things the intestines are so long. Yeah, the fact that we have a
Pathway that's like miles long. Yeah, it's like I'm like it's wild our stomach is sideways
Basically, mm-hmm. So think of a kidney bean. Yeah tilted to one side
Okay at the top of that kidney bean like the round edge of the top is an air bubble
So that's when we have like oh, I just have air like we can feel that yeah physically can feel that we
We use different vocabulary to how to describe it
but that air bubble is
Also a big direct effect of our our gut little bugs
If you this is kind of a side note
But if you feel like you know your gassy or that bubble needs to be popped and you can feel that you lay on your left side
Okay, it tilts the kidney bean and it allows it to flow through. Oh, wow. I sleep on my left side
Because it allows anything that it like all the fluids all the gases everything to flow through the body
I don't and not get stuck so that you wake up and you don't feel as now
It's not go for your shoulder to do that, but just know like if you're feeling upset
Stomachly
Stomachly stomachly stomachly you lay down on your side. Did you learn that at the documentary? Stomachly stomachly
Mm-hmm to see fit original 50 real original
Yeah, I sleep on my right side because that's where my TV is so your kidney bean is just
Holding fluid it's not being able to release or the gas isn't being able to release
And I don't actually just mean like gas like you we know gas to be but it doesn't have to be passing gas
It's just like that we our bodies are made up of gas, you know, I want to giggle
He said passing gas oh my god, you're what's problem with the world because we all have this like weird
Don't talk about gas. Don't talk about poop
Don't talk about you come to my house and you go talk to the kids
You can talk about it all you want because it's all they want to talk about
But I don't want to talk about it, but like we're all embarrassed by it
Everybody is like feel shame when it comes to like how our stomachs feel yeah
We all feel shame about it and this documentary was cool because they were like let's talk about poop
I like get over it and it's basically get over it because if you don't know what's going on
You're creating the problem and we all have a digestive problem because we're doing all the wrong things. Yeah, I mean I never
Put that together like I I think that's very clear
I'm pretty obvious um, but I yeah, you never really try and fix the problem like you know when you like just like Andrew and Pat oh
That really bothers my stomach. I don't know why I do that
But you keep doing it because you're not figuring out the problem. Yeah, like it's not bad enough
To be like I got to go the doctor and figure this out
It's just like annoying unless you have the syndromes and the conditions like Crohn's disease
Right, but that's that specific like this is just like gut
That's all gut related like it's all microbiome related those conditions and symptoms
You can create that like you can make them bad if you don't take care of it. Yes
Okay dismiss me again
Sorry, I was I let's talk about more of the stomach Lee, okay stomach Lee
Stomach Lee this is another fascinating thing and we're gonna get into the prebiotics probiotics what you should eat what you should need stuff
But you got to know the basics, right? But so this is interesting
99% of our body is microbial like these little these little bugs and we're talking about right
But we're born without microbes we're born without these bugs so we create them
we create them in birth and
that's it's different between
A regular birth or a c-section birth no, yes, and I I would never have thought about that
I'm sure doctors are like you guys are idiots. I know we everybody knows us no aging doctor Justin
People like us do not know this we create microbes in birth. So you come out of the canal
And your your mother's microbes are what's all over you and I got stopped because it's closest to the
Even on the grossed out. Yeah, so but that's how you first get them and you need them
We we cannot live without them. We cannot live without them. They we can't digest on our own
So if you don't have any you're not alive. Yeah, you need them, but we're born without them
So c-section babies are very different because they don't get to go through that pathway
And so they get them in different ways and it's it already creates a difference in in how people are made
In gut health and what human humans? Yeah, like at the basic level
Jeez, not crazy. Yeah, I did not know that. I don't want to think about that
I mean you were there when Dean was born. Did you see any microbes?
I was at the other side because for a brief second I saw hair and I almost died
Almost died like I almost jumped out the window you and Andrew both
So the gut bacteria that we have which I think it's more fun to think like there's the the dessert bacteria ring little tutus
There's bad bacteria and they're in like Harry Potter garb. They have mustaches and they have mustaches
And then there's good bacteria and they're like super hippie-dippy running through the fields, right? Got it with yeah, some flowers. Okay, yeah
The importance of fiber is what keeps them alive. So I think that's the most important thing about
Okay, yeah, the importance of fiber is what keeps them alive. So like we have to take in fiber
Oh to keep that
Environment of little gut bugs
properly working and
According to like a lot of books and like a lot of what you'll hear online or I don't know if influencers are actually giving you
Like certain grams you're supposed to be eating a day, but don't listen to anybody
It's not around it's yeah, listen to me right now. It's around like 20 to 30 grams of fiber a day
Upwards towards 50. Okay is what I'm reading
Upwards for his 50, which is a lot more than you think I wonder if it's a lot more than we're eating. Oh my god in general
Oh, I think I think so, but there's a lot of ways you can get it in so we're gonna talk about that but
So many things still love to talk about. We're not even we didn't even scratch the surface. We're not even through the canal
So
Fiber digests in the body and it should be smooth like it should be an easy process
And so when we don't feel well we can feel that you like us not feeling good in our tummies
It's usually like fibers not having a good time. Okay, or we don't have enough fiber in the system
If you don't feed the bacteria if you don't feed those little party bugs with fiber
It creates a really bad relationship in the body
So I'm gonna I'm gonna dump this down the way the
Documentary dumbed it down and I was like whoa this makes sense. So there's the gut bugs
Okay, and then all of our organs and of the lining of the stomach and the intestines and all that it's all lined with mucus
So there's the mucus mucus bugs. Yeah, those are like the music ex guys, okay, but they're happy. Yeah, they're not miserable
They're not miserable. They're happy mucus and the gut bugs and the mucus lining they have a really good relationship. It's friendly
But they know their boundaries. They're different, but they still get along. Yeah, yeah, they're neighbors with a good fence
Got it. They'll party but like they know in bed by night. Got it
So when we don't feed the gut bugs at the party
They get really hungry. Uh-huh and they start eating the mucus lining. Oh, that's so horrible
Right and it starts to really ruin the relationship ruins the party believe it or not and
What that does is that it gets if it eliminates the mucus barrier
the bacteria
Starts to go in places that it's not supposed to go because that's the whole point of the mucus barrier
And a riot happens and a whole riot happens in the body and it brings out the guards
Which is the immune system. Okay, because they go on defense mode and they start fighting back
So now this whole you know
block party attack is
What creates IBS anxiety depression immune problems cancer the list goes on
Uh-huh all of that is just because you're not putting the right foods in your body. Damn it
Yeah, you can avoid all of that. Yes
In your stomach Lee geez
The more diverse your diet is the better like if you eat the same thing and
Only these four items like you don't have a
Wide variety of things that you like quote-unquote like or just because it's not in your you know daily routine
You're doing yourself a disservice. Yeah
And it should be a wide array of foods, but of course from a specific list of foods
Yeah, that's why it's not great when your kids are like I only eat chicken fingers and french fries and pizza and no
You know know this they don't eat that like no
They need to eat all of the foods and at that young age
It's really important to start creating the correct microbiomes in your body. So we start that young
Yeah, where we allow it. I mean, I don't have a picky eater in my life
I know it's really hard as a mom. I know a picky. I don't have picky eaters
They eat what's put in front of them, but they I also it's my fault
I put bad things in front of them a lot of the time when we're on the go and hustling so yeah, but I
Also do not have picky eater. So I don't know what that's like
Which is a thing so like no judgment here. No, you need to do it's just no know the science behind
What's going on right right so maybe I mean that's why I don't know if you hear this a lot now
But like
The processed foods and all the things that our kids now eating they're creating more ADHD. Yeah, creating more
Autism they're just eating chemicals. They're not eating food exactly and there's so many people that are like, oh, that's all fufu like that's
Fufu
That's all you know contra you know, no, it's conspiracy all that stuff. It's so factual. Yeah, it's not even funny
I
Know I gotta work on that. That's like my conscious
Decision this summer is to get my kids to eat healthier because I eat healthy
They eat meals. They just snack they either snackers. Yeah meals are great
But it's I buy it. It's in the house if it wasn't in the house, they'd have no chance to eat it
There's some good stuff in there. It's just if it's every day, then it's not good at all
Yeah, you know that yeah, it's good to be diverse inside and out of the body. I don't like how you said that
So there there's one thing one of the scientists in the documentary said and she said you have to follow the ABCs
Always be counting
Always be counting not what I
Took off the G you did always be counting. Oh, we heard it. Okay. We actually heard it loud and clear
Can you say it again always be counting good? That is a special skill
I can repeat the same way over and over always be count is it special skill is it?
It's special
So you're not counting calories you're counting fruits and vegetables and when you were like
I don't even think we're eating enough of the fiber of right fruits of it 20 to 30 a week
Okay, okay 20 to 30 think about apples, right how many apples do you eat in a week?
I'm not a fan of apples. So I eat you know what grapes? Can you be a little less specific? Yeah?
No, I could never eat that in a week. Oh my god
20 to 30 and it's between fruits and vegetables. So yes, you're having a salad at lunch. That's amazing
Yes, you have a side of greens or like green beans at dinner and maybe there's some spinach in your eggs
That's not even close to 20 if you do that seven days a week
Yeah, so it's all the in-between stuff and the portions like the majority of what we should be eating should be vegetables and fruits
Well, we're all of the microbiomes. We're talking about for your plate. It should be
just a little bit of protein a little bit of carbs and mostly fruits or vegetables for like a dinner
Yeah, like mostly if you want to take a plate and cut it into like dimensions
Most of it should be vegetables. Yep, and that's what fills you up anyway
Yeah, boom always be counting I
Should go
So there that that's the basics. Yes, try and come back from that. It's really hard actually
I was like, how can I make this into a nice segue?
I'm not one option was available to me. Well, let's make a pathway a connection if you will
Do you hate me?
No, because mom is yelling at me right now because what mom she's making herself sound like this all on her own
I'm just here always be counting
So what you eat today think about
I mean whenever you're listening to this episode, what have you eaten today so far?
What is still on the list of things that are gonna happen for the rest of the meals in your day today?
It impacts your microbiome 24 hours later. Oh
Okay, so
That doesn't mean like there's nothing you can do in that 24 hours to change what you ate
It's not like you can eat something today and then within the 24 hours. I'm gonna counter bounce that now
It's just it affects it 24 hours later because it has to that's the process in the system
We say it all the time your body goes through a process. It is not a machine. Yeah, like it goes through a process
It's not a robot. It's not AI like it has to
Go through a process. No way
I should have just said it once
Well, you're a good three three and done
Through their time. It's always three times
Always be counting
So now that we know all of that and hopefully that was in a direct enough way where it makes sense to you as well
Because it when I get really excited about something. It's really hard for me to keep the straight line of like information
And I couldn't I want to watch the documentary again because it was just so
Like what else can I do? This seems so easy
To change the block party in my stomach, but I can easily change it. Don't you feel like that is I mean this is gonna get deep for a second
Just life like it's not that hard
You just have to know
And like just like with your body like you just have to research it and die dive a little deeper
To figure it out
So we don't live with these issues year after year after year with doing nothing about it
You just have to it's easy you eat healthy
And your body will feel healthy your mind will feel healthy now some people
like what if
Your body does just does not do well with broccoli and brussel sprouts, right?
Like that's what you have to figure out exactly. So that's where the mindful eating comes into play
You can also do
in a quiz or a
Test I should I should say where they'll send you stuff you have to send back
Oh, I've been trying sample and stuff like that. I've been trying to give you that for years
Yes, well because Andrew gave it to you because you should do it for years
I don't want it. So I want you to have it, but that'll tell you the specific test and I'm gonna link the um the website
to our show notes like usual
You'll get the results of like what?
bug you have
And what you're missing and what you need more of and
And what foods you can eat to provide that and support that and what you probably need to get rid of because it really does bother you
And you're not paying attention to it. So there are ways to literally get down to the nitty-gritty of it
And that brings us into the biotics pre
and pro
Okay, okay, I'm excited about this because I've been drinking probiotics all week and I don't know what I'm doing
Are you drinking a probiotic drink? I gave it to you last week
Oh, oh, oh, no. I actually think that's good. It's a little bit like a kombucha. It's
Spicy. Yeah to call it spicy. It's fermented stuff. It's got kefir in it. Those are all good and we're gonna talk about why that's good
But probiotics can also come from supplements
Like if you go to a vitamin shop or a gnc, you can literally buy a bottle of probiotics
But that is what I was saying before I've done that. Yeah, and I'm like, hey, can I can you direct me to the bottle with the
4 million bajillion live bacteria? I have no idea what I'm talking about. I just saw it online once
The supplements aren't meant to like
hold a residence
In our gut or in at the black party. They're not they're not meant to buy a house and be there permanently
Because our body can't create them. We have to take them in
And a good way that the documentary described it. This is not mine
But it was a good way that I understood it too
So taking in probiotics in like supplement form
It's like throwing a plant in the jungle and hoping it's gonna grow and then
Help the amazon. Okay. Okay. Like don't plan it. Don't do anything. Just like
Just don't cultivate it. Just it does something hope for the best and hope that it changes
It helps the amazon and it helps it not have far aspires and like no, right? No does that make sense?
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I mean a lot of things right? I do that like every day in life
You throw things I throw things and just say I hope for the best
Well, I think a lot of ways that should that that's helpful
But not like this the way that we need to do it is to take in the proper foods. That's what like they literally said
Throw the pills out. Yeah, like they're not it's not it
And it's because a high quality and diverse diet and plant fibers, which are all prebiotics are
Is the only way that's gonna boost your mood help your system literally keep your body healthy and
Word off anxiety depression
Horrible, you know diseases and symptoms. So a prebiotic
Provides the food to the black party. Okay. It's the caterer. Yes the caterer. Yeah, everybody loves a caterer
Yes, so that's a prebiotic. It's the food for the bugs. Okay
And prebiotics are asparagus onions leeks garlic bananas like it's
Normal foods right chicory. That's not so normal. I think it's normal for a lot of people. That's not real
um chickpeas lentils prebiotics that we know are like
mushrooms barley oats whole grains
They are what feed the party. Okay, it's a very kind of boring party. No, I like that kind of party
But you can make it like chickpeas are like real good, right? Yeah, especially in the air fryer. We ever put chick-free
Have you ever put chick peas in the air fryer?
Um, our teacher jolly afineo who did our episode on weddings just gave me a whole container of her air fried chick-free
And she put oh, sorry what?
Chickpeas sorry we had kombucha
We always be counting
Let's be counting our mess ups
She gave me a whole
Dar of them because she puts like the best seasoning. It's like cayenne pepper and salt and pepper
Like it's not too good snack and they were crunchy. Yes, and I love crunch. It's like potato chips
But like you just pop it in. Yeah, I love that. Yep. That's why I like kale chips. Hey, jewel
Don't recall getting that on my desk
But uh, I don't know. I'll have to check again later. Maybe you should have a longer conversation with her then
What are you? Why aren't you in class?
Oh, you hurt your foot. I got your back. I got your back jewel
Okay, so that's prebiotics. They feed the bugs probiotics
are
What populate the bugs?
Okay. Oh, like they populate the gut
And they're live they they deep dove they deep dove
They are live bacteria that are found in fermented foods to help improve the gut and stuff
So that's the key for that you're talking about it's yogurt. Yes. Um
The word live kind of gets me a little weird that I don't like that
It reminds me of like little maggots in your body
Which is basically what these little bugs are
And now I'm not liking it, but they're so small you you can't even see them
So it's not like there's actual things walking around. It's just a good way to describe it
Okay, and I mean when you put a tutu on a maggot, it looks a little better
Then we don't maggots in our system. Do not listen to her. That is not what it is
No
A probiotic what yeah, that's what I was gonna say
Probiotics populate the party
And everybody wants to come to the party. So that's a good thing. Yes, it's the live
It's the live music, okay, it's the live event, right?
Uh, it's live yogurt kefir sauerkraut
Uh, kimchi, which I've never had but I really want to try
It's Asian
What why are you laughing at me like that sounds like a name kimchi? Yeah
Okay, miso
another name miso kimchi
Aged cheddar parmesan and swiss. They were the only three cheeses. Wow that are
probiotics, okay
I don't know what the other cheeses are, but they're not probiotics like probiotics are popular
That's how I'm gonna think of it. Okay
Happy for you
And then the last
part of what you need to be taking in
Is the fiber rich foods, okay, and they pair with all the prebiotics and the probiotics they they link up
They link up so at the party at the party. This is like
Uh, every day you've got a singles who want to mingle in your in your stomach and you're trying to pair them up
Yes, and everybody should have a pair. Yes
I got it. Yep
Okay
so
Wheat and fiber is basically every vegetable and fruit you could possibly think of green peas broccoli brussel sprouts
Sweet comorn, sweet comorn carrots avocado raspberries strawberries the skin of an apple
You don't like apples. I like granny smith
The green sour ones if it's not sour. I cannot eat an apple. Oh, no. No. No. No
coconut
kimchi
Also fiber rich food my girl
Whole wheat spaghetti it doesn't have to just be
vegetables
Rye flour if you're making like breads and stuff. What's up, Jackie?
Make some rye. You know our address is
bulger wheat
Coffee. Yes. I'm all over that one
Smoothies vegetable juices like actual vegetable juices not
You know what you're gonna feed your kids. There's not actual fruit in any of those things. Just know that it's just sugar
Don't tell dean. It's just sugar
Peanuts chickpeas and the list goes on the list goes on for the fiber
So that is an easy way and a way that you don't even know that you're already probably taking fiber in but not enough
But not enough. Yeah, so up to 50 grams at the higher part of 50 grams is what?
The fiber intake should be and 20 to 30 servings of vegetables and fruits
A week a week that is insane
Uh week that is one hoppin block party that you should be having in your stomach and I feel like I'm
More of the catalina wine mixer. Oh
in my stomach
Not so much the singles mixer that we're matching up but the catalina wine mixer
I'm gonna do less of that this summer. Oh my god
So the catalina wine mixer in the stomach has more of the bad bacteria the bad bugs
Yeah, they have the foods that you're eating that like bother you but you can't stop eating them
Yeah, those are the bad bugs and they kind of ruin the party. Yeah, I mean wine always does exactly right
Well, why alcohol is not that's a different party and that's a different
We're gonna talk about that as well
but that
That party with the bad bugs can overpower all the good. Oh, yeah
And you have good in there with the healthier stuff that you're eating
But if you're bringing in processed foods, you know ready-made dinners
sauces like stuff that
That aren't cultivated in your kitchen or in a healthy restaurant and chemically induced, you know, like it's processed then it is
The party is not going to be the top of the charts. No matches will be made
And I just think that the interesting part of all this is how it connects to the brain
like all of that's well and good to keep your body functioning and feeling better and with that
the remember the
Bacteria eating the mucus lining and then the immune system coming to defend it that creates inflammation
And that's the puffiness in the skin. Let's say it's not like a really bad IBS is what you're gonna get from it
But you're constantly puffy. Yeah, and what all of that does is raise your stress levels and your stress hormones
Which channel up to the brain and that's your cortisol levels
Which I have been doing the coconut the thing you suggested the coconut water
the little bit of Himalayan pink salt and lemon every single morning first thing before coffee
And that is a big change for me
Because usually I just wouldn't do it at all or I do it like after my coffee. I've been doing it every single morning
Have my I feel like two weeks. I feel like my skin is a lot clearer. It is like don't you feel like that yesterday?
I feel like my skin is getting clearer. I do feel that for you. Thank you. I'm not doing it
So I don't feel anything. I'm not drinking it
It's one of the few things I've actually been like I want to try this and see if I can actually do it
and I've been doing it and now it's become a habit
And I'm like, oh my skin is getting clearer. Keep going. Yeah continue because it takes all of this takes time
It's you know 21 days to create a habit or to break a habit
9 to 12 months to fully change these black parties in our stomach people don't understand. It's months
That's not days. That's not weeks. That's months. It's a long time. Two weeks is good
Yeah, keep going because then I'm gonna ask Andrew what the answer is if it's actually helping you
Be a happier person
No, just release your stress. Yeah, it is all hormones
But I noticed your skin yesterday and I meant to tell you about it, but you didn't I barely saw you
Yeah, well, I saw you from afar and I didn't see the craters
Well, that's good, but that is a big factor of all that too
so I don't want to get too much into this because it's like
Tippy-dippy. No, it just it really is convoluted, but there's this thing now not now
But they're looking into it more. It's happened
in one specific study
It's called a fecal microbiome transplant. What I know and
Really all it is you lost me at fecal. Like ahead
Transplaining somebody else's microbiomes in a capsule that you can take
Swallowing basically their poop to change what's happening in yours. You totally lost me and as much as that sounds really gross
if you have
A horrible horrible
disease that has completely impacted some of the people in this documentary
Have major issues that they're like I've just lived this just how I've been living. I've been trying my whole life to change it
It is what it is, but it's not it's not it is what it is
And one of them has done a fecal transplant and she has been taking it and it's she can eat foods now
I wonder if that might be a Crohn's disease
Yes helper one is for 90 cure rate is for C diff
If you're here with C diff
Um, okay, well, we're not gonna get into that because that's a whole different episode, but it's a it's a disease
It's horrible and the fecal transplant 90 curate for that. That's crazy because what it does
They're looking into seeing if it can help Parkinson's and they're looking into it to see if it can help
severe anxiety and severe depression so what what they found is that in the black party if I have
Parkinson's
My black party is comprised of certain participants, but it also doesn't have certain participants
Right, so if I do this fecal transplant
I'm getting the participants that I don't have
And it lessens my symptoms. Oh, wow lessens my disease
So it's the same for depression and stuff like that. It's not
They're figuring it out. You're they're figuring it out. None of this is
I'm just gonna go out and do it now if you know somebody who has it and do all these things
They're discovering
That all of this is way deeper than it
They know right that I mean, that's great. If you can get past the first word. I I know I'm truly stand
But that's but that's what it is. That's why the pathway goes out the bottle. Yeah
Okay, love that pathway for you, but I just think that I thought I was like, whoa
that's like a
That's a cancer curing thing. Yeah, and it's just from
Changing something you're taking in or adding
And not necessarily eliminating something you're doing but adding a bacteria that
You can't get in there on your own and it all comes from the microbiomes that you're born with
Yeah, that's crazy. But then and then continue to wait. That's what I was gonna say. Go ahead harbor right right, you know, like if you
Were all healthy until we're not right just like you said you were you can't change your genetics, but you can
change it you can
Change isn't the right word. You can't you can change your microbiome your microbiome. That's what I mean. You can change it by eating
completely different things and
sometimes like
I think they even suggested you don't have to take that test you don't have to send in a sample and figure out what you have
It's a process of elimination of just starting to eat better and starting to eat more probiotics and prebiotics not taking the
Sublimans adding so much more fiber into your life
And then seeing the difference there because it takes however long to do that, right?
9 to 12 months to fully change the environment
And change streets of the block party. It takes 9 to 12 months to travel to a new street
I love the block party. Um
Example because one I understand it and two I understand it
But yeah, so that's that's the connection the gut brain connection it is just so crucial
For our mood
Like yes eat better foods. You'll feel better. Maybe you'll lose weight. Maybe not but you'll feel better. It's because
of how the nervous system
Is channeled and linked to the gut
That's just
You know, you always say like, oh, I I know that but you don't really know
You really have to do your own research more than this podcast or however long this podcast is today
You have to do your own research
Like you have to go deeper into it because this is like base level
Like Victoria's literally doing it so that I understand and then you have to go figure it out for yourself
I mean, this is all no it's definitely
For me. Oh thought it was for me
Well, the documentary is amazing. You really should watch it. They do it in a way
Where do you think I got the tutu on the thing they have cartoons to show you?
How the system works and like
How the bad look and how the good look and what it is and
It's truly like if you I mean listen
Like if you I mean listen, this is a transparent podcast. Okay, we talk about everything
We are just like you you were just like us. We're all awkward. Mm-hmm. We're all uncomfortable
We're all embarrassed
Look at your poop
But you're gonna say something way worse than that. That was a big lead up. Look at your poop
There is if you look up, I think you type in like the poop scale online
And it looks from like one to ten of the look of what should be
Yeah, what it should look like and it'll tell you how healthy or how unhealthy you are
And then I think it'll tell you what you need more of and usually you just need more fiber. Yeah, but
We're not gonna get into all that but you should really look at it because if you don't know
You don't even know how unhealthy you are. I know
And that's what it is. And you know what when you don't feel good
You don't feel good. It is the worst feeling to just and you can feel it right in your gut right in your stomach
And it goes all over and I have felt that way before I still feel that way sometimes when I like go on
A week of like not eating well or just like you know going on vacation or whatever when you don't feel good
Nothing's going the right way. Yeah in any part of your life
And then when you start getting back on track and you start figuring it out with the good foods and your block party is like
Raging raging what a difference
It is yeah from top to bottom like inside out like that
That party needs to be popping and I think that's why
Like the language we were talking about I think that's why your intuition's in your gut
Oh, yeah, and the fear is in the chest the intuitions in your gut
Where you know you're listening to things you're listening to your body
It's almost like you have like these little bugs at the block party going pay attention to this. Yeah
Hello pay attention to this but we ignore it because we
We've never listened to it right. We've just gone with the
You know good-looking brand label
That looks fun and it's a cool cereal and we really want that versus like
Just eating the way they ate millions of years ago. I know you really should eat to fuel your body
Yes, just
Sometimes it's boring and that that's fine. And so when it's not boring you really enjoy it
But sometimes it just has to be boring because you're eating to fuel your body
I agree, but don't agree with that
Listen doesn't have to be boring
Yeah, but I mean like anything good. Oh, no, that's not what I mean. I mean like consistent like
Sometimes you got to eat the same stuff every day for a little bit for it to work
Like you're not gonna try and get your gut better
But then on one day and then the next day be like oh, but I was good yesterday
So I'm gonna eat this McDonald's today like you've got to be consistent and be boring a little bit
You mean when I eat a salad I shouldn't lose 20 pounds just because they ate salad and then reward myself for it
That's what I did for like 15 years
We all think like that. I think there's something there was a video going around. I think a lot of people are actually
Making these videos that have gone around or at least they're coming up on my instagram
And it's like a guy running from what I can visualize and he's talking to the camera being like
Yeah, I go to bed by nine. Yeah, I don't party every single weekend. I cut out alcohol for my life
I eat a very healthy lifestyle
Why am I the minority? Yes, why am I being judged and made fun of for that?
When you're the most unhealthy person
Eating whatever you want to eat feeling horrible
But you're the cool girl at school. Well that on top of that I've seen the memes or the videos saying
The people drinking alcohol at the party are the one judging the people not drinking alcohol
But they're cool and you're not and it's just like wait, what? Yeah, I don't understand that. Yeah
But I drink wine and I judge Victoria. Oh my god
More people are concerned about what's in my cup than what's in theirs. Oh, that's what I've seen too
I've seen memes that say that every yeah, but it's true. Yeah
I've never been asked so many times why I'm not drinking. I know
From me from everyone kidding. I from everyone
Truly like strangers if they were gonna ask me at a at a restaurant or a bar like
The amount of concern people have
For why we don't poison our bodies and I even mean McDonald's Taco Bell like that not just alcohol
I'm not going on a tangent. We get more judgment
from not doing what's like
socially in right now
versus
Let's quote unquote hippie-dippy. I I feel the same way about food
Like when I am at a party and somebody's like, oh, why aren't you eating that? Well, I I that's not what I eat
You know, but then I get judged like why can't you just splurge sometimes? I'm like, whoa
Oh, because it's really a reflection of them feeling bad about what they're doing
I mean when you question me about your alcohol because you're having a glass of wine
No, I don't give you a hard time about not drinking
I always look at you and say when I when I'm drinking when I go, man, I wish it could be more like you
Can have another glass?
And then I pour it
But it's that's it's so true and I don't know why society is like that
I don't know why we accept it as easily as we do like people are so easy to be like
Oh, okay. All right, or give in or
I don't know. Some people are just trying to get their guts right so leave them alone
Yeah, you know what would shut them down. I'm just gonna start talking about my butthole
I think that would shut down conversation over any judgment
Because they'll just never want to talk to me again
And that actually is a way on a lot of levels. I can I just stand behind you and like listen. I will laugh my
Hole off
You couldn't say but I know I don't know. Wait, you said hole. I'm sorry. I don't know why I did that
This didn't make sense. Mom's rolling over in her chair
She's so mortified
In her armchair, she's rolling over in her arm chair because she's so alive. Yeah
Oh my god
In any case, well, we hope you all create the best block party
in your belly
I don't know how I feel about that sentence. No, I love that
We all want a rager in our belly, but but truly your real tip
Start mindfully eating because there's so much information just put out
Mindfully eat that's all you have to do to start this
eat your meal
And take time to feel what it felt like to eat that meal
You don't have to journal about it. You can
But you don't have to make it this big like oh gosh, look. I'm so mindful just be like, hey
I don't know if my body agreed with that
Maybe I'll cut out that pasta because it bothered my stomach like Andrew can't eat pasta needs pasta all the time
Yeah, start listening to what your body is telling you when you eat certain foods
And see what happens when you start to adapt to that conversation and now for your real extra tip of the week
It's called
Learn more about your stomach. Lee. What does learn more about your stomach Lee mean?
It means watch the documentary
Okay, watch the documentary that Victoria is going to link because it's really important
You can listen to us all day long and learn words that do not exist
but watch
Watch it understand it and once you understand it then research even more about it because there is so much out there that
We just we don't even know you don't even know and the visual is so helpful
like you're understanding what i'm reiterating about it, but
If you had the visual of what I see in the documentary you're gonna be like, oh my god, that makes
So much sense. It's not even a question and I also have the time I'm sitting here visualizing in my head
If you're driving if you're on a hot girl walk if you're doing something and listening, it's not all comprehending
Sit actually do the research actually watch the documentary. What's it called?
It's called hack your health the secrets of your gut and it's on Netflix
And try some of the things that they tell you try some of the things that Victoria told you that is a lot of an extra tip
But you are all real extras and we know you can do it for your mind and your gut
We have a bonus extra tip. What?
Carly's gonna watch the documentary
Yes, me and my stomach Lee and my black party and my gut you're going to and next week
We're gonna talk about it. Okay, and by talk. I mean we're gonna say hey, Carly. Did you watch it?
And you're gonna tell us the truth
Sounds like a plan so that said
Actually, what I say to the kids is sounds like a plan Lee Stanley
I know I don't know why and your stomach Lee in my stomach Lee Stanley lives in my stomach Lee
It's his house at the black party
He's unhealthy. He's
He's not well. He's the one that tells me to eat the candy after lunch. He's a bad buck
Stanley
Oh, remember you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little extra
Always be counting
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