-: My experience is here.
Everyone's got gut issues
if you look hard enough.
so your goal should be if something need addressed,
address it, otherwise focus
on doing the things that are gonna improve general health
and see if that doesn't create the scenario,
because if it's a minor thing,
oftentimes most people will improve
doing the interventions that go
along with a healthy lifestyle.
Anyway, you don't necessarily need
to have laser sighted bullet
for every symptom that somebody might have.
Sometimes it's like,
well if we just make you generally healthier
this thing will correct on its own.
'Cause your body will have the capacity to heal.
Of the smaller number of complex cases
that I couldn't solve
looking at like all the biomarkers for the GI tract,
looking at people's poop and their blood work
and all of that stuff
about 80% of those were psychological stress related.
So and that's why you gotta look up
and you gotta focus on these things
because you can be taking all the HCL
that I just have enzymes and the probiotics in the world.
But if somebody if it's just the stress
or a psychological or emotional element
that is driving that GI dysfunction
and it's forcing their GI track to either move
too fast or too slow
you're not really gonna make much of an impact
by pushing a bunch of supplements in there.
And of all of that, so you take the small amount
of things that I couldn't solve
with whatever sort of GI interventions that we use.
We take 80% of what's left
psychological stress related
and only 20% of what was left
that I couldn't figure out
actually required some sort of comprehensive GI intervention
where we had to do like an elimination protocol
or we had to do some sort of like anti-parasitic
or pathogenic kill off type protocol
or something extreme to that point.
And what I will say is that when you get to there,
you're getting to the point
where your ability to guess
or work that stuff out is limited.
Even if you have a lot of lab work
sometimes it's not clear.
And so definitely I would say men refer out
do not take on those headaches
as part of your role as trainer coach.
From a professional's perspective
I would say you can't be a great trainer and coach
and learn everything there is to know about the gut.
So just I'm telling you right now
I don't know everything there is to know about the gut.
I know enough to know
when I'm out of my realm at this in time
and that took a long time
and a lot of hard learning experiences to get there.
So unless you're looking at a career change
don't think that you are going to find
all of the solutions to be able to fix everybody's gut.
What you should be looking to do
is how to maximize the things
that are under your control as the trainer coach.
You need to draw that line in the sand
and trust me, your clients will be grateful for it.
You're their coach.
You're not their savior.
The worst place to be is knowing more
than you can actually act on accurately
because that's when you will make the most mistakes
you will lose your client's confidence.
You will lose your confidence yourself
you'll will get frustrated
and you will start investing more of your mental energy
in trying to solve a problem
that isn't in your wheelhouse
than actually delivering good program,
good training, good nutrition, good mentoring and coaching.
So be extremely effective
at applying the basics before you try focusing
on increasing your knowledge in gut health.
So basically if you're not really good
at helping people manage stress and lifestyle,
convincing them to do like
to actually be compliant on things.
Don't start trying to learn gut physiology
to a great degree, right?
'Cause you're already aren't good
at getting application out of what you do know.
And so why do you wanna
it's basically it's like,
why do you wanna get like bigger weapons
that you're less accurate with?
That's not a good idea.
A lot of collateral damage can occur.
And then I think the last one on here
if it works, it works.
We know so little about the gut
and the trillions of organisms that are living in it, right.
If it works, it works.
However, it may not be the cure.
So you may have things like, that feels better
but it's put out the fire
but it didn't create the healing, but that's okay
'cause you need to know
what those things are and how to use them as well.
So don't be afraid of temporary solutions.
A lot of times putting out the fire,
if you're doing all the lifestyle stuff
may provide the situation for somebody to heal.
So it makes those longer solutions
or those long-term solutions more manageable
if you use some of these short things.
So if there's an argument right now
on how effective are probiotics really at changing
your microbiota, can you really change it much?
It seems to be that it's a very, very hard thing to change.
But if taking probiotics
has a beneficial effect use them, right.
Use them and who knows, maybe it has an impact
maybe it doesn't, maybe it takes a long time
don't dismiss things that work.
So, alright, that is the end of the presentation.
And now questions had a feeling
there would be a lot this time
and it looks like this might be quite a bit.
All right, okay.
So Curtis asks about ox bile
and whether or not that would be a good product
or whether it would be counterproductive
to as to adjusted rate.
So, with the ox bile
that you're getting a lot of times
you're getting the salts, right?
So basically the bile salts there
are gonna help make the bile more active.
So I do like, especially
for people with gallbladder symptoms,
I do like the the ox bile
or bile salt supplementation for that support.
It's not gonna like massively negatively
impact the stomach adjustment
especially when you consider like that bio just
a lot of the products will have some amount
of betaine HCL, pancreatic enzymes
and occupy all like kind combined, right.
Lindsay asks, can someone have an easy time digesting gluten
in a cut or maintenance,
but once they push into a surplus
it can cause issues or it causes issues
during a surplus that is a sign
they shouldn't be eating gluten even at maintenance?
Well, I don't know what symptom
you're currently using
as for what is good or bad in terms
of what happens when they eat gluten.
A couple things to consider with gluten
is you have to look at the correlation
of all of the things that are typically
in foods that are more gluteny
'cause maybe it's actually the glyphosphates
maybe it's the oils and whatnot.
So maybe when somebody's cutting, they're eating gluten
but they're eating gluten that doesn't have like
as many like, plant oils
those types of things in them.
But then, when they're in a surplus
they're having, we'll say dirtier gluten foods.
So that would be one thing to consider.
But in general, if it is specific to gluten
and they have an issue,
it might just be the in the surplus
they're bloating and stuff
is maybe more noticeable.
So in that case you would probably
say it's likely not a good idea for them to have it.
Zack asks for SSRI, both personally taking one
and coming across clients
who also take something like Zoloft
what interventions for GI stress
would you use initially?
So you're getting transit issues.
I'm guessing from the serotonin.
Honestly, I'll just claim that that's not an issue
that I've had to solve
but what would say is probably using a bulking thing
like a fiber would be my starting point there.
Would be looking at that to kind
of get things slowed down is to adding
some bulk to the stool,
but what I would hope, and again
I'm not claiming to be an expert on SSRI
is that you do get some sort of autoregulation
after a period of time,
in terms of improving transit time.
Why would different brands
of protein powders specifically digest differently?
Some don't cause any issue.
And then some you're running
to the restroom after 20 minutes of consuming it.
I mean, protein patters
unless you're getting all unflavored proteins
usually it has to do with what is sweetened in there.
And you have to be careful
because a lot of things that are qualified
is like a natural sweetener or whatever, proprietary blends
like there's all sorts of sorts
of ways of hiding what they're really putting in stuff.
And then there's just the value
that some supplement companies
just don't adhere to good practices, period.
So usually it's gonna be the additive that's in there.
And now if it's different types of proteins
in terms of like the actual,
like whether it's like a whey concentrate,
isolate, hydrocele those types of things are different.
Sources of protein, like beef protein, et cetera,
then it may actually be a reaction
to the proteins specifically.
But usually when it's the same type of protein
just across different brands
it usually has to do with the sweeteners
and additives that they are putting in there.
What would you suggest
if you cannot find a trustworthy specialist?
In terms of GI stuff?
I mean, keep looking,
I guess it would be the the best thing I would say.
And what I would say is a lot of times,
if you think the issue is extremely complex
and you've been searching and searching
and searching and searching
sometimes you do the approach of like
getting a clean slate
throw out everything you think you know
about your digestive track
and start at the very beginning
and look at the very basics first I've done that sometimes.
And then somethings sometimes the reason
that couldn't find the complex solution
is because a simple solution
was overlooked or not found quite as well.
Piggybacking on Curtis questions.
Who do you recommend if you need to refer out?
Well so far, I know like
I think Alan has liked working with Vince.
We've done some stuff with James Laval.
One of the things that we're working
on right now is getting another course up
with Dustin Nelson that is gonna
be looking at basically looking at signs and symptoms
and interventions using a traditional Chinese medicine.
That may be a, we'll say a very or another set of tools
that might be very applicable.
So in the digestion block there, so who knows
maybe there's something in there for you Curtis
that might find some relief in terms
of he'll cover some specific herbal combinations
and some moxa strategies and things like that.
But like I really liked the way Chinese medicine
kind of focuses on global energy and stuff
in terms of the way that applies to the gut
because so much of it is about energy and fluid flow.
Curtis asks after a meal, like a triple burger
and fries from a chain rounds restaurant
bloating and other digestive issues lesson
indicated that there is potentially too much stress.
Yeah, possibly or, it could be that like,
I mean it could be a combination of too much stress
maybe you've been writing that line
of being in a calorie deficit too long
could also be that, like that meal having
no like basically all that processed food
having literally no fermentable stuff
for the most part might be the thing that helps.
So that could be so like I would experiment
if that's the case, is it the calories
or is it the constitution and the meal?
So try and separate the two,
like, okay, what if you had the same type of food
and a smaller amount
does it still impact you the same way?
If yes, then it might be the constitution.
If not, then it might be the calorie amount.
Which intervention do you like to promote
more chewing on with clients?
All of them, I think,
or I guess I don't know if you're asking job
of how I would do that.
Basically you can have people count choose
but I think that's boring,
but the amount of people that have smartwatches
and stuff now is basically you can start getting people
of chewing for a certain amount of time.
So they'll take a thing and they hit their watch
for like 15 seconds or whatever it is chew it.
And then, vibrates and then they eat their thing
and that can be a way of getting it
or people can count chews or whatever,
or you can just try and get people to be mindful
of the consistency, be like, all right
I want you to chew this.
And I want you to actually like think
and feel the food in your mouth, right.
And I don't want you to swallow
until it's like till it's like liquid,
that's the most accurate like in terms
of what you're trying to achieve from the goal.
Because if you use a timer account,
like what from eating mashed potatoes, right?
Like do I need to chew mashed potatoes for 15 seconds?
No, like a gargle mashed potatoes.
So the goal is getting to that, liquidy state
in the mouth before it makes it into the stomach.
Steven asks, what are some things
to look for if someone is taking excessive fiber?
Well, okay so too much fiber can create constipation,
dry, hard stools
but that would be insoluble fiber,
too much soluble fiber
or fermentable fiber
is gonna give you gas.
Last week I put a client on elimination diet this week.
She reported back things got worse on it
ever seen anything like that?
So if somebody, I mean, I don't know the specifics
of the diet, but, I would assume in that case
that maybe she wasn't getting enough calories on it.
And that was actually one of the main stressors for her.
So she may have dug herself
into a greater deficit on the elimination diet.
And then, her symptoms worsened.
Curtis asks when you say clean slate
would you fast for a couple of days?
No, I mean like mentally,
like so like if you've been troubleshooting your gut stuff
and you've been looking for solutions,
what I would say is like start your thought process
at the beginning.
That's what I mean by clean slate.
Cool, Lucas asks, what is your opinion
about the lemon challenge tests to measure your pH?
So if you're, so the salivary pH test,
which it's basically
it's a test for your ability to produce bicarb.
So that could be an ideal
or a functional tasks that may be a predictor
for how well we would be producing bicarb at the pancreas.
So I do like that as a functional test,
I have seen that that does improve with supplementation
of electrolytes and improvement of lifestyle
and decrease stress and all of that.
But I've also seen people ace the lemon test
and also still have other issues.
So it's not a if you pass this test, you passed everything.
But for that particular marker, it may be good.
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