The gut biome is not just a collection of bacteria; it is a complex ecosystem that interacts with our immune system to keep us healthy. As we navigate the chaos of dietary information, our host sheds light on how to manage our gut health effectively for optimal immune function.

One of the key takeaways from this episode is the importance of dietary fats. Contrary to popular belief, fats are not the enemy; they are essential for our body's energy generation and play a crucial role in building our endocannabinoid system. The host emphasizes the need for a balanced intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids to maintain a robust immune response. This balance can mitigate inflammatory reactions and enhance our ability to fend off pathogens.

Intermittent fasting emerges as another powerful tool discussed in the episode. We can boost our immune system's defenses by allowing our bodies to enter a fasted state. This practice helps in weight management and strengthens our body's natural ability to fight infections. The host creatively uses analogies, likening our immune system's response to a starship's shields dropping during a meal, making the complex science behind gut health accessible and engaging.

The episode also highlights the significance of maintaining a balanced gut microbiome. With two major classes of bacteria—firmicutis and bacterioids—it's crucial to understand how our dietary choices impact their growth. The host explains that overgrowth of either type can lead to various health issues, including obesity and digestive disorders. Incorporating fiber-rich foods and fermented products can promote a healthy balance of gut bacteria.

As we wrap up, the host encourages listeners to take charge of their health through informed dietary choices. With practical tips and insights, this episode empowers us to configure our gut biome for better health outcomes. Tune in to learn more about how your gut health can enhance your immune defense and overall well-being!

Big Takeaways!

• Gut health is directly linked to immune defense.
• Increase Omega 3s to balance intake.
• Intermittent fasting is vital to overall health and immune defense

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another exciting version of Chip Talks Health. Today, we will talk about your gut biome and gut biome concerning immune defense. What is our first line of defense? Where does that war be fought? It turns out that's really in the gut. In the gut biome.

We're going to talk a little bit about that today. We're going to talk a little bit about the endocannabinoid system. We're talking about some things you might do at home to bolster your immune system through your gut biome and control your gut biome.

First of all, we need to level set. We need to talk a little bit about how you work. If I go to Home Depot and buy a lawnmower or a leaf blower, I get a manual with my purchase. So I take care of and feed my lawnmower and leaf blower.

Now, we really don't get a manual for this thing that we drive, but this thing that we drive every day is very much like a machine, and it's very much like a lawnmower or a car or something that you could certainly write an operations manual around. However, if you go out and try to find this information for yourself, it will be an ocean of chaos and confusion. So, let me try to break that down for you guys. And again, what is my frame of reference and my litmus?

Well, it's the endocannabinoid system. And as I teach you about the endocannabinoid system, it turns out that, you know, information about your immune system, information about what you should eat, information about when you should eat it, all that type of information just kind of naturally falls out. As I teach you about the endocannabinoid system, it's such a great frame of reference and a great teaching tool. It is just logical and ordered for whatever reason. It can cut through the chaos and confusion that a lot of us have suffered under trying to understand from the medical profession and trying to understand from, let's say, Average Joe's, you know, how this thing works, you know, the operations manual. Download your FREE Operations Manual.

Let's start with the most important thing we do every day, generate energy. Without energy, without moving electrons, we aren't alive. The most important thing I do daily is generate energy through mitochondria. We'll get to the gut biome in a second, I promise. We have to go kind of top-down, right.

As we go top down, we'll understand function better than starting from the ground up. To use an analogy, I will talk to you about your car from the perspective of the steering wheel, the engine, its ability to defend you against the environment, and things like that. We won't start with internal piston pressure because that would be too confusing. We're going to talk top-level down. That will help us understand this gut biome, our immune system, how it's related to the gut biome, and all that. We have to start at the top level. So, you generate energy from three different fuel substrates.

Glucose is by far and away the least efficient and not really where we want to be. Dietary fats are how we're designed. So, we're a big fat-burning machine. We store dietary fats; Dietary fats build our master regulatory system called our endocannabinoid system. The two most important foods you eat daily are dietary fats, omega three, and omega six fatty acids. We need to eat those in balance. We generate energy from fat. That's kind of how we're designed to run. Then, there's a third substrate: light.

We know that plants generate energy from light through photosynthesis. Believe it or not, you do some of that inside of you in a kind of backward way, which is weird. But anyway, you do a little bit of that, but that's too far out there for most people. We're going to stick to glucose and fat. When you eat a meal, because you are a fat-burning machine, you have to go to a different fuel substrate because you're dealing with fat.

You can't burn and operate on fat at the same time. You're trying to store, manage, evaluate, and so on. When we eat, we go into glucose mode for five hours. You never get out of glucose mode if you eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, energy drinks, and snacks. That's very dangerous. Let's say we're 50 times less powerful in glucose mode.

We don't have the same robustness in our immune system, the same robustness in our ability to fight disease, and the same robustness in our ability to defend ourselves against our own gut biome.

We want to operate and stay down here as little as possible. This is why we preach intermittent fasting as a tool. It is a tool to help with your immune system and general health, but it is not so much for weight loss. That's a consequence of intermittent fasting. Your body will find that natural, normal weight for you, and you'll stick to that weight, which is kind of a cool thing. Most of us carry too much weight. Intermittent fasting helps with all that. But the biggest thing it does is help with our additional power.

When we're burning fat in our immune system, we're pretty robust. If you think about our shields as our immune system. Every time we eat a meal, we drop our shields. We'll get infected with pathogens when our shields are down. We will get infected with things in our biome and other places in our bodies that shouldn't be infected. If we don't understand how to run our immune system, that's going to happen, and that's happening to all of us right now because we don't understand how to run our immune system. In a fasted state, five hours after eating, you're immune systen is way more robust.

We've got strong shields. If we eat equal amounts of omega three and 6, we have powerful shields to defend us against invaders, pathogens, and disease.

Let's talk a little bit more about how this works and where would we get invaded by things? Anywhere where we're open to the air, we're going to have a biome associated with that. We're breathing in, or we're eating, you know, microbes all the time.

We have to have some kind of a situation that will help us digest our food and protect us against bad bugs that might be coming in through our food. We used to eat all kinds of food that were probably contaminated, vegetables and things like that. You need a mechanism to protect you from that. You need a mechanism to protect you from funguses and molds and things like that. That all starts kind of at the point of contact.

When breathing in air, we're putting things in our mouths that go into our guts. There's a mucosal layer associated with all of that, and then there's bacteria that kind of live in that mucosal layer. Here's how it works. And this is the easiest way to explain how the biome works. We'll be putting out way more information about this because this is just a really rich area for information. If you're a meat eater, you'll need certain types of bacteria to help you digest that red meat. Those bacteria will be allowed to grow in your biome, and your biome will promote those bacteria because you need help digest certain types of meat.

Chicken is different, pork is different. If you cook those things in oil, you've added another layer of complexity that will need to generate different bacteria in your gut biome. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates, such as plant fibers, these are a little harder to digest if they are insoluble. Fiber is good for your biome. They will promote, good types of bacteria. But at the same time, you need certain types of bacteria to aide digestion or help you try to digest those insoluble fibers.

When you eat things, you are building your biome. You are communicating back and forth with your body about what type of biome you're in. You're building through your diet. This is configurable. That's cool and scary at the same time because we know so little about this. You can change your gut biome.

There are two major classes of bacteria in your gut biome, and they should be balanced. One type of bacteria is called firmicutes. Firmicutes are high-calorie guys.

They like a lot of calories and bacteria, and they don't produce some useful anti-inflammatory, such as short-chain fatty acids. You don't want an overgrowth of firmicutis bacteria. This leads to obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and heart issues.

The other types of bacteria are called bacterioids. In an overgrowth of bacteroids, you'll have more leaky gut-type symptoms, like IBS, Crohn's, etc.

In either instance, we don't want those things to happen because they leave us weak and weaken our immune system to certain types of attacks. We want real balanced firmicutes and bacterioid situation.

Well, how do you promote one over the other? With what you eat.

So fiber and a fermenter help control, and it looks to be the firmicutes that are most out of control right now and causing us the most damage. But that's not to say bacteroids can't do it, too. But firmicutes are likely what is making us obese. And you know, they appear to be the biggest problem right now.

So, how do you deal with them? Can you deal with them on your own? Yeah, absolutely. Fiber and a fermenter. Okay. Or we have built a weight loss product. It works through the endocannabinoid system through ethanol oleamide, built from folic acid, providing the satiety molecule, makes you fel full. It controls all the stuff. The semi-glutaides are trying to control the GLP1s, the GIPS, the peptide YYs, and all those guys. Those are all controlled a little higher up in function by the endocannabinoid system. Our product targets that and that receptor, which works very well. We also target bacteria that can cause alterations in that seated molecule.

You have Third parties wanting to live inside of you, and they'll do anything to stay alive. They'll even hijack your immune system, keep you from absorbing things, change your bile, and do all things to stay alive. We recognize that and account for that in our product formulary and our product formulations. This is why we have advanced products. Some of them literally will become drugs in the future. They'll be a little bit more powerfully made, but they certainly could have the potential to become drugs.

Part of what I want to do in these podcasts is give everybody the ability to heal themselves or help begin to heal themselves at home. I want to empower you with this knowledge that God has given me. I have to pass it along.

At TrueMedx, we have products that will work for obesity, metabolic syndrome, or something that has been shown to work. We have products that will work for almost anything—pathogens, and deworming ourselves. H. Pylori is a big problem right now.

We built products that work very, very well for the things that we've designed them for. 

Back to the biome. We've got this biome, which is configurable, which is nice if you want to use it. You can change it any way you want to through diet. The best thing is to look at are categories of dietary needs and try to provide our bodies with what they need to return to balance and regain health.

That might sound confusing, so let me break that down a bit more. What do I mean by that? To your body the most important thing that you put in your mouth every day is dietary fats. 

There are four types of dietary fats: saturated fat. Saturated fat, like meat or animal products, you will have a certain type of bacteria that you need to help you digest those fats. Fats are the most complicated thing we eat because they require you to emulsify the fat for you to uptake it.And it's got to be in pretty small little vesicles or micelles for you to pull it in as a nutrient.There's a lot of, action with fat. You're storing fat on triglycerides. There's an evaluation process when you eat that the liver does, and it's looking out at what you have stored in fat. It's asking, is what I just ate better than what I have stored? If it is better, it will pull in what you have stored.

It will begin moving triglycerides around, pulling them into your liver, reconfiguring them, and then popping them back out to the fat to store them. Your body is always trying to optimize your fats.

About 30% of the fats that we eat should be saturated fat. Most of us eat probably 60 or 70% saturated fat right now. So that's a big change. About 50% of our fat should be monounsaturated fat. That offsets the saturated fat. It is anti-inflammatory. You build your satiety molecules from monounsaturated fat and all kinds of endocannabinoids.

An endocannabinoid that's very important, called OEA, is one you build from monounsaturated fat. Again, it should be about 50% of our fat profile right now. It's maybe five if you eat nuts and seeds, then it's probably a bit higher than that. But you find monounsaturated fat in nuts and seeds. It's also mainly in olive oil. An olive is a seed, and the oil of that seed would contain monounsaturated fat, as most seeds and nuts do.

The other two types of fats, and these are the most important foods that you eat every single day. They are omega-3 and omega-6 fats. How do these affect your immune system if you over-consume omega-6 fats and under? If you equally consume omega three and omega six fat and have a dust allergy, you should be able to walk into a dusty room. You might get a bit of a runny nose, but you're going to mitigate and handle that allergic situation very well. And it's not going to cause you undue discomfort. In our current situation, because we eat so many Omega 6s over Omega 3s, that sets a very reactionary and inflammatory tone in our immune system.

In this scenario, the scenario, one little dust mite can cause this incredible overreaction in our immune system that's way too inflammatory and reactive. That's happening to us all right now, which confuses your immune system. Your system is overreacting.

It is very easy to fix; eat more Omega 3s, which dials back that reactivity and gives us this equal and dynamic state. About 10% of our fat intake should be omega 3, and about 10% should be omega 6. And we can play around with those percentages a little bit. This goes to how you're conforming every single cell wall. Omega 6s are sticky; omega 3s are slick.

You don't want a bunch of sticky cells running around your blood. That's how plaque forms. Eating omega three and 6 in the proper ratio is probably the most important health tip, in addition to intermittent fasting. Why? You're giving your gut biome these messages. You have to have help. Breaking down these oils into micelles and the bacteria associated with our biome helps, but eating the right types of fats in the right ratio will promote a proper biome. What is the next most important thing past dietary fats? It's protein. Fat is digested through a certain enzyme that comes from the pancreas. Protein is digested differently with a different enzyme.

Protein requires some additional help from the gut biome. If you're a vegan, you're going to need much more diversity in your biome to help you digest plant-based proteins. Plant-based proteins are harder to digest than animal-based proteins. You're just going to need a little bit more advanced biome. 

As we add a new thing, protein, we should get nine essential amino acids daily. Protein is nothing more than a string of amino acids. The biome helps us digest these animal proteins into all of those nine.

We reconstitute those amino acits in different ways as your cells are trying to build proteins. Cells want to build proteins. They can talk to each other, but if you don't have amino acids to make the proteins they need, they won't make them.

The last category of stuff is carbohydrates. Some plants are super hard to digest. They have insoluble fibers in them. Chloroplasts and things like that are not the easiest to break down for your body. Chlorophyll is good for your blood and is a good blood helper. If plants use chlorophyll as their blood system, we use it, right? So that's how they move things around and carry oxygen and all that kind of stuff.

Carbohydrates were difficult to digest. Again, we need a whole different kind of bacteria in the gut biome to digest those. There is pretty complicated stuff going on in our gut biome and pretty complicated stuff going on to help us digest these foods. But the big thing is it's all configurable. If you stopped eating animal protein and became a vegan, that would completely change the confirguration of your biome. Depending on the foods that you ate within those categories we could drive certain types of bacterial changes in the biome, which is cool.

As we understand more, let's talk about the biome. I'll give you an example. We've got an instrument here. It's an informational instrument. It can't diagnose anybody, but it's good at educational stuff about what's going on in the gut at any given time. And it's really good, ah, or useful, let's say, at information about pathogenic type bacteria.

I recently got sick, and I rarely get sick. I've got a really strong, good, robust immune system. It was a perfect opportunity to hook me up to the scanner and see what was happening. Inside of me was interesting. I expected to see something like the flu, and I did see influenza in my lungs. How does that relate to the biome, and what changes are happening there? Well, I saw all these little fever-producing and diarrhea-producing critters pop up in my biome. Why? Because I got attacked by something, I got infected by something, and my biome responded some with helpful stuff and some with not-so-helpful stuff. As we understand this more and more there are ways to prompt an immune kick-up.

Let's say you're getting ready to go on an airplane with 150 other people that are likely sick and you've just eaten a meal. If you're getting ready to have a situation like that, there are likely things that we can do, things that you could eat, that would kick up the power of your immune system and put you in kind of a better defensive position. It's super important!

Right now, we're just all running around not knowing much about these practices and principles at all. I hope that I am empowering you with this information and knowledge so that you can begin to change your eating habits. Hopefully, you'll intermittent fast and eat more Omega 3s.

If you're looking for ways to do that, we have products that will support you. It's all about your empowerment, journey, and understanding how configurable you are. It glorifies God. God gave us this beautiful vehicle. Our task is to understand it, understand how it interfaces with nature and the earth, and maximize it, right? So that's what we'll be doing here on Chip Talks Health. We'll be talking to you about longevity, maximizing your immune system, and how to defend yourself. What is the cause of the disease? The core cause of disease. It's an infection.

We're pretty robust when we take care of our health and eat things in balance. We're going to live a long time. We're going to be super healthy. Every cell inside of us is always going to strive toward perfect function. So that's a good place to leave it today. We'll return next week with another exciting version of Chip Talks Health. We will see you guys there.