Will eating yogurt change your life?

Will you be healthier , have better bowel health , skin health , metabolic health , mental health ? Let's discuss why . No , you will not experience any dramatic life-altering effects from consuming these products . They may be tasty , but they will not change your life in any meaningful way .

But by modifying what we call yogurt , you can create something that looks and smells like yogurt but does provide substantial life and health-changing effects .

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roteri , and a skin formulation I designed that improves skin from the inside out . So can eating yogurt change your life ? Well , the short answer is no If you eat what is commonly called yogurt . So by FDA regulations for company , a manufacturer , to call something yogurt , you must ferment with two specific species Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus .

Why those two specific microbes ? Because they yield greater health benefits for the consuming human , or because it tastes better ? No , just because that those are two microbes that have been used traditionally for many years , many generations , and have a long track record of safety , and they all .

The fda also says you must achieve a ph of 4.6 in the acidic range . That occurs because the process of fermentation by those two microbes converts the lactose , the sugar in dairy , of course , to lactic acid , and that acidifies the yogurt , and pH 4.6 tells the manufacturer that they've achieved sufficient acidification that inhibits contaminating microbes or pathogens .

If you consume that yogurt , do big things happen in health ? Not really , right ? You've had yogurt many times , I'm sure , and did you say that something spectacular , something magnificent happened to your health ? I highly doubt it . Probably nothing happened , right ?

Not to say it wasn't delicious and you enjoyed it , but you probably did not enjoy some kind of magnificent or substantial health benefit , right ? So what if we did something a little different

and ferment using different microbes ? Now we can't call it yogurt anymore because the FDA says we can't . But I'm not selling you yogurt , so I'm going to call it yogurt just for convenience . I could call it fermented dairy , but you know what I mean .

I'm going to call it yogurt because it looks and smells like yogurt , but it's not really yogurt by FDA regulations . But we're going to start with different microbial species . Let's start with microbes sourced from humans .

It could have been from the gastrointestinal tract , it could have been from breast milk , it could have been from the vagina , it could have been from any other body location , but we're going to ferment those human-sourced microbes . We're also going to use my method of prolonged fermentation .

So in a factory they ferment or process the yogurt for about 6 to 12 hours , and we're going to do it for more like 36 hours , allowing the microbes to double many more times . Recall that microbes don't have sex . There's no male and female microbes . They just double themselves so-called asexual reproduction . Male and female microbes , they just double themselves .

So-called asexual reproduction . One becomes two , two becomes four , and so on . So we're going to allow these microbes that tend to double about every two to three hours . We're going to allow them to double at least 12 times and we're going to do it over 36 hours .

When we count the number of microbes using a laser-assisted method called flow cytometry , we get around 300 billion billion with a B per half cup or 120 milliliter serving . So we get hundreds of times greater numbers of microbes than you get in conventional yogurt and , of course , of different species .

I also reject this idea that we're going to use non-fat or low-fat dairy to start . Let's instead start with a higher fat liquid , such as half and half , which is roughly 18% fat , because there never was evidence to tell us that total fat intake or saturated fat intake caused heart disease .

There is no evidence that reducing saturated fat reduces risk for heart disease . It was a complete , utter waste of time . So we're going to use something that gives you better texture and mouthfeel . So I like to use half and half . You can use cream also , but the end product is more like cream cheese . It's very thick .

So let's , just for the sake of argument , use half and half , or canned coconut milk you can use that also but that process let's go with the half and half . Right now , I like to use organic half and half . So we're going to ferment this for a prolonged period , starting with human microbes . Well , now , spectacular things can happen in health .

So if we ferment , for instance , if you've been following my conversations . You know my favorite microbe is lactobacillus reuteri . That is this microbe that was originally sourced both from stool and from breast milk . That is largely absent from the human microbiome now . It was ubiquitous 40 , 50 years ago . It's ubiquitous in wild mammals .

It's ubiquitous in hunter-gatherer human populations in places like the Brazilian rainforest , the highlands of New Guinea , the jungles of New Guinea , the east coast of Africa , the Malawi or the Maasai in Kenya . That is , people who are unexposed to antibiotics and other disruptive factors . They all have roteri , but we have lost it .

So when we restore roteri and we allow this process of prolonged fermentation , spectacular things happen for two basic reasons

. One reason is that it triggers the release of the hormone oxytocin from the brain .

I call oxytocin the hormone of body composition because it shrinks your waist , it restores youthful muscle and has all the social and emotional benefits of oxytocin , like increase in sociability , increased desire for human companionship , increased generosity , increased acceptance of other people's opinions , increased libido also so many spectacular effects .

Another aspect of rhodori is that it has the unique capacity to colonize the small intestine . Most microbes , most beneficial microbes , can't do that .

They colonize the colon or some other body location , like the mouth or vagina , depending on the species , but rhoderi can colonize the entire gastrointestinal tract , from mouth to anus , including the 24 feet of small intestine .

Well , that's very unique and very important , because when rhodori takes up residence in the small intestine , it produces bacteriocins , that is , natural antibiotics that kill fecal microbes . Why is that important ?

Well , in half the US population and there'sa reason I say half , you've seen my super gut book for the full calculation and rationale but in half the US population , fecal microbes that originated in the colon , where they belong , have overpopulated and then ascended into the 24 feet of small intestine , a process called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth , or SIBO .

Well , restoring this microbial lost rotary is part of the process of getting rid of SIBO , because of its small bowel colonizing effect and bactericidal production . So that's an example that can change your life , because if you push back SIBO , what can happen ?

Weight loss , loss of abdominal fat , reduction of blood glucose , reduction of blood pressure , reduction of fatty liver , reduction of inflammation to other body parts , including , like the heart , so less likely to have atrial fibrillation or coronary disease , less atherosclerotic disease in other locations , less likely to have rosacea and psoriasis and eczema , less likely to

have autoimmune diseases . This is a long list by pushing back invading fecal microbes by restoring this lost species . The Defiant Health Podcast

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Of course , you can take these products as is , or you you can use either as a starter to make El Rotary yogurt generate even higher counts of microbes for bigger effects . I'll provide a link for these products below in the show notes . Now you can go even

further . If you add lactobacillus gasseri and bacillus subtilis , we can either co-ferment those three or you can individually ferment them to get even higher counts . We call that SIBO yogurt . That has exceeded my expectations by a long stretch .

We're seeing the majority of people get rid of their SIBO with the fermentation of those three things , consumed over four weeks , sometimes longer for people who have really bad SIBO . So this is an example yes , life-changing , health-changing Gasseri alone , lactobacillus gasseri , has been shown to reduce waist circumference quite significantly .

So that's another life-changing effect . Bacillus subtilis likewise adds to changes in your shape and body composition , specifically loss of abdominal fat and some increase in lean muscle mass . How about bacillus coagulans ? That reduces joint pain and reduces muscle injury incurred during strenuous exercise or heavy work .

In other words , if you're a pro athlete and you're playing hard and you have muscle injury , you can measure that by the level of creatinokinase or CK we say , in the bloodstream and it can go very high , as high as a heart attack , like 1800 .

And so when you get bacillus coagulans , that muscle injury is cut by half , meaning that you recover faster , which can be a real advantage in professional athletes . How about bifidobacterium infantis that most pregnant moms have lost and thereby cannot pass it on to their child at childbirth ?

Well , if a child lacks bifidobacterium infantis , it has impaired neurological maturation , will have a lower IQ , is more likely to have type 1 diabetes , is more likely to have obesity and type 2 diabetes later on as an adolescent .

So restoring bifidobacteria infantis is very powerful , and mom can do that by making yogurt out of bifidobacteria infantis and consuming it herself before delivery , and then she passes it on to her child through childbirth , the vaginal canal , as well as through breastfeeding .

The reason why it's so important is bifidobacteria infantis is the dominant microbe in the infant in the first year of life , the infant's microbiome comprising about 70-80% of all the microbes very different from adults , and that microbe allows that child to digest the human milk oligosaccharides present in breast milk .

So if the child lacks that microbe and breastfeeds , it does not get all the benefits of breast milk . So it's the combination breast milk with human milk oligosaccharides and the presence of bifidobacteria infantis that yields tremendous effects .

That's just a sample of the things you can accomplish by restoring microbes you've lost as something that looks and smells like yogurt , a yogurt that is life-changing , unlike the stuff you buy in the store and if you make these yogurts in your kitchen , you're unlikely to add sugar or high fructose corn syrup or other unhealthy sweeteners .

You're likely also not going to have to add things like gellan gum , xanthan gum , carrageen to thicken it up , because you'll already have a rich , rich , thick end product by you , starting with the organic half and half ,

unlike the thin , watery stuff they get in factories because they're using non-fat milk , one percent , other low-fat dairy starters and they get they have to thicken it up . They we don't have to thicken it up . You can just eat it as is and it's thick and rich already .

And , of course , you can add your own choice of good , healthy things like blueberries and chia seeds and nuts . So what you're going to make for those reasons also , and the unique microbes and prolonged fermentation , high bacterial counts these are literally life-changing ways to consume what looks and smells like yogurt , but it's not really yogurt .

Now , these kinds of recipes , these kinds of approaches interest . You See my other YouTube videos but , even better , my Super Gut book , where a lot of these recipes are located , and because the book's a couple of years old now and this area , the microbiome , is developing so quickly .

You'll find some of the newest ideas in my blog , williamdavismdcom , where I talk about some of the newer ideas , like restoring lactobacillus crispatus for vaginal health Spectacular microbe , by the way , for vaginal health . So see my blog for the newest recipes .

Or , of course , my membership website , innercircledrdavisinfinitehealthcom , where I have two-way Zoom conferences with people once a week .