Welcome to Living on Doctor, sponsored by Pure Essentials. I am Rachel Ash, your hosts. We are here on w R seven ten am every Sunday from five to five thirty pm. For more information, I'm Pure Essentials. You can go on the website www dot pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U r E hyphen e ss e ntils dot com, or on Facebook or Instagram at shop Pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa chris
Bell, who was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. She has a full host of other wellness certifications to include auricular acupuncture for detoxification and relaxation,
yoga and natural healing. Melissa spent the better part of the last thirteen years teaching doctors all around the world how to look at both traditional lab testing with a functional medicine lens, use specialty LAP testing like nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and micronutrient tests, along with professional grade nutraceutical supplements such
as Pure Essentials to create their own signature programs. A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is automission to teach you how to reclaim your health and live your best life. Undoctored Melissa, Welcome to the show. Hi Rachel, thanks for having me again. Thank you for being here. Well, it's the last week we started talking about the autonomic nervous system and the different parts you can find on that last week's show. Today we're talking about the enteric
nervous system sometimes referred to as e NS. Wells, say, give us a brief recap and tell us about the enteric nervous system. Sure, last week we looked at our autonomic nervous system, the bank giant name for the whole nervous system and the different parts one and two Sympathetic, parasympathetic. Those are the two of the three parts that we looked at last week. Very simply put, sympathetic fight or flight, parasympathetic rest and dying. Yet time
to bring it down. The enteric nervous system is the third part that consists of a huge mesh like system of neurons that controls the functions of the GI tract. So where's it located the NS and what's its purpose or function exactly? The NS is the largest component of the autonomic nervous system, and it's the largest component because it's located from the esophagus all the way down to the rectum. That's just about stem to stern. That's a pretty big section.
And what exactly is that function? Well, you know the neurotransmitters and the signaling pathways. That's what's common to the enteric nervous system. Oftentimes, central nervous system diseases are a result of what's happening in the gut. We've been hearing so much about gut health. It's been trending for years now that so much chronic illness starts in the gut and its systemic. But why is this part of our nervous system so important? And then also what are some of
the diseases that are affiliated with this? Like I said, it's important because it's controlling the gut brain information superhighway. So the neurotransmitters, some are produced in the guts, some are housed in the gut, and the messaging just goes back and forth, back and forth. Some of those diseases can be autistic spectrum disorders, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. Those are just a few that have
both GI and neurological consequences both of those systems. So I know sometimes what you see in practices when you're able to balance stuff about a lot of times, symptoms can be sometimes as far as reversed or alleviated just by looking through that access. So it's a really interesting perspective to have something that a conventional doctor may not know about. So that's really incredibly fascinating, Melissa. I know that's the way you practice, It's the way that my late husband,
doctor Ash practice. There's so much to it, and I know you both use pure essentials as tools to help get these systems realigned. But I wanted to ask you too, are there any signs or symptoms that someone could be on the lookout or if is something going on with their enteric nervous system. Absolutely. Rich was such a great instructor when it came to gut health. Very first products people would be introduced to were lactodophilus, pure essentials, probiotic,
and ultraquercetin, which is querceitan. It's an anti inflammatory, but more importantly cell regenerating, cell healing and promoting of the healing working that together in the gut. Some of those digestive issues that people could experience. They range from chronic diarrhea to bloating or gas after eating. Let me just go ahead and say this everybody. If you are burping or tooting after you eat, something's not working properly. Another sign is chronic constipation. If you're not pooing,
this is not a good sign. What goes in must come out. We need that to happen. Seeing undigestive food, when you do pooh, that means your body didn't break that food down and some of it is coming out. Raise your hand if that's ever happened to you, Maybe we need to talk about some enzymes somewhere along the lines. Poor stool quality is a sign all by itself, and basically this would also encompass pretty much all IBS, which is a blanket term for there's something going on with your gut health
in the first place. Am I correct? Yeah? That's right. And you know Rich's book is still available on Amazon. People can go buy that. IBS itself is not a diagnosis. IBS is this confluence of symptoms and situations and it just presents and that's the label that was given to it. And that book was what IBS What your doctor may not tell you by doctor Ash, great book, completely relevant today, the same stuff Sating systems really
important. Getting back to enzymes right now. Their research on gut brain access of disease, it's relatively new. Concepts are changing so quickly and so much more investigation is needed. But what can somebody do to help themselves? And you can talk a little bit also about gut brain access because now this is something that we're hearing, it's trending. Yeah, So when we have situation in the gut where there's disrepair, and the disrepair can come for many different
reasons. You know, every body is different. Chronic stress, it wears down the gut. Eating poor quality food wears down the gut. Not sleeping properly, not exercising, not hydrating, And these are just basic life necessities that when ignored, there is a consequence. It may not happen today, it probably won't even happen tomorrow. It can happen five years from now, ten years from now. It's that long term misuse that just wears the parts
out. So the first thing that someone can do for themselves is to manage the rest and digest state. When we get fired up, and I have to remember we're own radio, and you can't see me. I'm a hand talker here. My hands are flying up over my head. So, in this chronic state of stress and we're not managing our stress responses and we're not getting into a rest and digest state, our body is unable to release the enzymes that it needs to release to help us to break that food down.
Our body is then not absorbing the nutrients from all the good food that we're eating, which means that maybe we're going to end up with a micronutrient deficiency eating all this great food. But you know you're B twelve is low. There's something to that. So yeah, the first thing that we can do is manage the rest and digest state. Melissa's speaking of nutrients. I know there are a lot of chemicals and pesticides and things that can be in even
quote unquote healthy foods. A lot of vegetables contain a ton of pesticides. How important is it to eat organic foods? And those pesticides have consequences, especially over time if we're not detoxifying them. So we talk about that a little bit less. Absolutely in my house for all of us eating organic as not optional. That's what we do. That's the way we do it, eating non GMO, that's what we do. I share pictures of the garden
and what's going on out in my backyard. My grandkids when they visit, they get upset when they see all the little bug holes in the leaf. I get excited because that means my plants are feeding something else. The bunnies come and they're digging in. I think they're digging in my oregano right now. I don't know why they want a regano, but they are. They dig in the cabbage. It's fine. I plant extras. Let all the animals and the bugs eat too. If your bugs won't eat your plants,
it's likely because they're gmode. They've been engineered to be bug resistant. But having that engineering inside your body will have consequences. So if we look at everything in you know, a good, better, best scenario. That's what I like to do with my clients. Not everybody's in a position to completely revamp their pantry and their refrigerator and their way of doing things. Maybe they're
not in a position too, I don't know. Sometimes kids don't want to switch the way that they eat and so you might have to do things slowly, do it in a good, better best scenario. So the good scenario is reduce the amount of times that you eat out or you get take out, or you know you're not cooking in the home. I can tell you the cooking at home will always taste better than cooking out at the restaurant. So that's your good scenario. Better scenario is eating organic. Make sure that
you eat organic foods. I think the absolute best target for us to look at is that you eat completely organic, non gmo, enzyme rich, nutrient dense foods. You don't skimp on it. I've seen memes and reels and whatever they call them on Facebook and Instagram now, and there's one that says, if you don't make time for your health, your body will make you make time for your illness. So true, so true, and I know
too. Pure Essentials does have a detox protocology toox system. If you want to jump start your healing and just living in the world that we live in, eating the foods that we eat. Does the chemicals that we're exposed to deal in. Functional medicine and integrative medicine deals lot with cumulative toxic load, So the build up of these toxins over time, our bodies aren't getting these out of our systems. So I know that's something a tool that you use
that's really effective. That's also available on the Pure Essentials website. Yeah, I mean, our bodies are beautiful. Our bodies were very uniquely and divinely created, but we weren't created to handle the amount of stress and the amount of toxins that we face on a daily basis. You know, depending on where you live in the country where you and I live, there are a lot you know, being exposed to these chemicals in the air in the city.
We just can't filter them that fast. So if you start a detox system like the four product detox system that Pure Essentials has, that'll help give your body the boosts that it needs. It'll help clear the liver, clear the kidneys, clear some of those toxins from your system, so that then those organs get a little bit of a break and they're able to bounce back and work the way that they were designed to work, which is to protect us and it's to heal us. We were talking about enzymes list. I'd
love you to talk specifically, what are enzymes. Why do we need them? Do we need extra? Pure Essentials has three enzymes, pure as, an ultra digestive enzyme, and gluten carb assist. I know you work with them. We have other doctors working with them within their practice. What is this all about. Enzymes are proteins that help speed up a chemical reaction in our body. They are essential for digestion, they're essential for liver function.
We have naturally occurring digestive enzymes in our body that help us break down food. And that process starts the moment the food hits our mouth. And honestly, I'm not so sure it doesn't happen the moment our eyes see the food, because then our saliva glands start going. So the food goes in, saliva starts going, That starts breaking the food down. It all begins. So it helps break down the food into the form that can be absorbed by
the body. Can then be used in a way that actually fuels us instead of in a way that could harm us by breaking down that intestinal wall. The excessive gluten, the excessive chemicals, the pesticides that are in the food, those do harmful things to our body. So making sure that we have digestive enzymes to help us break the food down so that we can absorb all the nutrients. So these enzymes, they're produced in the stomach. Yes, in the stomach, in the small intestine, and in the pancreas. All
of those areas make digestive enzymes. The pancreas is the real powerhouse of digestion and digestive enzymes. It produces the enzymes that break down all three carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. So I'm guessing with that, would there then be more than one type of enzyme produced by the pancreas to break down all those different variables. Yes, there are many different digestive enzymes. The main ones made in the pancreas are amylase, which is made in the mouth and also
the pancreas, and it breaks down complex carbs. Light pace that is made in the pancreas and it breaks down fats. And then there's protease which is made in the pancreas and it breaks down proteins. We also have lactase that helps break down the lactose, and we have ucrase which helps break down the sucrose. Those are made in the small intestine, So you mentioned the carbs, proteins and fat, and then what about people that are lactose intolerant.
Yeah, those are the people that need the extra assistance. Those are the people that need that lactase and that sucrase so that it can help break down the milk fat and the sugar in that milk fat. Would you say that some people just don't have enough digestive enzymes or their bodies don't release the enzymes as they should. Absolutely, it means they can't break down the certain foods and absorb the nutrients. They just don't have it. It doesn't do it
for whatever the reason is. Some people are just born that way. A few types of digestive enzyme insufficiency here comes from really really big words. This would include congenital sucrase isomaltase deficiency. That was a mouthful, but that means that you don't have enough supcrase to digest the certain sugars. Ever had ice cream and all of a sudden your belly goes that's me Even if you're eating like cashew milk or coconut milk, it's that sugar part. So it's not
necessarily the cow dairy part. It can be different. There's also execrine pancreatic insufficiency, and we're going to go ahead and give that one a nickname too. That's an EPI. The EPI happens when your pancreas doesn't produce enough of the enzymes necessary to digest carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Hello you meat eaters, Really Interesting Living Undoctor sponsored by Pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel
Lash, wellness consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa chris Bell, who was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. She has a full host of other wellness certifications to include auricular acupuncture for
detoxification and relaxation, yoga and natural healing. Melissa's spent the better part of the last thirteen years teaching doctors all around the world how to look at both traditional lab testing with a functional medicine lens you specialty lab testing like nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and micronutrient tests, along with professional grade nutraceutical
supplements such as Pure Essentials to create their own signature programs. A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is automission to teach you how to reclaim your health and live your best life undoctored. So let's talk to I know, the solution that we use that you use that a lot of doctors that you work with use are the Pure Essentials enzymes, and we talked about it before.
They're three different ones, the carb and gluten assist, the ultra digestive enzyme and pure zen and also we have a probiotic, and I'd love for you to talk a little bit about the difference between a digestive enzyme and a probiotic and how they're symbiotic and work systemically. Sometimes people confuse enzymes and probiotics. Both of them affect your digestion, but they do it in different ways.
Probiotics are live organisms that make up the good bacteria in your gut. They help to keep your digestive tract healthy so that they can support the work that you're enzymes are doing. So the Pure Essentials probiotic is called Lactodophilus. It has ten unique strains of probiotic. It is a non dairy probiotic that is super super important non dairy. It's also in a freeze dried format so it does not have to be refrigerated. It has to be kept at room temperature.
You can't put it in your car in ninety five degree heat, but it doesn't have to be in the refrigerator all the time. You probably want to take one to two before you eat, you know, right before the first bite, if you believe that you need some assistance with your probiotic. When it comes to the enzymes, we have at Pure Essentials ultradigestive enzyme which
is designed to help you with animal proteins. So, all of you meat eaters out there, your carnivores out there, if you have stay an oily stool, if you have gas after you eat, it's quite possible that you might need some assistance breaking down those fats, those animal proteins in the fat category. Is also all of you avocado toast eaters, all of you MCT oil drinkers in your coffee. Those fats, while they are healthy for your body, if you don't have the enzymes to break them down, you're going
to need some assistance. An ultradigestive enzyme is your answer for that assistance. Now, those of you that have issues with carbohydrates, this can be French fries, it can be rice, it can be other potato dishes, it can be bread. Think carbohydrates. If you need help breaking those down, that's your carbon glutinous cyst There are different combinations of different enzymes specific to those
two functions in each of those products. So I would say if someone believes they need both of those enzymes, it's probably time to have an assessment. It's probably time to kind of peel back the layers of the onion. Let's see what's happening in the gut. It's probably time to do some gut repair and maybe even that detox kit that you mentioned before. Yeah, Melissa, And when you work with the digestive enzymes, there's a stereo where somebody would
need all three or is it best take one? And how do you have your clients work with them? Take it before meals, during meals after Yeah, So the altra digestive enzyme, you would take one capsule with every meal or snack and eight ounces of water. You're going to do the same thing with the carbon gluten assist me personally, I take two. Maybe it's the overachiever in me, Maybe it's my clue that I really shouldn't be eating any gluten, which is the case I actually went gluten free about a year ago,
completely gluten free. I was tired of the roller coaster of dipping my foot into it. You know, I'd come up to New York and go to the bakery and have a croissant, and then I'd have a sandwich, and then I'd have a peda. By the end of the day, I look like I'm eight months pregnant, which is not a good thing either. You know, I just got tired of the roller coaster, and knowing what I know about gluten, it is harmful to everyone's gut, doesn't matter who
you are. That's what gluten does to our intestinal lining. It breaks it down. Well, then our body has to heal. Then you have gluten again, breaks it down. Then you have to heal. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, that long term back and forth, you know, push pull, love and hate relationship with pizza and croissants and those kinds of things. It has consequences. Like I said, those
consequences don't happen today, They don't happen tomorrow. They happen five years from now, they happen ten years from now, and they happen just like doctor. Ashe wrote in his book. It's a culmination of all of these symptoms and then they put a label on it, it's IBS. And if we could prevent it by taking carbon glutin assist, we get a little bit of assistance to break that food down so that our body can rest and digest, it can digest and assimilate without a burden. I mean, why wouldn't we.
And if you're taking care of yourself properly, you're eating properly, you're supplementing properly, exercising, meditating, whatever you have to do, having joy and happiness in your life, your body is in a better state to repair, detox and rebuild. It's secta attaging, it's seketa longevity. It's key to healing. Your bodies are designed to naturally heal. We have a cut, We don't have to tell our bodies to heal. It doesn't naturally.
It's just really optimizing our own systems. And to your point, Melissa, we are systemic beings. There isn't a pill that fixes this or fixes that that's actually going to systemically will you and make you whole. You know, sometimes medications are necessary, but wherever we can take and give people the power to. We call it common sense medicine, our common sense taking care of
yourself, low risk, high gain approaches and things. That's what we want people to able to have access to the research on gut brain access of disease. It's relatively new. Concepts are changing so quickly and so much more investigation is needed. But what can somebody do to help themselves? And you can talk a little bit also about gut brain access because now this is something that
we're hearing, it's trending. Yeah, So when we have situations in the gut where there's disrepair, and the disrepair can come for many different reasons. You know, every body is different. Chronic stress, it wears down the gut. Eating poor quality food wears down the gut. Not sleeping properly, not exercising, not hydrating, And these are just basic life necessities that when ignored, there is a consequence. It may not happen today, it probably
won't even happen tomorrow. It can happen five years from now, ten years from now. It's that long term misuse that just wears the parts out. So the first thing that someone can do for themselves is to manage the rest and digest state. When we get fired up, and I have to remember we're own radio, and you can't see me. I'm a hand talker here.
My hands are flying up over my head. So, in this chronic state of stress and we're not managing our stress responses and we're not getting into a rest and digest state, our body is unable to release the enzymes that it needs to release to help us to break that food down. Our body is then not absorbing the nutrients from all the good food that we're eating, which means that maybe we're going to end up with a micronutrient deficiency eating all
this great food. But you know you're B twelve is low. There's something to that. So yeah, the first thing that we can do is manage the rest and digest state. Melissa's speaking of nutrients. I know there are a lot of chemicals and pesticides and things that can be in even quote unquote healthy foods. A lot of vegetables contain a ton of pesticides. How important is it to eat organic foods? And those pesticides have consequences, especially over
time if we're not detoxifying them. So we talk about that a little bit less. Absolutely in my house for all of us. Eating organic is not optional. That's what we do. That's the way we do it. Eating non gmo, that's what we do. I share pictures of the garden and what's going on out in my backyard. My grandkids when they visit, they get upset when they see all the little bug holes in the leaf. I get excited because that means my plants are feeding something else. The bunnies come
and they're digging in. I think they're digging in my oregano right now. I don't know why they want o regano, but they are. They dig in the habbage. That's fine. I plant extras lit all the animals and the bugs eat too. If your bugs won't eat your plants, it's likely because they're gmode. They've been engineered to be bug resistant. But having that engineering inside your body will have consequences. So if we look at everything in a good, better, best scenario, that's what I like to do with
my clients. Not everybody's in a position to completely revamp their pantry and their refrigerator and their way of doing things. Maybe they're not in a position to. I don't know. Sometimes kids don't want to switch the way that they eat, and so you might have to do things slowly, do it in a good, better, best scenario. And if someone's having a difficult time getting into that rest and digest state, our pure zen might be the answer
for that. It's chock full of new tropics or Noah tropics, some people pronounce it that way of adaptagens. There's gabba, there's ashwaganda, there's bacopa, there's elfhia nine, there's rodeola. Beneficial for the adrenal glands as well. The adrenal glands are involved in that fight or flight. So let's do what we can do to help calm the body, and pures is so uniquely designed. We use enzymes. We use enzymes as the delivery method. They're
very easily absorbed. They have dual purpose, so they help to break down food. They also help to deliver nutrients into the cells where our bodies need them the most. So pures n is an option for those that maybe need a little assistance with relaxation. Maybe you're struggling with stress, maybe you're struggling with anxiety. Pures En might be the solution for you. It may also
help you get into that rest and digest state. And help you to rest and get into that deep restorative sleep as well, which is also another key for healing. If you're not sleeping, you're not healing your body can't. People get caught up taking ambient and hills to sleep, but that actually doesn't put them in the restorative sleep. So being able to try something like this, which may be helpful, it's always great. The restorative sleep is key.
So Keith Melissa, anything else before the end of this show that you think our listeners need to know about digestive enzymes. No, I think that everyone can benefit from enzymes. I know that that sounds like, oh yeah, everybody can do it, but it's something that happens in our body already, and if it's not happening for you, naturally, it's time to look for some assistance. I'd also like everyone to know that we are taking applications
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