GI Mapping- Part 2 Our Poop-Helps Identify Health Deficits

is gastrointestinal. And when I had to do was it's a comprehensive profile of a person's inside. And how do you get that so the GI tract starts from the mouth and goes all the way down to the rear end, and you know, the poop comes out. So a way to track this is actually by testing stool. So I did this test on myself before I went to get other patients tested, because I wanted to see you know, where I lie in and what I needed to do to make my biome

and microbiome better. And if I didn't live by the changes in my microbiome and do things to improve my health, then I don't think I would be a good provider for others. And I also wanted to have a good indication of what exactly was this mapping. So what it is, is the mapping takes results from the, like I said, your digestion that comes all starts in the mouth, and goes all the way down to your anus,

to through the stool. So in the testing, I had to send in large supply of stool to this manufacturer, manufacturer that I used was Genova diagnostics, and it comes back with this really very complex, comprehensive profile. So when I'm looking at someone's profile, I would look at these indications and see if there was things that were going on. And when I was younger, I did have a lot of mal digestion and

inflammatory responses. So I thought maybe I would be best with my diet changes and my improve with my food, have things improved? Or are there still things that I could do better? So I was actually quite surprised by the changes in my

patterns and what came up. So in this profile of my profile specifically, and what I would use for patients at my clinic at the integrative mindful comfort clinic, would be these six parts that come up are first mal digestion, inflammatory response, dysbiosis, metabolic imbalance and infection. So these are different parts of the profile. And when you think about it, the you have inflam inflammation within the body, the gut microbiome, and then

you've digestion. So inflammation is not always negative, it just depends on what's coming up. And then you've got the gut microbiome, is it in like a leaky gut or not biosis or dysbiosis? It's, it's not showing a symbiotic relationship or a nice balanced relationship. And then you've got the metabolic imbalance, like, how is your overall probiotic support and your, your metabolism? And is that something that's coming up? Maybe there's an insulin resistance? Is there infection?

Do you have some sort of parasitic or general infection within the body? Or are you just not not digesting because of some sort of malnutrition, previous history, your birth, your diet, many of aspects. So, for mine, I'm going to go over what my recent sample was, and what I need to work on. And then these areas, I'm going to identify, and then you'd see whether it was good or bad. What would be a benefit for someone

else, let's say. So first off mal digestion, you would get kind of a green red, or you do would be kind of spotlight or stoplight. red, green, yellow, red would be bad yellow would be okay and green would be good. And then you might get a gray meaning there's some problems or room for improvement. And then it gives you a number. Less than two is no need for support. Two to three you need some support, moderate need for support and then high need for support from the fire. I have

different areas I needed. One was very off, and two were good and one was okay and the other one was not so bad. So my mountain night digestion was zero, meaning that I'm I am digesting the foods that I break down, I am eating the quality amounts of fat. my pancreas is working pancreatic elytis, which is the biomarkers and enzymes are breaking up. So my pancreas is working properly, I don't have excess fat, and I am breaking up the proteins as

needed. This also means that my digestive enzymes are doing what they need the beta dine hydrochloride in the stomach is doing what it needs. I have enough apple cider vinegar that I've used to help me mindful eating habits where you're not eating so excessively. When you take in maybe some bile salts or digestive bitters. Those are also options to help with the therapeutic digestion. But for

me, I'm doing okay. In the inflammatory markers basis, here would be a marker of your calcium protein to see if it's higher low as sniffle protein that's where kind of the allergen or the itchiness would come for food or food sensitivities. Not necessarily everything is identified, but it's may have a marker there, your you would have bleeding in the stool, they call it a cold

blood. And what that would mean that they would maybe an ulceration or some types of inflammatory response that has caused an irritation and then you might have just little micro amounts of blood within the stool. So that might be a showing of that. And then they suckered turi of IGA is in immunoglobulin a to see if there's anything that's

identified or sensitivity. And if this inflammatory responses did come up, and I did have a need for support, I do further testing and maybe allergy testing, or really, majority of patients are doing elimination diet of some sort, to kind of identify different things that are irritating. Now for these for myself, first for anyone else to make sure that their numbers are low, or they've

gotten a good number. For myself, I'm in a zero, but I've been working on this the inflammatory response for myself for about five years. So I really felt that what I've put in my body has been a direct effect, but you can actually fix your inflammatory response within about six months. So food sensitivity testing, working on elimination or, or quality foods, either identifying if it's dairy, gluten, or some other type of food that may be

irritating you. options of things to help supplement wise are things like zinc carnosine, el gouna, mine crest, certain tumeric omega three things like of that nature. Now, for my third area of my gut, that is called dysbiosis. And I actually have still a little dicey dysbiosis within my body. And that means that my microbiome diversity is still reduced. And I really could use more strains. They call it patricide and butyrate. And then I've kind of

had an excess of things. And I'm really still need more treatment to get it into shape. the microbiome is still kind of in its infancy in the sense of how much studies we've done on it. But there is so much research on the effectiveness of how the gut biome in the early immune

diseases. And for me means that I still have some work to do when that for me to get into optimal non dysbiosis and imbalance, I would benefit from more about pre probiotic foods, which I'm very big into probiotics and probiotics are kind of like the vegetables and fermented foods, increasing dietary fiber, that means I still need more. And some people are still in need of a b like they call it short intestine bacterial overgrowth, and that may be considered in a

testing if needed. I don't need that because I don't have any other markers so that isn't needed at the time. Intermittent Fasting is a benefit for some individuals because it helps with there's been a lot of studies that have shown that at least a 10 hour amount of without food your body has time to rest and digest and in the More, if you just keep eating, you don't give your time to kind of let the body sit and reset. And that's why they do call it

rest and digest for a reason. We just keep sending in this imbalance, we are definitely having trouble. And this also is a room for a lot of intuitive eating another area, the fourth area in this mapping is called metabolic imbalance, I actually am way off and meaning that I was surprised I thought I was a little bit better. And I need work, I still need work. And I've said this to other people that, you know, I know that it's an area for me to work on. And for me, my metabolic imbalance

is off. Meaning that if I don't correct my metabolic areas, I'll go into a syndrome. And then I could go into these other areas of imbalance. So what it means is that my short chain fatty acids are high, my beta gluten or gluten, Khurana dice is high, and I don't have the adequate amount, pre and probiotics and dietary fiber to help get out of

this. This imbalance, I need more quality versus 10 starches like more like potatoes, high fiber starches, more fermented foods, I would benefit and I do take now calcium D glue Connery, which is a benefit for me. And that's another way of getting in some of the high calorie, no high calorie, high, dense vegetables, I also do a supplement to get my high dense greens in if I don't I mean, my spinach smoothie isn't going to be enough. So I add in a pack of

high high dense greens. So there's a lot of chlorine in there spirulina. There's an array of nutrient dense greens and pre and probiotics now. So that's just one factor. Over all my gut health is fairly healthy, and maybe on the outlier of plus 8%, which is not bad, it could be a lot worse. But I know that through the years I have been

working on it. And with patients, you know, this is a factor in how you feel, the way your biome is, it will affect your illnesses, your autoimmune depression, anxiety, and other fibromyalgia, overall illnesses. And if you can fix some of these imbalances, you will fix a lot of illness. Like for example, my imbalance means that I'm not taking in enough greens, not taking enough fiber. And I want to make sure I correct this where I will go into type two diabetes or some metabolic

syndrome. So then the fifth area is infection. This is kind of where you would see if people have have parasites, microbial issues if they have abundance of yeast, bacteria candidemia. And sometimes they might you can even test for any toxins. But the that would be further testing that would be needed. So for me, my, my infection rate is low, I don't have an abundance of things. So when I go back into my testing overall, I don't have an exorbitant amount of medication needs because of

infection. So when I look at the infection rate for me, my

biomarkers are very low. And what that tells me is that I didn't have or I do not have, at this time an infection so I don't need antibiotics or anti parasitics or antifungal for Canada, like they call it protozoa was would need any parasitics no overgrowth of any sort, it's not detected, which is pretty important because you never know there's a large percentage of people that do have that more access of their microbiome or their short their cebo and it causes that dysbiosis and need

for change and correction. What I do need to work on more is like I told you the dysbiosis of the overall bacteria more fermented grains and such. So that's definitely an area that I need to work on. kind of work on identifying better short chain fatty acids and such. My balance is pretty good, but I still you know could be doing better the abundance amount of healthy bacteria that they call so come up with some of these names they

may sound a little foreign. So there's bacteria DEET, phylum, feram, Firmicutes, phylum, active, no bacteria, phillium, pro tarea, bacteria phillium, Eero Kaido, philam, and fusio philam, and very cruel microbial

fellow. So in the first one that is more in the plant based diet, that's helpful, I'm pretty healthy in that area, I could do a little bit more in the Firmicutes phylum for myself in my biome, I have a pretty good steady amount, which means that it's good for anti inflammatory inflammatory my bacteria in the plant based diets, I have a good healthy amount, and the E coli proteobacteria. Some species, it is helps with getting the simple

sugars. And this other one called euro, our card tie film is used to help with the methane absorption. So there is some good bacteria within the body and there's bad for my overall pancreas, like I was saying before, that's in a good level, my in the like total. So when we talk about cholesterol and how it is, it shouldn't be coming

out in the stool. And if it is an excess amount, that is kind of gives you an indication that your body is full of excess fat, I mean, fat isn't the enemy, it's just a matter of how much it's distributed within you. And for me, my total fat is is at a good level. So that that's excellent. And that's not for everybody, you know, not everybody has. But if I did see that being higher for someone, I would indicate that as a concern. And then metabolically as I told you, my metabolic area

needs some work. So my short chain fatty acids are low and needs to be increased. And to do that, I need to have butyrate, or I need to have more calcium g lukari. Or I need to more resistant starches and quality, cruciferous vegetables, my inflammatory response is doing well I don't have any sensitivities at this time to

some food. So I'm eating the right foods within my body, that's what it means is that most of the foods that I have been eating have not affected my inflammatory response, which is excellent. And I'm happy about that. The overall immune system is doing well. And for me, like I said, I just have to kind of still work on the general microbiome for me, my what the quality bacteria that's within my, my stool and trying to make sure that it's at a good level

and not under or over. And the cultures overall, like when people talk about probiotics and what you have within the body, I do have a lot of the lactobacillus as you have, your body does need e coli in certain areas in the colon. So that is proper, that's a quality mean, and there's additional bacteria that is there. And those are safe levels. And as I previous said, I don't have any parasites or

antibiotics that often. But if I have to, to see if they are in necessary what they're sensitive to and what they're not sensitive to resistance. If they're sensitive, that means the antibiotic will work. If they're not sensitive, resistant, then it won't work. So for me, what I found out is that I have a resistance to ampicillin, which I was surprised but I shouldn't be surprised because what this means is when I was younger, I was premature and I was on a

feeding tube. And I probably had a number of IV and infusion today. ampicillin so I probably now have a resistance to it because I probably had it at such a young age and and larger amount of that so that it's not it will not work if it was given to me now and that's something that I couldn't control I was trying to survive and and not get infection at that time and that was what worked for me then. Now for other people they may not have that as their that may not come up as a resistance.

I had an intermediate resistance to augmentin, maybe because I had some throughout the years I did have some sinusitis and inflammatory nose infection like sinus infections, and I was given augmentin from time to time, that could be a factor.

That's why when you give on antibiotics or a provider gives you an antibiotic, you're really need to be mindful of how much you're taking, because it can still be it does a number on the system in the whole microbiome and, and it will suppress the rest of the bacteria, the good bacteria that you need to help heal and grow. But I am sensitive to all the rest of the antibiotics available, which means that I wasn't really given a lot of antibiotics throughout

my life. So far, I am mindful of when I'm given it and I try to definitely take a large amount of probiotics in need. And if I ever feel that I'm having trouble with the excessive probiotics or antibiotics at all. There's also some natural things that I can take like oregano, berberine and hufa. So that is in a nutshell, my

general mop map. The reason these things are so important is because they are connected and part of the whole equation of the bacteria and how it can affect IBS, IBD metabolic syndrome, chronic fatigue, autoimmune type two diabetes, high blood pressure, and even mood disorders. So it is such a important point that we don't always identify as needed to

look at. But when we see that the gut is kind of that second brain, it really is giving us an interpretation of what we put in our body is part of the medicine. So for me, if I didn't start changing and identify my behaviors and and what I'm doing on a regular, I would always be depressed, I would not be managing it, I would be increasing my my fatigue and metabolic and type two, and maybe blood pressure issues forever and never changing it. And I don't want that I want to

make a difference. I want each day to be better and I want to live longer for myself, my family and my son. So I hope a little bit of this helps. And you get a little insight and I enjoyed talking with you guys if you guys have any questions or any other things or at some point, want to connect with me for a tele visit. I will put in the show notes, a way to contact me, my text message me at 732-355-3469 and you have a wonderful day and make sure you find a mindful way each and

every day. Thanks bye