YOU WILL NEVER FIX YOUR GUT UNTIL YOU FIX THIS

But this episode is about what can we actually do about it? And also the truth about these gut problems. Do probiotics work? Or let me ask a better question: does even gluten-free actually work to fix your gut? Um, or what about these lectin-free diets, histamines, oxalates? You hear about it all. You know, all these foods are bad, these foods are good. Okay, all that. I'm going to discuss it all. We're going to break through all the myths right here on the Dr. Pompa podcast.

Okay, first of all, I want to start here. The gut problem that we're seeing, this massive rise in all the gut problems. Look, in general, there is an upstream problem happening. I think you have figured that out, right? And what do I mean by upstream? Well, let me just give you an example. And I think this is the best example to understand this problem.

If you just brought a brand new piece of property on this beautiful river and you're really excited about it, but you walk down to the river and you see a lot of dead fish, plants, algae, et cetera. So you figure, you know what, I'm going to spend some money. I'm going to, you know, restock the fish, put the new plants in, make the ecosystem better. So you do that and you spend a lot of money on doing that. But the problem is three months later, it's all dead. And you do it again.

This time you hired a better guy. This time you put in better algae. Oh, you even micro seeded it. You did everything that they told you to do. You cleaned it up, put in all kinds of new stones and different things that help the water, all of it. And yet in three months, everything's dead again.

Finally, your neighbor comes over and says, Hey, George, you might want to save your money because you're putting all that money into repopulating all of those bacteria, plants, fish, et cetera, 20 miles up the river is a toxic basically factory, or at least a factory making the water toxic. Whether it's dumping mercury into the water, maybe you have silver fillings in your mouth. That'd be dumping mercury into the water.

Or maybe it's um lead, maybe it's some other contaminants, maybe it's forever chemicals, maybe it's a factory that's putting a lot of microplastics in the water. Either way, the point is, unless you deal with the factory upstream, you're never going to repopulate

the fish. So my first question is do uh probiotics work? Okay, for the most part, for long-term gut issues, the answer is no. Now that doesn't make them bad, okay, because I teach how to rotate probiotics, use different probiotics. There's a place for probiotics, especially for simple bloating and gut, you know, just dysbiosis, things of that sort.

So, and I even have developed products using specific soil-based organisms, um, spore-based organisms, because there's many different types of probiotics. And I believe in rotating them. But that said, are we impacting all of these gut problems, immune problems with probiotics? The answer is no, because the bottom line is just like George was putting in all the new fish and bacteria and plants, milk, uh, algae, the bigger issues upstream. So I'll start there.

Unless you deal with what's upstream in your life, you're never going to deal with the gut problem. People in my program, POMPA program, and by the way, you can go there, POMPA program, watch different teachings I've done. But the point is, is that we are working upstream to clean up these people's lives. What's what they're putting into their bodies and also what's bioaccumulated stored into their deep tissue.

Um, because once you clean up that environment, then the gut absolutely can heal. And you know, I just had a friend that I was helping with his gut problems. And he kept saying, if I can just fix the gut, I'm going to fix my anxiety, my sleep problems, my chronic pain, my fatigue, really crazy symptoms, honestly, a lot of them. And I said, No, the gut problem is making it worse. There's no doubt.

However, it's a bigger upstream neurotoxic issue, hidden infection issue that you have that's number one keeping your gut from healing, because he did everything. And he had the funds, the finances, and the work with all to actually do it all. He did it all, even went to Switzerland. Uh, I mean, you name it. He did um plasmapuresis, he did ozone therapies, he did filters where he literally they take all your blood out and filter. Okay, every bit of it he did.

He did every bacteria, all the different diets. His gut still wasn't better. There was something upstream. And I said, once you deal with that, then your gut will heal. Well, he's dealing with that and his gut's healing. However, he still has a lot of those other symptoms. See, because there's a lot of toxins in this brain. Remember, the gut is the second brain. But what I find today is that many people forget about the first brain that really runs and heals your body.

So, yes, you have to fix both. I say all that just to say that a lot of neurotoxins accumulate in the brain. And it can even be why your gut's not emptying fast enough. It's too slow. You have a condition called SIBO, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, which leads to bloating. People think they have food allergies.

Um, and they get a lot of dysbiosis where they just can't fix the gut because the neural, the neurology, the vagus nerve that runs down to the gut, um, and it affects something called the migrating motor complex, which controls how the gut empties, how fast food moves through it or slow, and all that can be disrupted from a toxic brain.

So, first and foremost, this isn't the podcast to dive deep into how you get rid of those uh toxins in the brain that affect the this brain that affect that brain, um, and also how to get it out of the deep tissue. Um, because this isn't the show, you just go to the Pompa program, watch some of the teachings I've done there. But this show is about what you can, in fact, do uh deal with the gut. I want to say

this. If I had one chemical responsible for the massive rise in all of the gut problems, the really the rise in chronic disease that we're seeing uh in this generation, especially um our children. My children, by the way, my children's generation, I'm 60 years old, first generation to not outlive their parents, first generation to have massive, massive increases in chronic disease. Cancer rates have risen since the 1970s, 67%. Since 1970, 67%.

And again, if I would say one chemical that is almost fully responsible, it's the chemical glyphosate that they're spraying on our food. This chemical decimates the microbiome. This chemical opens up the gut barrier and allows proteins like gluten to cross over, and now we form antibodies. This is not by chance, but in 2006 is when we saw the massive rise. This is when arguably gluten problems started. If you ask the experts, when did this gluten problem start?

2006, they'll say, well, guess what? 85% of this chemical glyphosate in the history of its usage, 85% in history has been used since 2006. 85%. Meaning most of the glyphosate has been used after 2006. And that's when we've saw all the gluten problems, all these autoimmune increases, all of the these um uh I would say increases in cancer. And by the way, if you haven't watched uh a lot of TV, um, you will see the commercials about glyphosate, aka Roundup.

Round glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, but sometimes you see it as Roundup. Billions of dollars have been awarded because this chemical has been linked and shown to drive non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Oh, guess what? So much of that is happening in children. 67% increase.

Okay. So, oh, oh, by the way, another study showed kids playing on soccer fields, football fields, fields in general where they're contacting the grass that contains the glyphosate that they're spraying to make the field look so pretty. Okay, they're getting larger exposures. Oh, and the increase in non-hotchin lymphoma in football players, soccer players, and all those young kids is going up absolutely dramatically.

So if I would have to say one chemical that I believe is at the root of a lot of these problems, it is glyphosate. Right now in the Supreme Court, they are fighting to get a liability shield. What does that mean? That means that they cannot be sued for injury. Well, why would they want that? Because they're being sued. It's going to start going beyond non-Hodgkin's lymphoma into autoimmune and all these other conditions that we know are linked to this chemical.

Oh, and by the way, a 2012 study from Stephanie Senef and her group out of MIT, this is the one of the first studies, now there's been many others, showed that this one chemical opens up the gut barrier and the blood-brain barrier, allowing our existing chemicals like aluminum and mercury, was this particular study that I'm thinking of, to cross deeper into the brain. And she believes, and others believe, that this is why we're seeing the massive explosion of neurodegenerative conditions.

How about we just start with brain fog, but Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, and also many other conditions like diabetes, hormone-related conditions, because it's opening up the protective barriers. And we are just seeing it, people getting awarded for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But we're going to see a lot of other things coming down the pike.

So of course, they're trying to get a liability shield to protect themselves, just like the vaccine companies did in 1986 to protect themselves from obviously being sued. And by the way, that one went through. Right now, I believe, I'll make a prediction that this time it's not going to work because of Bobby Kennedy Jr., uh, the Maha efforts. There is a lot of people protesting this, and there's a lot of pressure on them not to approve this.

However, right now the chemical is protected under national security. And what does that mean? Why? Because, see, being able to use or grow our own food in this country is considered something of national security. What do we mean by that? Um, because we shouldn't have to rely on other countries for food. Well, what's that have to do with this chemical? Well, that's because 98% of all corn grown in this country will not grow without that chemical.

97% of soy will not grow without this chemical, and many other crops will not grow now because of the decimated soil that contains hardly any nutrients left. And we have to spray it with the chemical from Bayer, now the company who bought Monsanto, the manufacturer of it. Oh, but that's all right. They're selling drugs on the other side of it. So this is great. But the fact is that they decimated the soil with this chemical. Now we can't even grow crops without it.

And therefore it becomes a national security interest because we need the chemical. And it's true to a point, the fact, not to a point, it is true that if we pulled this chemical tomorrow, because many of you would say, well, why can't we just if they're winning all these lawsuits, billions have been awarded, showing it's causing cancer, just to start there, and all these other studies showing it's driving autoimmune, et cetera, then why can't we just stop it today because of what I just said?

We would not be able to grow food. We'd have to import food from other countries. That is a National Security risk. So, what is Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s plan, our health secretary? It is to put billions of dollars into regenerating our soil. This is going to take some years. God willing, he stays in office long enough to even make that happen. Let's get these things underway. We need to regenerate our soil, no different than we have to regenerate our soil in our bodies, the environment.

A toxic soil does not grow plants, right? We um are the same. We do not thrive in health when we have a toxic bacteria environment ourselves. Okay, so glyphosate, I say all that to say if you're going to fix a gut problem, you better get rid of all the glyphosate in your life.

That means, and by the way, I know it's not possible to get rid of all of it, but you have to make an impact. You better eat all organic. I'm telling you, this is more important than any one thing you can do. Okay, even filtering your water. If you and your family are not, if you do not have a reverse osmosis uh in your house, I believe you should have a whole house water filter. This water right here is from Ophora, love them company. They're they're one of my sponsors here. Love Ophora Water.

That's the RO unit I have. And I I love, love, love their product for multiple reasons. They hyperoxinate the water, but that's not the point. Water is important. You need to have good water, but you better be eating all organic. Okay. I know it's more money, 20 to 30 percent more, oftentimes. But if you don't eat all organic today, you will pay. You will just pay slower and later.

If you have major financial problems, and I believe that we still prioritize money, I believe that we can take money from a lot of bad habits and put it into buying organic, and I think it's worth it. But you could at least eat from the clean 15 and avoid the dirty dozen. Google it, it'll tell you what plants are on that or what foods are on the clean 15 and which are on the dirty dozen. So at least do that.

But the fact is, is on that dirty dozen, you, if you're going to eat those foods, like spinach is one of them, blueberries is another one. If you're going to eat those foods, then you better be eating 100% organic. And there's some foods that you don't have to eat all organic on, like an avocado that's more protected, but I make a habit of eating all organic. When I go out and eat um at a restaurant that I know is not super quality, and by the way, more and more restaurants have all organic.

I stick to meat. It's typically wild-caught fish, grass-fed meats, which now almost every restaurant has, um, especially on the West Coast. Um, but um I have a product that I created called um gut enhancer. I'm I'm not selling a product, but gut enhancer. Um, it's a product that has humics in it that help can protect from glyphosate. I know you're gonna ask. Okay, I hope my team can maybe put a link in there.

You can go to um you can go to healthcenters.com, hit shop, and I believe you'd be able to access the uh gut enhancer there. I do believe we need to protect ourselves um from glyphosate. The avoidance is the uh the best thing. And by the way, gut enhancer does have some of those really important soil organisms in that I said I do like, um, but absolutely we should be taking because we don't get those organisms in soil anymore because it's depleted mainly because of glyphosate.

Okay, so I I want to also say this about gut healing.

Uh one of the I I'm often asked this question Does do these tests work where they can test the microbiome? Not a fan. I think there's uh some validity to it. One of the things that you can gain from a test like that is looking at how diverse your microbiome is. Diversity, meaning how many different bacteria do you have, and even um what type, like what families of bacteria do you have. So diversity matters.

Studies do show that the more diversity somebody has, the healthier they are, the healthier their brain works, the healthier their immune system. Diversity matters. And these microbiome tests are very accurate looking at diversity. So, meaning if you took a test today and then took one next week, you're going to see um a pretty accurate assessment of your diversity.

Now, what is not accurate is if you look at it and say, this is what's going on today, and you have these bacteria, these bad guys, these good guys, take the test again next week. You're gonna see a different profile. You're gonna say, is that me? Which, so I'm not a fan of saying, oh, you took this test and you need these bacteria and less of these. I'm not a fan of that because the microbiome changes so rapidly. But the diversity is good.

Okay, so then the question then is how do we change the diversity? How do we become more diverse? Is the question. Can we just take a bunch of probiotic pills to become more diverse? No, because there's thousands of bacteria and microorganisms here, and there's only maybe 11 strains here. So we just don't have enough. Even if you took every strain that's ever been researched, there's still not enough to make the gut more diverse.

And again, not against probiotics, but diversity is more complicated than that. The answer, the short answer is how do you make your gut more diverse if you have one of these gut issues that we're discussing? Well, and that by the way, I think that is one of the keys to um uh fixing the gut is adding to

the diversity. You stress the microbiome. What does that mean? You stress it. You stress it. And by the way, my criticism of avoiding lectins, phytates, oxalates, histamines, these plant toxins, they literally plant toxins, meaning plants have these in them to deal with uh other stressors in the environment. They even keep other pests off because of these little plant toxins. So they sound really bad to humans if they ward off pests and uh they can even bind up minerals like oxalates can.

But do they have a purpose? The answer is yes. And they act hormitically. What does that mean? That means that they as act as a stress into the microbiome and it can make it better, literally. But the premise of hormesis is that if you stress too much, then you can cause more problems. But if you stress and adapt to the stress, then you can actually help your diversity of your microbiome. So I believe these plant toxins are important to make our diversity help our microbiome.

Look, if you have a gut problem and say, but I took out oxalates and histamines or lectins, whatever they are, and I feel better. I agree. There's a time to avoid them or at least minimize them until you do some other things we're going to talk about to actually make your gut healthier. And by the way, that's oftentimes dealing with the chemicals upstream, right?

Like my first example, um, in until you get your gut healthier, and then slowly you can increase these little plant stressors, if you will, and use them as a tool to actually make your microbiome more healthy. So the very thing that you're reacting to now is oftentimes the very thing you need to decrease and then increase very slowly as a stressor to actually increase the diversity in your microbiome. So I don't believe in avoiding them altogether.

I believe in avoidance if you're responding to them and then slowly increasing them and utilizing them as a stressor. Figure out where your tolerance is, as we say, hormitic sealing is, and um add them in slowly. Okay. So the other big stressor that you can do to increase your diversity is fasting. Fasting is a stress on the microbiome that works. But again, fasting is very intermittent, fasting daily is very popular today. But I do find that people fast too much, oftentimes, without feasting.

So feast, famine, cycling is a premise. Look here on the page, I've done a lot of solo videos on how we do feast, famine, cycling. But feasting and famine is a way to stress the microbiome and add diversity. But here's the big one, and every one of you can do this very easily is change your diet.

Every ancient culture in the history of humanity has changed their diet through seasons when there was certain environmental stressors, droughts, et cetera. They were forced to change their diets. But in this country, especially, we tend to stay on the same diet that's working for us. And guess what it does? It causes monoculturing, meaning you end up with the same bacteria, you de Decrease diversity by staying on the same diet. So, what I am saying, everyone should be rotating diets.

I love doing it seasonally, meaning spring's coming. Start eating what is, you know, basically blooming in the spring, berries, et cetera. As fall comes, you know, you can start to eat some healthy, real grains in your diet, whole grains in your diet again, because the fall is when they're harvested and when humans ate these things. Wintertime's a great time to go into carnivore or a keto diet, a very uh meat-based, you know, high-fat diet. Wintertime is great for that.

Now, I vary my diet more than seasonally because I get bored easily. So, like right now, I'm in keto. I've been in keto for two months. Maybe I'll do it for another month. I'm actually heading to uh France and I'm gonna come out of the diet there um in a week. So it won't be quite three months. But the point is, is I vary my diet. I'll move into ketosis, which isn't a diet anyway, it's a metabolic state. I've even done short bursts of carnivore, by the way, that's all meat uh diet.

People tend to stay in these diets. It's not good. So you don't ever want to stay in a keto diet, a carnivore diet, or a plant-based diet, or a vegan vegetarian diet. Every one of those diets, if you stay in them long term, will cause health problems. Every one of them. So the key is rotating diets, shifting diets, changing the foods you're eating. This adds a stress to the microbiome. The moment you go from a plant-based diet to keto, you stress your microbiome. Guess what happens?

You, all these bacteria that you need to upregulate to increase your gut acidity start to increase. Other bacteria need to break down fat and proteins more, start to increase. And then you shift back to a plant-based diet. Those bacteria stay around. See, you're creating diversity. Now you're upregulating and developing bacteria that help break plant fibers down. You see?

Because certain bacteria you need to make certain acids, et cetera, even break down certain foods to get the most of those foods. So every time you rotate the diet, you're creating more diversity. Humans were meant to rotate their diets. And again, seasonally, I think is the best way to do it. It's an arbitic way of eating. And I interviewed, matter of fact, look for the podcast, John Dillard. He wrote a book about it called The Three Season Diet. Uh, check it out.

Uh, I thought it was a great interview. You can watch it on the Dr. Pompa podcast, um, the interview with John, and we talk about the diet and how to rotate uh seasonally. I think it's brilliant. I think his book was brilliant. But the fact is, this has been around for eons, all right? This isn't my idea or John's. Diet rotation is something that we've moved away from because we can stay on the same eight foods. Oh, and by the way, America, most of you eat the same eight foods every day.

Oh, not me. Well, it's not true. Most people eat the same eight foods every day. So, and that is a problem because you are monoculturing. And again, the key to gut health, immunity health, brain health is diverse microbiome. And I'm saying um stress it, change your diet is the best of the number one way to increase diversity and fix gut problems. Change your diet. I know, but I don't do well on a plant-based diet. I don't do well on high fat uh diet.

It's because you don't have enough of those bacteria yet. So ease into the diet change. Don't change overnight dramatically. Ease into the change. And eventually you'll start to develop those new bacteria and create more diversity, which creates better health, brain health, immune health, et cetera. So change diet slowly until you get used to it. But the fact is, is we all need to change our diet to increase diversity.

Work upstream, avoid, if I told you one chemical to avoid glyphosate, I think there's more than that, but avoid it by eating all organic. I'm telling you, you start right here. Watch what happens to your gut health, watch what happens to your health in general. Rotate your diet.

Hey, if you add in some fasting, and again, I've done a lot of podcasts on a fasting, a series about fasting, how to do extended fasts, five-day fasts, how to do intermittent fasting correctly with feast, famine, cycling. I've done shows on that. I can't put it all in one show, but that's another way to stress the microbiome and actually improve your gut. Uh, fasting and gut problems, big, big way to fix it. So, big fan of that as well. So, there you have it.

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