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Those good bacteria need in order to thrive and flourish in your gut, so that they can make the short chain fatty acids to keep your gut lining healthy, so that you don't develop leaky gut syndrome.
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Now, and you just said something very important there.
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By keeping the lining of your gut healthy.
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You're listening to the smarter Healthy Living podcast where we firmly believe that getting healthy should never feel like torture, where your host, Jarrod and Anita Roussel were college sweethearts, and health professionals who help you redefine what getting healthy looks like using a whole food plant based lifestyle. It's time to hear from the experts and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others get beyond the overwhelm, to create a vibrant life they
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love.
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I am extremely excited about this podcast. Now, not that I haven't been before with our previous podcast. But this one I really like. Because I feel like if I could boil everything down to one secret key to really maximizing your health, I feel like this would be it. Now, our health is a lot more complicated than that. So it's not just one little hack, one little thing I noticed is extremely important.
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This one affects so many different things, right? If you can get this key down as a busy mom, who needs to just know one simple thing and then how to do it. This can be one of the big things that really moves the needle along way for you.
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Because it affects so many different areas of your health,
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like inflammation, autoimmune diseases, which is huge, helps with brain or can affect brain fog can affect energy can affect digestion. I mean, the list goes on and on.
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So what we're talking about today are short chain fatty acids,
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you may see that abbreviated scfas. And you're looking at that going I don't even have time to figure out what that is. And that's why we're bringing this podcast to you today because we're short on time. And we need to understand the short chain fatty acids, but we don't have time to sit down and figure all that out. So
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and you will not be quizzed on this later on down the road in a couple of weeks, we're not going to send you an email and said now, what was it we talked about? No. But we want you to understand the concepts.
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So you can use them in a way that's easy in your everyday life. Now, the short chain fatty acids, obviously, part of the name is short chain. Well what does that mean? Well, a lot of molecules are made up of chains of carbon atoms, these just act happened to be shorter ones. So with short chain, it's all five atoms are less. So that's what that is.
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So if you're like me, you're probably wondering, at this point, what in the world does this have to do with me?
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And where do I get short chain fatty acids? what foods do I need to eat to get those? Well, you don't get them from foods, your body is actually going to make them or Let's be more specific, the good bacteria in your body make those. But you have to provide the raw materials that those good bacteria need in order to thrive and flourish in your gut. So that they can make the short chain fatty acids to keep your gut lining healthy, so that you don't develop leaky gut syndrome.
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Now, and you just said something very important, thereby keeping the lining of your gut healthy. Now there are a few different short chain fatty acids, the one that I'm specifically thinking about with this particular podcast is butyrate. And it's a four carbon chain. So it's just little small thing. But our bodies do not make them. They are only made by the beneficial gut bacteria in our colon. And how do they make it? They make it from fiber? And where does fiber come from?
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plant plants plants only, you will never find fiber and meat, eggs or dairy. Unless you put plants in them, then you might find fiber by fiber added maybe from that food, you will not find it. And this portion will go ahead.
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Well yeah, it's really interesting because most people don't know I didn't know until a short while ago that only 2% of people get the recommended daily allowance of fiber in their life. That means if you have 100 people in the room, only two people are getting enough fiber.
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And the fiber is the food that those gut bacteria require.
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They're crying out feed me feed me and then you're feeling sick.
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And you don't know why. Well you only have the lining of your intestines is only one cell wall thick. And when the gut bacteria can't make the short chain fatty acids to protect that lining, that lining becomes permeable.
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That means things can cross it that are not supposed to get across. And then you start having things happen with your body like immune system reactions and you have more allergies and you start developing autoimmune disease because your body starts getting confused and it attacks itself and there's all kinds of other things You can get and problems that you can have when this lining is not intact. And if you don't have the good get bacteria flourishing with the food that they need, they're going to starve. And then you can't have the short chain fatty acids there. Because it's not something you're just going to eat in your food, right?
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Especially the one that Jason's talking about.
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Well, I will write, you can, and I'll touch on that in just a moment. But with the butyrate, the thing that fascinated me about this, whenever I learned is that 90% of the energy for that one cell thick layer in your gut, it's energy, it's from butyrate.
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Okay, so when you don't have it, you are literally, like you said, starving those cells. And it has been shown in multiple studies that that layer dies off. Well, that is your barrier between what's inside your gut and what's in your body,
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or really the get is whatever goes through your digestive system is basically still on the outside of your body. I mean, if you think about it, it's a tube that runs from your mouth all the way through your body, right. And so whatever doesn't soak in through that lining, it's just passing through, it's not entering your body,
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still technically outside your body. I remember learning that in biology many, many years ago. And I remember that was one of those concepts, I thought, I just seem so weird, because it's inside of you. But for the purposes of biology, it's still technically not inside of your body. So on by your body, it hasn't been absorbed. And so this is very important. Because if there are any toxins, or if there any bacteria, anything else that we don't want inside our bodies, then that layer provides that barrier. And it's extremely important. And it's delicate.
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And it's fed 90% by butyrate.
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And just like we were saying before, that has to be made by the beneficial bacteria. Because if you do not have the fiber, to feed those gut bacteria, they're going to die off, the layer within your gut is going to die off. But then the bad bacteria will start to proliferate. So it's not just that you have an absence of good, but now you have the presence of the bad taking over, right? And then now it's a warzone in there. So what was a bad situation now becomes worse?
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And so then we don't want to, then we're not wondering anymore. Why are so many of us walking around sick, then, you know, then years ago, when people were eating more of the plant whole plant foods and things like that the reason we're walking around sick is what we're talking about today, with only two out of 100 people in a room are getting the recommended amount of fiber, the amount of fiber they need to feed their gut bacteria. Is it any wonder that we're all? Well, a lot of us, the majority of us are walking around sick, not feeling good, tired all day long. I'm a mom, I'm busy, I've got all these things to do. But I'm exhausted all day. We go back to mastery. I mean, I can't even walk up one flight of stairs to set my children into bed at night, I was crying in the shower, trying to wash my hair because of joint pain, pain, inflammation, all those things go back to a large portion of it being your gut health, the health of that lining, that protects you from the things that aren't supposed to cross it. And your body won't go into defensive mode. If that's not happening. And you have to have fiber.
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Yeah, you have fiber, what you were saying is feeling sick. Now you may be walking around and not put that label on yourself saying I feel sick, right? But you may just feel bad and you may feel tired. Just don't feel like yourself,
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when that's the weird thing about this, too. I mean, we talk about this all the time, you don't realize how bad you feel sometimes until you start feeling really good. Because you just convinced yourself this is just how it is. I mean, I have this a kid my neck these aches and my arms getting older. Yeah, I hear that all the time. It's just what's happening. But you had that chaired? I mean, you would, you didn't complain about hurting a lot. But you just had that constant underlying ache all the time.
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And I knew exactly what it was. But I didn't really know how to get rid of it other than drugs, and I didn't really want to use drugs. And
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my question is, do you have it now?
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No. Oh, it's been gone.
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So when does it change?
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When did it change?
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I noticed it about three to four months after we went all in because we made a lot of health improve, or I should say food improvement over time health improvements. Yes.
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Like we were eating more organic we were buying the cage free eggs we were doing all these things not buying the hormone added it milks and dairy nevermind that it's just filled with hormones just by nature of what it is right? So we're buying the healthier things not realizing they were we were still assaulting our own health and not providing the good bacteria what it needed and providing the bad ones with what they absolutely needed to flourish. And and then not knowing how to do it. You know, once we realized that's what we needed to do, and we needed to go all in.
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Yes, when things change.
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I mean, we had to start out
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so I had to get in the kitchen and say what do I cook now? How do I eat now? You know, how do I make it taste good? I can't eat food that tastes like cardboard and I have kids they want good food and how am I going to get them to eat these things and what do I take as a quick snack How to get a fast meal on the table. And all those things are so important. But you need to be able to do those things, not only in a way that they taste good, but it fuels your body. Well, we call that powering yourself well, and what we mean by that is you're giving yourself the good foods that you need that your body needs to flourish, but then it's also making you well, so you're doing healing you so you're powering yourself, well, it's kind of a pun in a way, I
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guess. Right? It's or as the French would say, a double entendre basically means you hear it two different ways. So anyway, I'm gonna stop with the multicultural there. But one other thing I did want to mention too, with the gut is, and this was an astounding fact, when I learned this way back in my medical training, and I've seen it multiple times since then, is that 70% of your immune system is associated with your gut. So it's not really a wonder that our bodies are just almost like this Inferno of this inflammatory, and this auto immune activity when our guts are not healthy. And so the butyrate helps to feed your gut, but it also does feed the rest of your body, it does get absorbed. I even have read where it's very important with brain health to. It's amazing. Now, you had mentioned before about can we get it in food sources and I have read that there are certain sources that are I say rich in it, it's actually milk and dairy, about two to 3% of what you get in that is butyrate. But that's not the best form for it. And I'm mentioning that because you will probably hear this. But it's not the way that I would recommend getting it. It's almost like saying, I'm smoking cigarettes for the oxygen. Yes, you're getting oxygen, but you're getting the other stuff you don't want or need.
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We don't encourage that either, by the way, not a good idea. Not at all.
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Yeah, but and another thing too, because I know the next thought you're thinking is, well, what about if I just take a supplement for butyrate? Well, that is not going to make its way and this is what the study showed to the colon, it the beauty rates can get absorbed in your stomach and the very beginning part of the small intestine. So
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it's not there, where it needs to be there. Well,
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it might help brain health and some of the other things, but it's not going to affect the bacteria and the lining in the colon, like just getting fiber. And
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I'm just gonna say this, I'm throwing this out there, you know, when you get things in their natural form, it shouldn't really surprise us. But that's how they tend to work the best.
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So we start trying to take supplement this and supplement that and supplement this. And they either get absorbed too early or absorbed too late or ends up having side effects. And let's just focus on this simple thing, Mama, right, you want to focus on getting the good stuff in the package that was created in, you know, apples have a lot of stuff in them that are really good for you. This is just one example of a food. So I could go on and on and on and on and on about all the things that are great in apples, or I could just tell you, hey, eats more apples, get some brownie batter, dip on that puppy and slap that in your mouth, and you'll be really, really happy. And that's how we do it. That's how we make this life livable. He's got to have the food to live that tastes great, but that are giving you all this fiber, all these nutrients, all these things are going to Bay that those good bacteria in the food that they're just sitting there waiting for so that they can thrive and they can flourish.
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And they can strengthen and fortify your gut lining so that foods and fibers and particles don't get through and bugs and bacteria that make your body say Red Alert, Red Alert, you know, and start putting out all these different cells that are going to just inflame you and cause a lot of problems. And if those things stay, if you end up in chronic inflammation, you end up in a disease process. And that's not where you want to be there either.
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I just remembered one other thing too is that they said that the presence of the butyrate actually helped to kill off colon cancer cells to by by a direct effect that it helped to do that. So it's bringing down the bad but helping the good. And it's just it's amazing all around. That's why in the beginning, I said that it almost feels like this is that one super secret key that if you did this, everything else would fall in place. And really, our bodies are not that simple. But this is a huge one. That's really huge.
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So then
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the thing is, what are you to do? Get more plants in any way you can eat the color of the rainbow, find excellent exceptional recipes that don't taste bad that use few ingredients that cause you to like I like to say to Jared that I'm always doing I The more I cook, the less I cook, right? I love to cook I enjoy but I don't have time anymore. I have too much on my plate. I'm running a business. I'm running a household. I'm a mom, a nurse, a wife, a mom and I said that twice. I'm a mom, too. I hear mom so much during the day. I'm actually mom.
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That's how important it is. And that's how much momming she does she listen to
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mommy, mommy, mommy. an aunt a friend, you know all these different things and these different hats that you wear, we get it, we know how busy you are. So you've got to have the good faith. That's why the cookbook Bendel's coming up for you seen, it's gonna have a lot of different recipes over 50 recipes for you. We've got some bonuses in there coming your way to help you to speed things along and figure out how to do this life. But for now get more of the great stuff, get plant powered. If you think I'm just not ready to go and the more you ate, the less room there is for the junk eat more of it. When you go to the store, set your environment up to where you will thrive. Put good stuff in your purse, good stuff in your car center console, good stuff in your glove compartment, get the good stuff in your desk drawer, surround yourself with the right people get in an environment in a group of people who are really passionate about adopting this getting more of the fruits and veggies in their life. And by nature, just setting that other stuff aside, pushing it out of the way by getting the good stuff in. You can do that by coming over to Facebook and getting in our free group smarter, healthy living for plant powered moms. We look forward to meeting you there.
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Have a great day and we'll see you next time.
