Podcast 448: Folium Detox Products

The scientifically proven formulas of Folium pX nutraceuticals contain powerful plant ingredients that work synergistically to cleanse the body of free radicals, reduce stress, boost the immune system, detox heavy metals, and other environmental toxins that can cause inflammation and disease. These toxins are ingested daily through the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink, as well as in the radiation emitted from military weapon testing, nuclear power plants, MRI scans, and even our personal electronics, particularly from the emerging 5G technology.

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MARTIN: Hello everyone, this is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast, and with me today, Babry Oren with Folium. And their products that we are offering to all Life Enthusiast clients. Babry, welcome to the show.

BABRY: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

MARTIN: Oh always, an honor. And of course, we come to this through some interesting history. You were telling me some time ago how you started in Georgia about the same time as I started out in the Czech Republic. And here we are, two expatriates from the communist paradise that we left behind.

BABRY: Well, you know what, I will give up that paradise anytime. I give up, I don’t need that. . No use for it.

MARTIN: Although lately I have been thinking that maybe it’s just trying to come back.

BABRY: Well, it’s up to us. If you think it’s good, bring it back. If you think it’s not good, stay away. Simple as that.

MARTIN: All right. So let’s talk about Folium. Why would people want to know, or why are these products important?

BABRY: Well, first of all. I mentioned it to you before on the phone. I am the only one who speaks with an accent in this country. Nobody else. So bear with me.

MARTIN: All right.

BABRY: All right. So every time we take a breath, we ingest into our system all kinds of junk, which is with the air. We have nuclear waste in the air. We have gasoline waste. Okay? We have all the industrial stuff, and we don’t even feel it because the single breath is such a minor amount, we don’t feel it. But within time, within years, they accumulate and they cause all these troubles you’re talking about. Cancer, lung disease, liver disease, you name it. Right? Because of it. Also when we eat, we eat too much toxic heavy metals, which comes with the water, like lead and mercury mostly, also aluminum. And with foods, that’s already known. And they cause a lot of problems, a lot troubles. We have too much free radicals, you have to get rid of it. They’re killers. And that’s why you have to please your body, otherwise they will kill you.

MARTIN: Yeah, true enough. I mean, I certainly recognize it that there are all these chemicals that come into us from the dry cleaners and from the automobile exhaust, from the industrial exhaust. From every manufacturing production you can imagine. The carpet in your room, the fire retardants on your pajamas, and you name it. Right? Brake pads and the tires and everything else in the city traffic, you’re saying it well. And now , even from farther away, right? Like the threat now of perhaps even nuclear atomic explosions, that the world is setting itself up.

BABRY: Well, there was a study done in Australia in the late 1960s.

Podcast 447: Andreas Seed Oils

Andreas is a former German gymnast who had a long and successful career. He is a world and Olympic champion. After a shoulder injury, Andreas retired. He was put on several medications, and years later was diagnosed with Chron’s disease and became very ill. He knew he had three choices, keep following the doctors orders and be on medications for the rest of his life, die from Chron’s disease, or make some drastic lifestyle changes. Shortly after, Andreas launched the first ever Cold-Press technology. These oils are pressed at ultra-low temperatures to eliminate oxidation and maintain their molecular integrity.  They are high in essential fatty acids, and are entirely free of any metals, solvents, pesticides, or preservatives. In today’s podcast, Andreas joins Martin to take a deep dive into how his oils differ from other seed oil companies. As well as when and how to use them to the best advantage.

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MARTIN: Hello everybody. This is Martin Pytela, Life Enthusiast podcast, and today I have the distinct honor and pleasure to have Andreas Wecker or Vecker, as he would pronounce it. He’s actually a famous man! He made the Olympics not just a little bit, a medal in Olympics. That’s not a small feat you know, you have to be one of the top three people in your discipline in the world at that time. That’s not a little bit, that’s a lot. And now Andreas has had his experience with oils. Welcome aboard Andreas!

ANDREAS: Thank you Martin! To be with you, first time.

MARTIN: Indeed. Hope not last time. And so, I think that people should really understand the importance of plants and seeds and oils. Would you be so kind and just explain why we should care about these oils in our life?

ANDREAS: First, maybe a little bit, go a little bit back to understand how I got there. So I got sick in 2006, I had Crohn’s disease, was almost dying. And when I came out from the hospital, I was on 33 pills and literally all the side effects I had moon face from the prednisone. I was super fat, became super fat. First I lost 45 pounds, right. I was about 80 pounds when I came in the hospital. And then I got back, I was so hungry from the prednisone and then the moon face and everything. So they told me, I had side effects. And when I came home, I had a friend of mine we were on a different project with oils. Which was actually my first idea to diffuse oil and get it in the body by not using the digestion system.

ANDREAS: So then he told me he can help me with fresh pressed flaxseed oil, and we get the medication off because I literally was dying from all the side effects from those medications. And so my body is absolutely allergic to any chemical or pharmaceuticals. So that was the start literally. So he gave me later his small press, it was a little kitchen press, to press my own oil. So everything started pretty much with Flax Seed Oil. So most people, I was the same way, I was thinking in the beginning of course, oil makes a difference, right?

MARTIN: Well we hear essential fatty acids, right? So we need to have Omega three, Omega six, Omega nine. We need to have a conversation. More of this, less of that.

ANDREAS: Yeah. I started with the

Podcast 446: Karma Cleanse

On today’s short yet informative podcast, Phil Thomas joins Martin Pytela to discuss the herbal detox, Karma Cleanse. This tonic is an extremely effective blood cleanser, made famous by Edgar and Harry Hoxsey. It works by clearing toxins from the liver, kidneys, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, intestines, joints, skin, and can even support the immune system as well.

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MARTIN: Hi, this is Martin Pytela at Life Enthusiast Podcast, and with me today is Phil Thomas. He is the founder and CEO at Iodine Research, and Phil has been a student of Edgar Cayce for many, many years. He tells me that he has read a lot of the 14,000 pages or cases, that were left behind. And one of the tonics, that Dr No, Not Dr. Edgar Cayce talked about is now known as Karma Cleanse. Phil, could you be talking about that to me?

PHIL: Sure, sure. Yeah.

MARTIN: First question about Karma Cleanse to me is, there seems to be some history with another guy selling it as his own. Right?

PHIL: Edgar Cayce did a little traveling during his lifetime and at one point he lived up in, I think it was Ohio. Yeah. He was living in Columbus and he gave a reading for somebody, and there was a guy his name was Harry Hoxsey. He was a young lad, and he got his hands on this reading that Cayce had given for this guy that had a serious case of cellular malignancy and carcinoma. And he decided that he was going to be the one that would make this tonic that Cayce recommended for this person, and he did. And he started going around the country, this was a hundred years ago. So back in those days there were still people that were out selling tonics and stuff traveling around the country, and he was really good at it. Harry Hoxsey traveled around the country for many years and from the mid twenties and so the early fifties, and by the time he set up his clinic in Dallas in the early fifties, he had 17 satellites all over the country that were selling his tonic. And his clinic in Dallas was by far away the most successful cancer treatment facility on the planet.

MARTIN: Because the darned recipe worked. Right?

PHIL: Right. That particular tonic was really good at dealing with any kind of cellular malignancy. And basically what it does, is it stimulates the action of the liver and the kidneys, which are the blood cleansing organs of the body. And when you do that, then the body has a chance to actually address what it needs to do. So it’s just common sense really, when you stop and think about it. Cayce says all cellular malignancy goes back to blood toxicity. So if you clean up the blood, the body can take care of itself.

MARTIN: Right on. So the Karma Cleanse then would be defined as a blood cleanser?

PHIL: Yeah. It stimulates both the action of the liver and the kidneys. And it does a few other things too but that’s the primary.

MARTIN: So how many herbs go into that?

PHIL: There’s five different herbs and also the detoxified iodine to stimulate the thyroids, because the thyroids actually control one organ, which happens to be the liver.

Podcast 445: Detoxification with North American Herb & Spice

In this week’s episode, Steven Harkins from North American Herb & Spice joins Martin Pytela to discuss the importance of detoxing. The average person is surrounded by toxins on a daily basis. These toxins come from our environment, and many things you use or consume everyday like food, water, personal care, or household products.  These excess toxins can cause physical and mental health issues like brain fog, digestive and skin issues, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, inflammation, disease, and more.

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela Life Enthusiast podcast. I’m the health coach at life-enthusiast.com. And with me today, I have the distinct pleasure of having Steven Harkin. Harkins. Pardon my pronunciation. Steven… Hi, Steven. Steven is the director of education and culture at North American Herb and Spice, a company I love very much because of their culture, and because of how they present themselves to the world and the kind of products that they bring. Steven.

STEVEN: Thank you.

MARTIN: Yes. And so today we, I am sure that we could probably create 100 different podcasts with North American Herb and Spice, and still not run out of things to talk about, but for a lift off today, I’d like to talk about cleansing, detoxification and why a person would care. There’s a lot of talk about cleansing or detox, but why? Right. If you find yourself dragging, tired, foggy minded, brain not working, not sleeping well. Aching here, there, and everywhere. Those are the signs of inflammation, and inflammation arrives at the tail end of functional deficiency. Which arrives at the tail end of toxicity, or why we want to talk about stuff today. Right?

STEVEN: Yes, exactly. Because what people may not understand is that unlike 50 years ago, unlike any other time in history, you’re being bombarded by just the food additives alone. Over 7,000 food additives that are harmful to the body that we are being exposed to. You can try to avoid it. You can eat healthy, you can eat organic. Guess what? We are still even, Martin and I, we are still doing purges. We’re still detoxing because there’s so many environmental factors before we got even started talking. You and I were discussing the issues of glyphosate, pesticides, nitrates, the issues with our soil, the issues with our air, the water, everything, it’s just, it comes to a…

MARTIN: Yes, a red dye number which, five is it? Six?

STEVEN: Forty-Five, you can’t keep up. But one of the things that really woke me up is when you start researching the other countries that ban many of these food additives, and unfortunately in this country, everything’s allowed.

MARTIN: Yes. Especially in Europe, they have stepped up and they have started banning a lot of things because in Europe, for some reason the corporations are not able to control the government as beautifully as they’ve managed in the United States. I think the invention was the Citizens United decision, which introduced money as free speech into politics. And all of a sudden a lobbyist can spend endless amount of money influencing the legislator, and the legislator will just do as, well you know, where the money comes from.

STEVEN: Yes, exactly. So that’s what we’re up against every day when we make our decisions to eat a...

Podcast 444: Thyrodine

In this episode, Phil Thomas shares with us the fascinating story behind how ‘atomidine’ was discovered by Edgar Cayce, the father of holistic medicine. We also discuss the different types of Iodine, and the many uses and health benefits it provides.

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela with Life Enthusiast podcast. And today I have with me, Phil Thomas, he is the founder of Iodine source. And interestingly, Phil has gotten into this business probably thanks to his studies of Edgar. Cayce, is that so Phil?

PHIL: Oh yeah, that’s right.

MARTIN: Well maybe we should introduce the importance of Ed Cayce to the world. Why should people even care that Ed Cayce ever lived?

PHIL: Edgar Cayce was a sensitive, and during the course of his lifetime, he gave readings for people. Primarily that had health related issues and questions, health slash illness questions. And he’s known as the father of holistic medicine because when he was giving the readings back a hundred years ago, he started and they’d lasted for about 25 years. The body of information that he gave was recorded, and then today it makes up the largest information bank of psychically derived information on the planet. He’s the guy who really started the holistic movement.

MARTIN: Okay. So when you’re saying, when you’re saying scientifically derived, I mean, he himself was just hearing it from the ethers, right? Like he was in a trance when he was transmitting information.

PHIL: He would put himself into, he’d lay down on a couch and loosen up his clothes, his tie or whatever, and put himself into a self-induced trance. And then someone would be there, usually his secretary asking him questions. Most of the time they were questions that were written down on a piece of paper that somebody had sent to them as a letter in the mail. Cayce would need to be able to locate that person at that particular time, and know where they were, locate them. And then he would go ahead, proceed to make suggestions about the condition of the body and where the imbalances were, and then make suggestions for how to go about correcting it. So, during the course of his lifetime, there are over 14,000 documented readings. Each of them is a double space, maybe three pages long. And like I said, it’s the largest body of psychically derived information on the planet.

MARTIN: Have you read this stuff?

PHIL: Well I spent 10 years in Virginia Beach where the association for research and enlightenment is located and that’s where the library is. And they also have like a place where they, originally Edgar’s idea was to have a hospital there. So there’s a building there, which a rambling structure that’s near the beach. And the idea was that Edgar was going to give readings. People would come there, they would spend time there, learn how to utilize the suggestions and the readings and the various different aspects that were suggested. And then when they went home, they could take the equipment or the tonics or whatever information was given and then proceed with continuing the recovery process.

MARTIN: So what type of suggestions would he have for people?

PHIL: Most of the time he was talking about spinal manipulations, he was talking about colonics. He often referred to massage, body massage. And then there were diet corrections,

Podcast 443: Oregano Oil

On this episode, Martin Pytela welcomes Ms. Judy Gray to the Life Enthusiast podcast. Her background of Nutrition & Masters in Science led her to founding North American Herb & Spice 40 years ago. Today, we discuss how her company came to be, the healing benefits of Oregano Oil &  and their other amazing remedies you might not know you were missing from your cupboard!

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Life Enthusiast podcast. And my name is Martin Pytela, I’m the health coach here. And today I have the honor and pleasure of visiting with Ms. Judy Gray, the founder and CEO of North American Herb & Spice, a company we dearly love and support. Miss Gray.

JUDY: Yes! Thank you so much.

MARTIN: Mm-Hmm I thought it would be well worth it for people to understand just how wonderful the products are and why they are so wonderful. I mean, my general perspective and my frequent saying is, hey people, we are in the industrial food experiment and it’s not going well.

JUDY: You are so absolutely right. And this is why many years ago I decided that I had to do something about it. I was director of nutrition at a cancer hospital who used nutritional supplements and they had about 500 different supplements. And I was not really happy with all of them, because I didn’t like these synthetic ingredients. And maybe even the formulations on some of them, I wasn’t really happy with them. And it gave me an opportunity to see if these things really work or not. And many of them, I just wasn’t satisfied with. So then I became the clinic administrator for Dr. Cass Ingram, and I asked him if he used, you know, what he used, and everything. And if he was happy with all of the supplements and everything, and he was he wasn’t, of course. Some are, you know, he really loved. And and some he was just not satisfied with. So then, I had two family members with serious illnesses. One was pancreatic cancer, and so it was my turn to see, I was helping them get well. And I got both of them well.

QMARTIN: Wow! Seriously?

JUDY: And the oregano, and that was my main “arma materia”, if  you will.

MARTIN: So which year was this approximately?

JUDY: Oh, this was in the early nineties.

MARTIN: Okay.

JUDY: Yeah. So it was very early nineties. And so I was really so amazed at how well that this oregano was working. I started out with the herb first of all. And then I kind of graduated to the oil of oregano. and you may see my little friend here.

MARTIN: The visiting chief pet officer.

JUDY: Yes. Houdini my helper. And he’s the chief pet officer at Hoodi’s foodies. His own company now.

MARTIN: Okay, so question here, did you find or did you fall up on the wild from the beginning?

JUDY: Well, yes. And I’ve been in Turkey in the seventies I was there. And I had seen little tiny bottles of the oil in the souks (open-air markets) and I thought it was very interesting, but I really couldn’t get much out of them. I couldn’t understand exactly how they used it or what they believed it was good for or whatever. So I didn’t know exactly what their uses were and anyhow, so I thought well we’ll try this. And I tried it topically, first of all. And it brought out like black toxic soot out of the body, I tried it as a rub. And then I found out that I had to work with it not straight but to use it in combination with a carrier oil. So I did that, and I tested many many different carrier oils,

Podcast 442: Sulfur Salts

Today, Martin Pytela is joined by Phil Thomas, the founder and CEO of Iodine Source. What are Sulfur Salts? How did they come to be? When we eliminate toxins from our bodies, we can begin to restore our hormone imbalances, health and vitality.

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MARTIN: Hi, this is Martin Pytela at Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today, Phil Thomas. He is the founder and CEO of Iodine Source, and he is a devotee of Edgar Cayce. And having studied extensively and intensively Cayce’s legacy, he’s been faithfully promoting the products that Cayce talked about. Hello, Phil!

So I would like to talk about the Sulfur Salts. Which in my book has a lot to do with the health of the endocrine system and health of the autonomic nervous system. But maybe you could explain it better than I can.

PHIL: Yeah, yeah. It’s primary function really was to help get heavy metals out of this tissue, you know, and if you look at the different kinds of occupations particularly in Cayce’s day, the industrial age was just getting up and running in full swing really. And people were getting exposed to all kinds of stuff in factories. And so Cayce was talking about this combination of Sulfur, Rochelle salts and the Cream of Tartar, those three things in equal amounts. And the sulfur is actually in the salt form. So which you end up with is a white powder. And, you just put something in a glass, maybe some hot water to dissolve it and drink it on a, let’s say maybe a daily basis, a tablespoon.

MARTIN: Do you mean a tablespoon of the powder in water? The bottle we ship it in isn’t all that big.

PHIL: Yes, a tablespoon. It depends on the situation but I was a house painter when I was a kid and I lived in a college town, there were a bunch of old crumbling housing dorms and all kinds of places where the paint, the old lead paint from 50 years ago was, well now it’s more than that, but the paint was all crumbling and falling off. So I was one of those kids who went up on a ladder with a grinder and ground paint off houses for a living.

MARTIN: So you inhaled a whole lot of lead. Huh?

PHIL: And before I really understood this because I came from a working class family and that’s what we did. We worked right?

MARTIN: Well, we have had some recent experiences with lead in water, like up in Michigan, they created quite the disaster for a lot of people by poisoning children and grownups with lead in water. Right?

PHIL: There’s a lot of heavy metals and they’re all bad. You know, I occasionally get into a discussion with people who say: Oh well, you got to take silver, that will fix you, you know. And well, yes, silver is antibacterial, it’s great. I was telling somebody the other day, I said look, during World War II, when our troops were over there in Europe, there wasn’t any clean water over land water, it was all polluted.

MARTIN: It was just ditches, right? Yeah. You’re you’re in the ditch.

PHIL: Yeah. This was a hundred years ago. I mean, you think it was like, it was still pristine and clean. It wasn’t, it was a mess. And so the troops would get stuck in these trenches for days, sometimes weeks. And they didn’t have any water to drink. So what we figured out was if we put silver and, you know, it’s a standard issue for these troops,

Podcast 441: Earth Friend Herbs – New Products

Martin Pytela joins Elijah Free to discuss the launch of his new products.

Cell Tox-Ease: An advanced tonic formula that will help neutralize the excess cytokine material that builds up in the body due to the MTHFR, and will subdue long term viral infections when used in conjunction with Cell-Ease, Cell-Ease Support.

Heart Ease: Supplies needed nutrients to your heart muscle.  Aiding the heart muscle and associated anatomy. Helps resume more normal cardiac functions.

Stress-Ease: Supplies nutrients that help with your metabolic balance. High stress burns through your nutrient storehouse. This can create nutritional deficiencies in your nervous system. And other systems too.

 Thy-Ease: This powerful herbal adaptogen formula supplies your thyroid glands with a high concentration of essential nutrients, to help restore natural function.

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MARTIN: Here. Hello everyone. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And today I have with me Elijah Free, Master herbalist, the founder of Earth Friend Herbs. Elijah and I have had many years now of collaboration, and we have multiple of his formulas listed on Life Enthusiast website. Today, we are adding more and we have the wonderful opportunity to hear from the formulator himself. Good morning.

ELIJAH: Good morning, Martin. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today, to talk with you and all of our wonderful friends out there, tell them all of our products that we are launching and just want to mention is a new product to us is not something that happened last week or last month. Our products are tested for a minimum of four to six months and therapeutic healing practice before it’s even considered to go on the market. So everything that we offer to you folks out there has been therapeutically proven to work within the parameters that they were designed for. In fact, how we choose what we’re going to design actually is the fact that there’s nothing on the market for it. We have patients that are in need, and as a result, we go to the board, we design. We always give away our first samples for free to the people that we design them for. It’s just sort of a tradition for decades now. And then we get the test to see how well it works. If it works, we give it to more people. It works that well, hey, everybody gets it! So some of these formulas..

MARTIN: So, so you’re actually still working in a clinic, correct?

ELIJAH: Oh yes, I have my own, which I’ve had now for many years. I’ve often worked with groups of doctors, before I went on my own about four years ago before COVID I worked with a group of five doctors for about 17 and a half years. And I was one of the regular folks there, even though I wasn’t a doctor, I still had all of the responsibilities of that.

MARTIN: I was actually told that you’re quite a gifted, uh, physical healer too, right?

ELIJAH: Yes. I do body work. I do my own form of that, and we do very well. That’s the other half of what I do. I love doing body work. Mine is a bit different in that because I work with people that are surgical candidates that have been in pain for years and often decades, but I feel very fortunate that I have such a lovely capacity to do so. I get to help people in both manners.

MARTIN: Yes. Just for a reference. Where have you learned all this herbology?

ELIJAH: Well, that’s an interesting question, Martin.

Podcast 440: Panaceum and a Healthy Microbiome – Part 2

Spencer Feldman from Remedy Link joins Martin Pytela to talk about his new product called: Panaceum. In this two part series, we will discuss the microbiome in great detail.

Today in Part 2, we discuss the microbiome in further detail. We explain how having a healthy microbiome may be the solution to many of our common health problems, while including some of Spencer’s personal experiences with the product.

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MARTIN: Hi, this is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast, with me Spencer Feldman. This is our part two deep dive into microbiome. This will get technical. So those of you who have complex problems or need to explain something to your doctor, because your doctor has not gone to school to learn about microbiome. Unless he or she’s very active on reading the thousands of studies that have been coming through. Microbiome is the most studied aspect of human body aspects of late. Anyway, here’s Spencer Feldman. Let’s dive in.

SPENCER: Hey Martin. All right, let’s get to part two.

MARTIN: Yep.

SPENCER: So, you know, in part one, we talked about what the microbiome was, how we lost it, how we gain it back again, some tricks the trade of what you can do to get a good microbiome. The main of which is just feeding it properly. So now let’s talk more about some of the things that go into a deeper dive. First off microbiomes are everywhere in the body. It was previously thought that there were five primary microbiomes, the gut, mouth, skin, vagina, and sinuses, with the gut being the largest, comprising 90% of the bacteria in the body. We now know there’s a microbiome in the liver, the gallbladder, the brain, the lungs. And I’m confident that in time we’ll find a microbiome in every organ of the body. And when these microbiomes are fed with a variety of different oligosaccharides and are healthy, they protect the organs they live in from infections as well as participate in regulating their function.

SPENCER: However, when we don’t feed our microbiome, then there are only three outcomes. Dormancy, death and phenotype drift for the bacteria and the microbiome. So let’s talk about these. Another name for dormancy is hibernation and bacterial cells that hibernate are called persister cells. When bacteria run out of oligosaccharides to eat, they can simply go to sleep. And as soon the oligosaccharides return, they wake up again. This is a great strategy for the microbiome. After all, even successful hunter-gatherers, don’t always get food. They might be injured or get sick or have bad weather, or just bad luck for a few days.

The issue is if we don’t supply our microbiome with an adequate supply of oligosaccharides for more than a short time, the dormancy process can cause problems. When bacteria go dormant, they trigger the release of compounds of polyphosphates and bradykinin which increase membrane permeability, and lead to a leaky gut and leaky blood brain barrier.

SPENCER: And we’re going to get more about into those two. But one thing to know is the same process that causes a leaky gut also causes the blood brain barrier to leak. The second result of a lack of oligosaccharides is that bacteria can just die. Not all bacteria are good at going dormant, and even those that can hibernate have to wake up eventually. And if there’s still not enough food for them, they can just die.

And then the third outcome is phenotype drift.

Podcast 439: Seven Secrets to a Healthy Microbiome – Part 1

Spencer Feldman from Remedy Link joins Martin Pytela  to talk about his new product called: Panaceum. In this two part series, we will discuss the microbiome in great detail.

Today in Part 1, we discuss what the microbiome is, the seven secrets to achieving a healthy microbiome, and why it’s so important that you do.

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela for the Life Enthusiast Podcast. And today I have with me Spencer Feldman, my favorite fanatical researcher. When Spencer takes on a topic, he runs deep. Today, we’re going to be talking about his discoveries, the seven secrets in the, well, he probably will say it correctly, probiotics and microbiome, and what’s going on in the gut. I think I mangled it quite well, but here goes Spencer Feldman. Welcome!

SPENCER: Thanks for having me Martin, nice to see you. So what I’ve done over the last couple of months is to really delve deep into the microbiome and I’ve broken it into two talks. The first, which we’re going to start right now is about an hour long and it’s called “Seven Secrets to a Healthy Microbiome, and why you want one.” The second talk is for people that want an incredibly deep dive. We’re going to go into some of the aspects of the microbiome that are much, much more complicated, but if you like the microbiome, you’ll like listening to it. While the second half is geared towards clinicians and physicians, certainly anyone could gain some information from it. So without further ado, let’s start with the seven secrets to a healthy microbiome and why you want one. So before we get to the seven things, we first have to talk about what the microbiome is.

MARTIN: Exactly.

SPENCER: What it does for us, what it is, how we get it, how we lose it, and then the seven secrets to regaining it. Cause we’ve all lost.

MARTIN: You know, let’s start first with, what does it feel like? Or what does it look like? What is life like in a body when microbiome is broken?

SPENCER: Okay. So the microbiome is the master regulator for the whole body. It’s regulating neurotransmitters, hormones, antibodies, body fat, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity, energy production, sleep cycles. It runs the whole show. If you were to add up all of the endocrine organs together, thyroid, gonads, pituitary, pineal on one side; and all the endocrine producing cells and the gut on the other, the gut has more cells. If you weigh the brain at two and a half pounds-ish, and you weigh the gut microbiome at two to six pounds, the gut microbiome weighs more. If I ask some someone to draw a picture of a tree, they’re just going to draw the top part of the tree. The trunk, the branches and the leaves, but that’s only half the tree.

SPENCER: I would ask them where’s the other half? And then I would say, well what’s below it? And then if they drew all the roots and all the bacteria on the roots and all the metabolic action happening at the roots, that’s the other half of the tree. And we tend to forget the stuff that’s below the level of the ground, because we can’t see it. Well, this is sort of like that for us, the gut is sort of like the roots of our metabolic tree and if the roots are not healthy, everything goes wrong. I mentioned all the things that the microbiome is modulating; we could get more into how to recognize a bad microbiome, but to answer your question initially,