170: Gut issues
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Gut issues are unfortunately far too common in this day and age--people are struggling with everything from constipation, diarrhea, acid reflux, and upset stomach, to more complex conditions like celiac disease, colitis, diverticulitis, IBD, IBS, candida and Crohn's disease. All of these various conditions stem from the same source, inflammation. Today, we hear from Mike Merrill, the "Heal Your Gut Guy," on the topic. Mike shares his healing journey from Crohn's disease and discusses the five sources of gut inflammation. He then explains the protocol he recommends for reducing inflammation and helping the gut heal for good.
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| 0:00.0 | All these gut diseases are a chronic inflammation of the gut. |
| 0:04.0 | And so we have to understand what inflammation is. |
| 0:08.0 | If I go to the gym and I do bicep curls, my arm's going to become inflamed it to deal with that excess stress |
| 0:14.9 | I'm tearing muscle tissues it's sending extra nutrients and doing its things probably it's |
| 0:20.1 | doing a million things but it's trying to heal. |
| 0:23.0 | We want to let that happen. |
| 0:24.7 | But if I go to the gym three times a day, seven days a week, |
| 0:28.6 | and just do bicep curls all day long, |
| 0:30.4 | my arm's gonna fall off. |
| 0:31.8 | And so this is essentially what's happening in the gut. |
| 0:34.7 | We're injuring the gut. You know, even a lot of these health food diets, we're constantly injuring |
| 0:40.1 | the gut and that's why it keeps becoming inflamed. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome to the wise traditions |
| 0:49.4 | podcast sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for |
| 0:55.8 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:59.7 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everybody, I'm your host Hilda Labrata Gore. This is episode 170 with Mike Merrill. |
| 1:18.0 | Mike is known as the Heel Your Gut Guy. He was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2010. After years of spinning his wheels, seeing |
| 1:26.5 | countless doctors and trying a variety of meds to turn things around, Mike began to buckle down |
| 1:32.3 | and do his own research. He studied hundreds of health |
| 1:35.7 | publications, he met with holistic experts and tried every gut healing diet and natural remedy |
| 1:42.3 | known to man. His first big health |
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