174: Live Dirty, Eat Clean – Microbiome
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
“ The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in.” - B. K. S. Iyengar
Your gut health is vitally important for your immune system, digestion, and even your mood. On this week’s Yoga Talk Show, gastroenterologist and wellness expert, Dr Robynne Chutkan, teaches the importance of a cultivating a balanced microbiome; and she warns against the severe impact digestive distress can have on your body and your life.
Dr Chutkan founded the Digestive Center for Women (DCW) in 2004, an integrative gastroenterology practice that includes nutritional therapy, meditation, biofeedback and counseling, as well as gastrointestinal procedures like endoscopy, colonoscopy, and video capsule endoscopy.
Dr Chutkan makes regular appearances on The Doctor Oz show, and has been a featured expert on The Today Show, The Early Show, The Doctors, and local news programs. She has been featured in numerous articles on GI diseases in The Washington Post, Self, Shape, Healthy, Yoga Journal, Ladies Home Journal, Fitness, Women’s Health, and the Huffington Post among others.
What You'll Learn:
- Why you should aim for "clean wipe" bowel movements
- Why your colon is not blocked—but it might not be so healthy
- Why probiotics cannot replace dietary healthy bacteria
- Why inulin fiber is crucial for feeding good bacteria
- How a plant-based diet can shift your microbiome (for the better) in as little as 30 hrs
- Why sweat when stressed out smells bad
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Why Kombu (seaweed ) is so good for you!
Links & References from the Show:
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| 0:00.0 | This week's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by Facebook Mastery for yoga teachers. |
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| 0:14.6 | to use Facebook to get more people in their classes, to fill their workshops and even destination |
| 0:19.0 | retreats and training courses. |
| 0:20.9 | To find out more about if this course is right for you or someone you know, please |
| 0:24.4 | visit yoga body business.com. |
| 0:27.0 | When most people think about health and wellness, they look in the mirror and they look at how they look on the outside. |
| 0:37.0 | And that's certainly one indication of health. |
| 0:40.0 | But many times good health starts on the inside, and that's what we're going to be talking |
| 0:44.2 | about on today's yoga talk show, specifically your microbiome. |
| 0:49.2 | Microbiome is such a hot topic. |
| 0:51.0 | It's really the, your gut bacteria, the three pounds of stuff that you have living in your |
| 0:57.5 | digestive track that influence everything from your mood to your hormones to your ability to digest to sleep and so many other |
| 1:05.9 | things much of our modern lifestyle and many of our modern foods screw up our |
| 1:10.8 | microbiome and it leads to gut dysbiosis where we have more bad |
| 1:15.6 | bacteria than good bacteria and we're gonna learn about simple ways that you can |
| 1:20.4 | correct that and simple ways to approach a microbiome friendly lifestyle. |
| 1:26.1 | I hope you find this helpful. |
| 1:27.9 | As always, I'd love to hear your questions or your feedback. |
| 1:30.6 | Get in touch with us at podcast at yoga body.com. |
| 1:34.0 | So hello and welcome everyone this is Lucas with the yoga talk show thanks for |
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