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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

#217: Kale Brock

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns welcomes Kale Brock from a natural setting in Australia, amidst the noisy cicada beetles chirping in the background. Kale is on an awesome global adventure to discover the secrets of the gut microbiome, and has just released his wildly popular Australian book to the USA market, The Gut Healing Protocol: An 8-week holistic program to rebalance your microbiomeKale offered up some memorable insights and quotes in this lively discussion, such as: "You can't make informed decisions until you're informed."

Kale's quest to understand the important role of the gut microbiome in all aspects of health took him to Namibia to film a documentary called, The Gut Movie, which has been playing to sold out audiences throughout Australia. In this show, they discuss the miraculous results of FMT treatments (aka poop transplants). Kale talks about how most everyone has an imbalanced microbiome caused by antibiotic use (at any point in your life!), or obtaining antibiotics in food (eat organic animal products!) or tap water. Yes, we are all messed up, but gut problems manifest in assorted different ways. "Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger" (Kale quoting another health expert).

Kale's holistic program includes getting BEEMS time: Breathe, Eat, Earth, Move, and Sunshine. The book discusses a healing protocol where you restrict certain foods for a short time and emphasize diverse plant intake, consume high quality probiotics, drink your bone broth, and try his favorite remedy of aloe vera and bovine colostrum. Here's a great analogy: The gut is like a screen door, designed to let in fresh air and sunshine but keep out insects and leaves and other debris from outside. Leaky gut is like a screen door with tears in it. If you have leaky gut, focus on that first. Eating healthy foods and probiotics may go to waste otherwise. Enjoy an extremely informative show, and check out the book. If you order directly from PrimalNutrition.com, we'll send a free bottle of Primal Probiotics! Just mention to live chat that you heard the host boast about the offer on this show.

 

What did Kale Brock's diagnosis of a heart problem as a youth teach him the importance of nutrition? [00:01:57]  

What got him to he investigating the role of gut health? [00:08:00] 

We can only make decisions on what we know now. [00:09:30] 

Some people have gut problems and don't know it. [00:13:07] 

How does the imbalance of microbiome affect our guts? [00:16:33] 

What is the best gut-healing protocol?. [00:21:33] 

What are some symptoms of gut dysfunction that an otherwise healthy person might have? [00:24:37] 

What about the holistic side of gut health? [00:28:00] 

How does this manifest itself? What is leaky gut? What about gluten?  [00:31:23] 

His favorite remedy is aloe vera and bovine colostrum. [00:39:39] 

What can one do to improve the effects of exercise and stress on your gut health?  [00:43:16] 

Kale's book and documentary have all these practical steps and new fascinating information. [00:48:31] 

FMT

Kale Brock

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mark Sisson.

0:03.1

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.

0:09.9

Enjoy the show.

0:10.8

Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.

0:21.9

Good day. Listeners, This is host Brad Kearns, joined by a very special guest all the way from Australia.

0:29.9

You will maybe hear in the background these strange jungle animals making a really cool sound.

0:36.1

So this guy is so legit. We pulled him out of the

0:38.7

jungle and into the microphone. It's Kail Brock, author of the gut healing protocol. How are you,

0:44.8

Kail? Thanks, Brad. I'm doing well, except for the constant cicadas. We just got back from

0:50.9

holiday and my girlfriend and I hopped out of the car out the front of the house

0:54.4

and the sound, it's so piercing, you actually have to close the doors and the windows, which we

0:59.9

don't like doing. So, yes, this time it's a little bit tricky for recording interviews, but

1:04.4

hopefully this sounds okay. What is a cicada? What kind of animal? It's like a beetle. They look like a big, like a big crazy beetle. And just certain times a year, they just start, you know, I don't know, yelling at each other in the tree. So yeah, they're quite an interesting animal. But there's plenty of animals up here where I am. So that's just one of them.

1:25.6

Well, it's nice that you're close to nature.

1:27.9

You strike me as a really authentic guy.

1:30.4

We've been going back and forth with emails and watching your videos and deciding that we

1:35.0

really needed to bring your message here to the North American community because you've

1:41.6

had such great success with your book down in Australia. So this book,

1:45.7

The Gut Healing Protocol, marks that foray into the U.S. market. And we're so happy to introduce

1:51.7

this book. It's for sale at all the major booksellers and online. And I just thought I would get

1:57.0

into most interestingly. Of course, we'll talk about the book content, but your

2:02.1

journey is fascinating too. So I want the listeners to sit back and hear about this journey

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