Have you ever done everything right, cut the sugar, taking the probiotics, bought the supplements,

maybe even done a cleanse, but still felt like you have some issues with your GI, inflamed, you're bloated, you're foggy, you're exhausted. A lot of people get stuck chasing things like candida, dysbiosis, bacterial overgrowth. But what if that wasn't the actual problem? What if the candida or the bacteria, the dysbiosis was the signal? And what if the real issue is that your body has quietly lost the ability to eliminate, detoxify, and nourish itself at a cellular level? So you're not even getting the results of the food that you're eating. That's what we're breaking out in this episode. Today I'm joined by Dr. Michael Biamonte, one of the earliest clinicians to treat candida as a systems problem instead of less simple infection. So we dive into a lot of candida stuff, but also if you're interested in any sort of dysbiosis, bacterial overgrowth, autoimmune, leaky gut syndrome, you're going to want to listen to this episode. We talk about cellular malnourishment and how to rebuild your body that can actually handle stress again. So this is a fascinating episode.

And then what I would love is that at the end of this episode, after you listen to this, send me a message on Instagram with anything that you want me to ask, Dr. Biamonte, next time. So I feel like this episode went so deep and so hard that there was a lot of stuff that I walked away from and I didn't even have the right questions to ask. So I've invited him back on to the show.

I have a couple more questions that I wanted to ask and figure some stuff out because this is important to me. And a lot of members of my family have struggled with issues related to this. So I want to go a little bit deeper. So send me those questions on Instagram. And when I hear those from you, I'll put them into the show next time. So welcome to get Leaner and Live Longer with Nate Palmer, the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy, burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks. I'm Nate Palmer, obviously. I've been to coach since 2008, and we're going to just jump right in. So if you're ready to cut through the noise, take control of your health, do like a high performer again, eliminate some of that GI issues. Let's do this. Dr. Biamonte, welcome to get leaner and live longer. So glad you're here today. Yeah, me too. Thanks. Yeah, man, thanks for being here. Can you, for anyone who's not familiar with your work and the way you kind of approach, I don't want to say functional health, but health medicine.

Can you give us a little bit background on who you are and how you got to be in this space?

Yeah, I graduated from naturopathic school in 1984, got out of school, and ended up working at

Grumman Aerospace with a bunch of aerospace engineers who were all physiologists, nutritionists.

Some of them were actually

were naturopaths. They were developing a computer system to use on the astronauts when the

astronauts were in deep space missions and extended space in the space station. And the computer

they were developing was a software system that allowed the computer to look at the astronauts' blood work and urine tests and different things

and be able to determine what vitamins they needed while they were in space to maintain bone mass and muscle mass.

And the project got so big that we decided to also start using it in our private practices.

So we had regular civilian people coming,

and they were getting analyzed by the computer, and we were getting really good results in terms

of correcting toxicities and deficiencies and all kinds of problems they had. But there was a

certain percentage of the people who had weird reactions to the vitamins we were giving them.

I mean, opposite reactions.

So I volunteered to find out what was wrong with them. It turns out they had candida. I didn't

know what candida was. I had really no clue. So I started researching candida. And I said,

I figured, so I learned what it was. And then I told these people to go to their medical doctors and

tell the doctor you have

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