3432: Malic Acid & Body Aches, Help For CIRS, Making Behavioral Changes, Microplastics & Tea Bags, Inflamed Gums & Tongue (HouseCall)

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Cabral HouseCall of the weekend!

I’m looking forward to sharing with you some of our community’s questions that have come in over the past few weeks…

Anonymous: I had fatigue, body pain and gallstones. Taking malic acid for gallstones but pain and fatigue went away. What does it mean when malic acid eliminates body aches? Does Malic acid address root cause issues? Is malic acid safe to take while I run my big 5 labs.

Nakul: Hello Dr. Cabral, I'm a big fan of your podcast and your approach to chronic health challenges. You're helping a lot of people heal - please keep up the great work. I was diagnosed with CIRS last year, which is an inflammatory response caused by a genetic predisposition to be unable to remove inhaled biotoxins (like mold and endotoxins) with the adaptive immune response. I've been dealing with reduction in vision (from what I suspect is brain inflammation caused by toxicity), and alopecia areata, in addition to food sensitivities and allergies. I've been using cholestyramine and other binders which have helped, but would love to know your thoughts and recommendations on how biotoxin illness can be treated through naturopathy. Thanks for your help!

Jen: Thank you for taking my question, Dr. Cabral! I listen and learn from you every day. My question is about behavioral change at the root cause ~ This one thing in my life I desperately want to WANT to do it because it is good. And by not doing it, I am acting in a way that is incongruent with my career/mission. And that causes me much mental anguish. I know that when I am able to solve this conundrum, I will be true to myself and can help others do the same. What would be your protocol for changing behavior, not just an outward compliance, but at the very root cause/subconscious level? How thankful I am for you! I am looking forward to incorporating what I learn from you on this subject. Thank you!!

Amy: Hi there. Thank you for your wealth of knowledge and insight into all things health! I have a question about microplastics in tea bags. Common knowledge is that steeping tea bags is a huge source of microplastics. I'm wondering how concerned you feel we should be about this, as I'm driving myself crazy. Some companies use unbleached tea bags that are glue free,heat sealed, and claim to be plastic free. Would those really be safer? Looking forward to any insight on how much concern a casual tea drinker should have.

Grace: Hello looking for some advice regarding gum and tongue health. I am female, 26 years old. I get painful inflamation of my gums, inflammed taste buds, canker sores, and scalloped tongue. Typically these symptoms show up around my menstrual cycle and clear up in my follicular phase. I try to oil pull to help with the inflamation, ive cycled L-lysine and I have not seen any big changes in my symptoms. Also, I have a unrelated question regarding flushing of the face. I have issues of face flushing that is extreme and uncontrolable. It is not just when I may be embarassed it happens even when I talk about something passionately or am excited. I dont know why this happens and how I can control it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cabral Concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen Cabral,
0:05.8	shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a life
0:10.9	full of energy and passion with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you healthy and engaged.
0:17.7	Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.
0:22.1	Okay, everybody, we're back with our second Cabral host call of the weekend. As always,
0:26.8	I appreciate your support of the Cabral concept, your reviews. They mean a lot to me. They really do.
0:32.5	I love being able to just see from the community, just the power of the community and how people sharing with people,
0:40.5	grassroots-based movement really is changing lives. And just getting us to understand that,
0:45.2	although conventional medicine will always try to get us to believe that there's a pill for
0:48.9	every ill, that we're not falling for it, that we know that we are simply masking symptoms if we're always on
0:54.8	pharmaceuticals and that we are not getting to the root cause of what actually caused the dis-ease
1:00.2	in the first place. So I talk about that in the rainbarrel effect, but I love answering your
1:04.1	questions on a daily basis, especially on these weekend Cabral host calls. So let's dive right
1:08.8	into the show. First question. If you want to follow
1:11.1	along, of course, you can go to Stevencabral.com slash 3432. First question from Anonymous. Anonymous says,
1:17.1	I had fatigue, body pain and gallstones. Taking malic acid for gallstones, but pain and fatigue
1:22.9	went away. What does it mean when malic acid eliminates body aches? Does malic acid address root cause issues? Is malic acid safe to take while I run my big five laps? Oh, interesting. Okay. So let me help. Malic acid helps to loosen, soften bile. So the bile that could be in the gallbladder or in the liver, because the liver actually contains
1:45.3	a lot of bile because it has like hundreds to thousands of bile ducts. Okay. So what is malic acid? Well,
1:51.4	malic acid or malate, you might have heard of malate before, is actually part of the creb cycle or citric acid
1:57.0	cycle. That is the cycle where our body creates energy and ATP, adenosine triphosphate
2:03.5	in the mitochondria. And I know you've been hearing probably a lot about the mitochondria lately.
2:07.4	So when you take malic acid, you actually take fuel for ATP and mitochondria. And when the mitochondria
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