559: Microbiome Expert: Eat These Foods to Heal Your Gut & Age in Reverse | Dr. William Davis
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/559drwilliamdavis
Dr. William Davis (IG: @drdavisinfinitehealth) is a cardiologist and author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly.
His most recent book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health and Lose Weight. This book maps out the damage that has occurred with the modern human microbiome and the specific, actionable steps that can be taken to restore it to maximum advantage.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What Dr. Davis eats
- Removing wheat & grains restores metabolic health
- The most toxic types of wheat
- The real cause of heart disease
- The role of LPS endotoxin in chronic disease
- Telltale signs of SIBO
- How to naturally heal SIBO
- Fermented foods vs. probiotics
- Restore your beneficial microbes with fermented foods
- When it comes to fermented foods, variety is key
- Where to buy the ingredients for SIBO Yogurt
- The positive side effects of SIBO Yogurt
- The consequences of berberine on your microbiome
- Foods Dr. Davis eats to enhance his microbiome
- Using commercial ferments as a starter
- The leaky gut theory
- The debate about fiber
- Dr. Davis’ thoughts on the carnivore diet
- Beneficial microbes for skin health
- Xylitol is an effective anti-fungal for oral health
- The drawback of fecal transplants
- Does Dr. Davis take a probiotic?
- The power of the microbiome
- Intermittent fasting and the microbiome
- Supplements that improve the microbiome
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Dr. William Davis - Super Gut (book)
Follow Dr. William Davis on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Listen or watch Dr. William Davis previously on TUHP (episodes #153 and #455)
Dr. William Davis - Undoctored (book)
Dr. William Davis - Wheat Belly (book)
Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis (podcast)
Dr. Ron Krauss - University of California, Berkeley
FoodMarble AIRE Digestive Tracker
Dr. Mercola - Biothin Probiotic with Lactobacillus gasseri, BNR17
Cutting Edge Cultures - L. Gasseri Superfood Starter
Schiff Digestive Advantage BC30 (Bacillus Coagulans GBI-30, 6086) Daily Probiotic
Donna Schwenk (Cultured Food Life)
Jarrow Formulas - Women’s Fem Dophilus Advanced (with lactobacillus crispatus)
BiotiQuest Antibiotic Antidote
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | It would be hard, Jesse, to find diseases, modern diseases that are not either initiated or exacerbated |
| 0:09.3 | by the microbiome. Look what we're doing with rotorite, reduction of skin wrinkles, |
| 0:13.7 | vaginal moisture, boost in testosterone, acceleration of healing, |
| 0:18.0 | restoration of a youthful immune response, restoration of youthful muscle. Yeah, you're right. |
| 0:23.6 | It's getting really powerful. I hear this too often. Oh, don't tell me about my, I take a probiotic. |
| 0:30.9 | You know, no, that's not good enough. That's the least important thing you could do currently. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast Episode 559. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to |
| 0:49.0 | take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you long form conversations |
| 0:53.5 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. William |
| 0:58.7 | Davis. Dr. Davis is a cardiologist and author of the groundbreaking number one New York Times |
| 1:03.6 | Specialler, Wheat Belly. His most recent book is Super Gut, a four week plan to reprogram your |
| 1:09.4 | microbiome, restore health and lose weight. This book maps out the damage that's occurred with |
| 1:14.9 | the modern human microbiome and the specific actionable steps that can be taken to restore it |
| 1:20.3 | to maximum advantage. Highlights of our conversation include removing wheat and grains restores |
| 1:26.2 | metabolic health, the real cause of heart disease, the role of LPS endotoxin and chronic disease, |
| 1:33.2 | foods Dr. Davis eats to enhance his microbiome and supplements that improve the microbiome. |
| 1:39.0 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full conversation is available over on YouTube. |
| 1:44.4 | You can get there by going to Ultimate Health Podcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe |
| 1:49.1 | while you're there. You don't want to miss any of the action. If as you're listening to this, |
| 1:53.0 | you can think of somebody in your life right now that could benefit from this information. |
| 1:56.6 | Please share the episode with them and help them along their health journey. |
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