Heal Your Gut: Dr. Alan Desmond On Optimizing Your Microbiome Through Plants

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Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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As rates of chronic disease continue to rise, What should I eat? has become one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves. Here to help us cut through the morass of diet confusion to provide clear and actionable counsel is the very wise and articulate Dr. Alan Desmond. Certified in both Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine, Alan is a gut health expert specializing in the role diet plays in the prevention and treatment of digestive diseases—more specifically the overall health benefits, of a whole-food plant-centric approach to nutrition. Today he teaches us how we can harness the power of a healthy gut and optimize our overall well-being by simply eating more plants. We dive into the nitty-gritty of the microbiome, its relationship to digestive health, and the fundamentals of a healthy diet—in other words, what to eat and what to avoid. My hope is that this conversation leaves you with the information, strategies, and protocols you need to adopt better nutrition habits with staying power—because health isn’t a diet, it’s a lifestyle. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on Youtube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: BetterHelp: https://BetterHelp.com/richroll Birch Living: https://BirchLiving.com/richroll AG-1: https://drinkAG1.com/richroll Plant Power Meal Planner: https://meals.richroll.com

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast
0:07.0	Every day we get out of bed and we ask ourselves,
0:16.6	what should I eat? To be able to digest your food comfortably and efficiently is the essence of being a healthy human.
0:23.6	Dr. Alan Desmond
0:25.0	Alan Desmond
0:26.0	Dr. Alan Desmond
0:27.0	He's a plant-based gastroenterologist.
0:29.0	The author of the new book,
0:30.8	The Plant-Based Diet Revolution
0:32.4	He incorporates whole plant-based nutrition to treat your problems, not just the symptoms.
0:38.4	I don't accept that concept, that to build me, you gotta eat me.
0:43.0	If we aren't able to go and enjoy our food at a such a dreadful impact on our quality of life,
0:50.0	the statistics on God-Helter Terrible.
0:52.5	One in 15 to one in 20 people in the U.S. developed chorretal cancer in their life.
0:57.0	One in 10 Americans have typed to diabetes that can produce your life expectancy by seven years.
1:01.0	If you have access to all of these foods, then choosing plants first is definitely the way forward.
1:12.0	I got a couple more things I would very much like to mention before we dig into this one, but first.
1:18.0	We're sponsored today by BetterHelp.
1:21.0	Look, trying to work through an emotional issue solo is not a great strategy.
1:27.0	You just can't solve a problem of the mind with the same mind that created the problem,
1:32.0	because bottling it up, pushing it down, that just makes it worse.
1:36.0	So whatever thing you're wrestling with, the decisions that you make around it will be better if you talk it through with someone.
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