How to Heal Your Gut & Fix Your Microbiome with Holistic Nutritionist and Gut Health Expert Josh Dech
The Mark Divine Show
Mark Divine
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Josh Dech is a holistic nutritionist and gut health expert whose career began uniquely—as a paramedic in rural Newfoundland. Witnessing the limitations of conventional medicine in fostering genuine health improvement led him to transition into personal training and ultimately to specialize in holistic nutrition. Josh's deep dive into the complexities of gut health has positioned him as a leading voice in understanding its critical role in overall well-being, immune function, and mental health. Through his popular podcast, "Reversible: The Ultimate Gut Health Podcast," he shares cutting-edge insights and practical advice, empowering listeners to take control of their health through the lens of gut wellness.
Key Takeaways:
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The Critical Role of Gut Health: Gut health is pivotal for overall well-being, influencing everything from mental health to immune function, and is central to managing physical and psychological conditions effectively.
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Role of Inflammation: Inflammation acts as both a protective and a harmful physiological process within the body, and its dual role in both helping the body heal and potentially leading to chronic health issues when uncontrolled.
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Gut Bacteria and Mental Health: Gut bacteria and mental health are connected. Imbalances in gut microbiota can affect mental health conditions like anxiety and depression due to neurotransmitter interactions.
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The Impact of Lifestyle on Gut Health: Your lifestyle choices impact your gut health. Diet, exercise, and exposure to different environments, can support or hinder gut microbiome balance.
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Understanding Beneficial Bacteria: Probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics have different roles and impacts in maintaining a balanced gut ecosystem. It’s important to foster beneficial bacterial activities for health.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Mark Divine Show. |
| 0:04.0 | 70 to 90% of your immune system actually resides in your gut. |
| 0:09.0 | It's where your immune cells grow and develop and mature, it circulate. |
| 0:13.6 | I mean, if you look at your small intestine, |
| 0:15.6 | it's only one cell between things traveling |
| 0:18.2 | between your intestine to your bloodstream, |
| 0:19.8 | your lymphotic system, two cells in your large intestine. |
| 0:22.4 | So if you have anything in that |
| 0:23.4 | it's inflamed you get these leaks, these gaps, things pass through, |
| 0:26.9 | circulate around the superhighway which is your bloodstream causing issues |
| 0:30.8 | inflammation and affecting other areas. |
| 0:32.8 | So to say your guts connected to everything is absolutely no stretch, I argue, |
| 0:37.6 | our gut bacteria are more important than our DNA. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to the Mark Devine show. I'm your host, Mark Devine. Thanks so much for |
| 0:47.8 | joining me today. Superstoke to have you here. On the show I explore what it means |
| 0:51.5 | to be fearless through the lens of the world's most inspirational, |
| 0:55.0 | compassionate and courageous leaders. I speak to folks from all walks of life, |
| 0:59.9 | martial arts grandmasters, CEOs, Navy SEALs, and folks on the cutting edge of holistic health, such as my guest today, Josh Deck. |
| 1:08.8 | We're going to be talking about how the gut is connected to all things in your life, your mood, your sleep, your energy |
| 1:14.4 | focus, your mental health, your physical performance, and more. |
| 1:18.1 | Josh is a former paramedic, he's a holistic nutritionist, he's a lecturer on the gut, and a specialist whose progressive work in the field of inflammatory |
| 1:25.2 | bowel diseases has connected him with some of the world's leading doctors and researchers, |
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