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Physiology Friday: [Gut Health] The Epicenter of Health Optimization w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  1. Why the gut is so important for optimal health.
  2. What causes poor gut health and how to avoid it
  3. How important is a stool sample to find potential hidden stressors
  4. What your poop can tell you about your health
  5. Ways to improve gut health

https://rapidhealthoptimization.com

Connect with our guests:

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Dan Garner on Instagram

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family this week on barbell shrug.

0:02.6

Physiology Friday is back.

0:04.3

Dan Corner talking gut health, health optimization, all the good stuff that everybody has all the questions about because gut health is confusing.

0:12.2

But it won't be after you listen to this.

0:14.3

As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com.

0:17.0

That is where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galvin, are doing a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis,

0:21.6

and you can access that report over at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show.

0:28.8

Welcome to Barba Lug. I'm Andrew Warner, Doug Larson, Dan Garner in the house. Today on Barber Al Shrug,

0:33.9

we are talking about gut health. And if there's one thing that we have learned,

0:39.3

that the head of the snake,

0:41.6

when it comes to optimizing our health,

0:43.2

really lives in our gut.

0:44.2

I feel like I'm on my,

0:45.5

I'm on month five right now of getting my gut health all figured out

0:49.5

after learning I had strep throat in my gut,

0:52.3

which I have a funny story to tell you about.

0:55.2

Why is the gut so important in kind of this optimal health thing?

1:01.7

I feel like there's so much confusing around gut health and sorry to be a buzzkill to the world,

1:07.3

but kombucha doesn't seem like it's going to make that much of a difference when you start digging into the real data here. Yeah, for sure. I mean, a lot of those things that people feel good on, they stop feeling good on once they remove them. So they end up, they're nothing more than a band-a. Like a lot of people, they feel good on kombucha so long as they keep drinking kombucha. But then when you remove

1:27.9

it and you go back to feeling like crap, that should be the first signal to your brain to say,

1:31.5

hey, I'm not actually dealing with the root cause of the problem here. I'm just adding an extra

1:35.6

band-aid each and every single day so that I feel better temporarily. And that's nothing more

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