Signs of an unhealthy gut

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Our gut helps fight disease. It processes energy for us and boosts our mood. So, having a healthy gut is extremely important – but there’s still a lot we don’t know. Gut biome tests are a new, exciting technology, but are they the be-all and end-all for dietary decision-making? And are there simpler ways — and tastier ways, perhaps — to tell what’s happening inside our bodies? In today’s short episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Dr. Will ask: What are the signs of an unhealthy gut? And how can we improve our gut health? Referenced in today’s episode: The Bristol Stool Scale. https://www.bladderandbowel.org/bowel/bowel-resources/bristol-stool-form-scale/ ZOE’s Blue Poop Challenge: https://www.joinzoe.com/bluepoop Blue poo: Impact of gut transit time on the gut microbiome using a novel marker published in Gut https://gut.bmj.com/content/70/9/1665 Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Zoe Shorts, the bite-sized podcast where we discuss one
0:05.1	topic around science and nutrition. I'm Jonathan Wolf and I'm joined this
0:09.9	week by Dr. Will Bulsawitch and today we're talking about unhealthy guts.
0:17.1	Jonathan, our guts help fight disease, process energy and boost our mood so
0:22.4	healthy gut is hugely important but there's still a lot we don't know.
0:25.3	Understanding of the gut microbiomes in its early stages. So is it actually
0:29.6	possible for us to spot the signs of an unhealthy gut? Yes it is but it's not
0:35.2	as straightforward as you think and interestingly it involves blue poo.
0:44.0	Well blue is my favorite color. In fact my wife often says that if I would buy
0:48.7	something that wasn't blue she'd be really happy about it and I'm actually
0:52.8	wearing a green top just because I thought we might be talking about blue
0:55.8	today so let's get into it. So Will when we say a healthy gut we could mean a
1:00.7	lot of different things so what do you mean here? First of all a healthy gut
1:05.1	means we have a good balance of microbes otherwise known as bacteria and
1:09.2	yeasts in our gastrointestinal tract. These microbes help our body to take
1:13.7	energy from our food to clear toxins, fight viruses and they help produce the
1:17.7	feel-good hormone serotonin. I mean this is like literally just a minor glimpse
1:21.1	into what they do. They do a lot of great things for us and secondly it means
1:24.6	that we are not suffering from digestive problems that make eating normal
1:28.2	food difficult for us. And so do you feel that the digestive problems
1:32.5	themselves are somehow linked to this sort of poor situation with the microbes?
1:36.8	Absolutely. Now to be clear everyone has occasional digestive symptoms. I mean
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