Steve Wright: How to Retrain a Broken Gut-Immune System

Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

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4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Jockers and Steve Wright explain why many people stay inflamed even after removing toxins and eating clean. The real issue isn’t exposure—it’s lost immune tolerance, and the solution is rebuilding resilience.

You’ll learn about the five gut defense layers that regulate your immune system. Fixing oxygen balance, mucus layers, and gut cell mitochondria is key to restoring proper function.

They also cover how para-probiotics—dead bacteria—can retrain an overactive immune response. If you’re sensitive to foods, histamines, or your environment, this episode lays out what to do next.

In This Episode:

00:00 Introduction to Early Childhood Exposure and Health Benefits
02:59 Interview with Steve Wright: Retraining a Broken Gut Immune System
05:26 Understanding the Immune System and Its Connection to the Gut
08:02 Challenges in Modern Health and the Importance of Gut Resilience
10:50 The Role of the Gut in Immune Function and Balance
23:04 Layers of the Gut and Their Functions
26:36 Mitochondria and Gut Health
27:59 Impact of Antibiotics on Gut Microbiome
28:47 The Role of Stomach Acid in Digestion
31:51 Resetting Gut Health
33:27 Individualized Diets and Food Tolerance
36:44 Repairing Gut Health: Steps and Supplements
40:32 Para Probiotics: An Overview
44:51 Healthy Gut Products and Protocols
48:46 Final Thoughts and Recommendations

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"Healing the gut isn’t just about avoiding toxins—it’s about building resilience."

~ Dr. Jockers

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Transcript

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0:00.0	When you grab dirt and you smell and play with it, there's a bunch of dead bacteria, dead stuff in that.
0:05.5	You breathe that in, and that is associated in early childhood.
0:09.4	That's associated with less asthma later.
0:11.7	Same thing if you had like a little farm or you had a dog.
0:15.3	There's all this bacteria and a lot of it's dead.
0:18.2	And if a kid is exposed to that in early childhood, later on, they
0:21.9	have way less inflammatory diseases.
0:26.1	Hello and welcome to the Dr. Jockers' functional nutrition podcast, the show designed to give
0:32.1	you science-based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers,
0:37.9	doctor of natural medicine,
0:39.7	and creator of Dr.jokers.com,
0:42.4	and I'm the host of this podcast.
0:44.7	I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself.
0:48.5	And on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today
0:51.6	to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me,
0:56.5	and let's go into the show. Well, if you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time,
1:03.3	you know you cannot cook or use seed oils. These things are so toxic. They're in so many
1:09.2	different things. I'm talking about canola oil, corn oil, soybean, safflower, cotton seed oil. One of the best things you can do for your health is throw out the vegetable oils or the seed oils. But what are good cooking oils? Well, you can certainly use things like olive oil, coconut oil. But one of my absolute favorite cooking oils for its flavor and its health benefits is
1:29.1	beef tallow in particular 100% grass fed and finished beef tallow and that's why I love
1:35.4	paleo valleys new 100% grass fed and finished beef tallow it's loaded with conjugate of
1:41.3	linoleic acid which studies show has a variety of benefits, including supporting
1:45.9	a healthy immune system and metabolism. CLA has been shown to help boost fat burning. Also,
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