In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

If you're drinking water with a pH of 8.0 or 9.0,

you could be promoting the overgrowth of harmful bacteria.

A lot of times athletes even though they may have fewer healthy

when they're outside, they may have a lot of eating pounds on the inside.

These toxicification typically takes out a lot of the good stuff along with the bad stuff.

If you think about it, we breathe 12 to 16 times a minute.

We must fly that out throughout the day.

We're breathing out carbon dioxide and the other toxins that we've

breathed in that have been delivered to the gas blotter and fed.

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

We provide you with everything you need to know for total performance, fat loss,

recovery, digestion, sleep, brain and hormone optimization.

So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you just want to shed a few pounds,

get ready for non-monubony milk cutting edge content from Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.

My guest today is Dr. Tim Jackson. He is a medical ninja when it comes to nutritional biochemistry,

digestive help, methylation and genetic testing and functional endocrinology,

also known as hormone balance. Now, Dr. Tim is not a stranger to Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.

So there are a couple of articles that he's written. One was called Blame the Bugs,

how stealth pathogens are making you fat, tired and brain dead. And also love these titles.

Broken gut to big butt, how a busted digestive system can make you hormonally fat.

I'll put a link to both of those articles if you want to read them over in the show notes

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