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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Tired of persistent unhealthy food cravings? Well, when it comes to poor metabolic health, there are two things I want you to know.

Number one, you are not alone. The majority of people, 55% of normal weight people and 88% of overweight individuals are what we call metabolically inflexible and are therefore unable to burn body fat for fuel.

Number two, there actually is something that you can do about it and today I have invited on a very special guest who couldn't agree more.

I'm welcoming back Colleen Cutcliffe, the CEO and founder of Pendulum Life, Therapeutics. A gut health supplement company I consider to be one of the most advanced out there.

In just a minute, Colleen and I will reveal the secret to supercharging your metabolism and why it has everything to do with your gut.

We'll also discuss Pendulum's newest gut health solution, so don't go away. We will be right back.

Colleen, welcome back. It's great to see you. Yeah, great to see you too.

This is your third time on the show, which must be a new record. In our past couple of episodes, which were episodes 174 and 201, we talked a lot about the benefits of Acrimoncia, Musinophila, and incredible longevity supporting bacteria.

For the listeners who maybe haven't heard those discussions or even read my books, can you briefly explain what's so great about Acrimoncia?

Sure. Well, first of all, thanks for having me back, and I'm glad I'm not boring you, and you're inviting me back again here.

Acrimoncia is a new emerging strain that, even though you've kind of been on the forefront of knowing about it for most of the rest of the world, just starting to hear about this strain, and it is really, really unique because its job is to make sure that the gut lining is being regulated.

It's the only strain that we know of whose primary function is making sure that that gut lining is being regulated, and the reason that's so important is because we know that if your gut lining is off, the lining is too thin or too thick, that that's related to a whole bunch of other health conditions that go beyond just GI issues.

So it's not just about constipation in diarrhea and gas and bloating, it's also about how your immune response functions, how your inflammatory response functions, how your body metabolizes foods, and so the gut lining is such an important part in a crucial part of our health, and Acrimoncia is the guy doing that job in your body.

Yeah, it's amazing, I've been writing about it for years, and people have known about it for quite a long time, but the problem was, you can't grow the dumb stuff, and that was, as I've said before, the holy grail of Acrimoncia, everybody knew how important it was, it's a keystone species that literally is the first line of fortification of your gut wall.

And as I've written about in Hippocrates, new, you know, 2500 years ago, all disease begins in the gut.

It's been paraphrase, and I think it's actually a good paraphrase, death begins in the gut, and it's the breakdown of the gut wall that actually precipitates inflammation, neuroinflammation.

You name it, it's the breakdown of the gut wall that starts this process, and that's why, you know, Acrimoncia is so important.

So how come nobody made this stuff? You're so smart.

Well, I think maybe we have a lot of perseverance more than necessarily just the smart.

So the tricky part about Acrimoncia is that it is in the gut lining, and it is functioning right there at that mucin layer in order to make sure that your gut lining is strong.

Which means that it's kind of residing in a weird part of the gut that's different from the probiotics that are on the shelves today.

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