Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 153
EP 153 – Heal Your Gut & Optimise Your Metabolism Part 1 with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
In this episode Angela is talking with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, The Gut Health MD, he’s an award-winning gastroenterologist, author of the plant-based gut health book Fiber Fueled and a passionate advocate for gut health
He talks about the importance of the gut microbiome and the ways in which diet and lifestyle can disempower our gut microbes and manifest as poor health. He also explains how when you make positive changes to your diet and lifestyle your gut microbiome will positively adapt and evolve with you
Dr Will also discusses with Angela the critical role of fibre and microbes in producing healing, anti-inflammatory compounds and explains why eating as many different varieties of plants as possible is key
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Heal Your Gut & Optimise Your Metabolism Part 1 with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
In this episode Angela is talking with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, The Gut Health MD, he’s an award-winning gastroenterologist, author of the plant-based gut health book Fiber Fueled and a passionate advocate for gut health
He talks about the importance of the gut microbiome and the ways in which diet and lifestyle can disempower our gut microbes and manifest as poor health. He also explains how when you make positive changes to your diet and lifestyle your gut microbiome will positively adapt and evolve with you
Dr Will also discusses with Angela the critical role of fibre and microbes in producing healing, anti-inflammatory compounds and explains why eating as many different varieties of plants as possible is key
Key Takeaways
- The microbiome is most concentrated inside of the body in the colon, our biology is supported by the gut microbiome
- The gut microbiome is shaped and formed by your lifestyle choices
- Our gut can be trained to evolve and adapt to our dietary choices over time
- Prebiotics mean food for the microbiome and in turn better health
- Polyphenols are the antioxidant compounds found in plant foods and are activated by the gut microbes
- We need our microbiome to process and digest fibre and resistant starches, in the colon fibre is consumed by microbes and the fibre becomes short chain fatty acids
- Short chain fatty acids are the most healing, anti-inflammatory compounds and come from consuming fibre
- The avoidance of carbohydrates to lower blood sugar is not fixing insulin resistance
- Sour bread has microbes that produce compounds making it organically more preserved
- The entire lifecycle of a plant involves microbes and preservatives, preserve by destroying and retarding microbes
- To optimise gut health begin with diet and lifestyle and use probiotics as a supplement.
- Eat as many different varieties of plants as possible and add fermented foods to your diet to optimise your gut health
Best Moments
‘Within us is an ecosystem and that needs to be nourished for us to be healthy’
‘Fibre is the preferred food for gut microbes and we need our gut microbes to be healthy humans’
‘We have normalised calorie counting but if you are eating the right things it’s not needed’
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About the Guest
Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MCSI is a board-certified, award-winning gastroenterologist and the author of the plant-based gut health book Fiber Fueled. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine and was chief medical resident at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and chief gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina Hospitals.
He’s authored more than twenty articles in the top American gastroenterology journals and has been featured in Shape, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, and on HuffPost. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two children.
About the Host
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
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