Greetings, It's Eric Bakker the naturopath from New Zealand.
Thank you for checking out my video.
Let's talk about the 10 signs and symptoms that you may have a big problem, an underlying
gut problem.
Okay?
Now, a lot of these things I'm going to read out to you don't only, obviously, relate to
a bad gut.
There could be other reasons why some of these signs or symptoms pop up in your body.
But most of the things I'm going to talk about will relate with digestive health.
So these are some of the signs, typical signs you'll know you've got a dodgy gut.
Dodgy, by the way, means bad or weird.
People in England will know what the word dodgy means, but I don't think in America
they'd understand that term.
So the first one, of course, is gas, bloating and diarrhea.
So it's not normal to have lots and lots of gas, lots of farting, lots of bloating, lots
of diarrhea.
It means there's something wrong with your gut.
Generally, it will be a bacterial thing, but it could be a yeast problem as well.
So when you've got a lot of gas and bloating and things like that, you basically need to
look at what's going in here and you need to maybe change what's going in there.
Like back off for a while.
Eat a lot less food or get checked out.
But that's a clear indication something's really wrong with your gut is the gas, the
bloating.
Okay?
Farting, things like that.
Healthy people don't have these sort of things.
They have minimal gas.
They won't even know they've gotten gas.
There's certainly no bloating at all.
All right?
And no diarrhea, they have formed stools.
So formed stools are an indication of good fermentation in the gut.
It means that your food's being converted properly into energy, the nutrients being
extracted, and the wastes are being pushed out, and the wastes are pretty clean and tidy.
Okay?
Second one is sugar cravings.
So sugar cravings are a big sign there's a problem, often with blood sugar dysregulation.
Now, that can be an adrenal problem.
Okay?
There can be adrenal issues or stress underpinning it, but sugar cravings are often a sign that
there's bacteria or yeast that are calling your name.
They want you.
They want you to go down that darn shop and to buy more stuff that's going to keep you
craving sugar.
So if you're a candy bar freak, they're going to tell you, "Get on down the road and buy
more candy bars."
Like if you're a Dunkin' Donuts girl, "Help me.
Help me."
Okay?
Your gut bacteria will be screaming out for you to feed them.
And they'll be telling you, they'll be pushing buttons all around your face and your head
and your brain to tell you to get off that chair, leave Facebook alone for five minutes
and go and get a candy bar or whatever that you snack on.
So when you crave sugar, okay, I've never heard of people craving sauerkraut, all right,
or craving kimchi or craving apple cider vinegar.
They always crave sugar.
So a good way to stop the craving is to eat a little bit of sour food.
Okay?
Because that's going to slap those bad bacteria in the face.
All right?
They're not too keen on sauerkraut.
All right?
So the sugar cravings are a sign something's wrong.
We haven't got time on this video to go into explaining the different types of sugar cravings,
but there are many types of sugar cravings.
There's particular type you'll find a person will have when they've got a major adrenal
problem.
But I'm going to talk about adrenal issues way more later on in the year or next year.
We're going to make a lot of videos on thyroid and adrenal down the track.
Third one is stinky breath, bad breath.
Ever talk to someone and you go "Oh, man, get out of my face."
You know?
Halitosis, like I've known people that have halitosis so bad it just about cracks glass.
Okay?
You can imagine in my kind of business, so there's nothing worse than standing near someone,
especially in elevator or in an Uber or something, and they've got really bad breath.
You can only move your head away so far, eh, before it becomes pretty obvious.
It's bad.
It's generally, okay, gum health.
In many cases halitosis, another word for bad breath, will be bad type of bacteria around
your gums and teeth creating that kind of problem.
Okay?
Periodontal disease basically, so I cannot urge people enough to get dental hygiene visits,
to keep getting your mouth checked out.
It's a really important thing to do is to get those gum bacteria good.
But hey, bad breath can also be from low stomach acid.
Okay?
Also, small intestine dysfunction, so there can be multiple reasons why you can have bad
breath.
But if you've got bad breath, the first thing you do is get on down to the dental hygienist
and find out if it's your mouth or not.
If it ain't your mouth is likely your stomach, okay, especially if you burp or bloat or have
a lot of major upper issues, the GI issues with the bad breath.
It could be hyperchlorhydria or low stomach acid, so get checked out.
Fourth one is food allergies or food sensitivities, extremely common.
Many people have leaky gut.
Go and look at my videos on leaky gut.
Okay?
Lots and lots of information there.
There's about 2,000 videos on this channel now, enough to make you fall asleep a hundred
times over.
All right?
But food allergies, a little bit different from food intolerances or sensitivities, but
it usually infers that you have some type of an issue with a membrane of the small intestine,
some type of leakiness, some permeability there.
Could be antibiotics, but something's going on there needs checking out.
Generally, I recommend a comprehensive stool analysis if you've got this problem, because
I find usually allergy tests a waste of time.
I've stopped doing those after many, many years.
I thought, "This is dumb.
What am I doing this for?
I need to look at the bacteria, a lot of the things people are reacting to."
So if you react to stuff, just take it out of your diet.
Okay?
There's ways and means of that.
And it's going to save you three or $400.
Isn't it?
So yeah, if you've got an allergy or an intolerance, you need to get a stool test to find out what's
going on in the gut.
Fifth, moodiness, anxiety, depression, many people get problems.
Okay?
They get mood issues.
And if you think about it, the amount of serotonin and dopamine made, okay, these are hormones
that very much control our moods, how we feel, how we think.
And a lot of their production, nearly all of the serotonin production is in the small
bowel.
So when you've got a small bowel issue, okay, it's not difficult to have an anxiety issue
or a moodiness issue.
So again, get that small intestine checked.
Look for leaky gut.
Look for bacteria.
There could be some kind of fight going on in there that needs fixing up, but could also
be a lack of micronutrients.
So when people are lacking, like vitamin D for example, or they're lacking some crucial
trace elements or B vitamins like B1 or B2, they can plunge into moodiness or depression
very rapidly because of that deficiency.
All right?
The next one is skin issues.
So common in the clinic, you see people with eczema, for example.
Excuse me.
Eczema is very clearly linked to bacterial disturbances with many people.
I've helped so many children recover from eczema and get beautiful skin back after antibiotics,
and just basically by looking at taking certain types of food out of their diet, making some
changes, and then putting beneficial bacteria back in, and the skin cleared up.
Okay?
The next one is diabetes.
There are many, many studies now that link diabetics' digestive health, pretty shady
digestive health.
So many people with type 2 diabetes, they slowly slide into that condition.
One of my best friends developed type 2 diabetes, and he's two years younger than me.
He's only 58, but unfortunately, he likes to drink way too much alcohol, and he likes
to eat way too much junk food, and not eat enough fruit and vegetables.
And unfortunately, this poor guy now has got diabetes.
So he didn't need to go down that route.
We kept talking about this for years.
I kept encouraging him to eat more fruit and more vegetables, but it's just not something
he wanted to do, so it's pretty sad.
But studies definitely link very, very poor gut bacteria in many cases to increasing your
odds of getting diabetes.
Okay?
There's a Russian study that was conducted not that long ago and they certainly showed
that nearly all type 2 diabetics have got very poor digestive health and it's generally
never corrected.
The next one, number eight, will be fatigue.
I very commonly see fatigue in people and it's also often a sign of very poor digestive
health.
Okay?
And when we talk about fatigue, we often talk about sugar cravings.
We talk about gas and bloating.
A lot of other things come into it.
Many people with fatigue have got lots of gut issues, you'll find if you ask them.
All right?
Number nine is autoimmune.
Now, I've spoken many times about autoimmune disease on this channel again.
Autoimmune disease is now clearly linked to dysbiosis, okay, to bad bacteria in so many
cases.
It's never, ever explored or checked out by the medical profession, unfortunately, because
they say there's no known cause.
No known cause, imagine that.
You turn up there at court, for example, one day and your son got killed in a car crash.
And then the judge says, "Sorry, mate.
We didn't know what caused it.
There was no known cause.
Your son died.
Yeah, okay.
Big deal.
People die every day, but it's just another crash.
We don't know who caused it.
No one to blame.
Go home.
Don't worry about it."
That's a bit like what happens with people with autoimmune disease.
Nothing's ever really investigated properly to determine the cause.
But if you look back in medical history in the books, you'll see it right there.
Okay?
In the 1920s, 1930s they talked about bacteria linking to autoimmune disease.
They knew.
Okay?
And the last one is weight issues.
Now, we've done many videos also on weight and inability to gain weight or lose weight
because of poor bacteria.
Well, so far we've covered in this video, we've talked about mental issues, emotional
issues, digestive issues, physical issues.
Many issues occur regarding a digestive system that's in very poor imbalanced position.
So when the balance comes back, the good bacteria come up again.
The absorption's improved.
The enzymes work efficiently.
The inflammation levels are down.
Okay?
Great health benefits are conferred to that human being.
Think about it.
With a poor digestive health is no different from an automobile having a very poor mechanical
health.
It's not really going to go very far, is it?
Or deliver what they call a good user experience.
Thanks for tuning in.