- Hi I'm Ashley with Jigsaw Health
and today I'm here with Dr. Decker Weiss
he is on our scientific advisory board
and he's also the Executive Director
of a non-profit called Peace Possible.
- So I largely am in areas
where's there's refugee, migrant populations
where there's cycles of violence,
chronic conflict like in Gaza
or in Syria, or in Iraq.
Places like that.
Or what we're branching into is
where there's cycles of poverty.
And we look at it from a medical aspect.
I mean, people that are in chronic conflict
do they have chronic inflammatory states?
What is the genomic behavior?
What is going on that way?
And if we can correct those
and bring in better social structures
and economic opportunities
then we're in business.
- Right and they don't have access to good medicines,
medication and vitamins and
I mean, tell us a little bit about
the kind of medicine that you take over there to them.
- Oh well lots and lots of probiotics.
- Yes. - Okay,
because gut brain,
when I start fixing tummies
then we start making neurotransmitters
they sleep better,
feel better,
especially these babies.
- Right. - You know,
these babies are crying through the night
with terrible indigestion of things like that
from poor food sources
and now they're sleeping through the night.
The kids start doing better in their schools.
And that's the stuff that generates peace.
- So I know that you've taken
a lot of Jigsaw probiotics over there.
Can you explain what about the Jigsaw brand
makes it really effective
and why do you choose it?
I mean there are a lot of different brands
of probiotics that you could choose.
- Well first of all I trust the company.
Trust, transparency and the way it's manufactured
across the board.
The second thing is
is I think we've over complicated probiotics
and what we want.
First of all you do want five or six different
strains or species in there.
When you start to get seven, eight, nine, 10
then you've diluted it so much
that you're really not going to get benefit
from any of it.
You want some of the bifidus and some of the acidophilus
the bifidus, the baby
and that helps generate and grow
all of the other adult versions
that you want.
So you'll have bifidus species coming
and then you'll get rhamnosus
which probably has the best data
on immune function.
There's your cold and flu prevention
and decreasing in severity
and things like that.
But then you have that plantarum.
That plantarum species sticks out
again that is your healing leaky gut bacteria.
And it's very, very important.
To my knowledge you're the only one
that has that mixture.
And I think what you did well
was you didn't over think it.
- Mm hm. - Here's this,
here's this exotic species
that comes only from this cow from the Himalayas,
excuse me, or whatever.
You just have a good fundamentally sound probiotic.
The kids take it.
Their tummies feel better.
And you talking about an area
when I'm in an orphanage
like in Kaolack where 60% of them
will break out in diarrhea at one time.
So this is like, you know
there's 250 kids there
you can imagine what these mothers
and these volunteers go though
just trying to keep it down.
You're talking about shutting that process down.
- Yeah. - You know very, very
quickly and effectively.
- And how fast they get malnourished
by having that issue alone.
- And in those areas they die from it.
- Yeah.
- Because they dehydrate and die.
So do probiotics save lives?
You bet.
With a good probiotic
it's not what in the capsule
it's the effect it has three days,
four days, five days, later.
Remember probiotics are seeds.
You put 'em in and then
they sprout millions and millions of other ones.
And you just have a good fundamental probiotic.
There's enough of everything in it.
You didn't dilute anything down.
There's over five billion per species you have.
And then you chose the right species.
The ones that have the best data, you know
from again prevention and all that aspects.
And then I can tell you it works effectively.
Because when you're shutting down massive
outbreaks of diarrhea in African orphanages
within 72 hours to 48 hours
and sometimes even 24 hours if we get them in.
This is a phenomenally good probiotic.
So for me it's fantastic.
- Yeah.
And now due to your generosity
literally in that orphanage,
the S.O.S. village Kaolack
they are getting one probiotic capsule a day.
Each of the children.
- [Ashley] That's awesome.
- [Dr. Weiss] And that really feels good.
It does.
- Without your help we couldn't do it.
So thank you.
It's a good partnership
and we're proud to be a part of it.
So make sure you're taking a really good probiotic.
Keep your immune health up.
Because cold and flu season is,
seems like all around us.
Well thank you so much for being here once again.
We appreciate everything that you do.
And we will see you guys next time.