- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and I've recently been learning a lot about probiotics
and bacteria that you want to have
in your intestine for your health.
Now you may not be into probiotics,
but you might wanna put some probiotics into you.
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We started out trying one probiotic,
and a month later look at us now.
So what's the big deal about probiotics?
Why are there books being written about that?
Why are there so many different varieties
you can now find in the store?
Well, recently scientists have discovered
that probiotics may play a much more key role
in everyone's health, both physical health
and, very surprisingly, mental health,
than they had thought before.
I'm sure you've heard the old saw,
"You are what you eat."
Well it turns out there are about 10 trillion bacteria
that live in your intestine
that are also what you eat.
In other words, the make up of those colonies of bacteria
are determined both by your exposure to the bacteria,
having some of the different strains
actually have a chance to get inside of you,
and then the foods that you eat,
whether the foods you eat tend to
help those bacteria grow or whether they can't
process what you're putting in as food
and so they starve and other bacteria take over instead.
You may think, "Well, what do I care about
"some bacteria that live in me.
"I'll just take some antibiotics, get rid of them all,
"and be done with it."
Well, you'd be done with you, as well.
It turns out you can't really process
a lot of the foods you eat without the bacteria.
They actually do the hard work of breaking it down,
making the nutrients and the different elements available
for your body to absorb,
so you need to have the bacteria,
and there are many different strains of bacteria,
not necessarily good or bad,
depending on your circumstance.
If you were a cave dweller 10,000 years ago,
this type of bacteria might be just what
you needed to survive,
but living in society today
with different demands that we put on our bodies
and different demands we don't make of our bodies,
those bacteria may be doing things to make you fat,
to cause inflammation, diabetes,
and to affect your mood and your mental health.
Now I have no medical training.
Sometimes it's still hard for me to swallow pills,
so I'm not asking you to take my word for any of this
and I'm not giving any medical advice,
but I would recommend,
based on the research that's being done now
and a lot of exciting discoveries where they're finding out
how very surprisingly the make up of those
bacterial colonies in your intestine affect your health,
to go out and find a book to read about it.
This is an excellent book that
myself and some friends have just finished reading.
Nobody thought it was a real page turner,
but the information in it is absolutely fascinating
and it can affect how you take care of yourself
and some different ways to treat your health
that wouldn't be immediately obvious.
Now this book, Brain Maker, is primarily about
how your microbiome,
that's the collection of the bacteria
that live inside of you,
how they can affect your brain.
The traditional way to test things out
with food and brain,
would be to take some food,
you wanna know if the chemicals in it can harm the brain,
you break it down,
take those chemicals,
put them in a petri dish with some brain cells,
and see what happens.
Does it kill off the brain cells?
No, they seem to be doing fine.
Okay, then this food probably isn't harmful to the brain.
But it's not that simple,
and I think this may be part of why
there are these illnesses that
have been considered very mysterious,
people haven't been able to figure out the cause of them,
they might be related, at least in part,
to the organisms you have living in your intestine.
And the reason for that is,
so you take the chemicals from the food,
you put it with the brain cells, the brain cells do fine,
okay this can't possibly be affecting the brain,
but it's not that simple because
of the intermediary effect of those bacteria.
What you're really doing when you eat that food
is you're consuming it,
the bacteria, depending on which bacteria
are in your intestine,
that food gets broken down in, possibly, different ways,
and so there are different nutrients available,
different byproducts that come out
that may not be to your advantage
to have in your system
that get pulled in from your intestinal wall
into your bloodstream and may get up to your brain.
So the food itself and its components may not have
a direct effect on the brain cells,
but when that food is used to feed bacteria
what those bacteria produce
and how those bacteria interact with the food
can produce components that get into the brain
and cause bad things to happen.
Some conditions of the brain that might be affected
by the organisms living in you
and the foods that you feed them,
might be Alzheimer's, autism,
depression, anxiety, ADHD,
a lot of illnesses that they really don't know
what causes it, but people who have,
who are looking into it now
are seeing some connection between the
bacterial organisms that you have or don't have,
and what happens to the food that you eat.
But I'm just skimming the surface of the information
that they've learned,
and, again, I don't have any medical background,
so I recommend you go read up on these things yourself
if you're at all interested in this,
but I wanted to tell you a little bit about
the background of it so it would explain why
we're going out and spending money on probiotics.
Probiotics are collections of
one or more strains of bacteria
that you would like to have living inside of you,
and this is how you can put some of those in you,
in case you don't have any of that strain
or you don't have enough of it.
Now this is sort of like
starting the colony growing.
You still will need to feed them properly
if you want them to flourish
and do what they're supposed to.
So this is only part of the equation, taking the probiotics.
Other parts include: what you eat,
what you should not eat, and also getting exercise
and other ways of keeping your body healthy.
The bacteria that you're going to consume with probiotics
need to be in your intestine,
but to get to your intestine, ordinarily,
they need to go through your stomach,
and the stomach is not a very pleasant place for bacteria.
They tend to get destroyed by the acid
and harsh conditions before they can get to the intestines.
Some will get through.
So yogurt and foods that have probiotics
and different bacteria added
will get you some of the bacteria,
but the ideal way is to have the bacteria
encapsulated in some way that they
get a free ride through the stomach,
and then in the intestine the capsule opens up
and then the bacteria can be where it's much more friendly
for them to find a place to live.
That's the thinking behind these two probiotics.
This is the first probiotic we started off with
about six weeks ago, I would say.
Hyperbiotics PRO-15
There are five billion bacteria
in each little,
it's like a little ball,
and 15 different strains.
Now these were a little large for the kids.
They don't like to swallow pills,
so we got the kids version of this.
They're smaller and, if you really can't swallow it,
you can chew it up and swallow it.
Some of the bacteria will die along the way,
but, again, some of them will make it through
to your intestine.
Here you can see the two probiotics.
This is the one for adults.
This is the size.
The same idea with the capsule with the bacteria inside.
This is the kid's version, much smaller.
Sadly though, my kids still say they have a hard time
swallowing these, and they don't like the taste
when they chew them up.
So we got children's chewable probiotics.
These are little bear shaped things that are cute
and they're meant to be chewed up,
however, they are kinda chalky
and they didn't like the taste of these either.
So in my continuing effort to find some kind of probiotics
that the kids would drink,
we got these GoodBelly probiotic juice drinks.
This one's mango. This one's blueberry.
They haven't tried them yet.
I'm hoping they'll like at least one of these.
And this, Mood Probiotic, just arrived in the mail today.
This was actually recommended by a doctor,
and we're actually taking this to a family member
who has some anxiety and depression issues.
This formulation has two specific strain of bacteria
that were shown in some research to actually
improve mood and to help with some of those
mental health issues.
Again, this was only around $20.
There are 60, I guess, capsules or tablets,
haven't opened yet, inside,
but this is something people with
depression and anxiety issues can try out
that doesn't have the side effects
of so many of the medications
that are prescribed for that.
It's an exciting time in medicine
and for learning more about probiotics,
as well as, how the food you eat
determines which bacteria live in you.
There was a study just a few days ago
I posted on Instagram,
this little news story I saw about
a study where they had people eating
salmon and fatty fish versus people eating
regular animal fat products,
and they found that the bacteria that like the fish,
that grow well when you're eating a lot of fish,
those tend to help with weight control
and blood sugar balance;
whereas, the people who were eating the animal product diet
were feeding the type of bacteria that contribute to
obesity-related inflammation.
More research being done all the time on
how what we eat and the bacteria that live inside of us
can relate to medical and health conditions
we wouldn't ever have considered.
And it's pretty exciting because
now you may actually, with something like this
and changing your diet, be able to improve
that health condition,
whereas, before your only choice was a medication
that had a whole bunch of side effects.
If you're interested in this book or any of these products,
I'll have links to them down below this video,
and I will do a follow-up video in a month or two,
let you know how we're doing with the probiotics,
let you know what the kids thought
of the GoodBelly probiotic drinks.
We'll keep up with the latest news about probiotics.
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