Dr. Mindy here and in this video, I'm going to help you
understand why a past antibiotic use may have set you up for
weight gain. Like this is really critical information. So I'm
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Okay, so first thing, we got to sort of establish some ground
rules here. The first thing is, I want you to understand that
one round of antibiotics destroys 90% of the bacteria in
your gut, this is a huge problem, because you have around
4000 different species of bacteria in your gut, that are
doing a lot of different functions for you. And one of
the things that these species do these bacteria do is they
regulate blood sugar. So those of you that are trying to figure
out how to get your blood sugar down, you're trying to get into
ketosis, you're trying to lose weight, and you're like banging
your head against the wall, not sure what's going on, I want you
to realize that the number one name of the game is to improve
your gut diversity, you want to take these 4000 species that you
have, you want to feed them and magnify them, so that they not
only bring your blood sugar down, but they'll break down
hormones, they'll bring inflammation down, they'll
support your immune system, they'll make neurotransmitters
for your brain, there's a whole bunch of benefits that these
microbes give you. So the research is showing if I take
somebody who is obese, and somebody who is lean, that one
of the number one factors of somebody holding on to weight is
they do not have enough diversity of their gut
microbiome. So the first thing that we've got to make the
connection to is we've got to understand that this diversity
matters. And when you go on around of antibiotics, you kill
that diversity. Now I'm going to talk at the end of this, how
fasting can help bring that diversity back. So and I'm going
to talk about the hours that it takes how many fasting hours it
takes the bring the diversity back, so stick with me here.
Okay, second thing that happens when we are holding on to weight
and we are not managing blood sugar well, is that we don't
have good microbial geography. Whoa, what is this, okay, this I
ended up going down a rabbit hole of research on today. And
here's the deal. You've got this thin layer of mucosal membrane
on the inside of your large and small intestine. And when the
microbes are right up against that mucosal membrane sitting
right on there, they're actually not as efficient at regulating
your blood sugar. They do better if the microbes are dispersed,
and throughout your gut, and they're a little bit away from
the mucosal membrane. It's something called microbial
geography. Dr. Emran Mayer, he I interviewed him on my resetter
podcast he had, he's the one that's talking a lot about it.
He has a fabulous book that came out this year called the gut
immune connection. But one of the key factors that we know is
if you want to regulate blood sugar, you got to get those
microbes off of that mucosal lining and fasting can do it.
Third thing, this is what I love to talk about in my academy with
my Academy members all the time, which is your FB switch, and the
FB switch basically says if you have too much of the Firmicutes
bacteria, which is a big group of bacteria in your gut, if you
have more Firmicutes than bacteroides you are going to
store your calories more as fat. So you want to flip that so you
bring bacteroides up and you get yourself in a balanced FB ratio
so that you stop storing calories as fat The way that
this looks is if I again took two versions of you, one that
had a good FB switch, one that didn't have a good FB switch,
and I put this one that had a good one I could feed you, let's
say a bowl of pasta, and you wouldn't store that as calories.
But the part the version of you that had the bad FB switch, if I
fed that person a bowl of pasta, you would store all his
calories. This is a huge reason why we see that some people are
eat whatever they want, and they stay skinny. And other people
eat just you know one carrot and they start to gain weight, this
FB switch matters and fasting can get that FB switch in its
proper spot. Okay, last thing I've talked about this one a
lot. We know that about a 24 hour fast will improve your
intestinal stem cells, it will reboot stem cells. And these
stem cells, what they will do is they will go into that mucosal
lining, and they'll start to repair things like a leaky gut.
So I had a great interview with Dr. Steven Gundry. On my
resetter podcast, he talked a lot about how leaky gut is the
number one cause of energy depletion of people feeling
fatigued. He also talked about how one round of antibiotics
will really accelerate weight gain. So fascinating podcast,
I'll put the link in the comment or in the notes. But what we
know is your mucosal lining of your gut, we can't have it be
open, we need tight junctions, so toxins don't get into your
bloodstream. Remember, when toxins get into your
bloodstream, your liver doesn't really know what to do with
that. So it sends those toxins on to fat, and it stores it as
fat. So we want to make sure that that mucosal lining of your
intestinal tract is shut, and that you're not getting those
toxins into your bloodstream bloodstream. So these are the
four gut changes, microbiome changes that happen after
antibiotics. They also happen after eating bad Western diet
foods, they also happen in a stressful life. So there's a lot
of things that we can point fingers at the change. This is
not just antibiotics. But what I want you to know is that fasting
changes at each one of these four things. And here's the
length fast that the research is showing, there are three
different facets that will change these, okay, first is
your 24 hour fast. This would be your one meal a day where you're
eating just dinner, and maybe you eat dinner six o'clock on
Monday night. And then you don't eat dinner again till six
o'clock on Tuesday night. So you would fast all day that would be
an example of a 24 hour fast that will help stem cell
production. Okay, the other fast that is really well has a lot of
research on is what we call the alternative day fast. This is
where you literally eat whatever you want one day. And then the
next day you don't eat at all. So sunup to sundown, nothing
like even nothing that day at all. Then the next day you eat
whatever you want. And then the next day you you fast that style
of fasting is showing to improve microbial diversity. It's
showing to change the microbial geography and it starts to flip
the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes switch. Third fast and I've
talked about this one before, research is showing that longer
fasts like a five day water fast, if you do a five day water
fast before any diet change, you get a more lasting result with
that diet change. And the reason that that happens is because of
all four of these, but primarily because it flips that FB switch.
So really cool article that I or study that I highlighted maybe
six months ago, showing that if you just set yourself up with a
fast before you go into diet change, you'll get a lot more
bang for your buck out of that diet change. In the study that I
show you guys, I'll leave a link to that video in the in the
notes. They actually did the DASH diet. That was the diet
that they did before the five day water fast. So you got three
options there. If you're listening to this, and you're
like, Oh my God, I've been on 1020 rounds of antibiotics. I
would say the other damaging piece here too is women on birth
control. So all of that changes this gut microbiome. So don't
this is not a moment to be depressed. This is a moment to
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