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Chapter 21 · Ali Do Is Win

Gut Health and Digestion Issues

October 13, 2021

If you have fucked up guts, like you have bloating, indigestion, undigested food in your stool, pain in your gut, you know, people will go for, I've got SIBO or I've got, you know, fucking dysbiosis or blah, blah. Why don't you just think about this? If I don't have enough calories coming in to support survival, much less optimization, how are you gonna make gastric juices? Okay, if your ATP, your energy stores are going to keeping your brain alive, red blood cells, your immune system, your heart, your kidneys, your liver. It's trying to keep all that stuff going. And your temperature, your thermogenesis drops. That's a clear indication that your body's prioritizing ATP in order to make that for vital organs to keep your ass alive, because your body thinks you're fucking starving to death. Your body doesn't give a shit about making HCL, pepsin, pancreatic enzymes, bile. It doesn't care about that stuff right now. So you're going to have a much dampened ability to make that stuff, which is probably why you're bloated and gassy and slow transit time and why you can't digest meat effectively or why you have SIBO or why you have dysbiosis. Most of the time, if we just get people in shape, their guts get massively better and they sleep more. So they get massively better. So I think that before anybody goes on the supplement farm and grabs a bunch of gut stuff and they go do it, they run a gut panel and they run a fucking organic asses and they run all this other shit because somebody's overcomplicating the process. If you just focus on the basics, get in shape first, that will probably rectify a good 60 to 80% of your issues. And if there's still another 20, 25%, okay, now let's go get some labs. Let's go do a stool analysis. Let's go do an organic asses. Let's do a genetic test. Do that when you got your ducks in a row.