Assessing Gut Health and Stool Analysis

So I've got another question about gut health here. it's about kind of about poo so I know you'll like this question someone said given on a day-to-day basis their diet dietary intake may change they've eaten different things every day how do they know like sorry given on a day-to-day base their dietary intake may change their poop basically every day because they're doing different things how do they know whether they've managed to kind of maintain optimal gut health if they're really trying to kind of keep their gut nice and healthy what markers are they looking for if that kind of poop is changing day to day? I mean, yeah, if your poop is changing day to day, the best thing to do is keep a food log and just kind of saying, okay, if I wake up and I'm basically spackling my toilet with diarrhea, what did I eat the day before? Because that's probably what's going to be the issue. And, you know, gut health can get pretty, pretty deep and intense. And it's another one of those things. We just, we know a little bit about a very complex system in the body. So what I'll typically tell people to do is if you want to eliminate all doubt, go do a stool analysis test, do a CDSA and see what's going on with your gut, right? Because you could have some type of imbalance that when you eat certain things, bacteria will react in a certain manner. So like I was actually, I normally don't run tests for people. I normally try to fix things before I order an expensive test, right? Because a lot of cases, a lot of the gut stuff, the same treatments help pretty much everything. But I would rather spend money on better lifestyle stuff and maybe some certain specific supplementation protocols, see if that alleviates a lot of it. If it doesn't, then we're on a stool analysis. But one of my clients here in Australia, he's a pharmacist, so he has access to all these tests. And he was doing fantastically well. He went to Croatia, did like a boats and hoes type thing that they do out there I don't know what partying and all that and went to Amsterdam came home and then all of a sudden like he was having all these massive issues with a bloat and gas and like he's got a six-pack but his guts are blown out diarrhea all this we can't figure out what it is and I'm like alright just run a CDSA and his his he has massive fungal overgrowth there's a bunch of bacteria that's really off like opportunistic the bacteria that's really off and so in a situation where it's extreme like that

then the best case thing to do is find somebody that can order you the right tests and then run a, run a protocol. That's going to be very direct. Like for him, because he's the pharmacist, very easy for us to pick a good pharmaceutical antifungal, a good pharmaceutical antibacterial, and then also layer on top of that, a lot of holistic type natural things for maintenance. But if you don't have a good doctor that can, can understand this type of stuff, then your best case scenario is keep a very diligent food log and then see how you react to different foods and see if eliminating those foods helps with the issue. And then taking those metrics, take your stress metrics. Are you sleeping well? Do you feel well rested? Do you have bags under your eyes? Do you have darkening under your eyes? Those are all symptoms. Do you have any type of fungal issues anywhere else? Athlete's foot, vaginal thrush, oral thrush, itchy bum hole, fingernail fungus. Like these are all symptoms that you might have an issue where your gut bacteria has gotten a little bit out of balance. So yeah, so like you say, in the absence of the kind of expensive tests, an elimination diet with a good kind of tracking protocol in terms of physical and or your subjective experiences and how you're appearing and then starting to reintroduce things would be a great way of kind of zeroing in on potential issues yeah for me that's kind of the first line therapy right let's see let's see if it's the food or if it's the environment so if i say so like the easiest thing to do is just take a piece of paper out and draw a line down the middle of it put a yes on one side and a no on the other now on the no side you write down all the common things that you eat every week you're not going to eat those for like three or four weeks okay so let's say like most people eggs chicken beef that'll be like their top three proteins that they eat then for a lot of people it might be green beans or you know you you write down peas You write down all the stuff you normally eat. We're not going to eat that stuff for like a month, maybe a month and a half, and let's try something different. Like instead of chicken, let's have turkey. Instead of beef, let's have bison. Let's eat some more fish and seafood, things like that, and see if that resolves the problem. If that resolves the problem, then we know it was the food creating the problem, and an elimination diet is probably going to be good to do for a good two months and then reintroduce foods one at a time. if they do an elimination diet and it doesn't get significantly better then there's probably some type of pathology in their gut and possibly an issue between their gut and their brain at that point they want they need to be referred out to speak to somebody who can actually do the right testing to see what's going on in the gut do i need an antifungal do i need an antibacterial do i need both which is usually usually the case if you've got a fungal issue you'll usually almost always have a bacterial issue as well. And I think one of the reasons that is, is because if you have long-term chronic stress, that's going to cause an over-activation of your immune system. Cortisol goes up to bring the immune system back down and kind of put it back under control. And once it does that, it tends to suppress your immune system, which then allows your gut to get dysbiotic. But, you know, as far as what you can do for yourself, the elimination diet, maybe looking at But if you wanted to play around with some antimicrobials like black walnut, berberine, if you wanted to look at something like olive oregano, if you want to look at like rosemary oil, like look at some volatile oils, then look at some antimicrobials. That stuff can go, you know, you can try that for a few weeks to also see if that helps. If it doesn't or you feel worse, then it's definitely time to get referred out and go see a doctor. poop in a little bucket they go and they analyze it and then i'll tell you exactly what's in there and then you get very specific on how to treat that okay that's good so