Probiotics and Microbiota Research

with probiotics we're apt to give here biocidicals ultrabotic 500 i like the ultrabotic line that they have and we'll usually do like the the big the big sachets at night before they go to bed, and then we'll move to the 45s. But again, that's short-term, not long-term. So we do it until their poop looks pretty, and then if their poop stops looking pretty, maybe we'll add it in, but it's on a temporary basis. So it won't be long-term probiotics? No, but the thing is probiotics, unless you understand the strains and what they do, like you can take probiotics as an antidepressant. You can take them as anti-anxiety. Some of them raise GABA. Some of them raise serotonin. But the research is so convoluted, You really need to talk to an expert on that stuff. And it's all changing all the time. And, you know, the only real way that we know to alter the gut microbiota is a fecal matter transplant or long-term intake of polyphenols. Like I like ATP science gut, right? We use that for a lot of people. Or just cranking up the fruits and veggies and to be careful of cranking up the fat too much, especially the saturated fat. Because you can eat way too much saturated fat. And I know that's people are high on that. fat doesn't make you fat. It fucking does if you're in a hypercaloric diet and you can't break down long-chain fatty acids. Yeah, absolutely. And you don't recommend any of our listeners trying the fecal implant either. We can try that at lunch if you want. I can make you guys a shit sandwich. No, I mean, that's the thing. And that's because it's not a big thing here yet, but I know there's a place in Sydney that's now doing it. But you know how the government is here. Like, they're so far behind the time with the medical medicine. So, like, it's the government in Australia, I love them, But, man, fuck, their ideas on the medical system is just fucked. But we have Medicare, though, which you don't in the U.S. Yeah, but it's just as bad as the U.S. Like, fuck. Like, every single country I've been to, whether they have universal health care, whether they have insurance, they're all fucked. Like, the insurance companies fuck the doctors in America. Your government fucks the doctors here. So, you know, and the thing is, when the government runs things, like universal health care, they make the rules. He who has the gold makes the rules. And so they really put their thumbs down on the doctors. They can't do a whole lot unless it's a doctor working out of a fucking alley, and you've got to know somebody to know somebody to get in to see them, right? And they have to do shady shit because they want to be progressive. And I think one of the frightening things is when you look at the trajectory of where health is going on a population basis, the system just won't have, if it keeps trending, won't have capacity to manage that. So now is the time to really take your health within your own hands and not have to rely on a government-run system. Well, tell me I do. I order all my pharmaceuticals online and I treat myself. I am Dr. Dubois. You are? Okay. You can get your own bloods here now, imedical.com.au. You can order all your own bloods. What one is it? imedical.com.au. And they've got tons of them and it's cheap. It's cheap as. Imedical, there you go. Beautiful. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, if you want to really, you want preventive health, you've got to take it in your own hands. And, you know, I've got some, I'm not real big on naturopaths here, but there's a few that I really like. Gary Griffith. I like Elisma. Elisma Lambert. I'm trying to remember a couple of it. I mean, really, I only know a couple of good naturopaths. The majority of them, they don't spend enough time learning the actual biochemistry and shit. And they go straight to the goddamn essential oils and the fucking hippie foo-foo Reiki shit. Which I think all that stuff's great. Yeah. But you got to know if you're giving people herbs and things like that, you got to know what the fuck it's doing in the body. and they don't. And Zoe's at naturopath school right now and naturopaths get a lot of flack here and it's not deserved for a handful of them, but it is deserved for a vast majority of them because they get way off the science. They get in the fucking voodoo bullshit. Yeah, definitely. And okay, delving back into the, so that was a good overview there.