 Next question is from wife of the tree yogi are food intolerances self-induced or not? Yeah, that's the million dollar question. Yeah, right? Yeah, so more often than not I would just sing question. Yeah, so I mean food intolerances like what causes them so one thing that might cause them is you have inflammation in the gut the the junctions between the I guess the cells that line the gut because remember the gut really isn't in your body so think of it this way think of like a donut right the hole inside the donut isn't in the donut it's actually on the outside of the donut the donut just surrounds the hole so when you eat food it goes through the body think of it that way it's not in your body until it's absorbed and what allows it to absorb or come into the body or it's very complicated but the wall of the gut and the intestines allows things to move through well if it's inflamed particles can go through when they're not supposed to and over time your body might recognize these particles as foreign invaders develop kind of an immune response and blingo blingo you have an immune response to food that you eat all the time so that's one you know common popular explanation you also could have food intolerances because of SIBO small intestinal bacterial overgrowth you could have an histamine intolerance as a result of it so now you're eating foods that are high in histamine like bone broth for example which is supposed to be good for your gut but all of a sudden it's causing problems so I would say probably a lot of it is self-induced but then there's ones that we just you know I mean could you consider I guess lactose intolerance like being born with allergies well I was gonna say yeah what about things would you guys subscribe to the idea that like epigenetics are playing a huge role here so let's say like what's expressed I mean I definitely think there's things where if your family came from the Mediterranean and there's generations and generations of eating certain types of foods your body has just and you've that's been passed down from your dad it just agrees with a lot of food and then when you go outside of that I think that I see at least in my experience with clients like when they go outside of those things that their their families have been eating for generations on generations I feel like though they're you're more likely to be intolerant to those I feel like some people are more susceptible to it than others in terms of like having that kind of genetic predisposition like there may be something underlying there but a lot of times some people like they don't really get to the point where they they feel the consequences the clearest example of that is lactose intolerance so if you look at like northern Europeans yeah right it's in african-americans it's extremely high right so no if you look at northern europeans they have a very high tolerance for lactose right opposite yeah and it's because for they've been drinking milk probably for thousands of years longer than most places right as you go further south in europe you start to see lactose intolerance go up in africa you see lots of lactose intolerance except for certain areas yes there's actually tribes that drink milk oh yeah there's there's regions of africa where they have tremendously good lactose tolerance so that's a good example of how our genes kind of you know play a role in how we tend to tolerate food now here's a challenge with that adam is especially nowadays and especially in western countries very rarely will you find someone whose lineage is so like one area like my family's all from from southern italy so it's easy for me to be like oh okay mediterranean right but most people are like yeah i have a little bit of yeah you know swedish i have a little bit of this and a little bit of that and me and so then it's a little much so i think you really just kind of test it out for yourself and see how you feel but that's the clearest one that's the that's the one that's most studied where we can see clearly oh people from this area tend to have you know 20 percent of them are lactose intolerant whereas people from here five percent