 All right from Instagram at grain free for life ask, what do you think about Botox? What do you mean? What do I think about Botox? Yeah, if you like to have a frozen forehead that has no expression, please enjoy it all you want Botox has been shown to be useful for Some people for treating migraines it has been shown to be useful for treating other neurologic conditions, but remember it's a slippery slope and There are package warning directions because of the Potential and real side effects of using Botox so buyer beware Palm Springs quite frankly may be one of the Botox capitals of the world including here in Southern, California and Every time my wife Penny talks about maybe I should get Botox like lots of my friends We hop in the car and we head to Santa Barbara Which may be the anti Botox capital of the world and I tell show her what normal people look like And that holds her back for a while. So if you if you want it just be careful, okay? From Instagram at Albin Albin just J How do you rid yourself of insomnia? Well, so insomnia has many many many contributions We know that an abnormal gut microbiome is a big source of insomnia. We know that viewing Blue light late into the evening watching TV screens watching your phone watching reading on a computer are Great ways to keep you awake Eating close to bedtime is a great way to keep you awake Recently in the energy paradox wrote about this trick, which is kind of fun to try Get yourself some glycine Capsules glycine is an amino acid take about three grams of glycine right before you go to bed glycine interestingly drops your body temperature and Strange but true you have to have a drop in body temperature to induce sleep That's another thing get yourself one of these new cooling mattresses. It really works The other thing for some people is get yourself one of the heavy blankets and You know wrap yourself like a toddler in it another trick in other words there Eliminate the causes that are keeping you from falling asleep and in my books I've got lots of tricks with other supplements for Helping you initiate sleep From Instagram Jeff Eden asks what should we do to restore our microbiome post post COVID vaccine? I use your power blues vital reds Polyphenol olive oil mito X told to restore vitamin D and a vitamin C is this sufficient Well, so first of all, there's no evidence that that I can find that I've ever heard about That the COVID vaccines any of the three that are commercially available Change your microbiome or destroy your microbiome now catching COVID Changes gut permeability that much has been well shown but the money these vaccines are not going to change your microbiome having said that as I've said over and over and over again a diverse healthy microbiome and a intact gut wall is one of your best Protections that you have available from preventing viral illnesses including COVID-19 But you don't have to worry about if you've gotten the vaccine Getting your microbiome back in order but a great question Erin O'kelso on Instagram asks in relation to a leave ibuprofen being the equivalent of swallowing a hand grenade For your microbiome, how does prescribed outer all or vivants sit? Well, first of all These compounds like a leave or ibuprofen don't destroy your microbiome They actually destroy the wall of your gut and in my upcoming look, you'll actually find out Why that happens and it's a real eye-opener. This is not conjecture We know why these actually poke large holes in the wall of your gut So they don't bother your microbiome, but Once you got a leaky gut once you have a hole in your gut Then even friendly bacteria can become enemies. They can become Frenemies and that's what we want to prevent I Look briefly there does not seem to be an effect of out at a roll on vivants on the gut microbiome but I'll go back to Again saying that there is more and more and more and more evidence that Anxiety depression ADHD The gut microbiome the microbiome gut-brain connection is Driving a lot of this and the exciting news is Changing your microbiome Giving your microbiome prebiotics that we just talked about a few minutes ago maybe Paramount to getting these things under control naturally and for to it for Ruta on Instagram asked what is the best way to lower triglycerides? Especially if it's part of your genetic makeup both my husband and I are on the plant paradox Well, and thank you very much for being on the program Yes, there is a genetic component of familiar hyper triglyceride emium But it's incredibly rare and I have a number of patients who have been told they have that and They run triglycerides of 2003 thousand four thousand and all of them have come down dramatically by following the plant paradox program now I Have had the pleasure of having Jim Hector on my program the diet myth from England and He and I agree that there are some people who are super sensitive To carbohydrates particularly fructose fruit sugar in Producing triglycerides, and I've written about this extensively in the energy paradox and people who are super sensitive to sugars and starches if You want to keep your triglycerides down you really can't eat very many sugars and starches I happen to be one of those people on the other hand if you're not super sensitive to it, and you can challenge yourself I've done this before my blood test then they are not going to be your major problem, but as a starting point fructose is instantaneously Changed into triglycerides in your liver, so a great place to start is really either Eliminating fructose from your diet and remember simple table sugar is half fructose so getting sugar down lowers triglycerides You day from Instagram asks what's your morning routine look like? My morning routine is one of three of my dogs jumping on my head usually at about 530 in the morning and Saying okay, you know quit ignoring me. Let's let's go and that involves having some Espresso I have a couple of cups of espresso black or I put MCT powder in it And we'll go into that. We've written about that in all the books I don't eat breakfast as you know and then I take my three dogs for a hike of about two miles through our neighborhoods and Then I come back and head to work and as you know I see patients six days a week including on the weekends and I'm here at Gundry MD on Fridays, so that's what my morning routine looks like Oh, and I take a bunch of supplements in the morning and I take a bunch of supplements at night And as you know, I've listed all the supplements I you know currently take in the longevity paradox for those of you who are interested from Apple reviews at Idaho Lisa Love love love the podcast. Thank you, Idaho Lisa My question is in my early 20s I had severe ulcerative colitis subsequently I had to have the large intestine removed completely and They reconstructed my small intestines so that I don't have to have an ostomy bag. Ah, you had a pouch Can I get three most important tips on energy and eating in my situation? Well, first of all, I want to make sure that you're taking a methyl B12 and Putting it under your tongue every morning About a thousand micrograms will do it if you want to be safe and take five thousand micrograms so be it you Most likely don't have a lot of your what's called terminal ileum left or it's been used to make your pouch And so you won't absorb B12 very well You lack intrinsic factor or the absorption of B12 sites And that's a really easy trick The good news is as you know, I take care of a large number of people who had ulcerative colitis who don't have it anymore Thanks to the program. You really don't have to if you're following the plant paradox program You're on the right track As you know, we know that some people can get Iliitis from these same culprits so the more you can do to protect your remaining gut the better So feed your gut buddies. They're still critically important to you and Keep up the good work. I'm glad you follow the program At the healthy school bus on Instagram Can we use acacia powder as a prebiotic? Absolutely. That's another really great prebiotic the other thing I think We need to understand that a lot of these Gums like Gower gum like gum Arabic like acacia Which have been villainized in the past as really really bad for you The tide is turning These are phenomenal sources of prebiotics and the more Prebiotic fiber I get into you the happier gut buddies are and the more they will make post biotics Which will make you happier Anonymous wrote you say no wheat grass, but then recommend eating grass-fed meat. What gives? All right, so You and I are not cows We do not have three stomachs that allow for fermentation of Lectons you and I have not been eating grass ever in our lives. We were not designed to eat grass There's no evidence of any primate eating grass And so you were not designed to handle the lectins in grass on the other hand a cow or grazing animals have been eating grass for Millions and millions and millions and millions of years They've been designed to detoxify lectins in their three stomachs by fermentation, so if if you had a stomach that fermented grasses you could probably get away with grasses the problem is cows were never designed to be fed Corn and soybeans which have a totally different set of lectins and sadly We know that cows do not react well to the lexate lectins and coin corn and soybeans because they get horrible heartburn and half the world's supply of tums Is actually mixed into cattle feed so that they don't get heartburn and they keep eating So you know calcium carbonate is in cattle food, so they don't react to those lectins So the reason you want grass fed and grass finished beef is They've got the system to handle those lectins. They've evolved to handle them and you haven't sadly If you found this video helpful, I think you're gonna love this one so you've got a great doctor who you work with What what kind of feedback do you get from other moms who? Take some of the information you provide or what they've found that works for them and then try to give it to their doctor Is there a lot of