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In this episode, I talk about remarkable things around the gut that I've already learned so far in my online gut conference and that I think are worth sharing with you.
Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Gut Happiness Podcast. This is Julia Gruber, your host. Today I want to take you behind the scenes of the Online Bowel Congress, whichis currently underway.So if you listen to this episode in time, you can even sign up and watch the interviews that are still tocome. It's not too late. We're about halfway through the congress. You may have already missed a few things, but you can still take a few things away with you.
I thought I'd talk today about whatparticularly caughtmyeyeat this congress. I'm co-hosting the congress with my colleague Katharina Kramer, so I didn't conduct all the interviews myself. Today I'm going to talk about the interviews that I conducted, because of course I know more about them.
Of course, I also look at all the other interviews and I'm convinced that there's still a lot of exciting stuff in there that I can learn from. Just because I'm a gut expert doesn't mean I know everything. That's one of the conclusions from this congress, thatknowledge is immensely broad,that we can go in so many directions when it comes to knowledge about the gut that one person can't know everything anyway. And that's not even necessary. In the end, it's always about choosing the right approach that works for you.
The longer I do this work, the more I realize that you - as a prospective or potential customer, as someone who may have intestinal problems, as an individual who is simply interested in their health- are the best expert for yourself.Sure, I have a few years more experience thanyou, butat the end of the day you are still the one who decides about your health, which method you choose and how exactly you do it. That's why I don't necessarily see my role as being a great expert here, but rather to accompany you and perhaps show you how to find the methods that work for you.I walk alongside you rather than leading the way. That's how I see it.
I also believe that people need a lot more guidance these days andnot so much new methods. Experts, new methods, new findings. Many people already know a lot about nutrition and health, but still don't put it into practice. That's why I think thatthe support, the all-encompassing, the holistic approachwill continue to be an important point in the future, especially when it comesto health.That's what I like so much about this online congress about the gut:the fact that most experts arealsoofthe opinion thatthere are different components to getting healthy.It's not just aboutswallowing a few probioticsorchangingyour diet,there are many other things involved.
At this congress, I also realizedhow manywonderful expertsthere are. I keep hearing again and again: "Yes, nobody knows anything about intestines. Where should Iturn?" There are so many great, great experts in this field. There really are enough. If you're looking forhelp, you'll find someone. I hope that with this congress I have also managed to get the topic of bowel problemsto reach a wider audience andthatyou might alsoget a new impetus tolookin adifferent direction.Nobody has to feel left alone.
I recentlyreadthe question in a Facebook group- I'm no longer quite sure where:"Howimportant is, how how you eat?I have the feeling that it is also important whether I eat when I am stressed data-contrast="auto"> or if I have an argument during the meal."Asthe writer said, thiswas probably questioned a little by her partner. I have to say: yes, it washow really does play a big role. This also came up in various interviews during the congress. Whether it was with KatharinaDöricht (alias"Tasty Katy") or Erika West, who talked about it in her interview.We also talked to Kristina von Fuchs about such topics.
How you eat, whether you eat in peace, whether you eat slowly,whether youchew well, what thoughts you have ... all of this gives our food this energy. You eat it with you, so to speak.If you're arguing with someone while you're eating or watching the latest horror news or distractingyourself and you're not really with yourself, with your body, then it's actually the case that the food isn't digested as well. Some people even go so far as to saythat it's more importanthow you eat thanwhat you eat. I think that's a really good reminderto perhapspay attentionagain: How do you eat? Do you enjoy your food? Are you grateful for it? Do you give your body time to digest? In other words, do you eat slowly or do you gobble everything down? That's definitely one thing that came out of this congress quite clearly for me.
Another point that also came up in several interviews is thatillness can actually be seenas an opportunity. Sure, at first it's bad when you're ill, especially whenyou'retoldthediagnosis is told, that it is incurable and nothing can be done about it.
Especially in the conversations with PeterGehlmann about Hashimoto's or with SvenjaReccius, who talked about Crohn's diseaseand howshe learned to deal with it. Benjamin Bergsaid something similar, also about Crohn's disease. They all had this spirit of: "It was actually quite good that I got ill."So did Lena Bopp,for example, who was talking about irritable bowel syndrome.The message was always: "You can also be grateful when your body shows us something, because we learn something from it. We can change our lives."
In this way, an illness like this canreallybea life-changing thing. Not just in a negative sense, but absolutely in a positive sense too. The illness canbring you closer to yourself, and maybe you learn to listen to your body again, to listen to yourself again, to do more things that you enjoy, for example.I thinkit's oftenalso very important how welook at thingsfrom our thoughts.
Then I wanted to tellyou about a few highlights that I experienced at the congress and that might make you a little curious about one or two of the interviews. Perhaps I can also convey something that you might notsee for yourself,butcanstilltake the messageaway with you.
A One interview that I really, really enjoyed, for example, was the one with Dr. Andreas Schwarzkopf. He is a hygienist.One of his topicsis hospital hygiene. He works in a large laboratory,Enterosanso he knowsa lot about stool analysis. I found it very interesting that, as ahygienist, he doesn't have any disinfectant at home himself, except, Ithink, in case a family member has diarrhea. He has one for these cases, but it's not like he disinfects everything at home. He also said that - especially now that the coronavirus is an issue -the best protection is not to come into contact with the virus in the first place.In other words, staying at home, especially if you're not feeling well anyway.
Your immune system has to be a bit weakened for you to catch the virus in the first place. He also said once again that if you want to do something good as a preventative measure so that you don'talwaysget sick straight away when there are virusesbuzzing around, then it's definitely important that youdo something for your immune system.That means eatingwell, taking probiotics, eating fermented foods - things like that. The stronger you are in your body, the better your metabolism works, the better your immune system works, the less likely you are to pick upeverything straight away.
He also saidsomethingin the interviewthat I hadn'treally noticed in terms of consistency.If someone has intestinal problems and says he or shehas done everything to get rid of them: the right diet, probiotics etc. and nothingreally works,i.e. the problems don't get better, then it might make sense tothink about the issue ofparasites. Then you should perhapsconsider havinga stool and microbiome analysis andtesting for parasites.
According tohis experiencein the laboratory, where they have already carried out many, many analyses,parasites are more common than you might think.Then of course you can do as much as you want. It's important to get rid of the parasite first before youcan expectan improvementin your digestion.I think that's avaluable tip.
I learnedanother tip that I think is veryworth sharing from AnnaReschreiter in an interview. You may know Anna from the podcast. She is a TCM expert, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine. She talked about the difference between foul-smelling stools or diarrhea and odorless stoolsor diarrhea. You can drawcertainconclusions from this.
TCM often talks about various thermal things - heat, cold. Then we talked about wetnessfor a long time. Anna says that wetnessis an issuehere in the West, that most people eat too many dairy products, too many carbohydrates, especially cereals, several times a day and that this can lead to excessive wetness in the body. There is hot (or warm) wetness - I don't even remember now - and cold wetness. It's very, very important to differentiate between the two if you want to decide which foods to eat. That was a really interesting interview. I recommend that you listen to it and give it some morethought. It also shows once again that an individual approach is incredibly important, that it's really about looking at what symptoms are present in the first place.
But I also liked the fact that she said that if you don't know which of the two it is:There is a basic diet that is good for everyone.That's what I always say. Depending on what your symptoms are, you can also pay attention to certain things for your gut, but there is a basic diet that is definitely gut-friendly.This includes eating cooked vegetables, eating enough vegetables in general, cuttingout sugar,cuttingoutfast carbohydrates- especially wheat -and not eating too much fruit because of the sugar... So there are some parallels. Regardless of whether it is TCM or a normal Western diet, as it is perhaps practiced here, in the end the methods are similar. That's another conclusion from the congress. Yes, choose the method that suits you, but at the end of the day we are ... It doesn't matter what method you use as long as you stick to certain basic principles.And these basics are very similar no matter which method you choose.I found it very exciting to havethis confirmed once again at this congress.
Another interview that I really enjoyed wasthe one with Dorothee Rund.She has a lot of intolerancesherself.Histamine, for example, was a problem. Shewasn't feeling well at all.Then she started researching, reading, looking into it and even went to online congresses. She got a lot of information there and simply tried outwhat she had learned on her own body. What is good for you? What is not good for you?
This is another appeal from me to you: if you notice that something is wrong with your body, with your health, get informed. Gather information, but don't get stuck in theory and don't gather too much information, just start putting it into practice. See how your body reacts and then you can make corrections.
As far as I know,Doro didit all by herself at, on on your own. But I would recommend that you simply let yourself be guided.But themost important thing is to actually put things into practice. Don't just get stuck in theory, put it into practice andtryit out. This workedwonderfully forDoro.She can now tolerate a lot of things again that she couldn't before. That was a very nice message from her interview, that - no matter how bad you feel - you can always have the hope that you will get better at some point if you implement the right things, if you stick with it and dare to implement and don't just stay stuck in theory.
Anotherexcitinginterview was with AlexBroll.I alwayslearna lot from her.Alex is a hormone specialist. Hormones are avery complex topic that I never really dared to tackle. I'm glad that I have her and that I can recommend her when it comes to this topic. Her interviewmade it clear how complex the topic is. However, it also came out that you canstill understand it.She can get it across very, very well.
I think that's another important message from the congress: if you have a problem - in this case with hormones, for example, whether it's thyroid or adrenal insufficiency or something else... It definitely makes sense to learn something about it. You canturn to experts who can explain it to you. In the end, it's your responsibility to get well again. I think the more you know about it and the more you can learn about it from someone who can explain it simply, the better.Then you can make better decisions about what to do and how to do it.
What I also found exciting about Alex is that she emphasized once again that things all work together, and that youcan'tjustpickone hormoneand then intervene in a cycle.It's similar to a clock with amovement that has different gears that mesh together.You can't just take out a cogwheel and make it bigger. That's why individual supplements are always an issue that should be approached with caution.It's really about seeing the whole picture, seeing what influences each other and then taking a holistic approach. Alexalsoexplained once again how different organsare connected. It's like an orchestrain which musicians play together. That's why you can't say: "I'm only going to look after the gut now", because the liver is also important, the thyroid gland is important and so on.You have to look atthe body as a whole, because everything is interconnected.I found that very exciting in her interview.
Then I spoketo MarkusOpalka. You may already know him from the podcast. He is an osteopath - pediatric osteopath - and alternative practitioner. He also knows a lot about the gut. We talked about children and pregnancy. One very exciting aspect was that people used to think that the unborn child's intestines were sterile. It was thought that the first bacteria would only get into it when it was born. However, it has now been discovered that this is not true. Bacteria from the fatherhave also been found in the first stool of newborn babies.You have to ask yourself:how do they getthere? Bacteriacan also be transmitted through kissing, for example. This means that the child already has certain bacteria in its stomach.
That is why it is important to to create a good environment for the unborn child. Ideally, of course, you should make surethat the environment in the intestine is workingbefore you become pregnant.It is important that this is good, because the environment in themother's intestinesalso has an influence on the vaginal environment. This is important for pregnancy.
The intestinal environment also plays a role in whether a woman can get pregnant at all. If you or someone you know has an unfulfilled desire to have children, I would definitely recommendlookinginto the topics of intestines, intestinal health andnutrition. We have also had women in our practice who had tried everything to get pregnant. Then they cleansed their bowels, changed their diet and suddenly it worked.So you should definitely take these aspects into account. I'm not saying that you should leave out other aspects, but at the end of the day, nutrition and gut health are simply our basis. If something in the body isn't workingas it should, then it definitely makes sense toinclude the gut and nutrition.
Another very exciting interview was with Maria and Marco from "Sauer macht glücklich". They both know a lot about fermenting vegetables. They also make their own products.If someone saysthey don't have time to do it themselves, then you can also buy them. The important thing with fermented foodsis thatthey have not been heated.Fermented foods are eaten to get good bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, into the body. If these products have been heated - i.e. pasteurized or cooked for a long timeetc. - then there are no more living good bacteria in them. That is why it is important that it is not pasteurized. You can 'tget this inmany supermarkets, but there are now manufacturers- such as Maria and Marco- who produce fermented products thatare available in raw food quality.
One thing that stops many people from fermenting themselves is simply that it sounds too complicated. In the interview, however, Maria and Marco explainedquite simply how to do it. What I didn't know, for example, is that you don't necessarily have to boil and sterilize the jars. All you need to do iswash them with washing-up liquid and rinsethem well with hot water. That's enough. That's one of those thingswhere I think that, firstly, many people don't even know that, and secondly, that they find it too complicated if you have to sterilize the jars first. That's another one of those steps if you don't have to do it.If you don't have to do that at all, then you might be more willing to try it out yourself.With fermentation, it really is a case of just trying it out and not thinking about it for long, but simply getting started. This way you can make your own probiotics.
What else impressed me at the online congress?
IspoketoDr. Gerhard Wallnerfrom Vienna.That was also a very nice conversation. He is a doctor with a practice in Vienna and areal practitioner.He's not just someone who has read about the gut in theory or who works in research, but someone who really looks after a lot of patients every day and helps with >supporting yourgut health. I thought that waswonderful.It's always nice to see that there are also doctors who deal with the topic of the gut. He has been doing this for a very long time.
I'm sure that there will be more and more doctors who are enthusiastic about it. He himself discovered the topic of the gut through his own illness or complaints. Dr.Wallnertold me thatfungal infections are a common problem and thatmany of his patients have candida fungus. He also carries out stool examinationsand that's where it showed up. He has found ways toremedy the situation. I found the interview very interesting.It also shows once again that there are definitely therapists out there. Keep your eyes open! Look for them! Ask a doctor: how much experience do they have with this? What have they already experienced in practice?
What was also very, very nice with him and also showed me again that the way we do it makes sense is that he said:"Nutrition is really the be-all and end-all of the whole thing."You can't want torehabilitatethegutand get it back in order without also making your diet gut-friendly.I wasverypleased to hear from a doctorhow important nutrition is . Roman and Ihave been talking about this for years and always emphasize it. I know that many people say: "I'd just like to swallow a probiotic or take a few psyllium seeds and then everything will be fine again."Butit's not as simple as that. If you want to get your gut in order, it's really important that you also eat a balanced diet.
Another veryinteresting interview was the data-contrast="auto"> with Prof. Dr. Michaela Axt- Gadermann. She is an author andyou may have already read one of her books,for example "Schlank mit Darm" or "Schön mit Darm". She has alreadywritten - I don't know how many-books andis currently in the process of writing the next one,as she told me in an interview.
I found it very exciting how shecombines the aspect of beauty with the gut. I don't talk about weight loss orappearance very often, but at the end of the day, it's important too. First of all,how you feel in your skin is what you radiate. If you have good charisma, then people will react to you in a completely different way. So beauty is not just superficial or something that is not so important. At the end of the day, beauty is somethingindividual anyway.One person finds it beautiful, another something else. Nevertheless, when we meet someonewho looks healthy, we also have the feeling that they are beautiful.Someone who lookshealthyand strong simply has a better chance ofgetting a job.After all,someone wholooksgood to other people is a better salesperson if that's your job and so on.These are things that shouldn 't beignored. That's why I thought it was great to talk about such topicsin the interview. We talked a lot about fiber, about the right diet for the gut, so that was also a reallyniceinterview.
I also enjoyed the interview with Erika West. She talked about colon cleansing with sulphur. That is something, which I had alreadyreceived several questions about. Now I have an interview that I can refer people to so that they can hear it from the expert. I have to say, I'm interested in that myself. I haven't really looked into it yet, but it's something I'd definitely like to try out. Erika also said that detoxing with sulphur also brings out emotions. That was really nice to see in the interview, how the gut is connected to feelings and emotions.
She alsosaid somethingexciting about the topic I briefly touched on at the beginning ofthe podcast:the wayhow you eat. She also talked about mindfulness, eatingslowly,enjoying what I eat, being aware of what you eat ... Yes, it's actually the same for me.
This yearis our 15th anniversary. Roman and I have been working in the field of nutrition and gut health for 15 years.At the beginning you just think: nutrition iseverything.But now I also know how important it istopay attention to your feelings, touse your feelings as a guide.Stress, lifestyle and "How do I think?" are important.All of this is also important. Thatcame out beautifully once again inthis interview. I think that is also one of the main messages of this congress for me, that it isimportant to think outside the box and that I can achieve a lot with nutrition alone, but not everything. There are other things you can pay attention to.
I could go on for hours about everything we learned at the congress. It's not my intentiontoadvertise the congress here, but to tell you that there are so manytopics that are important when it comes to health, so don't just stick to nutrition.
I see time and timeagain that there are people who spend years and years focusing solely on nutrition andareverycareful when they eat out. Butthere isso much more to getting your gut or your health back into balance. Yes, nutrition is important, but it's really an introduction to the whole thing, something that will help you feel better quickly. At the endof the day, you also need other thingsto really have a long-term and sustainable impact on your health.
Ialso talkedto my husband Roman about probioticsat the congress.I will be talking to Sabine Paul - I haven't filmed the interview yet - about how nutrition can also influence your brain, or rather your concentration. I will betalking to Sabine Paul about essential oils.
I also have an interview with Susanne Thiele aboutmicrobes in everyday life and hygiene . How much hygiene do we need in everyday life? I will be talking to Prof. Dr. Gregor Hasler. I have not yet conducted this interview either. If you are listening to this podcast, then it has already been conducted.Then it's in the past. I'm sure it's going to be really, really great becauseit 's also about the connection between the gut and the brain and how our gut can influence our thinking, for example. I'm sure it will be a great interview.
Dr. KurtMosetter is also there. I didn't interview him, Katharina did. He's awonderful person who has also spoken at our events. Here is anotherdoctor who emphasizes how important nutrition is,how important it is not to eat too much sugar. Hehas often demonstrated the power of nutrition in practice. But he also pays a lot of attention to other issues, such asexercise, stressand more.He also works with herbs, with all kinds of different things.
I think that's the most important conclusion from this whole congress: don't limit yourself to one area! Don't get too stuck in a rut or a routine, but keep thinking outside the box! See where you can learn more! See where you can learn more about yourself! It's not always just about theory and reading books and learning things, you also learnby doing. Just see yourself as an experiment. You are the researcher who conducts the experiment and always draws conclusions.That's how I would approach the topic of health these days.
The other thing I would like to say as a conclusion to this podcast episode is:see wherethe search takesyou.If you are open and look at different methods, if youapproach thewhole thing holistically and don't just stick to nutrition, butdefinitely include lifestyle,mindset, and so on. That' sa recurring theme here in the podcast.
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In this episode, I talk about remarkable things around the gut that I've already learned so far in my online gut conference and that I think are worth sharing with you.
Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Gut Happiness Podcast. This is Julia Gruber, your host. Today I want to take you behind the scenes of the Online Bowel Congress, whichis currently underway.So if you listen to this episode in time, you can even sign up and watch the interviews that are still tocome. It's not too late. We're about halfway through the congress. You may have already missed a few things, but you can still take a few things away with you.
I thought I'd talk today about whatparticularly caughtmyeyeat this congress. I'm co-hosting the congress with my colleague Katharina Kramer, so I didn't conduct all the interviews myself. Today I'm going to talk about the interviews that I conducted, because of course I know more about them.
There is so much knowledge out there - but the best expert for you is YOU
Of course, I also look at all the other interviews and I'm convinced that there's still a lot of exciting stuff in there that I can learn from. Just because I'm a gut expert doesn't mean I know everything. That's one of the conclusions from this congress, thatknowledge is immensely broad,that we can go in so many directions when it comes to knowledge about the gut that one person can't know everything anyway. And that's not even necessary. In the end, it's always about choosing the right approach that works for you.
The longer I do this work, the more I realize that you - as a prospective or potential customer, as someone who may have intestinal problems, as an individual who is simply interested in their health- are the best expert for yourself.Sure, I have a few years more experience thanyou, butat the end of the day you are still the one who decides about your health, which method you choose and how exactly you do it. That's why I don't necessarily see my role as being a great expert here, but rather to accompany you and perhaps show you how to find the methods that work for you.I walk alongside you rather than leading the way. That's how I see it.
I also believe that people need a lot more guidance these days andnot so much new methods. Experts, new methods, new findings. Many people already know a lot about nutrition and health, but still don't put it into practice. That's why I think thatthe support, the all-encompassing, the holistic approachwill continue to be an important point in the future, especially when it comesto health.That's what I like so much about this online congress about the gut:the fact that most experts arealsoofthe opinion thatthere are different components to getting healthy.It's not just aboutswallowing a few probioticsorchangingyour diet,there are many other things involved.
At this congress, I also realizedhow manywonderful expertsthere are. I keep hearing again and again: "Yes, nobody knows anything about intestines. Where should Iturn?" There are so many great, great experts in this field. There really are enough. If you're looking forhelp, you'll find someone. I hope that with this congress I have also managed to get the topic of bowel problemsto reach a wider audience andthatyou might alsoget a new impetus tolookin adifferent direction.Nobody has to feel left alone.
How you eat is at least as important as what you eat
I recentlyreadthe question in a Facebook group- I'm no longer quite sure where:"Howimportant is, how how you eat?I have the feeling that it is also important whether I eat when I am stressed
How you eat, whether you eat in peace, whether you eat slowly,whether youchew well, what thoughts you have ... all of this gives our food this energy. You eat it with you, so to speak.If you're arguing with someone while you're eating or watching the latest horror news or distractingyourself and you're not really with yourself, with your body, then it's actually the case that the food isn't digested as well. Some people even go so far as to saythat it's more importanthow you eat thanwhat you eat. I think that's a really good reminderto perhapspay attentionagain: How do you eat? Do you enjoy your food? Are you grateful for it? Do you give your body time to digest? In other words, do you eat slowly or do you gobble everything down? That's definitely one thing that came out of this congress quite clearly for me.
Illness as an opportunity?
Another point that also came up in several interviews is thatillness can actually be seenas an opportunity. Sure, at first it's bad when you're ill, especially whenyou'retoldthediagnosis is told, that it is incurable and nothing can be done about it.
Especially in the conversations with PeterGehlmann about Hashimoto's or with SvenjaReccius, who talked about Crohn's diseaseand howshe learned to deal with it. Benjamin Bergsaid something similar, also about Crohn's disease. They all had this spirit of: "It was actually quite good that I got ill."So did Lena Bopp,for example, who was talking about irritable bowel syndrome.The message was always: "You can also be grateful when your body shows us something, because we learn something from it. We can change our lives."
In this way, an illness like this canreallybea life-changing thing. Not just in a negative sense, but absolutely in a positive sense too. The illness canbring you closer to yourself, and maybe you learn to listen to your body again, to listen to yourself again, to do more things that you enjoy, for example.I thinkit's oftenalso very important how welook at thingsfrom our thoughts.
Then I wanted to tellyou about a few highlights that I experienced at the congress and that might make you a little curious about one or two of the interviews. Perhaps I can also convey something that you might notsee for yourself,butcanstilltake the messageaway with you.
Interview with a hygienist: disinfection, infection, immune system
A One interview that I really, really enjoyed, for example, was the one with Dr. Andreas Schwarzkopf. He is a hygienist.One of his topicsis hospital hygiene. He works in a large laboratory,Enterosanso he knowsa lot about stool analysis. I found it very interesting that, as ahygienist, he doesn't have any disinfectant at home himself, except, Ithink, in case a family member has diarrhea. He has one for these cases, but it's not like he disinfects everything at home. He also said that - especially now that the coronavirus is an issue -the best protection is not to come into contact with the virus in the first place.In other words, staying at home, especially if you're not feeling well anyway.
Your immune system has to be a bit weakened for you to catch the virus in the first place. He also said once again that if you want to do something good as a preventative measure so that you don'talwaysget sick straight away when there are virusesbuzzing around, then it's definitely important that youdo something for your immune system.That means eatingwell, taking probiotics, eating fermented foods - things like that. The stronger you are in your body, the better your metabolism works, the better your immune system works, the less likely you are to pick upeverything straight away.
He also saidsomethingin the interviewthat I hadn'treally noticed in terms of consistency.If someone has intestinal problems and says he or shehas done everything to get rid of them: the right diet, probiotics etc. and nothingreally works,i.e. the problems don't get better, then it might make sense tothink about the issue ofparasites. Then you should perhapsconsider havinga stool and microbiome analysis andtesting for parasites.
According tohis experiencein the laboratory, where they have already carried out many, many analyses,parasites are more common than you might think.Then of course you can do as much as you want. It's important to get rid of the parasite first before youcan expectan improvementin your digestion.I think that's avaluable tip.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective
I learnedanother tip that I think is veryworth sharing from AnnaReschreiter in an interview. You may know Anna from the podcast. She is a TCM expert, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine. She talked about the difference between foul-smelling stools or diarrhea and odorless stoolsor diarrhea. You can drawcertainconclusions from this.
TCM often talks about various thermal things - heat, cold. Then we talked about wetnessfor a long time. Anna says that wetnessis an issuehere in the West, that most people eat too many dairy products, too many carbohydrates, especially cereals, several times a day and that this can lead to excessive wetness in the body. There is hot (or warm) wetness - I don't even remember now - and cold wetness. It's very, very important to differentiate between the two if you want to decide which foods to eat. That was a really interesting interview. I recommend that you listen to it and give it some morethought. It also shows once again that an individual approach is incredibly important, that it's really about looking at what symptoms are present in the first place.
But I also liked the fact that she said that if you don't know which of the two it is:There is a basic diet that is good for everyone.That's what I always say. Depending on what your symptoms are, you can also pay attention to certain things for your gut, but there is a basic diet that is definitely gut-friendly.This includes eating cooked vegetables, eating enough vegetables in general, cuttingout sugar,cuttingoutfast carbohydrates- especially wheat -and not eating too much fruit because of the sugar... So there are some parallels. Regardless of whether it is TCM or a normal Western diet, as it is perhaps practiced here, in the end the methods are similar. That's another conclusion from the congress. Yes, choose the method that suits you, but at the end of the day we are ... It doesn't matter what method you use as long as you stick to certain basic principles.And these basics are very similar no matter which method you choose.I found it very exciting to havethis confirmed once again at this congress.
Get smart and put it into practice!
Another interview that I really enjoyed wasthe one with Dorothee Rund.She has a lot of intolerancesherself.Histamine, for example, was a problem. Shewasn't feeling well at all.Then she started researching, reading, looking into it and even went to online congresses. She got a lot of information there and simply tried outwhat she had learned on her own body. What is good for you? What is not good for you?
This is another appeal from me to you: if you notice that something is wrong with your body, with your health, get informed. Gather information, but don't get stuck in theory and don't gather too much information, just start putting it into practice. See how your body reacts and then you can make corrections.
As far as I know,Doro didit all by herself at, on on your own. But I would recommend that you simply let yourself be guided.But themost important thing is to actually put things into practice. Don't just get stuck in theory, put it into practice andtryit out. This workedwonderfully forDoro.She can now tolerate a lot of things again that she couldn't before. That was a very nice message from her interview, that - no matter how bad you feel - you can always have the hope that you will get better at some point if you implement the right things, if you stick with it and dare to implement and don't just stay stuck in theory.
Interplay ofhormones
Anotherexcitinginterview was with AlexBroll.I alwayslearna lot from her.Alex is a hormone specialist. Hormones are avery complex topic that I never really dared to tackle. I'm glad that I have her and that I can recommend her when it comes to this topic. Her interviewmade it clear how complex the topic is. However, it also came out that you canstill understand it.She can get it across very, very well.
I think that's another important message from the congress: if you have a problem - in this case with hormones, for example, whether it's thyroid or adrenal insufficiency or something else... It definitely makes sense to learn something about it. You canturn to experts who can explain it to you. In the end, it's your responsibility to get well again. I think the more you know about it and the more you can learn about it from someone who can explain it simply, the better.Then you can make better decisions about what to do and how to do it.
What I also found exciting about Alex is that she emphasized once again that things all work together, and that youcan'tjustpickone hormoneand then intervene in a cycle.It's similar to a clock with amovement that has different gears that mesh together.You can't just take out a cogwheel and make it bigger. That's why individual supplements are always an issue that should be approached with caution.It's really about seeing the whole picture, seeing what influences each other and then taking a holistic approach. Alexalsoexplained once again how different organsare connected. It's like an orchestrain which musicians play together. That's why you can't say: "I'm only going to look after the gut now", because the liver is also important, the thyroid gland is important and so on.You have to look atthe body as a whole, because everything is interconnected.I found that very exciting in her interview.
Then I spoketo MarkusOpalka. You may already know him from the podcast. He is an osteopath - pediatric osteopath - and alternative practitioner. He also knows a lot about the gut. We talked about children and pregnancy. One very exciting aspect was that people used to think that the unborn child's intestines were sterile. It was thought that the first bacteria would only get into it when it was born. However, it has now been discovered that this is not true. Bacteria from the fatherhave also been found in the first stool of newborn babies.You have to ask yourself:how do they getthere? Bacteriacan also be transmitted through kissing, for example. This means that the child already has certain bacteria in its stomach.
That is why it is important to to create a good environment for the unborn child. Ideally, of course, you should make surethat the environment in the intestine is workingbefore you become pregnant.It is important that this is good, because the environment in themother's intestinesalso has an influence on the vaginal environment. This is important for pregnancy.
The intestinal environment also plays a role in whether a woman can get pregnant at all. If you or someone you know has an unfulfilled desire to have children, I would definitely recommendlookinginto the topics of intestines, intestinal health andnutrition. We have also had women in our practice who had tried everything to get pregnant. Then they cleansed their bowels, changed their diet and suddenly it worked.So you should definitely take these aspects into account. I'm not saying that you should leave out other aspects, but at the end of the day, nutrition and gut health are simply our basis. If something in the body isn't workingas it should, then it definitely makes sense toinclude the gut and nutrition.
Fermentation - easier than you might think
Another very exciting interview was with Maria and Marco from "Sauer macht glücklich". They both know a lot about fermenting vegetables. They also make their own products.If someone saysthey don't have time to do it themselves, then you can also buy them. The important thing with fermented foodsis thatthey have not been heated.Fermented foods are eaten to get good bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, into the body. If these products have been heated - i.e. pasteurized or cooked for a long timeetc. - then there are no more living good bacteria in them. That is why it is important that it is not pasteurized. You can 'tget this inmany supermarkets, but there are now manufacturers- such as Maria and Marco- who produce fermented products thatare available in raw food quality.
One thing that stops many people from fermenting themselves is simply that it sounds too complicated. In the interview, however, Maria and Marco explainedquite simply how to do it. What I didn't know, for example, is that you don't necessarily have to boil and sterilize the jars. All you need to do iswash them with washing-up liquid and rinsethem well with hot water. That's enough. That's one of those thingswhere I think that, firstly, many people don't even know that, and secondly, that they find it too complicated if you have to sterilize the jars first. That's another one of those steps if you don't have to do it.If you don't have to do that at all, then you might be more willing to try it out yourself.With fermentation, it really is a case of just trying it out and not thinking about it for long, but simply getting started. This way you can make your own probiotics.
Nutrition is the be-all and end-all
What else impressed me at the online congress?
IspoketoDr. Gerhard Wallnerfrom Vienna.That was also a very nice conversation. He is a doctor with a practice in Vienna and areal practitioner.He's not just someone who has read about the gut in theory or who works in research, but someone who really looks after a lot of patients every day and helps with >supporting yourgut health. I thought that waswonderful.It's always nice to see that there are also doctors who deal with the topic of the gut. He has been doing this for a very long time.
I'm sure that there will be more and more doctors who are enthusiastic about it. He himself discovered the topic of the gut through his own illness or complaints. Dr.Wallnertold me thatfungal infections are a common problem and thatmany of his patients have candida fungus. He also carries out stool examinationsand that's where it showed up. He has found ways toremedy the situation. I found the interview very interesting.It also shows once again that there are definitely therapists out there. Keep your eyes open! Look for them! Ask a doctor: how much experience do they have with this? What have they already experienced in practice?
What was also very, very nice with him and also showed me again that the way we do it makes sense is that he said:"Nutrition is really the be-all and end-all of the whole thing."You can't want torehabilitatethegutand get it back in order without also making your diet gut-friendly.I wasverypleased to hear from a doctorhow important nutrition is . Roman and Ihave been talking about this for years and always emphasize it. I know that many people say: "I'd just like to swallow a probiotic or take a few psyllium seeds and then everything will be fine again."Butit's not as simple as that. If you want to get your gut in order, it's really important that you also eat a balanced diet.
First beautiful on the inside, then on the outside
Another veryinteresting interview was the
I found it very exciting how shecombines the aspect of beauty with the gut. I don't talk about weight loss orappearance very often, but at the end of the day, it's important too. First of all,how you feel in your skin is what you radiate. If you have good charisma, then people will react to you in a completely different way. So beauty is not just superficial or something that is not so important. At the end of the day, beauty is somethingindividual anyway.One person finds it beautiful, another something else. Nevertheless, when we meet someonewho looks healthy, we also have the feeling that they are beautiful.Someone who lookshealthyand strong simply has a better chance ofgetting a job.After all,someone wholooksgood to other people is a better salesperson if that's your job and so on.These are things that shouldn 't beignored. That's why I thought it was great to talk about such topicsin the interview. We talked a lot about fiber, about the right diet for the gut, so that was also a reallyniceinterview.
Colon cleansing with sulphur
I also enjoyed the interview with Erika West. She talked about colon cleansing with sulphur. That is something, which I had alreadyreceived several questions about. Now I have an interview that I can refer people to so that they can hear it from the expert. I have to say, I'm interested in that myself. I haven't really looked into it yet, but it's something I'd definitely like to try out. Erika also said that detoxing with sulphur also brings out emotions. That was really nice to see in the interview, how the gut is connected to feelings and emotions.
She alsosaid somethingexciting about the topic I briefly touched on at the beginning ofthe podcast:the wayhow you eat. She also talked about mindfulness, eatingslowly,enjoying what I eat, being aware of what you eat ... Yes, it's actually the same for me.
This yearis our 15th anniversary. Roman and I have been working in the field of nutrition and gut health for 15 years.At the beginning you just think: nutrition iseverything.But now I also know how important it istopay attention to your feelings, touse your feelings as a guide.Stress, lifestyle and "How do I think?" are important.All of this is also important. Thatcame out beautifully once again inthis interview. I think that is also one of the main messages of this congress for me, that it isimportant to think outside the box and that I can achieve a lot with nutrition alone, but not everything. There are other things you can pay attention to.
Think outside the box!
I could go on for hours about everything we learned at the congress. It's not my intentiontoadvertise the congress here, but to tell you that there are so manytopics that are important when it comes to health, so don't just stick to nutrition.
I see time and timeagain that there are people who spend years and years focusing solely on nutrition andareverycareful when they eat out. Butthere isso much more to getting your gut or your health back into balance. Yes, nutrition is important, but it's really an introduction to the whole thing, something that will help you feel better quickly. At the endof the day, you also need other thingsto really have a long-term and sustainable impact on your health.
Ialso talkedto my husband Roman about probioticsat the congress.I will be talking to Sabine Paul - I haven't filmed the interview yet - about how nutrition can also influence your brain, or rather your concentration. I will betalking to Sabine Paul about essential oils.
I also have an interview with Susanne Thiele aboutmicrobes in everyday life and hygiene . How much hygiene do we need in everyday life? I will be talking to Prof. Dr. Gregor Hasler. I have not yet conducted this interview either. If you are listening to this podcast, then it has already been conducted.Then it's in the past. I'm sure it's going to be really, really great becauseit 's also about the connection between the gut and the brain and how our gut can influence our thinking, for example. I'm sure it will be a great interview.
Dr. KurtMosetter is also there. I didn't interview him, Katharina did. He's awonderful person who has also spoken at our events. Here is anotherdoctor who emphasizes how important nutrition is,how important it is not to eat too much sugar. Hehas often demonstrated the power of nutrition in practice. But he also pays a lot of attention to other issues, such asexercise, stressand more.He also works with herbs, with all kinds of different things.
I think that's the most important conclusion from this whole congress: don't limit yourself to one area! Don't get too stuck in a rut or a routine, but keep thinking outside the box! See where you can learn more! See where you can learn more about yourself! It's not always just about theory and reading books and learning things, you also learnby doing. Just see yourself as an experiment. You are the researcher who conducts the experiment and always draws conclusions.That's how I would approach the topic of health these days.
The other thing I would like to say as a conclusion to this podcast episode is:see wherethe search takesyou.If you are open and look at different methods, if youapproach thewhole thing holistically and don't just stick to nutrition, butdefinitely include lifestyle,mindset, and so on. That' sa recurring theme here in the podcast.
I hope you enjoyed this episode and I look forward to having you back next week for the next episode of the Darmglück podcasts.
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