How Sugar Sours the Gut and Messes With Microbiome | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
02/08/24 • 54 min
Sugar can literally hijack your brain and disrupt healthy microbiome. Research shows that sweets come with a painful dark side that can destroy your backside as harmful bacteria thrives on the sugar you eat.
The good news is that there are healthy alternatives that can satisfy the sweet cravings but also help to repair and rebuild your gut health.
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, gastroenterologist and bestselling author of Fiber Fueled, delivers expert insight on the gut-brain axis and how intense sugar cravings can override common sense and drive you to eat endless amounts of empty calories.
Dr. B. joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
In This Episode
The effects of refined sugar
Artificial sweeteners and gut health
Healthy sugar substitutes
Sugar’s impact on IBS, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease
Leaky gut
Fruit and bloating
And more!
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What: The Power Foods Revolution
Where: Washington, DC - The National Press Club
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Chuck Carroll, Dustin Harder, Stefanie Ignoffo
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Sugar can literally hijack your brain and disrupt healthy microbiome. Research shows that sweets come with a painful dark side that can destroy your backside as harmful bacteria thrives on the sugar you eat.
The good news is that there are healthy alternatives that can satisfy the sweet cravings but also help to repair and rebuild your gut health.
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, gastroenterologist and bestselling author of Fiber Fueled, delivers expert insight on the gut-brain axis and how intense sugar cravings can override common sense and drive you to eat endless amounts of empty calories.
Dr. B. joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
In This Episode
The effects of refined sugar
Artificial sweeteners and gut health
Healthy sugar substitutes
Sugar’s impact on IBS, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease
Leaky gut
Fruit and bloating
And more!
— — OUR FRIENDS — —
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
38 Tera: https://38tera.com
Microbiome 21: https://theplantfedgut.com/challenge
Fiber Fueled Cookbook: https://amzn.to/34y6GQP
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theguthealthmd
— — THIS IS US — —
The Exam Room Podcast
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Chuck Carroll
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Physicians Committee
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— — EVENTS — —
What: The Power Foods Revolution
Where: Washington, DC - The National Press Club
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Chuck Carroll, Dustin Harder, Stefanie Ignoffo
Tickets: https://bit.ly/PowerFoodsTixDC
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Nutritional Stress and Resiliency with Dr. Columbus Batiste
Nutritional stress is a new term for a lot of people, but it’s affecting your health on a daily basis. It comes from the foods we eat and how we cook them. Gain a deep understanding of what nutritional stress could mean for you as well and how to overcome it with nutritional resiliency on this episode of The Exam Room Podcast. Famed cardiologist Dr. Columbus Batiste joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll for deeper look at your health from all angles. Dr. Batiste is the author of the forthcoming book Selfish: Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing a Broken Heart. Topics Discussed - Nutritional stress - Nutritional resiliency - The stressful effect of hyperpalatable on your body - Foods to decrease stress - Foods that increase stress - Dr. Batiste’s motivation for healing patients - And more! Bestselling author Carleigh Bodrug from PlantYou also returns to the show for another installment of Five 4! This time she has five tips for saving money and eating healthier at the same time! Carleigh’s new book, PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking, will be released this spring.
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Carleigh Bodrug
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— — EVENTS — —
What: The Power Foods Revolution
Where: Washington, DC - The National Press Club
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Chuck Carroll, Dustin Harder, Stefanie Ignoffo
Tickets: https://bit.ly/PowerFoodsTixDC
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Love Diet: Foods That Love You Back and Heartbreakers Too | Dr. Hana Kahleova
Food is a true love story. Some things you eat will love you back with their whole heart. But often the love is unrequited. Despite the devotion you’ve shown the food, it does not love you back. And when that happens you are trapped in a toxic relationship.
Dr. Hana Kahleova has mastered the language of love in terms of nutrition and brings us the ins and outs of the love diet.
She will tell you the foods you can eat that are like love at first sight and those that might show a little more tough love. While those are frustrating at first, in the end you’ll discover they’re giving you the kick in the pants you needed to take your health to the next level!
She also reveals the fruits and vegetables that your health will love the most when she joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Topics Discussed
Sweet love of fruits
Tough love of vegetables
Toxic relationships from unhealthy foods
Healthiest vegetables
Healthiest fruits
Why whole grains matter
Beans are your BFF for life
And more!
— — VITAMIN A & LIVER HEALTH STUDY — —
— — EVENTS — —
What: The Power Foods Revolution
Where: Washington, DC - The National Press Club
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Chuck Carroll, Dustin Harder, Stefanie Ignoffo
Tickets: https://bit.ly/PowerFoodsTixDC
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