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Tired of your health issues? Top gastroenterologist DR WILL BULSIEWICZ reveals NEW information about how leaky gut drives inflammation, cancer risk, bloating and brain fog, and the daily habits to heal FAST. Dr Will Bulsiewicz is one of the world’s leading experts on the gut microbiome. He is the US Medical Director at ZOE, founding director of The Gut & Microbiome Center for Excellence and bestselling author of “Fibre Fuelled” and the upcoming book, “Plant Powered Plus”. He explains: ◼️Why inflammation is driven by the gut, not just genetics ◼️How leaky gut triggers bloating and immune dysfunction ◼️The gut-immune link behind cancer and chronic disease ◼️Why fermented foods and fibre rebuild the microbiome ◼️How the gut-brain connection shapes mood, focus, and longevity 00:00 Intro 03:15 What Is Inflammation? 05:23 Can You Be Thin and Still Have Inflammation? 05:58 Why Does Chronic Inflammation Happen? 06:59 The Shocking Link Between Inflammation and Gut Health 10:34 Chronic Inflammation Causes These Diseases 12:04 The Importance of a Healthy Gut 12:39 Faecal Transplants to Heal the Gut 15:14 Link Between Gut Microbiome and Cancer 18:06 Parkinson's Could Start in the Gut 20:28 Can Anyone Get a Faecal Transplant? 21:10 A Lot of Us Have Gut Issues 23:24 Does Gas and Bloating Indicate a Health Issue? 31:21 Everyone Thinks They're Gluten Intolerant 32:23 Processing Issues With Gluten 34:51 Is Sourdough the Best Bread? 36:01 Your Gluten Intolerance Might Be This Instead 38:06 How Long Does It Take to Repair the Gut? 41:04 What Causes Bowel Diseases? 42:29 Antibiotics Double Your Risk of Bowel Disease 43:04 Fixing a Chronic Gut Issue With a Fecal Transplant 47:34 What Diet Trends Spread Misinformation? 51:41 Fibremaxxing and the Importance of Fibre 54:36 Best Foods to Eat for Fibre 58:58 How Fibre Affects Immunity and Ageing 59:48 This Is What Alcohol Does to the Gut 1:05:22 Ads 1:07:11 Benefits of Turmeric 1:09:10 Dr Will's Perfect Gut Day 1:19:27 Good Breakfast for Children 1:20:32 What Would Impact Your Child's Gut Health? 1:25:09 Dr Will's Perfect Gut Day 1:33:06 Optimal Time to Workout 1:34:43 Perfect Time Between Meals 1:35:41 Perfect Evening Routine 1:39:10 Would You Recommend Fasting? 1:42:08 Ads 1:44:05 Trauma Impacts Gut Function 1:49:22 How Would I Heal My Trauma-Related Gut Issues? 1:50:29 Stool Test – Is Your Gut Healthy? 1:53:21 Magnesium for Constipation and Sleep 1:54:51 This Is Easier Than You Think – 4 Things You Need 1:58:45 Dr Will's Transformation 2:04:49 Message to My Dad 2:09:22 Your Biggest Regret Follow Dr Will: Instagram - https://bit.ly/457iRAx The Gut Health MD - https://bit.ly/4p2svLU Youtube - https://bit.ly/4aGQJrKl Dr Will Bulsiewicz’s upcoming book, ‘Plant Powered Plus: Activate the Power of Your Gut to Tame Inflammation and Reclaim Your Health’: UK Version: https://amzn.to/45hIcb1 US Version: https://bit.ly/49hpCAZ Independent Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YDjg-o8aGLb-Okn6xk3L06SclNtjybYl8pejVf12f2A/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Get the 2026 Goal Setting Guide - https://bit.ly/ytgoalsettingguide ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Stan: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. For Official Rules, visit https://DaretoDream.stan.store Adobe - https://Adobe.Ly/OneBetter Fiverr: https://fiverr.com/diary and get 10% off your first order when you use code DIARY
"What's a fecal transplant? You take a healthy person's poop and you transfer it into the person who's sick. For example, a patient of mine took an antibiotic which wipes out your gut, which became lif..."
">> Can you explain inflammation to me like I'm a 10-year-old? >> Steve, you have an immune system that protects your body. Mhm. >> And inflammation is when we turn that immune system on and we make it..."
">> And is can you be like skinny and in shape and still have inflammation? >> 100%. >> So it's not just a a weight thing. No, it's not just a weight thing because if you if you think about, you know, ..."
"inflammation is when your immune system kind of stays on. Why does it stay on and uh I mean how do I turn it off? >> Well, we we have to start with uh acknowledging that the reason why this causes pro..."
"undeniable. And that connection becomes the powerful fa factor that allows you to understand why it happens and how we can fix it. We have uh our gut microbiome and there are 38 trillion microbes that..."
"overfunctioning causing? Like you you're talking about the army analogy where there's an army and they're at war and some of them are damaging the surroundings. >> How is it damaging my surroundings? ..."
"all disease literally is related or caused by the gut microbiome. That's not the call. It's more so to say that we need to understand that our immune system is so powerfully connected to our microbiom..."
">> What's a fecal transplant? >> So fecal transplant is where you take a healthy person's poop and you transfer it into the person who's sick. >> And where are they administering it? >> The way that I..."
"you talked about 130 different diseases and in your book I think it's around page 22 you mentioned I think it's chemotherapy where you're making an analogy between how chemotherapy kind of wipes every..."
"that is that it's not just a cancer story. There's research now in Parkinson's disease. So Parkinson's disease is a neurocognitive disorder. So that means basically it's a it's a brain condition. >> M..."
"mean, it begs the question, these poo transplants sound great. >> Can the average person go and get one? >> I think we need to talk about that. >> Yeah, we need to talk about that because there was a ..."
"the population struggle with gut problems. We asked the D of aio audience and uh roughly it was over 60% of people that listen said that they're currently struggling with some kind of gut problem whet..."
"point about bloating, discomfort, irregular digestion, if I have one of those things, does that theoretically mean that something is not right? >> Everyone gets bloated once in a while. So, I think I ..."
"I had pasta, I was fine. If I have pasta these days, I'm going to feel it for the next like two two days. >> Really? >> Yeah. I don't know. And I don't even know what's going on. But then other people..."
">> So, what are you when you ask that question about Italy, what are you getting at? There's a processing issue in the United States involving wheat, which is that they allow the wheat to be sprayed w..."
"you okay? >> Uh not all bread. My my generally I stay away from bread. >> Okay. Do you ever eat sourdough? >> Yeah. >> Do you do okay with sourdough? >> Yeah. >> There we go. So here's here's the seco..."
"with and sourdough doesn't have fruine in it. Yeah, there was there was a study that was in gastronurology a few years ago. G gastronurology is the top journal in my field where basically they they se..."
"when you have done damage to it? That's a very broad question intentionally, but generally for the average person who's done who sort of irritated their gut, how long does it take to restore and for t..."
"someone that has like irritable bowel syndrome or Crohn's disease and they or they you know they have one of these big sort of ulcers in their small or large intestine. Is it because of their lifestyl..."
"take antibiotics, your risk of developing an inflammatory bowel disease in the next year just doubled. >> Oh gosh. >> If you disrupt the gut with antibiotics, which the antibiotics do, there's nothing..."
"life-threatening swelling of her colon. This is this is the colon, right? >> Uh >> show me where the colon is. >> So the colon is the large intestine. >> Okay, fine. Yeah. Yeah. >> And so she took an ..."
">> You must hear about so many different types of diets and juice cleanses and whatever else that influencers and podcasters promote that you absolutely hate because you have a deeper understanding of..."
">> I'm not hiding about them. So fiber maxing, it feels like after not really talking about fiber for a really long time, people are starting to come around to the benefits that come from fiber. And t..."
"microbiome in my gut here. I put fiber in there in the form of what foods are the best foods for fiber. >> Okay. So what we have here is an entire array of choices. >> And the beauty of it is that the..."
"inflammation increases. Is that inevitable? Are we stuck in a position where like based upon our age we should just expect that we're going to have more inflammatory issues? What they found in the tri..."
"drinking alcohol and vaping. >> No. >> Which we, you know, do a lot more in the Western world. >> Yeah, we do. >> What impact does that have on the gut microbiome? Because I don't typically hear peopl..."
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"chemical on the uh plate over there. Turmeric. People talk about turmeric a lot when they're speaking about inflammation. >> Yeah. >> I'm not really sure what the truth is on turmeric and inflammation..."
"this is a perfect gut day. Have you seen this? >> Yeah. I wanted you to explain to me step by step how to have a perfect gut day. Nice. All right. So, I'm going to I'm going to define for people the w..."
"breakfast, should I be thinking about anything in particular? cuz you know a lot of a lot of parents um I've talked about this quite a few times before but when I was younger I'd get a lot of orange j..."
">> 100%. Yes. And the I think it opens up a discussion about where the connection between our gut and immune system starts. It starts before birth. The first three years are critical. So, let me unpac..."
">> Yep. >> Where are we to? >> Yes. Yes, we're at 7:45 and you So, you want your high fiber, moderate protein, as little sugar as possible, breakfast, and this is the perfect time to take your morning..."
"that I read this? Yeah. In your book it talks about how the gap between sort of 3 and 6 is the optimal time to exercise. That's right. Yeah. So 3 and 6 p.m. The reason for that has to do with our core..."
"time for dinner. I want to point something out real quick. I we had breakfast around 8 and we had lunch around noon and we had dinner around 5. We've spaced things out by about four hours. And that's ..."
"5:00. We're moving into the evening and now it's going to be 7:00 at night. And let's imagine, I know this time of year the sun is going down much earlier than this in most places. Um, but imagine tha..."
">> I think that you could do three meals. I think that like the the way that we structured this is that if you were done eating at 6:00 at night and then you're having breakfast around 8, you have a 1..."
"challenge that I'd set our internal flightex team. Flightex team is our innovation team internally here. I tked them with seeing how much time they could unlock for the company by creating something t..."
"on briefly at the beginning was this concept that trauma is linked to gut function. >> Powerfully. >> In what way? We we were talking a moment ago about the autonomic nervous system which is sympathet..."
"start in your view? If a patient were to come to you >> Yeah. >> and they were they had loads of complications with their gut. Yeah. But you were able to identify that trauma was playing a role. Where..."
"uh different shapes of poop. I think we were using what's the the Bristol stool? There we go. >> Yeah, >> we have this Bristol stool thing here which is the different types of poop that people produce..."
"Okay. >> But sometimes it's a stool softening issue, too. So like for people that have severe constipation, fiber is more nuanced than than people are willing to discuss on social media. Everyone make..."
"relates to all that is in your new book um that you think we should have talked about? I mean, we've probably covered a tiny tiny tiny fraction of all the things in there, but it gives people a flavor..."
"probably sort of during med medical school was it or just after medical school? >> No. So I was actually that's in my early 30s on the left. >> Yeah. >> And then this photo here which I'll put up on t..."
"And in your book published in um 2020, I believed 2020. You you wrote this thing. Could you read that in your own voice? Cuz I was going to read it, but it's very personal. >> You wrote this in the fr..."
">> I'll link all of that below, everything we've mentioned in the last 30 seconds, so everyone can check you out. We do have a closing tradition where the last guest leaves a question for the next. An..."