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The truth about gut health
The truth about gut health
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The hashtag guttalk has over 6 billion
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views on Tik Tok. [music]
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>> Gut health.
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>> Gut health.
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>> Gut health.
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>> Gut health.
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>> Gut health.
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>> And if you think that's a big number,
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how about $60 billion? [music] According
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to Grand View Research, that's the
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market value of the global digestive
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health [music] products market. And it's
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projected to grow to over hundred
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billion dollars by 2033. These massive
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numbers are just a taste of how popular
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the world of gut health [music] has
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become.
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>> Gut health has been such a hot topic all
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over social media for a couple of years
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now. More people talking about gut
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health [music] and the gut microbiome.
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>> Gut health is everywhere right now and
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honestly it should be.
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>> Experts say [music] good gut health can
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not just improve digestion but also
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prolong life, boost immunity and reduce
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inflammation. But with so much
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information out there, including some
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extreme diets and bizarre trends like
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poop maxing and coffee enemas, it can be
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confusing to [music] tell what advice is
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backed by real evidence instead of
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marketing gimmicks and social media
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clickbait. [music] I tracked down some
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experts to help explain what gut health
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really means, [music] how it became such
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a hot topic, and what they could tell us
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about maintaining a glorious gut.
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First off, let's define what gut health
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is. And just to get this out of the way,
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it involves pooping.
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>> Gut health is not just the absence
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[music] of disease, but a state where
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your entire gastrointestinal tract,
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which is your stomach, [music] your
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small bowel, your large bowel, all of
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these organs are [music]
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thriving and healthy such that you're
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preventing disease occurrence in [music]
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future. a lot of focus on the gut
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microbiome. Um, and that's really having
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a robust gut microbiome, which is having
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a lot of different helpful microbes in
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there and feeding them well.
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>> The microbiome in our gut is vital to
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our health. It's a complex network of
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trillions of microorganisms or microbes
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living inside of our digestive system.
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That's trillions with a T. When we talk
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about the gut microbiome, we're talking
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about archa fungi, bacteria that live
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within our gut. They are synergistic
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with us. They help us [music] survive as
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a species, as an individual. And if
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they're happy, we're happy. We evolved
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with these microbes in our gut [music]
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since really since the beginning of
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time. So, they're very important for
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helping us digest what we eat, [music]
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extract calories from what we eat, and
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help maintain a normal gut sort of
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ecosystem. [music]
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They eat mostly what we eat. Um, and
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their waste products have a huge role in
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determining a lot of aspects of our
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health.
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>> Those compounds get absorbed into your
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bloodstream and they can move to your
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heart. [music] They can move to your
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lungs. They can move to your brain and
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they can have beneficial effects
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elsewhere so far away from where those
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bacteria [music] are.
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>> This is also where we get another
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buzzword that you might have heard
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before, probiotic. Probiotics are live
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microorganisms which when administered
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in adequate [music] amounts confer a
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health benefit on the host. If you want
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to go more in depth on that, we actually
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did a video about probiotics in yogurt.
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And there's actually no hardline
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definition of what exactly is going on
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inside of us that makes our gut
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microbiome healthy. What we do know is
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that if the microbes in it are diverse
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and robust, our gut is working properly.
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>> [music]
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>> We always describe each person's gut
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microbiome as being like a fingerprint.
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>> Tons of different species doing tons of
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different things, producing all these
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different compounds.
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>> And when that world of microbes inside
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of us is out of balance, we can feel it.
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>> When it comes to your gut microbiome,
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there's no good or bad bacteria. You
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need a lot of different kinds of [music]
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bacteria in your gut.
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>> So, there's a term for the imbalance of
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the gut microbiome called dispiosis.
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And some of those symptoms are things
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like bloating, abdominal pain, issues
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with bowel movements.
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>> So, it's a good thing that we're talking
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about our gut health and microbiome
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more, but its rise as a trending topic
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has opened the door to questionable
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claims about gut health. Many people
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have conditions that are affected by the
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gut microbiome.
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>> 40% of Americans [music] say that GI
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symptoms disrupt their daily lives. Gut
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issues have been stigmatized in the
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past. You know, you don't [music] walk
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around talking about your bowels and how
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they it's just kind of not what people
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do.
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>> Public awareness of the gut health
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benefits from things like probiotics
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became widespread in the [music] 2010s
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and product marketing for supplements,
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beverages, beauty, and food products
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leaned into that popularity. They added
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labels with claims like supports gut
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health and boosts microbiome. You don't
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know if that means that actually any of
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those bacteria [music]
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are going to make it to your colon and
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they're going to take hold or if they
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were ever, you know, alive to begin
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with. Everyone should just remember that
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the [music] supplement industry is not
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regulated the same way as a medicine.
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>> That hasn't stopped the big business of
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the wellness industry, which is now
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worth over $6 trillion globally and is
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largely unregulated.
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>> You go [music] to any grocery store and
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you see 100 different probiotics and gut
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health supplements. There have been
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studies that have been done that have
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shown that if you take probiotics off
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the shelf and you look at them, almost
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30% of them are completely dead. They
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have nothing that's alive. And I think
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even more worrisome is that almost 30%
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of them have something in them that
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isn't on the label. So, you don't really
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know what you're getting.
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>> But things really took off once social
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media influencers [music] started
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heavily chiming in about gut health.
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>> All right, I got a gut hack for you.
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>> You want to focus on your gut health?
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this is the perfect drink for you.
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>> I cleansed my gut and now I have a
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healthy gut.
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>> While some wellness influencers might be
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legit doctors or health care
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professionals, research shows that many
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of them aren't.
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>> Billions of bacteria live in a person's
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mouth, maybe more than there are birds
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on Earth. Some are helpful, others, many
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are behind oral health problems like
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cavities and gingivitis. So, how do you
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manage something you can't actually see?
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It starts with a solid routine and the
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right ingredients for the job. Take
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staff fluoride for example. It helps
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target and kill plaque bacteria. Plaque
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can harden into tartar and plaque
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bacteria can cause cavities and
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gingivitis. That's why Colgate Total
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developed a unique stabilization [music]
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technology to keep the bacteria fighting
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Stannis fluoride stable in your
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toothpaste for longer. The benefits go
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even further when [music] you pair it
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with the Colgate total toothbrush and
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mouthwash. The toothbrush is designed
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with ultra fine bristles to [music]
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reach deep along the gum line and
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between teeth where plaque likes to
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hide. And when you're not brushing, the
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antibacterial [music] mouthwash extends
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protection. Together, they form the
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Colgate Total Active Prevention System,
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designed to prevent oral health
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problems.
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Before they start,
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>> 41% of health and wellness influencers
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identify themselves as some kind of
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health care professional, but most of
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them describe themselves as things like
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coaches or entrepreneurs. And the thing
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is, people are listening to their
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advice. Pew research shows that 40% of
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adults get health and wellness
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information from social media
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influencers or from podcasts.
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>> It's midnight and you're scrolling
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TikTok and you see somebody [music] who
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is like, "Hey, do you have diarrhea and
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bloating?" Suddenly, you're locked in.
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For the first time, you're feeling
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heard. [music] Someone's describing your
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symptoms. And then you get sold and then
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you you start liking their content. You
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buy their supplements. you try out, you
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know, all of their different pathways
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and you move further and further away
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from the science.
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>> That's led to plenty of unverified
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claims of so-called miracle products or
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hacks offering promises of improving
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your gut health overnight. And the more
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extreme viral trends like colonics,
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parasite cleanses, or poop maxing are
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likely to actually harm your gut.
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>> The colonics is a big one. It actually
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will cause negative impacts on your gut
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microbiome. Anything that's like a a
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very vigorous wash of your gut will
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disturb [music] your microbiome and you
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definitely don't want something like
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that.
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>> This whole concept of cleansing and
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[music] resetting, there's no evidence.
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There's no proof for it.
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>> So, what should we really be doing to
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keep our gut healthy? The doctors and
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researchers that I talked to actually
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had some pretty simple and sciencebacked
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advice.
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>> I think healthy diets like a
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Mediterranean diet are very reasonable.
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A wide variety of foods is good.
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Avoiding things I think is more
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important. avoiding preservatives,
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avoiding [music] artificial sweeteners.
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We know that uh a lot of the
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preservatives that are added,
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particularly those that are added to
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make [music] foods sort of softer and
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creamier, um they can cause an
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inflammatory response within the gut
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lining and also systemic [music]
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inflammation.
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>> Fiber maxing or at least trying to get a
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little more fiber into your diet is one
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gut health trend that you should
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probably listen to.
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>> Number one, it is fiber 100% [music] for
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for gut health. We want a little bit of
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fiber. We want the fruits. We want the
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vegetables. We want the colorful [music]
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plates.
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>> Fermented foods for most people is a
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good thing to incorporate into your diet
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if you can tolerate it.
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>> There's really no way to hack your gut
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or change your microbiome without making
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some serious lifestyle changes.
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>> Start introducing probiotic foods every
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day. Probiotic [music] foods do really
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boost the diversity of your microbiome.
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>> The closest you can get to your food
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source, the closest you can get to
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pulling it directly out of the ground
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and eating it, that's probably even
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[music] better for you than anything you
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can get in the grocery store. So, if I
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had to distill it all down, I would say
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fiber, water, because water and fiber go
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together, and stress [music] reduction.
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It's really a lot of common sense
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things.
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>> There's no cure all supplement, food, or
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single habit that you can take up that's
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going to magically fix your gut health.
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>> Anybody who's offering you
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oneizefits-all for microbiome and
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microbiome therapies, um, just approach
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with caution.
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>> The best advice is the simplest and
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probably the same thing that your mom
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has been telling you for years. Eat
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healthy, don't stress, get some sleep,
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and make good choices.
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