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Laura
You won't believe the special guest that we have right here with us today.
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Danielle
Thanks for having me.
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Danielle
Thank you.
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Laura
Dr. Daniel, a naturopath doctor who is a gut and hormone specialist. So we are so thrilled to have your expertise here with us. I'm so excited.
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Danielle
I’m so excited to be here. Thank you for having me on.
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Laura
So in addition to lots of education that she's gone through to become a doctor and a licensed in Minnesota and Arizona, she serves her clients and a possibly you if you are after listening to this, identify anything with your own health. But she runs a virtual clinic, which is so cool. And we'll hear more about that. But what I was thinking is just starting with some people like me don't know what a naturopathic doctor is.
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Laura
So do you want to tell us?
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Danielle
Yeah. Let's dive in.
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Laura
Help us understand.
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Danielle
I’m not surprised. Honestly, this is a big question, and I think it's one that I often have to describe what is a naturopathic doctor. And for me and naturopathic doctor, I actually went to a medical school. There's actually six accredited ones in the US and two in Canada that are medical school for becoming a naturopathic doctor trained in naturopathic medicine or functional medicine.
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Danielle
A lot of people call it that, too. And anyway, so I went got my biology degree with at Gustavus, and then I went on to what is called South West College of Naturopathic Medicine. It has changed name since then called Sonoran University. It's out in Arizona. And, yeah, I went the whole four years getting accredited with them.
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Danielle
And, of course, always continuing education always, I'm a forever student. But yeah, I think I didn't really answer the question on what naturopathic how the doctors do.
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Laura
Oh, yeah.
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Danielle
Yeah, right.
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Laura
Well. Before you do that, so like someone with an M.D., that means medical doctor.
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Danielle
Right.
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Laura
They also go four years, but it's medical school and then your.
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Danielle
N.D.
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Laura
N.D.
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Danielle
Go to to a four year medical school.
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Laura
For.
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Danielle
For naturopathic doctors.
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Laura
Are they similar?
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Danielle
They are similar. So they're similar in the sense that we get biochemistry. We get all like the physical medicine and understand the body and how it works. We get like work with cadaver labs, like we're in person and working through that, right? But we also get trained on top of like, how do you clinically diagnose and treat and understanding medications.
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Danielle
We get a little bit of understanding of like minor surgery, acupuncture, homeopathy, botanical medicines, nutrients, physical medicine, like chiropractic care, somewhere along the lines of that and then hydrotherapy. So there's a lot of things I just kind of think of it as like I got, I got to learn a lot of unique tools to have that in my toolbox. Right.
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Laura
Okay, so then I already thought of another question, like how would you best describe how you help people?
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Danielle
Right. So how do I help people? So I really want to learn about your medical history and so my goal with all my patients is to really dive into what is your past medical history? What are you currently dealing with and how can we best serve you working from a root cause approach or a whole body approach? So I don't want to just know about like if you have your head hurt, I want to know what else is going on.
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Danielle
Like, are you connected? Are you having food sensitivity? Are you, you know, got diagnosis, this other thing, what kind of medications you're on? I want to know it all, which is why my new patient visit is pretty extensive. Like 90 minutes, right? So more than a traditional 15.
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Danielle
Right. And so we work through that so we can identify like, is there additional information that we can like, grasp and learn from it. So I will often use a lot of like blood tests which are used conventionally, but we will sometimes do things that are more broad spectrum or things that are diving in more. We can use like functional kits, like microbiome, stool kits or breath tests, things like that, just to get a deeper understanding of what what might be going on.
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Laura
What's going.
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Danielle
On. Right, Right.
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Laura
What we can't see. So then this since it's virtual, does someone like fill out a questionnaire or how does that.
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Danielle
Definitely. So for me specifically, I do discovery calls first to see if you're a good fit because I want to make sure I can actually best benefit you, right?
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Laura
Oh, yeah. So just some basic,
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Danielle
Just basic understanding of like what your health goals are, your concerns and like what my process is. Love. It.
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Laura
He wants to be part of this.
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Danielle
And then we do the new patient appointment like if you get scheduled we go through that and then I'll help understand if there's any like labs that we want to get tested and we talk about those and we'll do an extensive lab review. But in that process, what I like is I'm trying to personalize it to you, like, what do we need to do in your health and your diet or lifestyle or your like do with their, is there things that we need to actually help benefit your body that will work biochemically.
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Danielle
So I love using nutrients, I love using botanicals or combination products to actually support our body because there's a lot of things that you can do before needing a prescription medication, right? Or maybe a surgery. It just depends on the person. But there's kind of a pyramid of like, what can we do before having to jump to the more severe levels, Right?
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Laura
Yeah. That is such a service. So then what? Like why so, okay, I have been seeing everywhere the term gut health, gut health, gut health, gut health like social media in articles on the on the monitors. Why is there a big deal about gut health and why is it important?
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Danielle
Gut health is important because we are a huge component of actually bacteria and other yeast that actually help benefit us. Now not all of them are good. Some of them are bad that we get exposed to for various reasons. But we have this like whole population within us that supposed to support us, at our gut, that helps integrate nutrients, helps us actually to like break down toxins and hormones and get rid of them through our waste products.
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Danielle
Right. But also in addition to that, our gut has a lot of like nerve endings supply, blood supply and other hormone supply is there. So, you know, you've kind of heard the second brain, right? It truly is. There's so much involved at our gut beyond just like breaking down foods. And so that for that reason, there's a lot of research unfolding with mental impact hormone impact fertility impacts, autoimmune impact. There's a lot unfolding in that realm because gut, the gut plays so much in our health.
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Laura
Oh, my gosh. Okay. And I forgot to tell you this, but I read this book 10% Human, you know, and I, I learned that I think like 2010, 2011 was that genome project. And then that they went off of that for microbiome Micro Project, Microbiome project or whatever. So when you were speaking, I was wondering, is this maybe why we're hearing so much like, is this kind of new information that we're learning that's new science?
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Laura
Because I know that they they don't really even understand the microbiome.
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Danielle
Yeah. I think that there's a lot of like information that we probably have known as ancestors that hasn't been passed down as much, but like to the benefit of it to a degree. But I think that in terms of like our new health diagnoses and things that problems that people are coming about with, there's a lot of unknowns and what is the basis of that from our microbiome and how is that impacting us to a certain level? I think there's a lot that's been found out, but I think there's a lot still to discover.
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Laura
Totally. Which is leading me right to. So how would someone listening or watching know if they have like good gut health or if they don't have good gut gut health?
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Danielle
Right. Well, we can start with the obvious. So gut symptoms, right? One who might experience constant bloating, foul gas, burping, heartburn, or like maybe you're like, nauseous all the time when you wake up in the morning or when you're eating. Maybe you're constipated all the time, like chronically. I also had people that are like, I'm IBS and like, I'm like having spurts of like urgent stool and having to run the bathroom.
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Danielle
Obviously those are really clear signs that something has gone awry. We need to work on our gut health.
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Laura
Emergency!
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Danielle
But it doesn't have to be gut health. Okay. I've had a lot of people come back to gut health because of like they were diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. Maybe it was thyroid or maybe it was they were brain fogging fatigued. I mean, sometimes that can be a result of a yeast overgrowth, right? Like Candida and certain populations of that or I've had people that are nutrient deficient because they're actually not absorbing, their nutrients, right.
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Danielle
So it can be things like that. I also would consider looking at gut if there is an infertility issue going on or there's hormone imbalances, because we know from a biochemical standpoint that estrogen is actually cleared, the last phase of estrogen clearance is that our gut? We have our first two phases out, the liver and then the third one, the last one is that our gut and if we have disruption there, our estrogen can be, I call unpackaged it was meant to exit out gets unpackaged and it gets recirculated in the system and we don't want to reuse the same thing. We want some new fresh estrogen in our system, right. So we're always like making and recycling for hormones.
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Danielle
So sometimes it's not symptoms that are necessarily related in the gut, but it might be hormone related like pelvic pain, breast tenderness, moodiness, hot flashes or night sweats, things like that, things that are really hormonally linked.
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Laura
So please forgive me everyone, but you've heard me talk about my own experience and not knowing anything about nutrients or what to eat or what even carbohydrates were. And just, you know, what looked good at the grocery store, which was not good for my health or my mental health. And so this is an unfair question. But just like when you look out at all of our population with so much like we all were born into convenience food and fast food and restaurants and not not knowing nutrition, basic nutrition facts and how hard it can be to even find nutrient dense food. Would you say that a lot like the majority of people, have poor gut health because of this, or is that unfair to even question?
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Danielle
No, I think that's a very fair question. I think it definitely makes us more susceptible to it. I think there's a reason why the standard American diet is called SAD, S A D. And I think it really does impact us on many different levels, whether we realize it or not. We you know, we were just briefly chatting like I grew up in Indiana.
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Danielle
I didn't grow up learning how to cook, what to eat. I don't think it really was until I went off to Gustavus, sadly enough, that that's when I started to kind of get an idea that I wasn't doing it right. And that I if I didn't change my ways, that something is going to happen, Right?
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Danielle
So I think it's because of fast food, the way that we do our grocery stores here in the US, it becomes the norm, but it's not really what we should be seeing as normal, right? You got to look at like even some of the other countries like Spain or, trying to think of some other ones. Spain is the one that comes to mind right now. Like they have a lot of markets on the side of the corner on the street and people shop on the daily rather than like once a week.
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Danielle
Right. Like they're getting fresh food. Live fresh food. Right. We're not talking packaged here and it's not considered a burden to them. It's something that is daily and seen as normal.
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Laura
Yes.
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Danielle
So I think it's I think it's a fair question to ask. Like, does everyone have bad gut? And I would say a lot of us probably are living in some sort of form. Hey, buddy.
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Laura
I think it's better for him to just join us. He has a whole lot of opinions about gut health.
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Danielle
Yes.
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Laura
Which we've been feeding them our lacto fermented foods. So pets have good health, too. That we don't think about pets.
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Danielle
Pets have like a microbiome to.
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Laura
Totally. Okay. So I have so many questions. I'm bringing it back to my personal life because I'm hoping that it can help you if you have ever experienced this as well. But for most of my life it was what you describe. Like I knew nothing. I didn't know how to cook all of it, but I did not know that I didn't feel well because that was what I was born to feel like.
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Laura
And so I oftentimes blame myself like, Oh my God, I ate too much again because my stomach is killing me. You know what that.
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Danielle
Yeah, definitely.
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Laura
Or I don't want to get out of bed in the morning because I'm like, something's wrong with me.
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Danielle
It’s some self deprivation, right?
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Laura
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Danielle
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Laura
So what would you say, like if someone else has ever felt that way. Um.
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Danielle
Right.
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Laura
Like, how do they know what feeling good is.
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Danielle
Right? I think that you have a good point. I think it is really hard to know that there is a better feeling if you've grown up in that way. And it might take some time to realize. But I would say the first step is really trying to be in tune with your body. Usually when we're acknowledging something that's uncomfortable that's happening enough, it's like your your signs, your body is giving you signs, trying to communicate with you that something isn't correct.
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Danielle
And instead of pain being a problem, it's actually trying to help us reverse what we're doing, Right?
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Laura
Yeah.
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Danielle
And so the sooner we can learn, the sooner that we can actually reverse that rather than getting bigger and bigger knocks on the door on your health and then you end up in the emergency room. Right?
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Laura
Or worse.
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Danielle
Or worse. So like when you start to feel chronically constipated or you feel like you have period symptoms or you're starting to acknowledge that that's becoming more reoccurring. That should be a light bulb that okay, what can I do now? What can we work on together? What am I doing? Maybe in my day or lifestyle that's putting me in this position?
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Danielle
And sometimes it's not easy, but that's where I kind of consider myself an FBI agent to do that. I'm really looking at like, okay, what are we doing? Beyond just like, okay, your symptoms.
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Laura
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Danielle
I always like to dig in. I like to because there are so many reasons, like there's so many reasons why you could be tired. Is it iron deficiency, is it thyroid, is it sex hormones, are you getting too much sugar? Your blood sugar crashing? Right. So I consider it my my job to to do the digging. If you’re having a hard time.
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Laura
I love that so much. So then, are there natural ways that people can improve their gut, like listening? Could that person?
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Danielle
Yeah. So there's definitely some food things and then there are some diet lifestyle things as well, or lifestyle things is what I wanted to say. So diet I kind of break it down into three major groups. So I like to think of it as your fermented foods, which is why I love the TOXYFREE Fermenting Class, because we weren't educated on fermentation at all, even though that's a pretty normal thing back in the day.
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Danielle
Yeah, like you said, I think you told me that, like, we would have learned that from our families, right?
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Laura
If we would have been born 100 years ago, we would have learned that. And other cultures have a little bit with every meal.
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Danielle
Right? Probably the least here, though. Oh, yeah. So fermented foods are where we actually get our natural probiotic. That's where we get lactobacillus and bifidobacteria from it. And so that's where we actually repopulate with good, healthy microbes that makes us happy. Healthy, happy! Yeah. And so and it helps create a better balance within our gut.
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Danielle
The second food group is going to be your fiber rich foods and a lot of that comes down to just eating real life food, right? Like your nuts and your seeds, your your beans and legumes, your leafy greens, your fruits and vegetables. So just eating food made from the earth, right?
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Laura
Yeah.
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Danielle
And then inulin rich foods are what we often hear as prebiotic if we've ever looked at a probiotic prescription, Inulin is usually the prebiotic that's coming in in that formulation and there is a wide variety of food on that and we can link a list later because it's so random. But I think like asparagus and leeks, you know, I'm not sure if mushrooms are on there.
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Danielle
We can check though. It's just a very random group of foods. Yeah. So those are the three that I would consider as like, we really want those foods in our diet to really maintain a healthy diet. One to repopulate and then inulin is to help actually as a food source and so as fiber. And they need that because when they feed on like fibrous foods, they turn that into short chain fatty acids, which create a really good PH so that they can live in that environment and sustain themselves in that environment. So we want to be able to keep that healthy bacteria alive.
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Laura
And they you'll speak better to this, but they literally, don't they touch all of our systems. In how they function.
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Danielle
I really do.
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Laura
Weight loss. Immune.
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Danielle
Yeah. I mean, even you can look at fertility. You get microbiome and your breast tissue and even in our sexual organs, our gut, our skin. When we talk about acne on our skin, it's not we talk about it in the sense of gut, but in reality, your entire body has some sort of microbiome. Yeah. Isn’t that cool?
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Laura
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Danielle
I have to tell about lifestyle really quick, because that's a big impact. And I think that a lot of us, especially here in the States, we live that fast pace, I got to do it kind of lifestyle and we are often stressed because we are constantly trying to keep up.
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Laura
And that stress does impact our gut. So we have the vagus nerve that runs from our our brain down to our gut. And so we've have a lot of research showing that our gut, gut health impacts our mood and how even mood impacts our gut. So we really got to work on stress management and that could be finding your favorite class exercise class, that can be meditation, that can be having a a family or friend network that's really supportive, that can be many different things in reality and good rest because if we're not sleeping, are very good, you know, schedule that stress in our bodies.
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Danielle
I always say stress doesn't actually have to mean I physically feel stressed. It can be things that we're actually doing to ourselves, like overdrinking or not sleeping well or pushing our limits. Right. And I also think a big one that we can do to help protect our gut is actually to think about like slowing down and chewing our food and being present with our food.
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Danielle
I know that's crazy to think about, but if we're just throwing it down, right, we're not like actually chewing. We're not giving our body the digestive enzyme cascade needed to break down the food, absorb those nutrients and get the nutrient factor that we're really trying to get from eating. So I think that like just sitting down and being really mindful and present is another big piece as well.
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Laura
So and I can't help but think that's why you were talking. But yeah, I was like, so if you come across someone who, you know, cut you off in traffic or might be rude to you like it's possible that they are missing some nutrients or nourishment.
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Danielle
So I think a lot of us, we and we do have a huge population that is binge eating, but we do have a lot of population that's just not eating on good increments. And so we're having blood sugar drops and cravings and just we're not getting the nutrients needed to support all our biochemical pathways. And so I kind of give I always give this a visual to my patients.
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Danielle
Think of a Ferris wheel. A Ferris wheel has an axis that it goes around on, and then it has all these nuts and bolts, right? And if you aren't getting those nutrients, you're kind of missing the nuts and bolts here. Ferris wheel, Is this going to, like, deteriorate down and fall off. It’s just going or roll down the road right. It's not going to work like it should. And a lot of our biochemical pathways, hormones, mood, how we make energy, all this type of stuff, right. It's a constant like circular pattern.
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Laura
So what, what are the food additive chemicals and the high sugar and what a lot of us are grow into. I grow up eating what's surrounding us in the gas station and the grocery store. What is that doing to our gut health? Like the overload of those kinds of things.
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Danielle
Eating foods that are highly processed, highly palatable, right? They were like made to taste super sweet, right. And have colors and stuff like that. They're it's a ability to grab your attention and want them. They are creating an imbalance. So when we have too much sugars in our gut, we're actually disrupting the balance. Whether we're decreasing them or we're like bringing up a lot of like yeast and other bad bacteria, So the balance becomes shifted, right?
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Danielle
Then what happens as we get sick with something that is bacterial infection or related, Right. Sinus infections or maybe the UTI or yeast infection or gastritis or something. Right. What do we do? We go give antibiotics. We clean out all the bacteria that's supportive to us. Right. And then we don't have any in the conventional world, at least I maybe quote me if I'm wrong and they're starting to change.
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Danielle
But normally it's just like, take this, be done with it. You're good to go. But what happens is we continue to eat the same foods, creates more disruption, right? So we really first we can be preventative by supporting our good gut keeping that healthy lactobacillus family. And when I say lactobacillus, it sounds like one, but it's honestly like a huge spectrum in the family here we're talking about.
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Danielle
But we really want to support that. So we're not, one, getting those infections or having to use antibiotics to kill off an infection. Right. But if we need to, I mean, there are certain circumstance where an antibiotic might be warranted, but I think it's about having a follow up plan afterward on how you're going to heal your gut and repopulate that so that we're not having a reoccurrence rate.
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Laura
And I forgive me, I'm asking another unfair question because the research on environmental toxins is so new, like everything that I read is like, well, we really don't know how this is affecting human health, but in in your opinion or maybe what you've seen, how do environmental toxins play into all of that as well?
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Danielle
I think there's a lot of research that is unfolding, but I definitely have a sneaky suspicion that it's impacting us way far greater than we would ever imagine. I mean, we're inundated with or inundated should we say with chemicals everywhere. I mean, we just heard in the news here lately about forever chemicals, PFAS being in women's feminine products like period underwear would you would think would be a really clean way of going about menstrual cycle, right?
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Danielle
Or just like your regular tampons having dioxane. I mean, if the fertility rates are in decline, it is a fact. We have research on that. And I really think there's a huge role on that. I think probably why autoimmune conditions are on the rise as well as diabetes and other metabolic conditions, you know, like insulin dysregulation and stuff like that, I think.
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Danielle
And then women, we're also seeing more like endometriosis and PCOS. So I think there is a huge tie to that. I think, sure, you can say that a product may have minimal chemical to it, but let's talk about like just period products. We have a cycle monthly for how many years.
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Speaker 3
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Laura
Or in addition all the other things you come into contact with.
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Danielle
Talk about men you know we use our traditional detergent we use our hand soaps, traditional body products. Fragrance, I mean fragrance is a cover term for so many different chemicals. Right. And men, too, are seeing low sperm count seeing low testosterone and it's becoming a problem. So I really do think that it's impacting not only our gut from like you probably heard the word leaky gut or what I like to call increased gut permeability or hyper permeability. And I think that's a huge piece that is there, along with a lot of other things.
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Laura
Well, so my last question, and hopefully this will be leaving you with something really hopeful after all of this. But what is, in your opinion, the greatest benefit of having good gut health.
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Danielle
The greatest benefit that honestly, I think if you have really good gut health, there is a benefit to everything.
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Laura
Everything.
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Danielle
Everything. Isn’t that wonderful. I mean, do I say that because we've talked a lot.
00:28:28:04 - 00:28:32:11
Laura
00:28:32:11 - 00:28:55:12
Danielle
You know, honestly, I think that this is actually empowering because I think a lot a lot of times in medicine we get told that we don't have control over it, but our gut plays such a huge role. And I think there is even more research unfolding. But I really think there's so many things that you have the power control to do at home, maybe starting with the fermented class, right?
00:28:55:16 - 00:29:18:06
Danielle
Getting fermented foods back in our diet. It should be daily. It should be daily. So and you have the ability to choose your foods and create gardens at your home and, you know, read labels so we can start learning where to at least look at your sugar content or maybe some of the common chemicals or whatever. You know, I pretty much don't buy anything with fragrance written on it.
00:29:18:06 - 00:29:37:16
Danielle
So just kind of picking and choosing some places where you can slowly implement it. I don't think it's something that's overnight and I don't want to overwhelm anyone. I think you could probably agree to that with gut health or like even toxins. It's all just about learning and making changes where you can.
00:29:37:21 - 00:30:05:23
Laura
Yeah, and definitely like listening to this is such a great step and now you have this information. So the next now you know, so the next time you are making your choice of what to purchase, to eat or what to purchase to wash your hands with, you'll you'll be empowered with the knowledge of how this can enhance or harm my health.
00:30:05:23 - 00:30:23:16
Danielle
Yeah, I think it's doable. I think, like I said I didn't start my journey right away. I sure didn’t and I still went down this path of finding naturopathic medicine, which we can talk about a whole ‘nother day. But I'm, I think that from there it was just baby steps. It was like, I'm going to drink more water.
00:30:24:07 - 00:30:41:18
Danielle
I'm going to, like, throw all this Dawn dish soap when it's done and I’m going to switch. I'm going to I'm just going to like once it's all ran out of is going to buy something new. Or when I go to the grocery store, I'm going to buy a few foods that I wouldn't normally do, right? I just think it was like, taste the rainbow.
00:30:41:18 - 00:30:47:03
Danielle
Got it. When you look at your grocery cart, this is all you really need to do. Is it live the real plans?
00:30:47:05 - 00:30:48:13
Laura
Yes. Yes.
00:30:49:04 - 00:30:54:12
Danielle
And are we tasting the rainbow? Are we getting colors and all the, you know, purples and the greens and the reds and the yellows.
00:30:55:02 - 00:30:57:07
Laura
And you don't need anything else in your cart?
00:30:57:13 - 00:31:19:01
Danielle
No, I really don't. I think a lot of people think that, like, dinner has to be this like big, huge event. And I promise you, once you just start learning how to just take real food, it doesn't need like a whole, like ordeal like a lot of the meals that I make are 30 minutes and under.
00:31:19:01 - 00:31:28:12
Laura
Yes, but they're nourishing like you've probably never experienced if you're like me, I had never experienced nourishing foods, so.
00:31:28:12 - 00:31:53:08
Danielle
I can I say one other thing because I came to the realization, okay, I'm not perfect. I have eaten out righ. I go to the fast food on occasion, every time I go through a fast food drive in because I'm hungry, right? You're like, I'm hungry. I need food. Now is always taking more time than if I would have just drove home and made myself a meal.
00:31:53:16 - 00:31:54:05
Laura
Yes.
00:31:54:15 - 00:32:05:15
Danielle
More time, more money. And I promise you, the food that you just ate will keep you like full and sustainable much longer than what you would have eaten at a fast food restaurant.
00:32:06:01 - 00:32:42:10
Laura
Yes. And I. I would add to that with what you were talking about, that a nutritionist once said to me, start now paying attention to how you feel when after you've eaten that. So if that if fast food is part of your routine and you are not ready to give that up or a sugary sweet, you know, after dinner, really get in tune with your body, you eat it and just really like feel how you feel and acknowledge it.
00:32:42:10 - 00:32:43:13
Danielle
It is amazing.
00:32:43:13 - 00:32:44:09
Laura
It is.
00:32:44:09 - 00:32:45:05
Danielle
It really is.
00:32:45:05 - 00:32:46:10
Laura
So amazing.
00:32:46:10 - 00:33:06:12
Danielle
When you, when the light bulb goes off on like your body actually trying to work with you because I really do believe it has this like it wants to be in balance, it wants to be in homeostasis, it wants to work with you. Once you start to realize that, you are like, Oh my God, my body's actually telling me something here.
00:33:06:19 - 00:33:21:05
Danielle
And when I do what it's asking for, I actually feel like a thousand times better. And then when you go to do that same thing and you feel worse like it, no wonder why. Because you have realized where you're at and what you can do to reverse that.
00:33:21:17 - 00:33:52:23
Laura
Yes. And that's where I kept struggling, like, why am I so happy by doing this? But I've come up now, after all these years of compounded health of the the word reward, like your body rewards you with just exaltation and soaring and joy and good performance. Yeah. Your body's actually performing the Ferris wheel. Yeah, like it's meant to. And it's like, Oh, my God, I can't believe this.
00:33:52:23 - 00:34:09:09
Laura
Yeah. I would say, like, think about the time that you felt, like, amazing and write that down because that can be a driver to making changes in when you start to feel that way more, you want to do more and be better and it's a snowball effect.
00:34:10:03 - 00:34:40:20
Laura
Okay. I'm going to start balling now. This is so inspiring. The good news is we live like less than a mile away from each other, so we can do this all the time in future episodes. But thank you so much. If you want to keep learning Dr. Danielle is creating the most amazing content. Tell them, tell our listener here what how they can find you.
00:34:41:03 - 00:35:01:08
Danielle
Yeah, definitely. So I have a website it's www.bydesignimc.com so you can find me there. I have a lot of blog content coming out and being created. Otherwise I do. I do a lot of free fun content on my Instagram page, which I will just link. I'm sure there's a way to link it, right?
00:35:01:13 - 00:35:07:00
Danielle
It’s Dr.Danielle.ND, but we'll we'll put it on there so you can find the right one.
00:35:07:00 - 00:35:18:13
Laura
Danielle two lls. dr.danielle.nd Yes. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much.
00:35:18:13 - 00:35:26:18
Danielle
Thank you so much for having me. This has been so fun. And I love your space and your puppers. Who is going to be a famous.
00:35:27:02 - 00:35:38:22
Laura
She’s been able to smell our bison back ribs that we just took out of the oven before we started. They’re like smelling so good.
00:35:38:23 - 00:35:42:01
Danielle
They’re smelling so good.
00:35:42:01 - 00:35:43:07
Laura
Bye!
