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Still losing bone even though you’re taking calcium?
Struggling with bloating, IBS, or digestive issues alongside osteoporosis?
Wondering if your gut could be quietly impacting your bone density?
Then this episode is for you.
I sat down with gut health specialist and HealthyGut.com founder Steven Wright, who overcame severe IBS after years of navigating both conventional and alternative medicine, and we explored the connection between gut health and bone remodeling.
We discuss how poor digestion, low stomach acid, microbiome imbalance, chronic inflammation, and low levels of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate may contribute to bone loss, and the foundational steps that may help restore balance.
Topics Covered
00:00 – Episode Start
02:46 – Steven’s IBS Story & Breaking Point
06:09 – The Specific Carbohydrate Diet
09:46 – The Gut-Bone Health Connection
10:12 – Microbiome & Bone Remodeling
12:34 – Stomach Acid & Mineral Absorption
17:12 – Short Chain Fatty Acids Explained
18:15 – Butyrate & Chronic Disease
23:01 – Carnivore & Vegan Diet Risks
25:24 – Why Probiotics Aren’t Enough
26:30 – Why Butyrate May Be Missing
29:05 – Tributyrin Explained
35:47 – Step-by-Step Gut Optimization
38:46 – Where to Find/Connect with Steven Wright
Resources Mentioned
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The information contained within this episode should not be considered medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare team before making changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.
Why is gut health so important for bone health?
Here's the crazy thing. As we age, we lose microbiome diversity and we have a higher chance
of microbiome dysbiosis. And so those are the conditions that will then send signals
to basically eat up more bone faster. It doesn't matter if you eat the best wild
caught salmon or local everything. If you don't actually get the nutrients out of that food,
you won't have the nutrients for the bones.
You could talk through this digestive process and at each phase what's taking place and
how we can optimize that.
Yeah, so digesting them.
Welcome to the Bone Coach Show dedicated to helping you understand all things related
to diet, lifestyle, bone health and how you can live and thrive with low bone density
and osteoporosis. I'm your host, Kevin Ellis, certified health coach, health and well
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in my early thirties, I transformed my health through diet and lifestyle and now help
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Welcome, welcome to this episode of the bonecoach show joining us today to explore osteoporosis
and gut health and the little known fatty acid affecting bones, gut and whole body health
is Stephen Wright. Stephen Wright is a health engineer, Kalish Functional Medicine Institute
graduate and gut health specialist. He spent close to $400,000 overcoming his own health
challenge is using everything from Western medicine to shamans. Stephen is the founder
of healthy gut.com and he lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Shea and their two dogs
Stephen. Welcome to the show.
Kevin, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to this. Let's start out with how you got
into having this passion around helping people heal their guts, where that all started
and how and why you created healthy gut.com.
Yeah, like most people's journeys, I had my own problems and I had to go outside of the
normal route to heal those problems and that's, you know, that's the short version of it.
I was somebody who was nicknamed the gas man by my family. I was so smelly. My head, like,
just a lot of IBS and bloating my entire life looking back. Now there were fluctuations
in it and it got worse after certain things such as a lot of antibiotics for my acne
in high school and then worse after college, which was a ton of stress, beer and pizza.
And then I was in a consulting role. It was like high stress, big four accounting firm
for Fortune 100 companies. And at that point in time, everything that I would eat would
blow me. So it didn't matter if I was doing chicken and salad or Chicago deep dish pizza.
I was in Chicago at the time. I would just immediately swell up and then I would have
like stabbing knife pains. And so this is a type of IBS called visceral hypersensitivity
and everybody has it. But it's like a super sensitization of the nerves and the gut.
And so if you've ever had that experience, you know, like, there's only one thing you
want and the only thing one thing you can focus on. And that's like basically farting.
Like you need the gas to relieve the pressure off the nerves. And so I would essentially
cropped us my coworkers on for sure. I'm sorry, guys, every day and they complained
of my boss, probably as they should have. And so my boss called me in and was like, hey,
the smelly guy, you got to handle this. And so that was kind of, I call it like the four
by four to the face for me because I had plenty of other options I could have chosen to
like try to figure this out. But I needed a lot of embarrassing experiences to really
seek help. And so when I did seek help, all the Western doctors, you know, we're like,
here's all the antibiotics you want. Here's all the metamusol, whole grains. And those
things didn't work. And so luckily, I had a good friend Jordan from college who had
celiac disease. And he was having his own struggles with the gluten free diet. He had found
this other diet called the specific carbohydrate diet. This was also 2008, 2009. So the internet
was not what it is now. He convinced me after a long night on the toilet to get on this
diet, they're making all my food from scratch. And within literally a few days of doing
this, like cutting out a bunch of basically all processed food, cutting out a bunch of
different carbohydrates, 50% of my pain was gone, like literally in days. And this is
something I've had for like literally my whole life in my experience. And this just like
awoken a power in me. Like I had basically given away all my power. And then it was like
holy cow, I can affect how my body feels on a regular basis. I don't have to accept their
facts as my my life sentence. And so that mixed with a bunch of anger and shame. I was like,
I can figure this out. I can reverse engineer this. I don't have any medical training, but
I have an engineering background. And my schooling is just as hard as they're schooling.
And all my schooling was about was focused on solving complex problems. So why can't I
figure out this complex system? And so that's what started the very first iterations of
healthy guy, which were called specific carbohydrate diet lifestyle or a CD lifestyle, lots of
blogging. And then just I'm just one of those people I can't stop digging, like I just
got to know. And so you know, I just kept going deeper into nutrition and then supplements
and then functional medicine and then nervous system. And it just keeps going.
That was actually one of the inroads that I came across you many, many years ago was through
the SCD. It was like an SCD blog or something like that. Yeah. Let's talk about the specific
carbohydrate diet for just a minute. What is that? Why would someone use it? Why did
you, someone who had, you know, smelly gas? And I'm sure there are people listening
right now that have chronic digestive distress for long periods of time. It's causing issues
with their family or the environment or their relationships. And they may be self isolating
or something because of that. Why did you have near immediate resolution in those issues
when you started implementing this protocol? Yeah. So this is one of the, if not the first
sort of digestive diet actually is a specific carbohydrate diet. So it actually comes out
of the 1920s. Everybody who was born with celiac disease back then died. And these two
doctors at Vanderbilt University were like, how do we stop these kids from dying? And they
basically just trialed all these different foods. And they figured out which foods allowed
them to thrive and which foods would cause more GI upset. And then they would go on to
have malnutrition and die. And so the grouping of food that they settled on was really
basically almost free of complex carbohydrates and die saccharides. And it was basically focused
mostly on monosaccharide foods. Their foods are heavy in that. And so it became known later as
the specific carbohydrate diet. That was Dr. Sydney Haas. And then later on, nutritionists
only got shawl actually updated it and modernized it in the 90s, the late 80s and kind of renamed
it after it worked for her daughter who had all sort of colitis. And so they didn't know anything
they didn't know gluten back then. They didn't know seed oil. They didn't know nothing back then.
They didn't know probiotics. They just were literally like what works, what doesn't work,
what works, what doesn't work. And so I think it's amazing that they settled on this idea that
essentially these group of people who have this celiac disease, who have this IBS, they don't tolerate
complex carbohydrates. And so if we now run that through our scientific lens of what we know in
2024, we know that if you have intestinal inflammation, you're going to lose the brushboarder enzymes
that break down complex and die saccharide carbohydrates. So basically, if you have celiac disease,
which is the gold standard of celiac diagnosis is a biopsy that shows your villi are like blunted.
They're like shag carpet that got cut off those shag carpet in the inside of your small intestine.
That's where they released brushboarder enzymes. The final breakdown of all carbohydrates are
these brushboarder enzymes. And so what they did is they developed this diet that ended up being
for people with intestinal inflammation who didn't have enough enzyme to actually break down their
food. And then when you when you remove those foods, you literally stop the bug like the bugs that
eat those foods that are not being properly broken down by your own body. They get passed further
down to bugs. Then you might hear this now called SIBO or CFO or different types of dysbiosis.
And that's just the same as if you threw sugar on the floor in your kitchen. You're like, I don't
understand why there's ants. How come there's ants in my kitchen? It's like, dude, if you put food in
nature, nature grows to meet the demand of the food that's available. And that's a lot of what's
happening in a lot of different gut cases. And in this situation, if you remove the food for that
nature, a lot of that fermentation and gas process that's happening from those bugs just literally
goes away very quickly. Yeah, that's fascinating. Really is fascinating. And let's talk about
why is gut health so important for bone health. There are a couple of other things related to this
we're going to talk about. But primarily because our audience is has osteopenia, has osteoporosis that
got some kind of bone loss. They're trying to build stronger bones. That's an important piece for
them. So let's tie in the gut health and bone health piece. And there are some other specific
things we can chat about in a second. You've definitely been studying this longer and harder than
I have. But my understanding, if you had to say there's like a couple different factors that are
really important for bone health. One is probably stimulus from the environment. One has got to be
like your building blocks, your actual nutrient status. And at least one other component appears
to be the generalized state of your gut. And especially the microbiome, the health of that microbiome
because my review of the literature suggests that the microbiome is sending basically signals to
and again, I'm trying to get up to speed up as much as I can. But if you have osteoblasts which
are making bone and if osteoclasts which are breaking down bone, a microbiome that's dysregulated
or is been aged because here's the crazy thing. As we age, we lose microbiome diversity and we
have a higher chance of microbiome dysbiosis. And so those are the conditions that will then send
signals to the osteoclast to basically eat up more bone faster. And then in mice and rad studies,
they've done some really cool research with probiotics and with butyrate where they literally
either mimic full hormone loss of like so they just put them right into like full hormone loss.
And then they give them probiotics and they can actually prevent the bone decay. And then they
do these antibiotic trials where they give them butyrate or other compounds that are gut-specific.
And without the protection from the antibiotics with the butyrate compounds, they start to lose
their bone and they never quite get their bone back even though the other control mice do. And so
this really cool thing where like every nutrient you would need. So all the calcium or the
magnesium or the boron or whatever you need for your bones literally has to go through your gut.
You have to liberate those minerals and those nutrients from your food. It doesn't matter if
you eat the best wild caught salmon or local everything. You like pet your kale before you eat it.
If you don't actually get the nutrients out of that food that you work so hard for because you
don't have good enzymes or good stomach acid or whatever. You won't have the nutrients for
the bones. But then also later down in your gut is your microbiome and that microbiome is sending
signals 24-7 about whether or not you should keep more bone or lose more bone. And what's the
generalized health of the entire human? Yeah, so all of this as you're talking through this,
people need to understand that this starts actually digestion starts in your mouth when you're
actually chewing your food. There's that mechanical breakdown of the food where you're actually
chewing it. You're stimulating different enzymes, your stomach acid, all that kind of stuff.
And just like you said, you have to be able to liberate those minerals and those nutrients and
actually be able to absorb them. If you don't have good stomach acid, you're not going to be able
to extract those nutrients from your food. The calcium, magnesium, iron, B12, all those important
nutrients. If you don't have good stomach acid, that's going to affect the release of enzymes
further down. Maybe you could talk through this digestive process and at each phase what's taking
place and why we need to optimize it, how we can optimize that. My perspective on it and what the
biology says, digestion starts with your smell. So smelling your food, like the moment you start to
smell the food, it actually primes the nervous system to start your stomach to start creating
stomach acid, which you just talked about is pretty critical. So when someone says like,
pray before you eat or take some deep breaths before you eat, yeah, we're trying to get you to relax
and enjoy your meal, but we're also trying to get you to smell more because that action of smelling
actually starts a lot of the digestive enzyme release and the acid release. There's the mechanical
breakdown of the food, but there's also enzymes, mostly amylase in your mouth, which is a carbohydrate
digesting enzyme. And that starts to break down the food as it goes down your esophagus into your
stomach. Then in your stomach, this is a really cool organ that most people, I don't know, just
never think about probably, but it's like a, it's a giant acidic sac and it's so harsh in there
that you would feel it almost like burning in a way because a lot of times you want the stomach to be
around when it's fully acidified with the food in there. You want it to be below two, so round
one and a half or so. And Coca-Cola is around 2.4. Apple cider vinegar, Coca-Cola are about 2.4
on the pH scale. And the pH scale is not linear, it's logarithmic. So 1.4 or 1.5, which is where we
want to be, is actually a logarithm. It's a whole 10x stronger. It's much closer to battery acid,
which I think is right around one. So it's pretty crazy how acidic it gets in there. And that's
really important because number one is killing any microbes that are coming in through the air,
the water, the food there that might try to hurt us. And it's also liberating, like you said,
these minerals at a microscopic level. So the analogy I have for stomach acids, without stomach acid,
think of a flower that's kind of bound up, it's not getting the sunlight in the water, it's not
opening. At a 3D level, what acid does is it opens up the meat or the nuts or the vegetables that you
eat. Such that enzymes can come in and cleave off the nutrients and bind to the nutrients. And so
if you don't have enough stomach acid, you're never really opening the flower or the nutrients of
your meal. And you're not allowing the enzymes and everything else to do their job. So you're right.
If we look at studies for low stomach acid, they have low over time, they'll lose calcium,
magnesium, all these things. So after that, we jump into the small intestine. And this is where you
have most of your enzyme actions. So you have your pancreatic enzymes, which are lipase and amylase
and proteases. And then you have your brush border enzymes, which I spoke about a little bit ago,
that are also mixing in there. And fully, finally, just breaking everything down to these really,
really little chunks, these microscopic chunks, because that's what we need. We need B12 over here.
We need calcium over here. We need magnesium over here. We need amino acids and these really small
peptide chains. Otherwise, it misses its little window of absorption and it travels deeper into
the small intestine. And when that happens, that's where we get into that. Are you putting sugar on
the floor in your kitchen experience below that is our microbiome. So the majority of our microbiome
is actually the end of our small intestine in the beginning of our large intestine. Most people don't
know that they think it's like at the at the end of the chain. It's not. And so that's where the
microbiome is. That's where all the activities happening where your bugs will literally take what's
left over. This is the fermentable fibers, the bright colors of your food. They take the rest of
that and they turn that into more nutrition for themselves as well as for us. And those signaling
molecules, that's where charging fatty acids and butyrate happens. And that's where those become
the signaling mechanisms for the rest of our body that are very important for health or ill health.
And then finally, we extract some more electrolytes and some more water and then we put it in the
toilet. What are short-chain fatty acids and butyrate and then why do we need them?
Yeah. Nutrition nerds are sometimes really inventive and sometimes they're very literal.
Short-chain fatty acids are literally just fatty acids that are real short. Most people have heard
of MCTs now. They're just like medium lengths of fatty acids. If you're counting them in a
microscope, there's a certain number and then they're short. And so the short-chain fatty acids
are mostly made by the microbiome. You don't really find them else in nature. There's microscopic
amounts in butter. There's microscopic amounts elsewhere, but they will be destroyed by your
stomach acid before they ever get there. And you have this sort of hippie community between the bugs
where this bug, you know, is like watching the children and then this bug is like, you know,
farming and this bug is like making the food and this bugs the cleaner like you have this whole
ecosystem down there where they pass nutrients off. And one of the big end products is short-chain
fatty acids of which there's six to seven depending, you know, maybe more depending on how you
want to characterize them. But the main three are acetate propaninate and butyrate. And we need all three,
but butyrate is the most anti-inflammatory. It's the most studied and the most systemic, meaning
approximately 90 percent of it is consumed right there in the microbiome by our colonisites,
which are basically the cells of the large intestine. They're metabolism, like their energy
production, their mitochondria, everything they do, they want to be butyrate metabolism. But the
other 10% goes systemic and it goes all over. You can find studies on asthma and low butyrate,
neurovigenerative disease, low butyrate, heart attacks, low butyrate. And then of course,
bones, low butyrate. So pretty much anywhere we look, if you have a chronic disease,
there's a component of low butyrate. What are the ways we can get butyrate into our system?
So the main way, like the idealized way that we would hope it works is that we are eating
a lot of fermentable fibers and vegetables and fruits and starchy tubers. All of those food groups
contain a lot of fermentable product in them that will not, we don't use it anywhere else in
the body. It goes down there to the microbiome and the microbiome creates a ton of butyrate from it.
We are now in a state where research suggests there was plenty of times in history where humans had
like 50 to 70 or 80 grams of fiber per day. We're now in a place where like if even if I did 80 grams,
I would be doubled over in extreme pain and bloating would be terrible. Now we're in a state where
we're trying to get to 30, like 30 to 50 would be like the ideal range. Most of us are like at 10,
maybe less, especially if we're doing some sort of elimination diet for GI distress or for other
chronic diseases. And we end up doing things like low fad map, low histamine or paleoautomune,
but we don't bring in starches anymore. These diets end up becoming
on accident, I think, just due to ignorance, like extremely low fermentable fibers that end up
causing dysbiosis and low butyrate. And so we got to shift the conversation back the other way
because we are in my opinion doing harm at this moment in time. If we stay on these diets longer
than three months and we don't support the mark by them. And you know, I know carnivore is a big
now for people, right? So maybe talk about the impact. I mean, it's kind of understandable that
now you don't have fiber in a card of or diet too. And yes, some people, a short term can see
relief and improvements from doing that. And it could be maybe a short term tool, but longer term,
you don't have the fiber, you're not getting the butyrate. What are the other impacts? You know,
they can come from that. A is bone coach Kevin Ellis. I want to take one more minute to talk about.
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inside very soon. Let's get back to the episode. In general, the farther you get away from
what is considered like diets that have assisted populations at a healthy level. So the more you get
to the fringe, I would say one end of the fringe is carnivore, the other end of the fringe is vegan.
The farther you get away from some version of moderation of, and I'm talking not Western diet,
I'm talking like healthy pull food like diets. The farther on those spectrums, you are risking
several things. Now, I would actually call both of those spectrums elimination diet because
you're essentially concentrating all your nutrients and your anti-nutrients as well as your
toxin load through one type of food substrate. That might feel fantastic for three months,
six months, nine months, but like I said, sure that you can talk all kinds of cool stuff about carnivore
and like the tons of nutrients that you might get from all this animal product in these nose
detail eating. And that's true, but you're also aggregating all the toxins from those animals as well.
And you're also in the process related to the microbiome, you're changing it drastically. And so
I think you're creating dysbiosis over there. On the vegan side, you're creating micronutrient
deficiencies that is absolutely known and that's absolutely well documented that your brain is going
to slow down. Your bones are going to be worse. There's significant issues on the vegan side.
And so, you know, I've been around long enough to see several fads. This is just another fad.
There's an important thing here, which is that I acknowledge that for many people,
it feels wonderful because it is a version of an elimination diet. It's the most extreme.
And you are killing off what is probably a very dysbiotic microbiome. You're cleaning up the sugar
in the kitchen right. There's no more sugar going in the kitchen. Like, you're totally changing
things down there. And that's probably really healthy for like eight weeks. And then you probably
should start thinking about what's going to happen next because long term, there's never been a vegan
society and there's never been a carnivore society. And there never will be because both diets have
extreme issues when it comes to long term health. So moving beyond just food to support good,
healthy gut, good overall health, good healthy bone health, and we get into supplementation.
Right. I know there are tools that we can use to help improve our gut health.
What are some of the tools that you like to see people using when they're focused on improving
their gut health? Well, I have come like a long way. Like, I've seen some of the fads have been
partisan of the fads. And so, for instance, like, I was part of like the probiotics or everything.
Now, I'm like, well, probiotics, like, we've taken more probiotics than ever. We have more issues
than ever. Clearly, probiotics are not the only thing. Maybe not even the first thing we should
focus on. So I've been trying to figure out recently, like, what is the first thing? Like, what are
the things that make sense for most people with gut issues? And the things from me are just doing
the basics of that organ. So is your stomach acid making enough stomach acid? Is your, do you have
enough digestive enzymes or have you through aging or through some sort of other injury or something
do you just not make enough enzymes to it? It doesn't matter how good your autoimmune paleo is
if you don't have enough enzymes. It just doesn't. And then lastly, also, I've been just really
focused on butyrate. I think butyrate is the key molecule of the gut. All my research continues
to lead back to butyrate that there is a connection in almost every part of the body, but also in
every layer of the gut. Like, everything you might want from the gut, like if you've heard of
something called leaky gut syndrome or leaky gut and testell permeability, it's not a good thing.
And it's associated with bone loss. It's also associated with a lot of other chronic diseases.
And I've been trying to unlock that for a long time. And there's lots of complex supplements out
there. But one thing we could do is just kind of do an end around and just supplement with butyrate,
stabilize the entire gut and bring the one nutrient that we're struggling to make. And then from
there, try to focus on the next layer up, which is that that hippy community is the is that
gut dysbiosis. Can we reformulate it to make it into a healthy microbiome again? And then can
you actually get the fermentable matter from your mouth down to the microbiome without having
pain, you know, without having constipation, diarrhea, bloating, whatever it might be. And so
from that perspective, I found a lot more success than I ever have in my entire career is starting
at the butyrate level, trying to rebuild the gut from there, from the formation of the bottom
up has worked a lot better for me than any other proche I've ever seen.
And how much butyrate do we need to support a good healthy gut?
Everybody's unique because everybody's diets unique. So like, you know, if you're eating rice or
white potato or sweet potato on a regular basis, like on a daily basis and you're having some
berries and some vegetable matter, like your butyrate status is going to be significantly better
than somebody who's not doing those things, who's having just like a handful of blueberries one
day and like a little kale in a blender and then like, oh yeah, potatoes on Fridays, like their
butyrate status is going to be a lot worse. And so for the people who are number one, you're struggling
with like a chronic disease, you're struggling with gut related issues, your need for butyrate
is probably going to be more. And then if your diet is just low,
infrementable matter, you're going to need probably more supplementation as well.
That looks like for our product, we may, I think the world's best be very product and we could
talk about why there's a few key differentiators. But for our product, that looks like three to six
pills per day is what most people take to see like significant like, wow, I noticed something.
So all your research is taking you down this path of butyrate is this key.
Chorchane fatty acid for gut health, we need it. And you develop the product. Let's talk about
what the product is, why you formulated the way you did, how it's actually working to help people
improve their gut health. Beat rates on a new concept. This is not like some revolutionary idea.
It's been around for like a long like 50 years, like a lot of people have known about it.
There was first generations. I like to talk about it like phones. So like there was first generation
flip phones and like walkie-talkie phones and stuff like Dex tells if people had those back in
the day. That was like the first generation of be rate supplements. They were called sodium
beta rate. And the promise of the research has been around for a long time. But the supplementing
with those CalMag beta rates and sodium beta rates for most people, including myself for a lot
of clinicians I talk to, they just don't reduce. Like the literature says we need this. And then in
practice, it just doesn't ever really work as it you had hoped. A few years ago,
tributarine, which is a different form of beta rate, started to make a comeback. It's been around
since the 90s. It's just a it's a fat molecule with butyric acid bonded to it versus sodium
and butyric acid bonded together. But some scientists started working with it and they figured out that
they could do some cool stuff with some enteric capsules. And enteric capsules are like the
difference between your first phones and your iPhone 15. So regular capsule like a gel cap or a
veggie cap, it'll be disintegrated in like three to seven minutes in your stomach. Like it is
like you're swallowing it. If you ever burped pills back up because you took too many like there's
a reason why like those pills hit that acid. They start opening. So certain compounds you really
need to protect from your stomach and butyric acid is one of those. There's gastroresistant pills
and those last about 45 35 to 45 minutes in your acid. But your food spends two hours
approximately in that acid state. And so we need a technology that can go much longer. And so
that technology is called enteric technology or enteric capsules enteric coating. So there's lots
of different ones. I was able to find a researcher in Spain who had been focusing his entire life
on this and he had cracked the code on making extremely pure tributarine and then finding a patent
pending enteric capsule to code it. And so we were able to license his creation, his invention
and bring it over here. And so it really is truly different than any other brand out there due
to the tributarine nature as well as the capsule technology. Fantastic. So if somebody is trying to
incorporate this into their plan, what does that typically look like? Are they? Do they have to eat
it with their food? Can they take it outside of their food or they take it at every single meal?
You know, are you taking it all at once in one big dose? All that kind of stuff. What are the
kind of specifics around it? K is Bonecoach Kevin Ellis. Thanks so much for turning into this
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you confident in your stronger bones plan today. Yeah. Well, the cool thing is is you'd be making it
24 seven. So you don't need to take it with your meals. It also has the Interic capsule which makes
it like a no smell. Nutric acid smells like deep vomit. It's like you don't you don't want to smell
it. So this capsule like locks it in because it's it's so good at keeping out moisture and air.
And so it's a really small gel cap arzus. It's almost like a D3. The size is like a D3 gel cap if you
use those. A lot of people who are just beginning this, they take it before bed because there's a big
line of research around deep sleep numbers and low beta rate. And so some people actually can notice
on their ore ring or their whoop band that their deep sleep numbers improve. If you're somebody with
a loose tools like I tend to think of like guts kind of like personality select some people's
personality goes towards cost of patient. Some people's personality their gut goes towards
loose tools and diarrhea. If you're on the loose tool diarrhea side like you can just start
loading the stuff up and you'll probably firm up your tools very quickly and you'll find a number
you know that number might be three per day might be four per day might be five per day where you
just having like really amazing hoops and you're really happy with how things are going. You're
paying it down all those things on the concentrated side. Our theory is that these people actually have
the worst amount of beta rate. They have the lowest amounts. And so they need to go slower. And so we
have them slowly every three days introduce a capsule. And then again they have like some pretty
cool spontaneous changes in their gut around two to three caps per day. I mean that usually takes
them like eight to 10 weeks. And so because beta rate is almost like magnesium or vitamin D for
the body. It's impacting legitimately almost everything in the gut. So it's making your mucus
membrane thicker. It's strengthening the tight junctions between your cells. It's making your
microbiome more diverse and thicker. It's actually increasing the amount of these antimicrobial
peptides that we release that help us with our gut immune system. It's like a weighted blanket for
mass cells. Massels are what release histamine. And if you're somebody with histamine intolerance,
you'll know what that is. But basically it helps soothe the mass cells. It almost everywhere where
you look, beta rate is doing something. And so I can't tell you what your family history is,
what your current status of your gut is. But it will help once you hit that right dosage.
That's fantastic. Well, I know you have generously given our audience a code for the product is
Tributornex. Tributornex. And it's code $15 off and free shipping. If you use the code bone
code, we're going to link down below in the show notes to this. But I love to hear like their
products that you probably have never even heard of or compounds you've never even heard of or
short-chain fatty acids that maybe you have heard of, but you didn't know how to apply it into your
plan. And this is a fantastic resource that Steven has put together and his company healthy gut has
put together. So if you were to summarize just the steps of somebody who's looking to improve
their gut health, obviously won't incorporate some butrate into your plan. But what are the kind of
step-by-step pieces that you would go through? I would say number one, if you're not having
gut-related issue, like you don't associate with like I have gut problems, you're like more like I
have osteoporosis or I'm just longevity focus, I would say your goal is to increase the amount of
colorful fruits and vegetables that you eat on a regular basis and don't forget to incorporate
starchy tubers and those are your potatoes and your rice and things like this because this is the
fuel for a healthy microbiome. And when you lose your microbiome, just like you lose your eye,
just like you lose your ovaries, your chestes, everything goes downhill. So anything you can do
to protect that microbiome by feeding it, the food it wants, that's going to help you age,
just going to help you have a better gut and a better life. If you can't tolerate those foods,
that means a few things. One of those things means that probably don't have the enzymes required
to break that food down and you might not have the stomach acid. So you can do an HCL challenge at
home, you can do enzyme tests with like our product or other products at home to see if it will help.
But at the end of the day, if you've already removed a lot of these foods because they hurt you
in some way or fashion, what I would encourage you to do is start with tributer next.
Rebuild your gut from that part forward. So you'll be helping heal any sort of intestinal
permeability you have. You'll be helping with the microbiome, all these different food reactions,
things like that. You'll be helping. And then from there, start building back up. So then check
on your enzymes, check on your stomach acid. Meanwhile, you're increasing the food treating,
you're having fermentable foods, you're having blueberries every day or whatever it might be.
So it's that later on in a few months, maybe six, 12 months from now, you can actually cycle
back off of the tributer X and just go through life with a higher fiber diet.
And for everybody listening, just to summarize again, in terms of the connection between gut health
and bone health, there's a major connection between the two. Obviously, your bones are a large
reserve of minerals. So you need to be absorbing those minerals in nutrients. If you don't have good
stomach acid, if you have blunted villi from celiac disease, or if you have some other chronic
digestive distress where you've got loose tools and constipation, there's a good chance there's
some absorption issues going on there that have to be addressed. So absorption is a big component
of that. Another big component that connects your gut health to your bone health is that 70% of
your immune system is in your gut. The cells have breakdown bone. You know, if we're stimulating
that digestive system in the immune system, that's going to speak in the same language as the
cells that break down your bone. It's going to increase that osteoclast activity. That's going
to reduce your bone density and your bone strength. So we don't want that to happen. We want to resolve
those digestive issues. Get them in check and healthy gut and Stephen writes company and tributer
and X can help you with that. So again, I'm going to link down to this link in the show notes.
And you use code bone coach. You'll get $15 off free shipping. Anything else you want to share,
Stephen? No, no, I think this is awesome to have this conversation Kevin. I just hope that if you
have questions about bone health, about the gut health stuff, reach out to my team, support
a healthy gut. We're a company that not only believes in building the best products in the world
or our niches that we enter, but also we have health coaches. All of our sports staff are
certified health coaches of one type or another. So you can call us, you can ask whatever question
you have about it. If you can try this or if you can't try this, they're also there to help you
with the dosing. If this was confusing or you're just wondering what's the best way for you,
we're very committed to helping people get individualized protocols because we think that's where
breakthroughs really happen. I love that. Well, for everybody listening, you can find all the
resources show notes mentioned at over at bonecoach.com. We'll link to this right down below this
episode in the podcast or wherever you're watching it. And I want to thank everybody again,
including Stephen's for your time. We'll see you in the next episode.
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The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast

The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast

The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast
