I answer questions posted by listeners/viewers

Hi everybody, going through the questions and comments posted on my YouTube videos.

I thought I'd go through some of the questions I have come up more than once and or questions

or comments that raise important issues that I think be best to address.

Now I would remind you that about 80-90% of the questions raised on my YouTube videos

are actually already answered in my many books as well as my thousands of blog posts, my

Defined Health Podcasts and of course other videos on this YouTube channel.

But super bodies, super gut, weak belly, weak belly total health, weak belly tending,

grain detox, weak belly cook bug, weak belly 30-minute cook bug, undockered.

I've addressed a lot of things and you'll find the answers, almost all of them actually

in those books.

If you don't have the books, my blog, WilliamdamesMD.com, thousands of posts there, going

back over 10 years, I believe, and those other properties.

So the answer is already out there, so this is just an effort to make it a little bit

easier, I suppose.

So let's address some of the questions that have been posted on this YouTube channel.

So Kozy Pillows asks, I've been steadily losing weight on keto six weeks.

Just started eating this yogurt half cut, I believe this person is talking about lactobacillus

roti yogurt, half cut per day, and gained four pounds in five days.

I'm really not sure if I should continue with it.

That's great news, because what you're doing is, so I encourage everybody to get a

waifness idea of losing weight.

We now know with good evidence that losing weight, that is by most conventional methods,

whether it's a diet, or a bariatric surgery, or even a pharmaceutical agent.

We know that, and this has been tracked, over 60,000 people have now been tracked, as

long as 20 years, people who lose weight by any method involved in your reduction cows

will die several years younger.

And your last few years are likely to be plagued by false fractures, frailty, loss of independence,

and other health problems, even the acceleration of dementia.

So we don't try to lose weight, what we try to do, and this is the conversation I've tried

to cultivate with my super body book.

Let's not talk about losing weight.

Let's talk about specifically targeting loss of fat, but especially abdominal visceral

fat, the most problematic form of fat, while preserving or even increasing muscle.

So the Achilles heel, the problem with conventional weight loss methods, is you lose muscle.

You lose huge amounts of muscle, established fat.

About 25% by quarter of the weight you lose, and any kind of cow that reducing program

is muscle.

And that impairs your health and accelerates your death and health decline.

So if you gained weight on the yogurt, that's almost always muscle, that's good news.

Personally, I gained 13 pounds of muscle, which shocked me when I first did this many

years ago.

By the way, in my early 60s, I gained 13 pounds of muscle.

Over three weeks, my strength increased, no matter what I could handle, using the machines

in the gym, went up by 50%, and you know what I was doing?

I was going to the gym once a week for maybe 15 minutes, because I don't know about you.

I hate, I hate the whole process of going to the gym.

I do it.

I do other things like ride my bike and go for walks, et cetera, but I'll go to the gym

for you to use the machines, maybe 15 minutes once a week, and a busy week twice, right?

So you're gaining muscle.

This is excellent news because it is a huge advantage to regain, we're not trying to

get you to look at Arnold Schwarzenegger did, we're trying to help you regain the muscle

you've lost from aging.

And if you made the mistake of losing weight by cutting calories in some fashion, okay?

So you want that muscle, that's good news.

So we're just, no, why would you stop it?

So several ways to track this, look at the mirror.

If your waist is smaller, and your shoulders neck and chest are firmer, you know you gain

muscle.

Your thighs are bright, or use a bio-impedance scale.

That is a body composition scale, preferably one that you stand on and has handles also.

We say hand to foot, bio-impedance, because that's a little bit more accurate than just

foot to foot.

That is no, no handle part.

There are many good devices that do that, ideally you also get a device that tracks visceral

fat.

You want one that scores your visceral fat.

They don't actually measure it in kilograms or pounds.

They give you a visceral fat score.

That's a whole lot of the conversation, but think about that, so that you can track

loss of fat, loss of visceral fat, return of youthful muscle, okay?

Lance Bass 395, I ask, no matter how much I sanitize, use different types of England,

my yogurt, yogurt comes out smelling like calminor.

I went a full year without a bad batch, now the new strains seem to be bad.

This is contamination, most likely from a species called Basilis Sirius, C-E-R-E-U-S.

Basilis Sirius is everywhere, it's in your hair, it's on your hands, it's on your

kitchen counter, it's in the air, it's on your utensils, it's ubiquitous, it's just

a normal bacteria that floats everywhere and occupies our environment.

So if you were a little bit lax or sloppy in preparing your yogurt, maybe you left the

lid off too long, maybe while you're preparing the mix, right?

Maybe if your anion was contaminated, that'd be another, if your utensils are contaminated,

especially something like maybe a spatula or spoon that has a joint, so some of these

devices, for instance, have a handle, a plastic or wood handle, and then a plastic or silicone

blade, and whether to meet, that's a source for contamination.

If you used a blender, which you shouldn't use a blender, by the way, because mechanical

blending kills microbes, but if you did, the blades can be a source of contamination, especially

if you use a stick blender, where the blades are recessed and very difficult to clean.

So look for sources of contamination, also look for a source of airflow that contaminates

your yogurt.

For instance, heating vent or air-conditioning vent blowing near your yogurt or diffusing

device you're using in your kitchen for nice smells, vacuum to them.

So look for sources of contaminate, you throw it away, if it smells like that, it tastes

throw it away, start from scratch, be careful, clean your utensils, look for sources, don't

sneeze on it, don't cough on it, right, and try to keep this thing uncovered for a brief

a time period as possible, because these microbes like bacillus, serious, are in the air.

S-E-M-A-J-O-I-R-A-N-I-L-O-M-7176.

Could glyphosate build up, be the thing that keeps rotarine, gas, ryan, and phantis?

Those are microbes, of course, from a colonizing, oh, absolutely, yes.

So when Monsanto, many years go first, filed its patents for glyphosate as an herbicide,

right, round up.

We also filed patents for glyphosate as an antibiotic.

Now, a truly beneficial antibiotic would kill pathogens, right, species of microbes that

cause diseases, a lousy antibiotic would be one that kills probiotic, beneficial species

and doesn't kill those pathogens, we'll guess which one glyphosate is.

It kills beneficial species, it kills species like lactobacillus, bifidobacteria, like the

ones that are listed in the question, fecalabacterium, all the beneficial microbes, but it doesn't

kill fecal microbes, that we say proteobacteria, like ecoli, salmonella, pseudomonas, pathogens.

So while we need better evidence, I speculate that exposure to glyphosate, which of course

is ubiquitous, it's in your water, air, clothing, skin, in your body, in your food, it's

everywhere.

Glyphosate selects for the proliferation of fecal microbes and kills off beneficial microbes.

So unfortunately, it's very difficult to be entirely glyphosate free, all we can do

is minimize our exposure.

For instance, try not to live near golf course, try to talk to your neighbors if you see them

spraying round up or other herbicides.

Of course, don't use it on your own lawn by organic food, whatever possible, filter

your water.

Alright, do what you can to minimize exposure, sadly, unfortunately, we cannot be entirely

free of this awful, awful herbicide.

Now you're seeing this whole flood of lawsuits against Bayer, the German company that acquired

Monsanto.

So absolutely, glyphosate is an evil, and it probably is a big part of the reason why

so much of the U.S. and the rest of the world now has SIBO, small intestinal bacterial

offgrowth, because glyphosate and exposure in a bag, perhaps other factors like food

additives, kill off beneficial microbes that were suppressing fecal microbes in the

colon that allows over proliferation of fecal microbes in the colon that then ascend into

the small intestine, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

And these microbes, fecal microbes that invade the small intestine live and die in a very

short period of time of hours, they shed their toxic compounds into the bloodstream that's

called endotoxemia.

What are the effects of endotoxemia?

Well, mental emotional effects, anxiety, depression, hatred, anger, how about skin effects,

rosacea, psoriasis, eczema, how about joint effects, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis,

joint pain, fibromyalgia.

In other words, we've got to read exam, reconsider all we thought we knew about health in light

of the contribution of microbes that have been disrupted by such things as glyphosate and

other factors that now have come to dominate small intestine, thereby entering the bloodstream

with their toxic compounds and exporting their effects all throughout the body with all

kinds of adverse effects.

So we address that, right?

We minimize our exposure to glyphosate and other factors and then try to rebuild.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, please see all those things I've mentioned, my

super gut book, my blog post, many, many blog posts on microbiome issues, of course, my

YouTube channel, et cetera.

Van Camerawoman, 7399, asks, the Rotary Yoga I made and took religiously for 46 months

to turn my life around.

I guess it's not a question, but it's not worth sharing anyway.

Now it's 70.

I am farma free and feel like I did it 40, full of bounce, good health and positivity.

I take it less often now, but always have a batch ready.

So thank you.

Reflecting the power of reorganizing, rebuilding a healthy microbiome.

Now the Rotary Yoga is not the only thing you should do, it's one of the things you

should do.

Lactobacillus Rotary Recall is a microbe ubiquitous in all mammals on this planet.

Dear moose rats, beavers, name a mammal, and that creates birds also, by the way, should

have lactobacillus Rotary in its gastrointestinal microbiome.

It's a very unique microbe because it colonizes the full length of the GI tract, which is

very unusual.

From mouth to anus, everything in between.

So it's very important.

And one of the great benefits of Rotary is that it produces, what's called a bacteriocin,

a natural antibiotic called rodering that's effective in killing fecal microbes, like E. coli,

salmonella.

In other words, you lose Rotary because it's very susceptible to common antibiotics, like

a moxicillin, or chlorythromycin, or whatever, that you took even 10-20 years ago.

It killed off all your lactobacillus Rotary and you lost all its benefits.

We therefore restore this ubiquitous mammalian microbe.

If we were to sequence the gastrointestinal microbiome of somebody who lives in Savannah of Africa,

a hunter-gatherer, or someone who lives in the jungles of Brazil or Venezuela, the

Amazonian jungle, or the highland mountainous jungle of New Guinea.

These are hunter-gatherer populations, unexposed antibiotics and other things.

They all have Rotary also.

It's us as modern people exposed to antibiotics and other factors that have either reduced

populations or outright lost the Rotary.

That's what we're doing.

We're restoring things.

That's the philosophy of my entire program.

We're restoring things the way it should have been all along.

All we're doing with Rotary is restoring a microbe that you should have had all along.

You get even better results if you engage in some other practices and take in lots of

fermented foods, make other microbial yogurts.

It's not yogurt, by the way.

It looks and smells like yogurt.

It's not the stuff in the store.

We're going to ferment other human-sourced microbes.

That's what we're doing.

We're fermenting human-sourced microbes.

Not the traditional yogurt-making or kefir species in those traditional foods.

We're going to ferment human-sourced microbes.

Raw Dane 14 says, I am histamine intolerant.

I've had very bad acid reflux and get extreme headaches and brain fog throughout the day,

especially when I eat certain foods.

I saw your video on how the yogurt can fix things, but how can I do it when it's going

to make me react?

This person has histamine intolerance.

In other words, histamine containing foods, many of them, such as cheese and wine, can

cause all kinds of reactions, skin rashes, emotional effects, asthma, wheezing, science congestion.

The problem is not histamine.

Histamine is a normal signal molecule, like insulin.

If you're a type 2 diabetic and have a very high insulin, does that mean we should remove

all the insulin from your body?

Well, no, you die or develop type 1 diabetes.

Same thing.

Histamine is a normal, healthy signal molecule, but Rotter-Rite produces histamine, so why

is that a problem for some people?

Well, people who've lost the dozens of microbial species in the gastrointestinal tract.

That previously metabolized histamine for you, okay?

So because you have dysbiosis in the colon, but more likely in this entire length of the

small intestine, SIBO, small intestinal bacterial offgrowth, part of that whole picture is you've

lost many species that were supposed to be metabolizing histamine for you.

You add this microbe that does produce a modest quantity of histamine, and it seems like

you're intolerant.

The problem is not histamine.

The problem is not Rotter-Rite, lactobacillus Rotter-Rite.

The problem is the lost microbes that should have been there to process histamine for you.

So before you take the Rotter-Rite, you want to do other things.

So if you're going to make the SIBO yogurt, for instance, which the current recipe is

lactobacillus Rotter-Rite, lactobacillus Gas-Rite, bacillus subtlis, right?

Microbes chosen for the capacity to colonize a small intestine or we're being germinated

in the case of subtlis and produce bacteriocens and pushes back SIBO.

Because we're trying to achieve here.

So you could do this table.

You'll leave out the Rotter-Rite and start with the other two.

The gas-Rite and the bacillus subtlis to start.

Maybe do that for, I don't know, four weeks, eight weeks, something like that.

Until you think you have a response, you can try to introduce the Rotter-Rite then, see

if you can tolerate it.

Another option would be do the Rotter-Rite, but very small quantities.

Maybe a tablespoon, not a half cup.

Another option, using antibiotic in some form.

So in my super gut book, I talked about the two herbal antibiotic regimens that have

actually some proof.

There are other regimens, but they have no proof.

We want at least some evidence of efficacy before you spend money and do something.

So the two regimens, herbal antibiotic regimens that have been shown to have efficacy are the

candidate back in AR, with candidate back in BR, or the FC SIDLE with this bioseye.

Those two have been shown, and I've had many people do it that way.

In other words, eradicate the fecal microbes in your small intestine that defines SIBO.

Give it a couple of weeks or so.

Then try the SIBO yogurt, because the SIBO yogurt, it can eradicate SIBO many people.

It also starts the process of rebuilding a healthy gastrointestinal microbiome.

The antibiotics don't do a good job of that.

They eradicate the bad guys and the good guys, by the way, so they're a little bit non-selective.

But the SIBO yogurt does, in addition to further eradicating SIBO microbes in the small intestine

and the summary in the colon.

They also, the SIBO yogurt also begins the process of rebuilding because they're keystone

microbes, important foundational microbes that allows your gastrointestinal tract to regain

other lost microbes.

No one quite knows how that works.

Is it from contact with other people?

Is it contact with the environment?

Is it that beneficial microbes are there all along, just present in very small numbers

and sequestion in the mucus barrier?

Nobody knows.

But know that the SIBO yogurt is, if you can get past that initial process with herbal

antibiotics, you could also take conventional antibiotics like faxin, but I wouldn't

generally recommend that.

You know, antibiotics got us here.

So I'm hesitant to recommend antibiotics in any form as the first stretch, but in some

people, the histamine intolerant people are the exception to those who can't tolerate

the SIBO yogurt very well.

And that 1720 says, I make bone broth, beef, turkey, and chicken, cooking in the crock

pot for 24 plus hours, is that the best way to get collagen?

Absolutely not.

Bone is a repository for the heavy metal lead.

So when people make bone broth, they typically boil as she does for a prolonged period and

most add vinegar to help mobilize minerals.

Theory is good, right?

Mobilize calcium and magnesium and lead.

So we now know that bone broth made that way has high levels of lead.

Of course, the EPA and other government agencies will tell you there's no safe intake

of lead.

So you're adding significantly to your lead intake, lead exposure in addition to lead pipes

and lead paint and old home, that kind of stuff.

But you don't want to add to it with bone broth.

You can make broth, but don't use prolonged boiling.

You only maybe two to four hours tops.

Don't add vinegar and only use some bones.

Those tendons and ligaments and meat and fat and skin and make soups and broths, but

not specifically bone broth.

You do not want lead toxicity.

Now in case other ways to get collagen, of course organ meats, tough cuts of meat that you

cook in a slow cooker, ways to mobilize collagen, but because it's kind of hard to know how

much collagen you're getting, I think it's a good idea to add a supplement of collagen.

Now with bovine sources, a full dose would be 20 grams per day.

That's an evolving conversation as collagen products change and some other new sources

are coming out.

For instance, some marine sources, we may be able to get away with lower doses, but stay

tuned because that science is only now evolving.

Will Roche 6691 asks, always had low triglycerides in the 50s, HDL 70 to 80, LDL around 150.

My recent Carnary Calcium test was 240.

Why?

Well, because you're crippled.

You're crippled by the stupidity of thinking that lipid or cholesterol testing identifies

the causes of heart disease.

It does not, okay?

You need like a protein testing one that is like an MR because you need to know how much

small LDL particles you have.

I would say the fact that your triglycerides are low is a good sign.

It tends to suggest you don't have flagrant, terrible small LDL, but you can still have

some because if all you did was address lipids or cholesterol fows, you have not gone

the full mile, right?

What about vitamin D?

Big factor.

How about omega-3 fatty acids?

Huge factor.

How about wheat and grain consumption?

Huge cause for heart disease.

How about endotoxemia from SIBO?

Big contributor.

In other words, what are you telling me is I did very little to prevent having carnary

atherosclerotic disease in the form of Carnary Artychalcium on that heart scan.

Yet I have no surprise.

You haven't addressed all the cuts, so I addressed the causes.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, see my blog, see my super gut books, see my

super body book.

It's also talked about in a doctorate and all my wheat belly books.

Another, I've talked about this, umpteen million times.

Look for all the causes.

So if you don't address, and then if you don't identify, then address the causes, of course

you're going to have coronary disease.

Because, and unfortunately, the conventional solution is to address cholesterol with stat

and cholesterol, which is absurd, it's ridiculous.

But to understand the full rationale, and by the way, if you want to fool, I do have

a three-part workshop on CT heart scans and Carnary Artychalcium scores.

It's an extensive lengthy conversation of the entire rationale, why we reject cholesterol

values, why just addressing cholesterol values, does not stop heart disease, nor Carnary

Calcium score.

That's in my membership website, the innercircle.drdavisinfinatehealth.com, but there's a lot of stuff

in other places as well.

This question, be shown, I think it is one, says you mentioned iodine, but I have seen

conflicting information on taking it, if you have Hashimoto's, is it considered safe?

You know, I'm shocked, something as basic to human health as iodine, causes so much confusion,

so much so that my colleagues often say, oh, you don't need to get iodine, it's, you

get it from food.

Now, you don't, you get a little bit in food, so iodine deficiency has been, was the

largest, one of the largest public health problems all throughout human history, and among

its many consequences was a goiter, and a large thyrigland on the, on the neck, if you

go to the Louvre or a room or any museum, take a look at the statues and the paintings

from years past, I'm talking about prior to 20th century, you'll see goaters everywhere,

because people were not getting iodine, especially if they lived inland, because all the iodine

on this planet is in the ocean and in coastal areas, so coastal livestock, coastal plants,

and of course the ocean with seafood, seaweed.

So this was a huge public health problem, it was not uncommon for children to have huge

goaters, was not uncommon to people to die of the goiter that could compress the airway

or invade structures in the neck, or lead to progressive hypothyroidism, where you gained

a ton of weight, you start sleeping 14 to 18 hours per day, you had retained a huge

amount of edema, then you went into a coma, it's called mix edema coma.

We've forgotten all this, because in 1924 the FDA said, hey, we now recognize all these

goaters and other problems are due to lack of iodine.

How about you salt manufacturers add some iodine to salt?

They launch the public health campaign by posters.

Use more iodine salt, keep your family goiter free, people embraced it, use a bunch of

iodine salt and it worked, goaters essentially disappeared after 1924.

Well fast forward in the 1980s, stupid advice to cut your saturated fat and cholesterol,

and eat more healthy whole grains and the explosion of processed, ultra processed foods

caused insulin resistance to skyrocket, okay?

Insulin resistance causes sodium retention by the kidneys, so gave the apparent appearance

of salt retention, that salt led to high blood pressure and other health problems.

So the FDA and other agencies said, hey, quit using all that salt even though we told

you in 1924 to use more salt.

People listened and iodine deficiency has come, it's coming back.

It's not as bad as it used to be because the food source is now globalized.

You might get avocados from Mexico, you might get blueberries from South America, etc.

So it's not as bad as it used to be, but it is there.

So everybody needs iodine unless you have an autoimmune thyroid condition like Hashimoto's

or Graves disease, in which case getting iodine can activate the autoimmune process.

So everybody needs iodine unless you have one of those autoimmune thyroid conditions,

in which case what we do, what I do with my programs is we try to turn it off.

We try to turn that autoimmune process off that involves getting rid of the glide

in protein of wheat and grains, the initiator of many autoimmune diseases.

It means addressing vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, deficiencies of which allow the

emergence of autoimmunity and then lastly addressing SIBO endotoxemia, a major driver of

autoimmune thyroid disease. So once the thyroid antibodies come back down to normal range,

then what we do is we test the waters with a low dose of iodine like 50 micrograms.

And then if you do okay, build up the dose to the target range that I think is about

340 or so micrograms per day. Please ignore the absurd advice to take mega-dose iodine.

That's unnatural and very dangerous. I've seen now too many people with iodine toxicity,

not people with Hashimoto's or Graves, just everyday people who are told this awful advice to

take mega-dose iodine like Lugel solution or 20,000 micrograms or 30,000 micrograms and we know.

This is not my speculation. We know with confidence it causes iodine toxicity,

which shows up as hypothyroidism. So typical. I've had people come and say, I understand.

I'm taking iodine. I've gained 18 pounds. I'm sleeping 14 hours a day. My hair's falling out.

My skin is dry. I can't think clearly. What's going on here? Are you taking iodine? Well, yeah,

12,000 micrograms. They have iodine toxicity. We check their thyroid pound, the TSH,

is 18 or 20. They have flagrant hypothyroidism from iodine toxicity. I often say half my job nowadays

is educating, providing good information for people. But the other half is batting down misinformation

as good as these kinds of YouTube video state channels and blogs and all that's as helpful as

they can be. They're also vehicles for misinformation, especially people trying to market you

something or make money from their brand of misinformation. So just be very careful. I hope

you understand what I'm trying to do here is clear the water, right? Try to make sure you're

getting good information. That's been well thought through research and then putting to practice

over many, many years of experience. So with iodine, no, you can't take it until you normalize

thyroid antibody levels, then maybe you can test at very low doses. And by the way, if it's going

to reignite your autoimmune disease, it'll kind of be like having too much coffee. You'll get a

hyper thyroid reaction out of it. By the way, I've never seen that happen. So even though people

have started with active Hashimoto's usually, normalize their antibody levels, reintroduce iodine,

I've never seen autoimmune thyroid disease reactivated. Given all the things I talked about,

vitamin D, omega-3s, diet change, SIBO, endotoxine, all that stuff. I've never seen

reactivation of Hashimoto's. So it's a theoretical risk, but know that you can do it because iodine has

other benefits. It's probably important for breast health. It's in females. It's probably important

for salivary and oral health. And it may have other effects also. So humans should get iodine,

but just wait till your thyroid antibody levels are normalized. Now, as I said before,

if you want other questions answered, please see all my books. There's a lot of redundancy in

the books because I try to, for instance, cover the diet in every book. There's my blog posts,

of course, many of them, YouTube channel, Defiant Health Podcast, and of course, my membership

site. If you want some guidance, if you want to talk to me and other people about these kinds of

things, then in my innercircle.deardavesinfinityhealth.com, we have those conversations almost every week.