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Ep 78 Optimizing Health Through Metabolic Typing with Martin Pytela

• Martamaria Hamilton • Episode 78

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What happens when a successful computer scientist's life is turned upside down by severe health issues? Meet Martin Pytella, a functional medicine expert and metabolic typing coach, who shares his incredible journey from battling mercury toxicity to transforming over 12,000 lives. In this episode of the Telewellness Hub podcast, we uncover Martin's inspiring story of self-discovery and dedication to understanding the root causes of health problems, ultimately leading him to a career dedicated to restoring vitality in others.

Unlock the secrets of how your diet, genetics, and internal pH balance are interconnected. Martin delves into the science behind macronutrients—carbohydrates, fats, and proteins—and their impact on our bodies' acidity and alkalinity. Learn about the roles of oxidizers and the autonomic nervous system in regulating our responses to food and stress, and discover practical methods for determining your metabolic type. Through real-world examples and challenges, Martin provides actionable insights into tailoring your diet to fit your unique genetic makeup.

The episode also tackles the bigger picture, including the industrial complex's role in public health. From the rise in obesity and heart disease to the controversial use of treatments like Ozempic, Martin doesn't shy away from exposing the system's flaws. We discuss how understanding your metabolic type can profoundly impact mental health, potentially reducing reliance on mind-altering prescriptions. This episode is packed with practical advice for safeguarding your and your loved ones' health amidst a system often rigged against us, setting the stage for our next conversation on improving your home environment and daily habits.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome, friends, to the Telewellness Hub podcast. I'm Marta Hamilton, your host. It's a space where listening is not just a simple passive act, but it's an act of self-care. And today we get to check in with Martin Patella, who is a proven functional medicine expert and metabolic typing coach. His mission is restoring vitality to you and the planet. He uses his vast knowledge and experience to help thousands around the world discover how they can improve their health. Martin has coached over 12,000 clients very impressive since 2011,. And his courses have over 19,000 students. Natural healing is an art and not an easy feat. In today's fast food society that has us eating foods grown in depleted soils, overcooked, over-processed or hormone injected and loaded with antibiotics, foods in our supermarkets can't give the body what it needs. Even if we eat only organically grown raw vegetables and organically grown meats, the nutrients are simply not there. So today's supplementation is a necessity, and so, martin, welcome. I'm so excited to talk to you today.

Speaker 2:

I'm really happy to be here.

Speaker 1:

Yes, my background is as we shared before we hit record is in health psychology. I'm a counselor, but I'm also really as a parent, as a person who grew up with a father in agriculture, his PhD in agriculture when I saw you, your background, what you offer, and just when thinking about the concerns about our diet, our nutrition, the intersection between what we eat and how we feel and what we think, I just I'm so grateful for you taking the time to share your insight and your wisdom. And before we dive into some of that and I shared, I should preface by saying that I shared before we hit record. Like this might need to be a multi-episode series, so we'll try to get as much as we can now, but there's so much knowledge here that I'm excited for everyone to hear. Before we dive into that, I'm curious if you don't mind sharing with us a little bit about why do you do the wellness work that you do.

Speaker 2:

Right, you know, classic typical wounded hero journey. I grew up happy. I grew up my dad was a veterinarian. I believed in science and the medical method and all of that, and I trusted the professionals. And I came in naive and at 25 years of age, with freshly earned health insurance and dental coverage. I walked into a dentist's office and I said I haven't had a checkup in a couple of years. What do you want Check me out? And the first question out of their mouth was do you have dental insurance? I proudly said yes, I do. I didn't realize that was oh yeah, he won't care what we do. And I didn't. And so I trusted this guy with white coat and diploma on the wall. And well, they told me that I needed 12 fillings because my teeth were not right and the insurance plan covered mercury amalgam fillings not the fancier back when this was 1977, composite fillings. And so I said, oh sure, go ahead. And in four sessions they put in 12 mercury fillings and then my health took a total nosedive.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

My original education is computer science and business administration, so I was working in the field of computer science and that then emerging personal computers.

Speaker 2:

I was there and we were teaching people what computer aided drafting and publishing was at the frontier yeah, oh yeah, young, young days, and so I was earning well, but my health was taking a total nosedive. First my body started breaking down Carpotanol, plantar fasciitis, dental problems, periodontal disease, and then allergies and then metabolic problems, like it was piling on and I kept seeing professionals for it. I saw an orthopedic surgeon that didn't help Chiropractic. I became quite addicted to chiropractic because, as my body was falling apart, they were always able to put it back together. But it wouldn't hold, so I had to go in every three, four days to put it back together. Or it wouldn't hold, so I had to go in every three, four days to put it back together, else I became very debilitated. And I saw naturopaths for the allergies and, and I started learning things and at some point I think it was about seven or eight years in I had this realization that there's no way that these professionals are going to help me. So I went and started reading.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

Which is long before internet. This is like early 80s, yeah, to late 80s, and so there was libraries and books, and I have a whole lot of books.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

More than what's behind of that. I've read and reports and studies and the name it, and so at some point I finally had this illumination. In business consulting, you do always ask if there's a problem, you ask what's causing it. In medical world, they don't. They say oh, you have a symptom, let's work on that. So all these people would you know oh, you have a symptom, let's work on that. All these people would you know you have a back problem, we'll put the back together. Oh, you have an allergy? Well, we'll take some antioxidants or antihistamines or whatever. I remember the doctor telling me yeah, yeah, we have Benadryl for that. And I asked so is that going to cure me? And he said, no, that's a lifetime.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's a very hopeless place to be, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's not how I was trained and that's not what I was going to accept. Right right. At some point I gained enough understanding and I figured out what the problem was, which was my entire metabolic system in the body was breaking down because of the high levels of mercury and I had some lead too. So once that set in, I figured out how to undo it and I figured out the whole methodology, the whole methodology. So at some point I decided to pay it forward. I wanted to. I switched my careers from being a business management consultant to being a health nut and talking to people.

Speaker 1:

I'm sure, very transformative process you went through. Transformative process you went through, but I imagine how rewarding to see the transformation and healing on a root cause level, like you mentioned, for thousands. I mean what a way to spread wellness into the world. I mean truly, and that's why, I'm just so fascinated when people turn their pain into the opportunity to share with humanity. You know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, this is where your schooling kicks in. I also, along the way, became quite educated in the way of how the head works. Right, it's not what happens, it's what you do with it, it's how you respond to the inputs, and I absolutely refused to be a victim. I decided that I had to own the problem, and that's actually the single one thing that differentiates a person with a chronic health problem the one who gets better and who does not is how they perceive themselves. The victim perception is not very helpful.

Speaker 1:

So, speaking of that, I'm curious if we could dive in. Oh, there's just so much I want to ask, but maybe for those listening in for the first time, they've never even heard of this idea of looking at like your metabolic type. Can you share a little bit about cause? I'm anticipating a multi-series on this, so if we could start there just to share a little bit about how this experience led for you to deep dive into research, use your skills, your training to to put this knowledge and and create something, a path forward, a plan it sounds like for you to find healing. And how did that become a core of looking at how your genetics and lifestyle can intersect for health?

Speaker 2:

Right, yeah, in 2010, 2011,. I fell upon this. This whole thing was published in 1987. Based on a whole lot of previous research. It was known that people are more acidic or more alkaline, but it was not really understood that it was actually affected by how we eat foods, and it's the macronutrients carbohydrates, fats and proteins and the combination of those will affect how the internal works, react and creates a pH shift and creates a pH shift and the internal pH venous blood pH is either more alkaline or more acidic in response to what we're eating, and so we knew we had these terms from before.

Speaker 2:

There was this term called oxidizer. We had a fast oxidizer and slow oxidizer. The fast oxidizer is somebody who's really good at converting food into energy. They're typically the hunter, genetics hunters and fishermen. And the slow oxidizers were people who were poor converters of food into energy. They needed to be fed the farmer food or the tropical food type of things. And then we had another system which was known as the autonomic nervous system, which is the control mechanism of all things related to the digestion and metabolics and whatever, and we had either sympathetic side or parasympathetic side dominant, and they actually control whether you are in the fight or flight the sympathetic side, or repair and digest the parasympathetic side, and that also regulates all the pH, or is affected by the internal pH. And so here comes the important bit when you're overly acidic, when you're overly acidic, let's define the middle. The middle is 7.35 on the pH scale or minus 25 millivolts on the ORP scale. If you're drifting into alkalinity, you're going to be procrastinating, and if you go further out, you're going to be despondent.

Speaker 2:

And if you go further, further out, you're going to be despondent, and if you go further, further out, you're going to hit depression on the acidic side, first you'll be impatient, then you'll lose your social graces, then you hit anger and road rage and if it's outward directed, that that's the rage out. If it's inward directed, you'll be anxious, and that would be. You could be anxious about your past, reliving your failings and going over that, or anxious about your future, just painting pictures in your head just how bad things are going to turn out right and so we, and this is then affected. This way the fast oxidizer is made more alkaline, or actually all oxidizers are made more alkaline by fats and proteins, and they're also made acidic by carbohydrates. But the autonomics are flipped. They are more alkal, outlined by carb, and more acidic by fats and proteins.

Speaker 2:

So it's sort of like being left-handed or right-handed right, you can't play a left-handed guitar. If you're a right-handed person, it's just not going to work. The strings are in the wrong places and everything. Yes, fascinating to explain it further. So we now have people reacting to a meal depending on how it's combined. If it's rich in carbs, you could be drifting into alkalinity or acidity, depending on your genetics.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

That's the bottom line. So here you are eating food and one of us is becoming anxious. Another person is becoming despondent from that same meal.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I'm really thinking about my own personal life. My husband and I have talked about this. I feel like I had no idea there was a whole world that would study this. And that makes sense, because we've done the genetic ancestry map and we know we shared no genetic overlays and we've talked about well, probably your ancestors ate totally different foods than my ancestors, right, and I think our reactions to it would be different, but we're sharing the same meals, right, and that makes sense. And then add the layer of probably now the way our food is made Like that's another layer. Yes, yes.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so the best example I can give you is a cocktail party where alcohol is made Like that's another layer, yes, yeah. So the best example I can give you as a cocktail party where alcohol is served. The people who get acidified by alcohol those are the oxidizers. They will start getting louder and then argumentative and then, if they keep going, they'll actually pick a fight. Keep going, they'll actually pick a fight. The autonomics they start with being a little too emotional, they start oversharing, saying things they wish they didn't say, and then they start crying about things and then they go to sleep wow, yes so you can watch next time you go to a cocktail party where there's alcohol.

Speaker 1:

Be watching yes.

Speaker 2:

You watch. This person reacts to carbohydrates by becoming more acidic. And this one by becoming more alkaline.

Speaker 1:

That's fascinating. How do you even go about figuring out what type you are, or if you tend to go more acidic? I mean, I'm sure it's.

Speaker 2:

You can do it. You can do a direct challenge like eat some fat, like take a spoonful of coconut oil and lick it right off the spoon and within 15 minutes you will have your reaction to fat. And so if that drives you into the anxiety kind of thing, then you're autonomic dominant. If it drives you into feeling more peaceful and calm, then you're an oxidizer. And then you can do an opposite challenge. You can just do a glucose challenge. Like I mentioned, alcohol that's a fine source of carbs, but you can go eat a banana and drink some orange juice or have a bowl of porridge or something like that, right, and that's a straight hit of carbs and you will have your answer out.

Speaker 1:

The way I react to carbs is Wow, and this is huge, then, in terms of your food choice, for your mental health and your mindset and everything.

Speaker 2:

And also now you know your antidote. So if you are, for example, feeling anxious and you know that you're an oxidizer, you know you must reach for some fats to calm yourself down. Or if you happen to be just totally lazy, not wanting to do anything, and you know you're an autonomic, you know you're too alkaline, you need to hit yourself with some fats.

Speaker 1:

So it's always oh yeah, it's a very empowering thing too, then it's an empowerment for the individual to take also some sense of control, if you will, over their own health.

Speaker 2:

And here it goes. 75% of all prescriptions that are filled are for mind-altering substances, either dealing with anxiety or depression. Let that sink in.

Speaker 1:

Wow, that's a huge.

Speaker 2:

Probably 80% of that is correctable with diet alone, not diet Choices Right.

Speaker 1:

Okay, you can have a potato.

Speaker 2:

That's a straight carb. Yeah, you can have a potato, that's a straight carb. You can put butter or sour cream or bacon bits on it. That's fats and proteins. They are balancing each other out, okay a bowl of rice with a salad. That's all carby. Pile on some olive oil, pile on a piece of fish, salmon, something like that. That's fats and proteins. Now you're steering. All of a sudden, you have a tool that lets you stay in the middle of the road rather than being in the ditch.

Speaker 1:

Wow, I'm just thinking of all the implications for our own, of course, mental health, but also the statistics for children. Children are showing some really concerning rates as a therapist myself who's worked in schools and with kids for anxiety depression. It's huge.

Speaker 2:

ADD behaviors are largely food driven.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I've seen the emerging research on sleep and ADHD. Right, maybe there's sleep apnea or maybe it's sleep, but we don, you have to get out of it and you need to switch into the rest-repair parasympathetic, otherwise you will not fall asleep. You'll be sitting there wired.

Speaker 1:

And you think, about everything.

Speaker 2:

You're tired but wired.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, yes. So with food, you need to first know am I autonomic or am I oxidized? Oxidizer must push fats, autonomic must push carbs to calm down. The most calming mineral, of course, is magnesium. The most calming food is chlorophyll, which happens to be also rich in magnesium.

Speaker 1:

Wow, yeah, be also rich in magnesium, wow, yeah. So when you talk about things like magnesium, I'm thinking also like supplementation, right, so? And this is one of your areas of expertise, so what is the role of supplementation in achieving?

Speaker 2:

this. Look at this one. Yeah, so the autonomic nervous system is driven by calcium magnesium balances. Calcium is the driver towards sympathetic magnesium, toward Paris. So with every muscle contraction, calcium is the contraction, magnesium is the relaxation. Right, so your heart, your heart, 60 beats a minute. Calcium, magnesium, calcium oh wow, yeah, and calcium magnesium calcium magnesium.

Speaker 1:

Oh, wow, yeah, and I'm even thinking the brain, I mean there's all kinds of there's so much involved, to have our thoughts to make, to move our body wake up, push calcium.

Speaker 2:

If you have a overly active elimination peristalsis, something like diarrhea calcium will slow it down. Magnesium will speed it up. If you tend to be constipated, you need to push magnesium. If you're nervous, you need to push magnesium. If you're overly sedated, you need to push calcium wow, yes and then, of course, there's more right. So there's the eating for your blood type, peter the atom.

Speaker 2:

Oh, he put that out so we have blood type o, a, b and a b. What he discovered is that there are genetic misses, as in you do not have the equipment to digest certain foods. So, in short, like, for example, blood type O's do badly on grains and dairy cow dairy, the blood type A's don't do great on chicken, blood type B's don't do great with pork and shrimp. Well, go figure, people from Middle East, like Jewish and Arabs, they are mostly blood type Bs. It's right in the Old Testament do not eat pork and do not eat shrimp. Well, I can confirm for you that you don't have the equipment to do well on that.

Speaker 1:

Right, yes.

Speaker 2:

So that is also part of if you tell us your blood type, we'll tell you how to structure your immune system, as in what you delete, what you don't need.

Speaker 1:

Wow, can I ask so? Because you've helped so many people and you have courses. I forget the platform you have your courses on Udemy Udemy. You have helped so many I mean truly thousands of people. What does it look like for someone wanting to do a session with you or start this journey and they decide you know what I want to be healthy. What would that look like?

Speaker 1:

I know that every individual is different. Right, because I'm excited, because I feel like I could refer clients who don't have a clinical diagnosis right, so we can get into like looking for problems and help. I've been someone who's had to work through insurance as well and do I get a session or have to prove that they need sessions and looking at? Yeah, that's for that's probably like a series two on that, but I'm so excited about what you can do. What does that look like for someone who wants? To work with you do.

Speaker 2:

What does that look like for someone who wants to work with you, right? So well I have. The philosophy is if you want to do the work yourself, I'll give you the tools.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Or if you want a shortcut, if you want the, do it for me. Okay, I have some tools. They will cost you money, but I'll get you to the goal faster, yeah. So if you don't have the funds, but you have the will, I offer you all the bits and pieces that you can actually learn and figure out what you need to figure out. And if you're one of the executive types who wants to, just hey, come on, just tell me. I say, well, it'll cost you. And here we go, and it's not expensive. I mean hundred dollars. Buys you the test and an initial orientation oh, wow then we need to you can.

Speaker 2:

We don't charge lots, we charge no, because even if I'm thinking of even if you have insurance.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I've had to pay at least that just for to meet my, you know for a visit. You know, just for a visit, yeah we're, we're about to copay, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I always laugh because people contact me and say well, I met this functional doctor and he says yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do this. Please come up with six thousand dollars, we'll do the tests and I have all the answers for you. I talked to people who spent $30,000 and didn't get any further ahead because they just kept testing and testing, and testing. I'll give you an illustration.

Speaker 2:

A lot of problems happen because of the industrial age. People are toxic. There is a lot of heavy metals and volatile organic compounds and plastic type of things in us and they cause a lot of dysfunction, dysregulation, they block normal expression of the internal systems, of the internal systems.

Speaker 1:

So nobody is going to get right until they detox.

Speaker 2:

So you can spend a lot of money testing whether you are or aren't toxic or how toxic you are. Yes, or you can just do the detox In general. You can spend $300 on an ICP-MS urine test that tells you what's in you, or you can spend $150 on a hair trace mineral analysis. And then you need to do the actual detox, and that's usually about $300, $400. And then, if you really need to know, then you need to spend the test again.

Speaker 1:

Like if it was effective.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but at the end of the detox you'll feel better because your functionality or functioning, is going to start improving.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, yeah, that's fascinating. So yeah, the detox.

Speaker 2:

So the process? Yeah, you asked me how do we do that? Yeah, I was just so. Yeah, the detox we do a session how to now teach you to understand what's going to go on after you eat a specific meal, and then we have these tools that help you steer better, and we keep narrowing until you are pretty clear. You will know how to run your life with that.

Speaker 1:

Wow, that's incredible and so empowering. I think that's huge. Unfortunately, sometimes medical model can be very disempowering and I love that you're bringing empowerment to people about your metabolic type and things for weight and I mean this is so much more than weight. It sounds like it's so much more than weight.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we didn't get to mention or I didn't get to mention the second part of the test. We will also answer. What's your endocrine dominance, of which there are four thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and, in women, also could be ovarian. And the thyroid types usually crave starchy foods and gain weights with carbs and lose weight with fat. So the thyroid types on a keto diet will be skinny, but the adrenal types on that same diet will be gaining weight because their food attraction is usually savory and they gain weight all over, not on the belly but everywhere. And then the pituitary they are attracted to start to creamy foods like whipping cream, ice cream, fluffy stuff, brain foods they tend to be the nerdy types, their body type is sort of like a cabbage patch doll model and for them the most healthy food are off. All as in the brain, heart tongue, all the hype you're in food.

Speaker 1:

Oh wow, that's very cool.

Speaker 2:

Now we of course have all of these glands, all of us right. So, the dominant will push you into one of the four corners. You still have the whole picture, but you will have a preference how your body will act in its most. What is it common mode?

Speaker 1:

I'm going to ask a question that may be a little bit loaded, but it's a topic of conversation, a hot topic of conversation, which is Ozempic. What are like all those for weight control?

Speaker 2:

What have you seen?

Speaker 1:

in research when it comes to people trying. Yeah, because it's pretty new.

Speaker 2:

You know you're throwing in a very, very big question. I don't know just how deep I want to go with it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah, I realize there's a lot there, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, the starting point is this the industrial complex which consists of banking, food, agriculture, fertilizers, insurance, medicine, all of that they all are motivated financially to keep you sick, heal person, lose a client or a customer. They don't want to heal you, they want you sick and on the drip. So they grow foods, food-like substances, that keep us quite sick. I mean, the data is showing it clearly. The rates of obesity, heart disease, autism, all of that, those are all rising. They're rising mainly because we have such crappy foods sold in stores that are then cause for illness, which is then healed not healed, treated by the medical system. So Ozempic is a fantastic solution for overeating.

Speaker 2:

So the the food industry is producing highly addictive food, like substances that are ultra processed that you end up eating and they force you to eat more than you should have, or then you naturally would have. So you're now gaining weight. So now we're going to use a technological solution in the form of this thing that numbs or blocks your stomach from working right. Stomach paralysis is a common side effect of taking a zempig. Well, don't get me started on the side effects Thyroid cancer, pancreatitis, blah, blah, blah. The problems that are going to come with this are huge. But our society has been training people to demand an easy button. Push the easy button. Don't make it hard. Help me quick.

Speaker 1:

Right, and probably too, like you mentioned. Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt, but also, like you mentioned, martin, in the beginning, we trust people who have the diploma, the white coat, and there are wonderful physicians out there. I know that there's a place, a space of course, but I think sometimes, like your experience, where you present with an issue and you are trusting their suggestion and you had the long-term effects of that, I hear your protective heart for people who may come to a provider, and this is the best for me, because this is what it's what I've been told and it's easy and it's the path that's I can check off and for insurance maybe, and but, but I hope.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well, you know to say this, most doctors probably go to school thinking that they're going to be helping people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah probably go to school thinking that they're going to be helping people. Yeah, but because the entire education system and the prescription system and the pharmacies and whatever is owned by the cartel, they really just become salespeople for drugs. And the only thing they're taught in their school is not nutrition, they're taught prescription. So they diagnose a problem and prescribe for it, and they do not go for the cause, they go for the symptom. So if your symptom is obesity, ozempic is a wonderful solution, but you should be asking what is the cause of this obesity? And it is food that's too rich in calories and too poor in nutrients Food-like. I call it food porn. It addicts you because it feels in your mouth that you want to eat more of it. It's designed that way.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 1:

So it's not your fault in a way, right, and what you're saying now, now that we have the technology to measure what's going on in the brain, what's going on in the body with these foods, it's really what you're saying. I'm sure it was like very radical when you first started diving into, like you said, there was no Google to go search up a lot of these articles. I mean, we now definitely have the technology to show what you're saying to the point where, well, some of it right, but to the point where, you know, I, I look at like for me, as a, I'm thinking as a mom with young kids, I look at what's in the cafeteria, I look at what foods are in the grocery stores here that are banned in other countries because of their ingredients, because, yes, they can become altered to be more, like you mentioned, addictive or I mean there's no carcinogenic or toxic ingredients and it's alarming. It's alarming. So we need people like you to bring some of this information.

Speaker 1:

Some people listening right now. This might be the first time that they've heard some of this. For me, I didn't know about looking at your metabolic type and looking at your blood and look at the alkaline. I hadn't. It wasn't until I started doing research for this episode that I learned more. So you, this might be blowing someone's mind, if you're listening and it's blowing your mind, I mean it's I'm sure there's so much to look into. What would you say for those, especially like parents I'm thinking parents and because we tend to, you know, do things for others before we might do for ourselves, especially as parents yeah, yeah, very good.

Speaker 2:

Well, you have the right instincts. If you're a mother, you're going to die for your child right. You're going to do everything. You will kill yourself trying to make sure your child is right, which is the correct instinct. The dna is programmed to procreate right. The next generation has to survive. If they don't, we're done. Well, the dna is done right so, uh, what do you do?

Speaker 2:

Well, number one, you need to realize that the system is rigged against you. Products like hygiene and laundry and furniture and car and everything those are all made with no regard to how it affects you. The number one environment you need to protect is the microbiome within within you and within your child, and if that microbiome isn't developed correctly, the whole thing goes bad. One of the worst things are why do we put chlorine in water? To kill microbes? If you drink chlorinated water, you're killing the internal environment. The other really horrible antibiotic is called Roundup or glyphosate. That thing is now used on foods. It's used on wheat, lentils, chickpeas and probably other things.

Speaker 2:

So, if you are taking even just trace amounts of this thing into you and you are, because this thing is water soluble and it's on foods. Therefore you are killing the microbiome. If you're killing the microbiome, you'll have dysbiosis and, for example, go find the study autism or ADD or whatever is associated with specific microbiome misconfigurations.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I am seeing some of that emerging research. It's there In peer-reviewed journals. It's there too, you know it's there, and with anxiety is a big one too.

Speaker 2:

So there is a lot to be said about the diet and environment and how you treat yourself and what you know about yourself and how you start interacting with your family, with your food, with everything around you, but it's a big story, so maybe we should just pause here and start at the beginning next time.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. Thank you so much, martin. Stay tuned, listen in on the next episode, where we're going to dive into what you can do in your home, in your environment, looking at the big story of how this impacts our life. Thank you so much, martin, for being a part of our wellness journey today.