All health begins in the gut, even your mental health, so today we’re learning about how to get our guts right from two of the biggest experts on gut health in the world: Wade Lightheart and Matt Gallant from BiOptimizers, an organization dedicated to helping humans shift from a sick unhealthy condition into a peak biologically optimized state.

Wade and Matt define Biologically Optimized Health as a state of existence where all of the body’s functions operate in perfect harmony. But before you start replacing the tires and tuning things to perfection, you need to make sure that your engine, your gut, isn’t about to crap out.

To help you figure out how to do that, these two provide a quick and dirty overview of our digestive systems and the underappreciated role of enzymes in them. Then we go over the results of my recent gut biome labs... and I get some, frankly, shocking truths about my current situation. But I also get some great advice for how to fix it, as well as some idea of why things broke bad in my gut biome the first place, and I hope this helps you get your own health back on the right track.

If you’re interested in focusing on your gut health after listening to this episode — and given the current state of the world, there’s never been a better time to focus on maintaining your health and your immune system — you can use the code LUKE20 to get 20% off any of the supplements at bioptimizers.com/luke.

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11:00 — The origins of BiOptimizers

• Competing as Mr. Universe, on a plant-based diet and without drugs

• How bodybuilding wrecked the inside of Wade’s body

• “You learned to build your body from the outside in. You have to learn how to build your body from the inside out.”

• How they started rebuilding Wade’s digestive system

• Finding their dharma

• The workers in the body are the enzymes and probiotics

14:35 — Is food combining legit?

• Or is it just the nocebo effect?

• Nature combines proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in almost every food it makes

• The challenge today is that we have lowered the definition of “food”

• Hacking the digestive system

• Superoods list Vs. Foods to avoid list

• Viome test - test your microbiome

25:30 — Let food by thy medicine

• It’s now just about what you’re eating but what you assimilate

• The danger of undigested proteins

26:55 — The role of different enzymes in digestion

• How systemic enzymes differ from digestive enzymes

• How to improve the benefits of fasting using enzymes (and why fasting is so effective)

• What is an enzyme?

• We’re the only species on the planet that doesn’t eat raw food most of the time

• You probably need to redefine what food is

• The power of serrapeptase for removing scar tissue in your body

• The difference between a $10 bottle of enzymes and a $100 bottle of enzymes

• You need enzymes to get your protein, protein to get your minerals, minerals to get your vitamins

43:25 — The secret to making protein smoothies that build even more muscle

• John Gray’s “holy grail” of protein assimilation

• X3 Bar (use code LUKE for $50 off)

• Do you drink the shake before, after, or during the workout?

• A hack for making cheap cuts of meat more easily digestible

50:07 — What causes heartburn?

• What heartburn is

• The many hidden causes of heartburn

• The five stages of digestion

• How HCL (hydrocholric acid) kills sushi parasites and how to use baking soda to determine what your HCL level is

• Supplements that help with heartburn: try Primergen-M or or Primergen-V from BiOptimizers

• Most mineral supplements aren’t actually bioavailable

01:07:53 — The correlation between digestion, neurotransmitters, and mood

• BiOptimizers‘s upcoming CogniBotics

• Where cravings come from

• What causes leaky gut and the fastest way to fix it

01:12:11 — The power of putting (some) stuff up your butt

• Rectal ozone

• Rectal probiotics

01:22:20 — Hiatal hernia and how to fix them

• What is a hiatal hernia?

• BiOptimizers’ Gluten Guardian

• Just Thrive’s spore-based probiotics

• Spore-based probiotics vs. other kinds of probiotics

• What makes some probiotics live and some die when you eat them

• We’ve lost connection with our own biofeedback — but you can nurture that connection!

01:41:45 — The results of my microbiome test 

• My pancreas isn’t making enough enzymes

• kApex - BiOptimizers’ mitochondrial booster

• Panchakarma

RESOURCES:

• bioptimizers.com/luke (use code LUKE20 for 20% off)

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/bioptimizers

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/bioptimizers

• Viome test - test your microbiome

• David R. Hawkins: veritaspub.com

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