How Microbiome Affects Happiness: A Gut Feeling | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Live Q&A

[@makellyjt]

" if your blue, your pooh will tell on you" - Love it! ❤

[@luluandmeow]

I call the fatty/sugary foods I used to binge on "discomfort food". My depression (which I had since childhood) has definitely lifted since I became WFPB 3 years ago, life is still difficult but I can cope better and I love life now. Also, since introducing beans gradually into my diet, as advised by Dr B, there's no more bloating and wind, my gut microbiome has happily adapted to all beans and legumes.

[@extropiantranshuman]

depression that begets more depression? I see. Have you looked into vitamin D?

[@1960pyl]

sounds like a new Pioneer, upon a horizon. it look like e we have to start all over. whatever we were taught, about ' Why'

[@mariettaszabo]

​@@extropiantranshuman yes on the vitamin D, also algae oil for the omega3, these are very important!

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@mariettaszabo I rarely if ever eat DHA - because I get really ill - I believe my body recycles it. If you really need it - you can do ALA which converts as needed - according to Dr Greger. It's like non-heme iron - it self--regulates.

[@mariettaszabo]

@@extropiantranshuman wow, thanks for the info, I will look into it! Take care!

[@JaimeeLauren]

Totally! I had chronic clinical depression and developed IBD… once I got off dairy, gluten and sugar and pharmaceuticals I was no longer depressed. I stick to whole plant foods and my energy and mood have massively improved. I have a completely different life and I would have ended my life had I carried on eating a “standard” diet

[@debbiekiefer4938]

Fiber is fire! Love it! Also, the connection between mental health and food is right on in my opinion. When I started a WFPB diet 5 years ago, I lost quite a few issues that were becoming chronic. Lost my depression, anxiety, IBS, pre-diabetes, swelling of ankles, lowered my arthritis, rosacea, and lost 35 lbs almost immediately over a 3 month period. Energy increased. Best change I ever made! Thank you both for a great interview!

[@bluebutterflywellness2273]

I saw this before and wasnt interested until I went on a binge recently. Felt literally hungover and depressed for days until I got back on my WFPB regimen. This is REAL!🤯

[@sectionalsofa]

Chuck, you are remarkable! Not only because of what you've overcome but because of who you are -- so smart, sweet, humble and grateful. (And Dr. B is no slouch either.)

[@tanyacondo7034]

Thank you for your honesty and stigma busting

[@beanburrito8903]

We love when you guys casually speak to each other. The chemistry ⚗️ with you both is strong. I can tell you both are good friends.

[@ClarySage-70]

This man is a genius. He has changed my life. Thank you Dr. B and Chuck ❤

[@Gratefulmomdoc]

So grateful to Dr. B for putting this all together for us regular folk! 🎉

[@extropiantranshuman]

we just can't let go of will can we? He's on fire, bringing light to this youtube channel!

[@brieannatyler6055]

This conversation has me laughing and learning...at the same time. I love it. You guys are great! Thanks for being brave enough to take these issues and address them head-on and without being shy or embarrassed about it. It's a conversation that definitely needs to be had! Thanks again!

[@extropiantranshuman]

I think many of us were waiting for this study to come out. I was discusing this with others, so I'm glad it's been brought to the forefront on this channel! Congrats, thanks :)

[@nawaababdul9667]

Always watching you from Guyana .GOOD HEALTH INFORMATION.

[@gutmicrobiomequeen]

@41:41 I like to think that this is reflective of a cook's skill level! If you can eye-ball things and follow your intuition, you're probably a good, experienced cook who has a good understanding of flavors. In that regard, I think we should all aspire to be eye-ballers :)

[@davidtsw]

I've had digestive problems for some 20 years, so most of my life. Especially bad in the last 10 years or so. I've learned from her and other sources that fiber is great for us but I always struggled with it, especially with beans! But now, for the first time in my life, I can eat beans, whole oatmeal and more without having too much trouble. Good hydration, multivitamin and a healthy, mostly plant based diet is what's helped me. Yes, the gas is there but at least it doesn't smell too bad! ;)

[@elizabethmadness5277]

I just love you two! You are changing the world and it is a treat to watch it happen ❤🎉❤

[@blue-fj9ky]

Great point and often overlooked about lentils and other small legumes often being easier to digest than large beans. This is well-recognized in Ayurveda the ancient natural health system from India. Note: Chuck and Will both look bright, healthy, and vital. I think that tells us something!

[@extropiantranshuman]

Peas are probably one of the most overlooked of them all! And it's probably the easiest. That followed by red lentils, then black lentils. I mean with beans they just don't taste that great, but only if you don't make them properly and most people I notice don't. I just soak and then eat without sprouting. It's planty-fresh. When you cook it that's where things can go wrong to me, as well as sprouting, but maybe i'm not looking at it the right way? With lentils it's the opposite - cooking makes it way better than just soaking. Peas are fine sprouted - but I just don't like its shoots.

[@11235Aodh]

@@extropiantranshuman Saw a great recipe for red lentil tofu on Simnett Nutrition's site (seen it around at others too lately :)). Tried it and it was delicious, but very much sticking to the airfryer despite pre-heating it.

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@11235Aodh I think alexandra andersson has one video on that too. I think she uses an air fryer for her red lentil tofu.

[@Ann-fv8ik]

Chuck is fabulous. Thankyou for this channel

[@lenalootens5625]

Great video! Thank you Chuck and dr B.! And indeed ,,fiber is fire!"😄 Greetings from Belgium

[@naftalibendavid]

Thanks so much for the reasoned discussion about heritability and mood. The "confound" about handing down dietary habits is SO important.

[@lechenaultia5863]

Absolutely love your shirt and tie combination, Chuck! I wish all men ( well, everyone!) would wear colourful clothes more often. Thank you for sharing your expertise on this issue, Dr Bulsiewicz. Great discussion, thanks to both of you.

[@v.h.l.4261]

Really interesting to hear about this latest study! Thank you 💕

[@extropiantranshuman]

Any time will's on here I just want more - just brings happiness to my heart! Actually when Dr. Barnard, Chuck, the Esselstyns, and all the other cool peple on here. It's great. These two are fun to chat in teh live alongside them lol.

[@bohditony]

Met a 9 yr old on max dose of Prozac Zombie this was not a child or even living my heart sank I’ll never forget him

[@longjohnny]

I've seen friends transform from low mood to no personality at all. Prozac is not the solution.

[@Lock8484]

Yall are awesome. The gut microbiom is so interesting.

[@benbrown8258]

Sobering and encouraging. Some time ago I said I felt changing one's diet and exercise could alter one's biome to a pharmacist friend of mine. At that time he was just coming across initial fecal transplant trial plans but claimed there was no credible info on diet affecting the biome. Steroids and medications were more trustworthy than crackpot theories about diet. Sad. Several members of his family, including him, had to have sections of their digestive system removed. What a loss in so many ways (and in answers he provided clients.) Sad.

[@extropiantranshuman]

I believe we have figured out a long time ago hunches about how the microbiome impacts our thoughts and mood - we just lacked the studies. From GoodBelly talking about lactobacillus plantarum to celiac issues - the mind-gut depression, etc. I personally believe bacillus coagulans does improve mood too! "Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 for the management of major depression with irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled, multi-centre, pilot clinical study"

[@Lise-ss8qw]

Microbial bacteria is so important we eat variety of plants ❤

[@jeanricketts6880]

Thanks ,good advice

[@lauchzwiebel]

great, great, great...

[@sawcsam1019]

What foods should i eat for shrinking a brain tumor?

[@joelonghany2461]

Does anyone have a link to the study that Dr. B references in the opening - the study where they transplanted fecal matter of depressed people into healthy people, and those people got depressed?

[@mayaamay4615]

You are the best 💖

[@rd2522]

Chuck, did using the light help?

[@witchyvegan]

"If you're blue, your poo will tell on you". I will never forget that line 🤣

[@extropiantranshuman]

I think a lack of a good microbiome might be one of the largest contributors to people shying away from a plant-based diet. They lack the microbes necessary to digest food properly, so the food gives them ill effects (like damaging the body from not being broken down), and on top of that lacking the nutritional value that these microbes produce - so they get holes in their diet. You can have microbes acting like a vitamin pill to not need to supplement those vitamins, but vegan skeptics will be in shock over the amount of supplements they take and then accuse the plant-based diet of needing so many and that it's not natural. What's not natural is their approach to coming into the diet. Those who are on it for a while have the microbes and foods and nutrient levels in their body to sustain themselves whereas those that don't know what they're doing don't. While some don't believe in 'blaming the victim', there's also a victim mentality where people lack accountability for their own actions. I think where vegans go wrong is pressuring people to just go vegan right away. I don't believe it works, because the microbiome needs to adjust, as does the person. People pressured me into going vegan too quickly - it made me really ill and no vegan activist really cares to be there walking you through it when you're ill. All they care about is the animals, not you, and that's not fair either. What's also not fair are vegan critics not treating veganism correctly and naysaying it without understanding what they're talking about. I think a happy medium is for vegans to explain how to slowly transition (as you can't really make up for a lifetime of damage in a few seconds) while those who're transitioning not to give up. If something goes wrong, instead of throwing in the towel - try to see what's going on, and vegans be there as moral support to help them out with their issues. Vegans can't just tell people to 'go vegan' and then walk away leaving others to clean up the mess behind them. That's why the ex-vegan community got so strong. It should be about everyone working together, uniting under a common goal - a working microbiome! Thanks Chuck and Will!

[@rd2522]

Those were some funny puns! 😊

[@DrRyguy24]

Love ya, Dr. B but as a fellow chemistry major I am shocked to find out you are not more precise with measuring ingredients when cooking. I'm glad they forced you into including measurements in the cookbook 😄

[@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder]

Cooking is not as precise, baking is precise…

[@Massaycel]

What negative effects due to Vegus nerve

[@prakashkeegel756]

If I have a leaky gut should I avoid probiotics until it;s healed?

[@patangel1652]

Great question

[@11235Aodh]

I'd start with building up a healthy microbiome without probiotics but rather by eating prebiotic foods. Tests also have shown probiotics not having much effect on people unless those people already eat a diet high in fibre. And you should be careful with that with a leaky gut. Would go very light on the proteins too and only get plant based sources, but no beans or tofu. No dietary fat either, just that which is naturally occuring in plants. I am not a nutritionist. So look into it for yourself before taking my advice, i'm sure the study i told about is to be found online. Also dr. Peter Rogers has a lot of videos on youtube on fat and leaky gut. Good luck to you :).

[@extropiantranshuman]

I used to have depression where I stopped seeing in color too! What fixed my depression was taking in Vitamin D. Why? It's used for everything from the brain to the eyes. When you lack it - your body just doesn't produce the brain chemicals needed to let you connect to your body to continue on with your day (as chuck and will said 'can't get out of bed'). I agree that antidepressants don't fix these issues - they just alter your body to not let the damage we cause our bodies impact us as much. It's a band-aid to a problem. Prevention is worth an ounce of cure! I'm into preventative medicine. It's well-known that bacteria creates the vitamins found in animal products - D, B12, omega-3 DHA, K2 - these all keep our eyes (contributes to mood) and brain functioning as well as make our body usable to us. I believe that if we eat the vitamin D-producing bacteria, along with all the other vitamins - then we have our own vitamin pill digestive tract and that would keep depression at bay. I'm wondering if the physician's committee is going to have videos onhow supplements we eat as dangerous (as McDougall said) and something we can avoid if we use our gut as our autotrophic vitamin supplement source?

[@IResonateWithU]

I eat a wholefoods vegan diet,rarely eat sugar...my mood is fantastic except I stopped checking my blood and began suffering other issues. My gut candida was crazy. My teeth got cavities. I kept treating the symptoms, and many years of suffering, I rechecked my blood and my vit d was scary low! I'm in Florida...never crossed my mind I could be vit d deficient. Vit b-12 was perfect. As soon as I began supplementing vit d/k2, my gut healed. Vit d saved my quality of life.

[@kamayantha5883]

Do antidepressants affect the gut microbiome?

[@KrwiomoczBogurodzicy]

[21:04] Medication [25:14] Poo will tell on you [27:27] Fermented foods [30:45] Salt in fermented foods [32:40] Fasting after 7pm, no snacks nor alcohol [36:04] winter, full spectrum light exposure [38:21] Bloating [40:13] Fermented foods diversity

[@gutmicrobiomequeen]

Thank you!

[@williamkreth]

Pumpkin seeds are loaded with fiber and delicious

[@suzyq6767]

lol--the least addictive food is broccoli. I agree as I can't get it into my mouth for anything. I love all other vegetables but can't abide broccoli. Very interesting about depression and bugs.

[@annemccarron2281]

Mix brocolli in beans and other foods. You won't notice it.

[@davidrowe9402]

If I have lots of fibre, Flaxseed powder in V8 juice, or a can of 4 Bean Mix, I have a happy even mooded day. ✅️

[@extropiantranshuman]

I think if we feel better - like being well-nourished, it lifts our depression, as then we feel we have value and can contribute to the world. If we're undernourished or are fighting against what conflicts with us - like being on a SAD diet - then we can't show ourselves as being a resource, and that makes us feel bad. If we're glowing from health and people come to us, and we're ready and focused and have the capability to help - who wouldn't feel great about that? Being vegan makes us valuable, contributing members to society!

[@lauratrahan3020]

Fiber is not helping me. Now I have E-coli in bladder and gut. Have to take IV antibiotics for my strand. Is that really going to mess my leaky gut up? Help!

[@fleebikergirl]

Interesting if I eat or drink late @ night, I wake up ravenous! Ready to eat immediately. If I eat earlier in the evening , I can wake up and not eat for up to four hours .

[@ishunepali5886]

I got constant constipation . I’m vegetarian eat lots of fruits and vegetables but still not able to clear my stomach. Question for Dr. B What Can I do ? From California 🙏

[@smudge8882]

I'd recommend you drink more water and up your bean intake. If that doesn't help, see a gastroenterologist to rule out any medical conditions that could cause that. I get constipation from Crohn's disease, and with that, I need to be careful of my food triggers. I know it's much more common for constipation to be an IBS thing though.

[@catzlady.8189]

Try supplementing with magnesium. Magnesium oxide specifically. It will help with constipation. Drink a good amount of water and it will help.

[@automaton111]

What about us whole food plant based people who have terrible anxiety and depression? Do I need a poop transplant from Chuck? 😅

[@Gong14921]

I heard, don't take my word, is that people that eat MAINLY plant-based have high cases of depression. Look into healthy meats

[@automaton111]

@@Gong14921 no such thing as healthy meats. I’m going to hold out for Chuck’s poop transplant. He seems rather chipper.

[@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder]

@@Gong14921 Don’t worry, I won’t take your word.

[@juliacolerobinson2265]

Breakdowm for lay people, What foods are these microbs found. What foods we need to eat more of.

[@luluandmeow]

Just eat a variety of fibre-rich plant food, unprocessed.

[@extropiantranshuman]

it's well-known that fermented foods carry probiotics that're good for the gut. Natto has the bioavailable K2 - that keeps calcium from clogging the arteries, euglena does b12 (which supports brain health), vitamin D with Coprococcus (which also produces butyrate) - which is fueled by fiber. Vegetables, when grown in soil - get soil microbes on them - and if we don't sanitize what we pluck from the garden (just rinse off the dirt lightly and sometimes don't even do that - dirt is rich in nutrients), nor the soil itself, then ferment foods (i.e. multiply the microbes in that environment) - then we can get these microbes into our bodies. Playing in the dirt is good too. That's why it's healthy soil for a healthy body! It needs to be nutritious and non-contaminated soil. You can even play in the mud and it'll detoxify and give you microbes you need to process your food! Remember how they'd let kids play in the mud, but stop as adults? Well that's what kept kids healthy and youthful and why we see so many diseases as adults - we stop acting like kids! That's why I feel those studies where injecting younger blood into older people makes sense - because what most feel is 'growing up' really isn't growing up. It's getting away from youth - and we should never move away from that! We don't need younger blood - we just need to act like kids again!

[@longjohnny]

Eat carnivore.

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@longjohnny but that would just lead to really bad parasites.

[@belindagota5099]

Yes eat more green veggies 🥬 and whole food cut out all can food have a clean pantry

[@extropiantranshuman]

the pantry should be filled with hydroponics lol, of basil, mint, thyme, etc.

[@elizabethmadness5277]

When I have plenty of fruit I don’t crave sugar. Haha! So simple

[@murraybrockway6540]

Salt make a big diferrence in people with heart and kidney problems Will

[@betzib8021]

So I've been whole foods plant based...all healthy foods...for years...but a bad sinus infection caused me to take an antibiotic for over two weeks. So my microbiome was pretty well wiped out. But I am very happy....so gee...maybe I need to just live on antibiotics?

[@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder]

Maybe you were happy to get rid of your sinus infection. I think they’re talking about overall health and anxiety and depression on normal people. It only took antibiotics for two weeks. Everybody would take them.

[@betzib8021]

@@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder I don't think antibiotics made me happy...yet a destroyed microbiome didn't make me unhappy....at least not yet. I do think the microbiome is important though...but things aren't that simplistic.

[@jeyadeviarumainayagam4906]

Is there a link between fermented foods & cancer?

[@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder]

Are you thinking more about salt? Japan has a lot of stomach cancer too much salt fermented foods don’t necessarily give you cancer but eating up to 12 g of sodium a day does.

[@nawaababdul9667]

The spice doctor.

[@blrichwine1]

Could you guys look at this study where the take away sentence is "These findings show that a high level of consumption of non-fermented soy foods, rather than fermented soy foods, is important in reducing GC risk. " and comment on it? It makes me nervous about eating fermented foods! "Fermented and non-fermented soy food consumption and gastric cancer in Japanese and Korean populations: a meta-analysis of observational studies", Cancer Science. 2011 Jan;102(1):231-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2010.01770.x. Epub 2010 Nov 10. And then this one with the conclusion "Kimchi, soybean pastes, and the CYP1A1 Ile/Val or Val/Val are risk factors, and nonfermented seafood and alliums are protective factors against gastric cancer in Koreans. Salt or some chemicals contained in kimchi and soybean pastes, which are increased by fermentation, would play important roles in the carcinogenesis of stomach cancer." from the study "Kimchi and soybean pastes are risk factors of gastric cancer" World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Jun 7;11(21):3175-81.doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i21.3175. Thanks! love this show!!

[@blrichwine1]

Oh, shoot.. it's not just fermented soy either. But sauerkraut as well: [Case-control study on risk factors of laryngeal cancer in Heilongjiang province]. Wang C1, Li Q, Wang Y, Feng J, Yao H, Xiao H

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@blrichwine1 I mean we have to think that stuff like saurkraut would have vinegar in it - and google says that it might lead to cancer, or protect it from others. It comes from alcohol so you might have alcohol fermenters if you have vinegar - so you might have alcohol too - and that's carcinogenic! Put that in your stomach and your stomach and churn out alcohol - which does lead to stomach cancer. With the soy, it's well-known that nitrosamines lead to cancer - and here it just seems that high protein foods like seafood and soy - if broken down, would release more of these nitrates and the siwtching between nitrates and nitrites is problematic for the gut! Then there's the issue of salt - which google results say lead to more stomach cancer (but sometimes less?). Anyway - when you have fermentation - it usually means something's being cooked, wchih it's breaking down. This is why high-protein diets are sometimes shunned - because of this breaking down of toxic proteins! Also people follow SOS because of salt issues. To me, it's usually best to be raw vegan - because food's more intact and without carcinogenic SOSs! I think that gives some context. I didn't see anywhere about the microbes being an issue n the study, but you have to think - sometimes these can be contaminated. So maybe isolated strands are the way to go to not damage? Idk. That's for you to find out.

[@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder]

If you eat too much salt all the time, you probably have more problems with your heart. You’ll end up dying from heart disease before you end up dying from the cancer. If you go on this idea that the things that give you cancer aren’t bad because a lot of people don’t die from the cancer . More people die from heart disease caused by cigarettes, then die from the actual lung cancer. So we should start smoking. That is same kind of strange ideas people have that caused them to look for good things about bad things they do.

[@extropiantranshuman]

@@RichS.74yroldbodybuilder what're you trying to get from all this and do you have a source for proof that this is true or is this something you thought up off the top of your head? I somehow feel like you responded to me but tried to distort it in a nonsensical way to downplay what I say into a joke. What's going on with what you said?

[@podunkom]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@CathrinCatherine]

My favorite guest is back! Can’t wait to put this on during a long yoga/stretching session. 🪴 All the best from Germany!

[@dorothyedwards7225]

🙏🏼🙏🏼😇😊👍👍

[@extropiantranshuman]

it's so funny but my family would complain that they can't eat what I eat, so I would let them eat after me, because I have the enzymes and microbes and after they do, then they're able to eat my food. If they don't do that, after a while they just can't anymore. Funny how that works. Then they get upset or just can't do it - and then turn to animal products. It's not just microbes, but also enzymes that is part of the larger proteome which I feel either should or might be discussed one day.

[@lisabarnetson1362]

Antibiotics increase the risk of depression. According to Zach Bush. MD. Perhaps its because it kills the biome?

[@carnicavegirl7214]

I put my ulcerative in remission and got rid of my depression after I cut out sugar, including fruit, vegetables,and grains🙌🏻 I eat raw dairy, including kefir, Grassfed beef, chicken that Thea’s never fed grains , pasture eggs, and high animal fats

[@420_9R8R]

❤️❤️❤️💩✔️

[@AnnMitt]

The Keto food philosophy is so gross to me. All that meat and cheese, especially cheap process meats, must be difficult on the gut.

[@richricogranada9647]

Dr Bull, you just colored your hair, but you don’t really need it, as you would look handsome and wiser with some grey hair.

[@hortensemason4073]

Why do people that go on a carnivore diet often get rid of IBS and depression. It would be so nice if people researching the microbes were looking for answers instead of feeding their plant based agenda. High fat and high processed are two very different things but paired is totally different than high fat low processed low carb moderate meat protein. Sugar paired with anything and refined products seem to be the issue.. The statement that we need fiber is not proven. Saying something is undeniable makes that information questionable. There has to be a reason that both low fiber carnivore and high fiber plant based diets each separately work at times and each don't work at times. To hear scientists ignoring this....is questionable. Perhaps carnivore gets rid of the bad bacteria.

[@11235Aodh]

Why choose the diet that destroys the earth and kills trillions of animals yearly if both work? If outcomes are the same, then choose the benevolent option?

[@michaelreid6355]

Would five varieties of beans all count towards the 30 different plants a week are would they just count as one? Thanks chuck for your great channel.