113 How gluten affects your body | Dr Tom O'Bryan

“The most common source of inflammation is what’s on the end of your fork. And the most common food is wheat, triggering inflammation across the board for everyone”

— Dr Tom O'Bryan

If you’ve ever wondered if gluten is affecting you, the answer is a resounding yes. It impacts everyone all of the time as it makes the gut lining permeable.

This means what belongs in the gut ends up entering the blood stream and can set off a cascade of inflammatory reactions in any part of the body.

Dr Tom O’Bryan says if you get gut issues when eating gluten you’re one of the lucky ones. We explore why not having gut symptoms doesn’t mean you’re not affected by gluten.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr Tom O’Bryan

We spoke about

• Why gluten related disorders are the silent epidemic

• Gluten’s systemic impact on our body

• The difference between coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity

• Why the tests for gluten sensitivity often wrong

• The link of gluten sensitivity to osteoporosis

• Dr Tom’s tips for Living Fabulously

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Partial Transcript

Bev Roberts 3:00

Why do you believe gluten related disorders are a silent epidemic?

Dr Tom  3:27 

Well, it's silent because people don't want to hear it. You know, there are depending on what experts you talk to, there are five stages of change, or six stages of change that the first one is basically denial. You know, I don't want to hear that. And with wheat.

Wheat is the most common food that most people eat multiple meals every day. Toast for breakfast. Sandwich for lunch. Pasta for dinner. Croutons on the salad, a piece of pie, a cookie, a sandwich for lunch, flour in the soup to thicken it up, or in the gravy that we're getting exposure to wheat, most every day.

And if you travel, when you're in the airports, it's very difficult to find something to eat of substance, if it's not wheat based, that our societies are completely dependent, currently on this food source. And so it's become such a part of living on the planet for all of us. I know that you're in Australia and so you know, there's a slang term in the US that I'll use it's as American as apple pie. You know that wheat is just, it's a food for humanity. And we all believe that because it's the staff of life.

We've heard so many terms for it. It's difficult for people. And usually people have to get sick enough. And when everything they've tried hasn't worked, and they're just so sick and the medications are helping a little, but they're still suffering, that then they might listen. And, you know, every disease that we get every degenerative disease, as far as I know, every degenerative disease is a disease of inflammation.

At the cellular level, the cell is on fire. So the question is, is that a brain cell or a kidney cell? You know, is it Alzheimer’s or kidney stones or is it rheumatoid arthritis in your joints or psoriasis on your skin? Is it depression in your brain? Or is it liver disease. So is it your brain or your kidneys? And is it gasoline or kerosene, but the cell is always on fire. And the most common source of inflammation in your body, every physician agrees with this, for the general public.

You know, if you live in a house that's mouldy, you're there 15 hours a day, every day breathing and mould. That's the most common source of inflammation for you personally, but for most of us, in general, the most common source of inflammation is what's on the end of your fork. And the most common food is wheat, triggering inflammation across the board for everyone. And people have a hard time hearing this, but well, but it's the staff of life. You know, I mean, it's in the Bible. Give us this day our daily bread. But the next sentence is but forgive us our trespasses, right? You know you read a little deeper into it. But now we know that I'll stop being cute.

Now we know the science is so clear. It's irrefutable. When you read the science, absolutely no one can question this because there are so many studies now, if our doctors read the studies, but they don't have time to read the studies, but it is without question every human. Every time they eat wheat, they get transient intestinal permeability, every human every time. So I want to explain that concept. I'm going to get a little geeky, but so that people understand this…

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Episode Links

You can find Dr Tom O’Bryan at:

Website   http://www.thedr.com

Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/thedr.com.english/

The Gluten Summit - 29 Leading Health Experts Gathered to Prove to the World that it MUST ask “Could Health Issues Be Caused by Gluten?” https://thedr.com/tgs/

For other episodes with Dr Tom O'Bryan head to:

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112 The hidden causes of pain | Jodi Scholes

“Chronic pain, persistent pain is a messenger. It’s showing up to tell us something. It’s showing up to demonstrate a lack of harmony in some area of our life. It’s our opportunity to look at the hidden reasons that pain is showing up”

— Jodi Scholes

What story is your pain trying to tell you? I wholeheartedly agree with Jodi Scholes that to get to the heart of healing we need to get to the cause. Jodi shares that there is almost always a story behind the injury, a story behind the pain that we have the opportunity to explore.

We discuss how the hidden reasons for pain are often found in a mental or emotional trauma that is showing up as physical pain and is stuff we don’t want to take a look at in our lives.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Jodi Scholes

We spoke about

• Jodi’s passion for healing

• What the hidden reasons for persistent pain are

• More about the bio-psycho-social reasons for pain

• Common types of pain clients experience and what the body was trying to say

• Simple ways to identify the link between pain and mental or emotional stressors

• Why Jodi wrote “The Body Blueprint: How Your Pain Tells A Story” and who it’s for

• Jodi’s tips for Living Fabulously

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Episode Links

You can find Jodi Scholes at

Website:  www.JodiScholes.com

Body Blueprint book: www.body-blueprint.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/IIBAMT/videos

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111 What type of rest do you really need | Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

“You have to get the rest in that area you have the deficit. That’s when you start feeling energised. That’s when you start the change that gets you on track to the life you really want”

— Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

You're sleeping well yet you're still feeling drained during the day. You've had a number of tests and the results are inconclusive.

Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith talks about her own personal brush with burnout and how she came to the principle of 7 different types of rest that we all need. Yet we hold a belief that rest is synonymous with laziness or that we don't have time to rest.

You'll be surprised at what fabulous ideas she shares for identifying the rest deficit and activities to create the types of rest need. They're key to more energy, greater productivity, better creativity, increased happiness, and a thriving life.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

We spoke about

• Dr Saundra’s brush with burnout

• Why we hold a belief that rest is synonymous with laziness

• When we do get the right rest how this impacts our lives

• What the seven types of rest she found lacking in many patients

• A simple way that the listeners can identify a rest deficit and how to address this

• Dr Saundra’s book “Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Renew Your Sanity”

• Dr Saundra’s tips for Living Fabulously

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Partial Transcript

Dr. Saundra  0:41 

Sure. Well, most of my research now in my writing is based around my own personal burnout journey, about probably about 10 years ago now is when I initially went through that phase of burnout where I got to a point in my professional career, where I was busy doing a lot of work I was I looked very successful from the Outside, because of the accolades and the work and all of those things that were going on, but I didn't enjoy the work that I was doing, I wasn't happy with kind of just my own personal life.

I got to that point where it was all about the work and there was no time to rest and to recover, and to really even enjoy the work that I was doing. And so it was during that time that I started to look at, what does it mean to rest. I was tired all the time. And you know, I was going to bed at night trying to see if maybe I just wasn't getting enough sleep. So I was trying to get the eight to nine hours, would wake up the next morning, still exhausted. And that's when it really started to dawn on me that maybe rest isn't just sleep, maybe they're not synonymous with each other. Maybe there's something else that I'm missing. And that's what led into kind of the deeper research about the seven types of rest and getting an understanding about what they look like how to apply them in the middle of a busy workday.

Because I think many of us you know, when we think about, okay, now I know I need rest. When am I going to find time for that vacation to get away to go to Hawaii, you know, we can't always be doing that as our only form of rest. Because then we're only resting you know, two weeks out of a couple of weeks out of the year. We have to be able to make it something we can do on a regular basis. And I think that's where it really the journey for me got real. How do we live a restful life in the middle of the business that is our lives?

Bev Roberts  2:29 

And so true, because I think for a lot of us as woman, we always feel like we need permission to rest. And you like you say, I have heard that so many times in my own practice. I don't have time to do this. And some people will make the word rest synonymous with laziness. So why do you think that we hold that type of belief in mindset?

Dr. Saundra  2:53 

I think it's cultural for a big part. I think many of us have kind of adapted to our cultural thought process that work is the only thing that's valuable. And if when you start looking as work as the only thing that holds any value, then the rest starts looking like it's taking you away from the work. So the mindset shift that has to happen there is that the rest helps you do higher quality work. If you know, you can grind out work in the middle of your exhaustion, but it's not your best work to do your best work requires that you rest.

Bev Roberts  3:31 

Now we are talking. That's my jam around rest is that yes, you can do that. And I think there's a difference here between thriving and surviving. So you've got this real dichotomy where people sort of see it really black and white, and that rest doesn't impact our lives. But when we get it right, what are some of the real benefits of having enough rest and the right type of rest on our businesses, our homes, our lives, whatever, whatever that means.

Dr. Saundra  4:07 

I think that the very first thing is just our own mental capacity. I think you know, for so many of us, we stay kind of stressed out and anxious and on edge, because we're not resting our mind and our emotions and our social aspects of our lives. So being able to rest in those areas, you start having more mental clarity, you stop forgetting things at 40. And thinking that you have early dementia because you're able to concentrate again, and to have that mental clarity, you start having the ability to have deeper relationships because you're not always feeling agitated because of the extra stress on your life.

You know, in the areas of work, when people start thinking about their need for creative rest, then if you're an entrepreneur, or small business owner even and you're having to stay on top of your game, think about marketing In ways of being innovative, that requires creativity, and so you can burn out your creativity, you need that creative rest, to be able to be re inspired and to have those passions awakened again, to be able to get those innovative thoughts that, you know, come up in the middle of the night. You're not going to get that if you're always going to bed exhausted, and you don't allow any time in your day to be inspired. And to have that part of you awakened again.

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Episode Links

You can find Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith at

Website:  https://ichoosemybestlife.com/

Face book: https://www.facebook.com/DrSaundraDaltonSmith

Rest Quiz: https://ichoosemybestlife.com/quiz/rest-quiz-test/