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But all it means is getting rid of the old and damaged cells to make room for new cells, okay? And that's true of your brain, your muscles, your heart, I mean, every cell in your body.

So if my body is making new cells and it's getting rid of the old cells, how's it getting rid of the old cells? How does autophagy occur? Well, part of that process is antibodies to your tissue.

That's why if you do a blood test looking for thyroid problems, and if they're comprehensive, they're including looking at thyroid antibodies.

There's a normal reference range for thyroid antibodies, and most laboratories zero to 34, zero to 36.

So why is it ever normal to have the immune system attacking your own body? How come it's normal to have 28 antibodies to your thyroid? Why is that in the normal range? Because it's part of the process of autophagy to get rid of the old and damaged cells, making room for new cells.

Oh, okay.

Could you talk a little bit about the, the compromised gut lining and that being a source of inflammation?

This is Dr. Tom O'Bryan, um, saying this.

Yeah, we have nothing to sell.

[laughs] Nothing.

Uh, this is, this, it's like wake up, you know? Listen- Uh, so that's the five tests.

Uh, but now going back to Alzheimer's to bring it full circle why I do this.

Um, the second slide in every presentation I give is a picture of my five-year-old son.

And, uh, I say, "I dedicate this talk to him and all the children of his generation," because I believe the only way we can save the planet is to think outside the box, and we aren't gonna do it.

Yeah

So tell us how you came upon this topic and how the first 38 weeks of human life were supposedly nurtured and protected in our mother's amniotic sac are much more eventful than possibly the 38 years of our life,

the first 38 years.

Yes, yes.

Thank you.

Thank you for that introduction.

I think what's overwhelming for people to hear these kinds of numbers and these kinds of statistics.

They don't have a framework within to hold them.

conventional tomato that you're going to eat.

Yes.

That most every page, front page in the country came out saying, um, "Medicare's gonna be bankrupt in 20, 25 years because of Alzheimer's.

More people are getting it, and it costs so much, it's gonna bankrupt the country." So the government put a commission together of world experts on this, uh, because pharmaceutical companies were closing their Alzheimer's research departments after spending billions trying to figure out what to do, and they realized, "We aren't gonna m- make any profit from this.

We aren't going to find a pill for Alzheimer's," so they closed their department and laid off the scientists.

So they put this commission together and they, uh, it took them two years to write their report.

Well, this is their report that came out two years later, and there is a drawing in here that, uh, uh, says the whole thing.

I mean, this went on my ceiling for about four months because it's so juicy.

Right, I, I was referring more to the fact that it's everywhere, so if you're trying to be really good, there's benefits even if it's getting, if it's sneaking into your system, you know, through ways you don't even realize.

oh yeah,

that's right, that's right.

And then sometimes I would think about it while I was sleeping.

You know, I'd have a dream about it.

I was giving myself permission to think outside the box, to think about something different than what was important every day that I had to deal with.

And sometimes I'd be driving down the road, two days later, three days later, I'd say, oh, I wonder if that patient, could have this going on, or, oh, I better check more into this.

I need to read a little more about this topic, whatever it is.

He's

Is there something going on in the United States with the, the, uh, the quality of the wheat or chemicals that are on the wheat that are contributing to a- an exaggerated sensitivity as compared with the wheat from other countries?

Really good question.

I, um, just did an Instagram a couple of days ago 'cause my wife showed me that my friend Dr. Zach Bush, who is just a brilliant, brilliant doctor, and he's helping hundreds of thousands of people, he made a comment, "Well, you know, it's not the gluten.

It's the glyphosates on the wheat that's causing the problems." Now, he's [laughs] I'm sorry, I love Zach Bush, but he's just wrong.

He's wrong.

Uh, the gluten proteins in wheat, if you have a sensitivity, about 7% of those people with a sensitivity to wheat get gut symptoms.

93% of people with a sensitivity to wheat don't get any gut symptoms, so they don't know when they eat wheat, it's fueling their seizures or it's fueling their psoriasis because they feel fine when they eat wheat.

Uh, what, what are these enzymes? Where do you get them? Is it a brand?

So our ancestors were nomads.

They'd find something, first they smell it, then they nibble on it, then they eat it.

And if there was a bad bug that they didn't identify, the acid in your stomach should kill it, the bad bug.

But if it doesn't, and it comes out of the stomach into the small intestine, that's when food can get into the body.

When you swallow food, it's really not in the body, it's in the tube.

Your digestive system is a tube that goes from the mouth to the other end, one big long tube that winds around in the center.

So that's perfect.

You know, I stand on stage, I travel the world and teach all over the world.

The mechanism is the same.

They're all inflammatory diseases, and this is how they occur.

I mean, you can't argue with this.

This is just so simple.

You know, my first teacher used to say, the body is simply intricate and intricately simple.

And when you look at this graph, when you look at this drawing again and again and again, you get it.

And then the laboratory did.

So what the takeaway here is, if you're positive to wheat, your immune system might be attacking some other tissue and you've got an autoimmune mechanism going on.

Then they check the same thing if people were positive to dairy.

And if they were positive to dairy, here's the numbers.

Oops, let me back up there, sorry.

Here's the numbers if they were positive to dairy.

And when you look at today, uh, how important is gut function and what people eat to keeping their inflammation under control a- and then that inflammation has such an impact on everything they do, doesn't it?

It does.

It does.

You know, if, if we take a step back, and no one emphasized this in our education, not one professor emphasized the critical nature that 14 of the 15 top causes of death are chronic inflammatory diseases.

No one emphasized that.

And with our patients, uh, the way I say it to them, "Mrs.

Patient, your immune system is the armed forces in your body.

What's the first thing that someone should do when they look at this stuff?