The Microbe That Changes EVERYTHING

The most important microbe can amplify the immune system, increase your muscle mass, and even help you live longer, but most people are missing it! Watch this fascinating interview with Dr. William Davis as we discuss this missing microbe.

today we have an extremely important topic that revolves around the most important microbe in our body and today I brought on one of the top experts Dr William Davis so welcome doc thanks for being on here thank you Dr ber thanks for the invitation yeah so you wrote a whole book uh primarily revolves around this one microbe and I want to just Dive Right In your book is called super gut which is a fascinating read this microb is called el rudai out of all the thousands of microbes in our like what makes this stand out as more important than the other ones it’s been around for 60 years it’s not like it was discovered last Tuesday but it was not recognized just how powerful this micro was in fact the first 40 Years of research around this microbe centered mostly around what it did for babies that’s important but it was shown to reduce for instance regurgitation of breast milk or formula reduced KCT you know that kind of fussy restlessness and crying that that babies get and that’s about where it ended maybe it abbreviated the diarrhea after an antibiotic but it really didn’t go much farther than that until this group in Boston MIT stumbled upon some unusual effects because there had been some very preliminary cell culture type evidence so very preliminary stuff that showed that ride might have anti-cancer effects particularly in colon cancer so this group very smart very excellent research was exploring that question and they started to see all these unexpected effects that they they’re like what is going on here they saw that the animals stayed young they didn’t get fat and lose their hair and stop M they played with each other they groomed each other they stayed slender with thick Rich fur they saw that if they inflicted wounds this is animals this sounds awful but when they inflicted wounds healing time was cut in half they showed that there was a dramatic rise in testosterone and elderly mice a marked increase in growth hormone an amplification of the immune response so much so as you recall as you and I age the thymus gland right here beneath the sternum shrinks starting at age 15 and by age 70 it’s almost gone it’s about 10% of its original volume and capacity to produce tea cells that protect us from viruses and bacteria and that’s why older people can succumb to flu or pumac pneumonia but 18-year- olds typically don’t and that’s differentiates between it’s not the thyroid it’s the thymus which is a little lower it’s on top of the heart exactly it’s the thymus gland the seat of te- cell immunity of the immune response well that’s restored and it’s restored back to its original size in in mice in mice wow no one’s done that human study yet so all these extraordinary observations in in mice and so I decided to get this microb and play with it but it’s bought it was commercially available as tablets for infants so the dosage for infants is very small so I just simply reasoned how do I increase it well you take a hundred tablets of that product but it’s a sugary product so it’s not very good um so I just simply Amplified counts by making it as a yogurt it’s not yogurt of course it looks and smells like yogurt kind of but it’s a way to amplify bacterial counts in this case a thousandfold that’s when I saw everything this usually doesn’t happen as you know if you see something in mice it often doesn’t translate to a human experience but in this case uh everything seen in mice everything every last observation seen in mice I’ve been seeing in humans wow and as far as um what percentage is this microb in the western world I mean it’s kind of absent right in a great majority of the population yes so Dr Gard reuter he’s the German microbiologist first first isolated it in 1962 from the breast milk of a German breastfeeding mother he said back then it’s easy to find it’s every it’s ubiquitous it’s in breast milk it’s in stool it’s easy to find with his 40-year academic career he made a number of comments that he’s finding increasingly difficult to find such that by the 2000s he could barely find it at all that’s been corroborated several times by others we have a clinical study on proposing where we do several hundred people and see how many will corroborate that and also correlate s to other biomarkers because so crucial for overall health and youthfulness but it’s it’s presumptively because lactobacilus rorai as well as other lactobacillus species there’s many of them of course are uniquely susceptible to Common antibiotics all it takes is a round of penicillin or ampicilin or a MOX aylin that you may have taken years and years ago and you’ve wiped out all the rhide thereby lost all its huge advantages wow I think you mentioned I’m not sure if it was in your book but it’s like was it 96% of population doesn’t really have very many left or exactly right the best estimates we have from recent uh evidence is about 4% of people one in 25 people still have it and so that means uh 24 out of 25 don’t have it have losses as you recall one of the great effects of this microb you know most microbes in the gastrointes microbiome colonize the colon way way down 24t down from the mouth and that’s where they’re supposed to be but rorai is unique in that it has the unique capacity to colonize the small intestine and that’s where it takes up residents and produce natural antibiotics and these natural antibiotics are effective in killing fecal microbes which as you know is a huge problem now this notion of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth what we say sibo sip po that is feal microbes like ecoli Etc have colonized the small intestine where they don’t belong and they’re very destructive when they do that well is the loss of Rai and maybe some related species that have this unique ability to colonize the small intestin produce antibiotics of their own and these are different than the antibiotics you get from the hospital from the doctor um these are these are very selective antibiotics unlike the stuff you get in a in in the hospital where it’s it tends to be broad spectrum wipes that it’s an atomic bomb for your GI track and so is the loss of Rai part of the reason why this has become an epidemic that is because explains why sibo has become an epidemic I I believe it is yeah because now we have no protection against these other microbes so it’s a I guess it’s called what’s called a keystone microb right which is kind of a it does more than just one thing it kind of helps the whole ecosystem in that area right it kind of helps balance everything yeah isn’t that wonderful it’s fascinating had sibo and I took an antibiotic like zyxin it just kills a bunch of stuff but it doesn’t start the process of restoration so exactly right you restore ruite maybe some other microbes and it begins the process microbes are kind of like people we don’t live in isolation we have partners and families and friends and neighbors and co-workers and communities microbes are the same way so restoration of ruite is that first step not just in restoring ruite but in cultivating a healthy community of microbes and then now let’s just Dive Right into one of the huge effects that I’m very excited about it causes the body to increase that hormone oxytocin which is kind of a hormone that people know about you know you’re bonding with your mother as a baby but it does a little more than that right oxytocin does a lot more now of course as we age oxytocin goes down but tell us a little bit about this oxytocin what that does so it’s a brain hormone from the hypothalamus that is released by when you restore Rai if we believe the animal evidence is about three threefold 300% or more we’ve tried to corroborate that humans were ha