Here’s a question I’ve been asked a couple of times now and it’s good to do a little video on it. Why do drugs like antibiotics initially work but then they stop working? They give a relief as symptoms initially but then after a period of time, they don’t really work anymore?

We’ve got to remember that antibiotics are highly targeted drugs, okay? They target bacteria, certain types of bacteria. They work on the cell walls of the bacteria. They kill bacteria. So of course that’s going to have an initial effect because they’re going to take a lot of stuff down which is going to relieve the body but then what happens after a while, there’s a void. And that void quickly gets filled with other bacteria and yeasts. Yeasts will quickly jump into that area like squatters.

It’s a bit like you clean out a whole city street and the first thing that will come back into those houses will be probably not really the best kind of people. Maybe crack addicts and that kind of stuff. So they’ll quickly move in, undesirables. And of course they’re going to create a hell of a mess and a noise and a fuss and that’s what’s going to happen with your body.

You’re going to clean out stuff initially but then create a void, a vacuum for other stuff to get in there. And of course then antibiotics on top of that will not really do much anymore until another antibiotic is given or a stronger one and then creates that space and then avoid again even worse.

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So repeating antibiotics time and again creates nothing but a sick person. That’s what it’s going to do. The first hit is always the best hit and I find the same with natural medicine. So usually I target parasites or bacteria quite well and that’s why I designed the CanXida products because when they come in there, they take a lot of stuff down, but they don’t take the good guys down like the antibiotics do.

Antibiotics will wipe out the bacillus indiscriminately. The CanXida Remove will not do that. It won’t wipe out beneficials. And then how do I know that? How can I be cocky in saying that? I can say that after seeing many, many, many stool test reports before and after, both antibiotics and both also after the CanXida products.

With the antibiotics, it’s devastating what you see. You really see an incredible wipe out of the beneficial bacteria, which I don’t see with the product I created. I’m not trying to sell stuff to anybody. I’m just saying be careful of antibiotics, particularly if you repeat them round after round after round. You’ll only end up really sick and potentially with an auto immune disease cause you’re wiping out so much bacteria. It can take years sometimes for them to grow back. So just be very careful with antibiotic prescriptions.

What do I do? I can’t stick with any healthy eating plan, I go out with friends and next thing I’ve got a glass of wine in one hand, a glass of beer in the other, and then I got a burger shoved in my mouth, what am I going to do? That’s an interesting question. Many people, often men I find, don’t make change to their diet and lifestyle until they have to make the change, and generally then it’s too late to make that kind of change. When people feel relatively okay, they don’t want to make changes, not until they develop symptoms that are so bad that they have to make the change or are forced to make it, and then they throw everything in reverse and it’s too late.

Let’s define the word healthy diet, all right, because most people I know, even the health gurus don’t eat as well as you think they eat, and I know a lot of health gurus out there, okay. I’m not mentioning names, but I know quite a few people that like to have a cigarette here or there or a beer, or do naughty things but they talk differently online, okay. To me, a healthy diet means you’re eating plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits, lean meats, things like this, things that we talk a lot on this channel. A healthy diet doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve got a glass of kale juice in your hand at 6:00 AM on the yoga mat, that’s not healthy diet, I mean that’s just a freaking insanity diet, okay? I mean, I couldn’t live like that.

If you got to glass of kale on a yoga mat at 6:00 AM every morning, maybe you need to be in a new kind of a movie or something, a reality show or something, where you’re part robot because nobody lives like that, okay? That’s not a common sense way to live is it, getting up at six o’clock in the morning with a glass of kale juice, I mean how romantic is that? It’s disgusting. Getting up at eight o’clock and make a nice cup of coffee for your partner and then have a nice breakfast, that’s a little bit more sort of my way of thinking. So it depends what you define as a healthy diet, okay?

Most people are going to eat something that’s not so healthy from time to time, even very healthy people will do that, all right. So you can’t really live like a priest in terms of the diet without really annoying a lot of people around you, okay? And we’ve all heard of the term God botherers, but we also have a term health botherers, where you bother people about health all the time. So you don’t want to live like that because you’ll only end up getting chucked outside by people that don’t want to live like that.

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So how do you stick to a healthy diet? Well to begin with, you have to define for you what the term healthy diet means. Even if you eat one good fresh meal per day and snack on something else that’s fresh, if you are going to eat something that’s not so great around that, it’s still a healthy diet, okay? Some people even define deep fried potato chips as healthy because they’re potato, okay? So a healthy diet for some people could mean eating takeaway once or twice a week, but not drinking alcohol. A healthy diet for someone else could be eating very good food, much better than that, they’re drinking wine every day. Now remember, drinking alcohol doesn’t mean to say that it’s an unhealthy diet, all right? If we look at the Mediterranean diet, red wine forms a part of that diet. So you can’t tell me that a healthy diet has to be completely devoid of all alcohol, you can’t tell me a healthy diet has to be completely devoid of all flour and gluten and grain products, I won’t listen to you if you tell me that.

So again, it depends on what your definition of a healthy diet is, is it being vegan, is it being a meat eater? I don’t know. Healthy diet means that you’re eating less processed food, okay, less food made by other humans and more food made by you, the choices are yours. And when you make these foods, you’re going to use stuff that grows out of the ground, fresh stuff, okay? Minimal sauces, minimal condiments, minimal sugar, if any, that’s a healthy diet. Whether alcohol plays a part in that diet or some bread or some dairy, I see that totally as being up to you, all right? Many people live ripe old ages, smoking, drinking, eating meat, okay, many people.

Think also about the relationship that you’re in, okay? Is it a healthy relationship or is it a junk food relationship, is it a takeaway relationship? Okay, think carefully about those words. It’s not just about what you eat, okay. So sticking to a healthy diet is not hard, having a crappy diet is not hard to stick with either, but the choice is totally yours, all right? It’s not up to somebody else to decide what’s good for you to eat, it’s up for you to decide that based on your knowledge.

And that’s part of the reason I created this channel, is to sort of empower you to make you see that eating really healthy and amazing food doesn’t mean to say you need that kale juice on that yoga mat at 6:00 AM, but it also doesn’t mean that you have that pizza and beer at 2:00 AM in front of Netflix either, that’s not a healthy diet, okay, because the balance is not there. So you work out what your definition of healthy diet is, because I know what mine is, enjoying wine, it’s enjoying all good foods, and it’s enjoying life, that’s a healthy diet. Take care my friends.

A guy who had a very bad gut problem. A very bad gut problem. I don’t want you to laugh with this case because it’s a true case. Of course the names have been changed and the circumstances have been changed and the occupation’s been changed of this guy to prevent any embarrassment from him. But this was a guy in his thirties who came to see me many years ago now. It would have been about 15 or 20 years ago, and it was a very embarrassing problem he had, basically. He had to wear diapers. Okay, this is a guy in his thirties. Now stop laughing. Okay, this could happen to you. I liked that voice on the Simpsons, that old guy’s voice. This could to happen to you.

So it’s true story. diapers are not necessarily worn by elderly people or babies, sometimes. And I’m not talking about these crazy diaper clubs they’ve got in the States where men dress up in diapers and have their Instagram accounts where they wear diapers all day. That’s pretty weird out, I reckon. But this is a healthy man who basically got married. He got married I believe was in Rarotonga or in Fiji or one of those islands with his lovely wife and then came back home. And he had acquired a job where he was basically driving a van around. I won’t go into that, the type of work he had, but he couldn’t do this job anymore because he started developing a bowel problem when he came back from the islands. And the bowel problem got worse and worse to the point after 10 years where he was basically in continent. He had to wear a diaper.

And when he came to see me, the biggest problem he had with embarrassment. It was more emotional problems he had rather than the diaper. Because, basically, it was a really bad situation for him and his friends. Let me just turn this silly phone off that we do that. Can’t even work these phones out these days. And, but this poor man, I’ll call him Samuel, I’ll call him Sam. So the first thing I did with Sam, I said, “Mate, we need to do a stool test.””SI said, something’s clearly not right with your bowel here. We need to check it out.” When the stool report came back, I fell off my chair because I’d never seen someone with so many parasites in such high count in one stool test. In fact, we repeated the test, did a second test and it came back even worse than the first test. And I explained to this guy that the reason why he had this bowel problem was because such a terrible situation on an extreme lack of beneficial bacteria and a very high parasite count.

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Now, this came about through the medical treatment he received in Rarotonga. He received some really strong, outdated medications. A combination of two or three antibiotics that, basically, wiped the gut out. They Reset the gut. He felt pretty good for the first two or three days, but then when he got home, the bowel started to change. Got a lot more bloating, got gas, appetite went out the window, lost a lot of weight, and then, of course, the diarrhea came and it didn’t go away. Went back to the doctor. More antibiotics. Went back to the doctor. More antibiotics. That’s all they could do. Basically, they told him to go home, that’s how it was. They couldn’t help him. They gave him diarrhea medications and not one time did they check for parasites. Not one time did they do a stool test on this guy because they said it’s been done already.

You know you’ve had treatment in Rarotonga and it must be something else. The doctor was not even interested in looking at the new stool test report that we’d completed with all these… wasn’t interested. Thought it was a sham test. That’s what really annoys me about some doctors is they’ve got minds that are completely closed off. Unbelievable. Anyway, we worked on Sam for over six months to try and slowly get the gut right and what I noticed over time is he started to gain weight, which is a great sign and then, all of a sudden, I got a phone call from him. He was very excited. In fact, his wife was really excited because she said he sat on the lavatory and produced a bowel motion that was actually a form motion. The first time in several years. So almost like an excited three year old, we got this phone call, “A stool! A form stool. Has it been a form stool produced.

That means, of course, that the microbiome is starting to get back in shape again. And then after the form stool,, of course we started to work more aggressively with fiber and probiotics and flax meal was also part of that. We put lots of flax seed meal into the diet. And the bowel came back again and then bang, the diarrhea stopped. Weight came back, health improved. Doctor didn’t want to know about it, of course, he was not interested in talking about the case, and patient fully recovered, no more diapers. And the guy still contacts me regularly now and he’s a wonderful person and it’s just so nice to be part of someone’s healing like that, to get them from a state where… Basically, the lifesaver. So that was the guy who wore the diapers. And a sad case, but a true story.

So if you’ve got a problem, a bowel, problem like that where literally you’re passing 10, 15 liquid stools a day, think to yourself, have you traveled? Did you go to Bolivia? Did you go to Peru? Did you go to Brazil? Did you go somewhere and have NBWS, never been well since? So that’s a common things I write on a patient’s case take in form, never been well since and then put that… Usually when there’s a turning point like that, there’s a bacterial parasite involved that got into the body and changed everything. And you would think the doctor would take more interest in this patient but, basically, wrote him off. That’s the great part about my job is seeing people’s lives change. It’s fantastic. I hope you have a fantastic life, too.

I always like people coming back checking out of the channel. Is magnesium any good for small intestinal bowel overgrowth or SIBO?

I’ve spoken a lot about magnesium on this channel. Magnesium is a fantastic element to have in the body. I think it’s the fourth most abundant element in the body. It’s critical. It’s critical for proper nerve function, but also for proper function of the blood vessel wall, the endothelium in particular, so it allows it elasticity of the blood vessel. It’s great for keeping blood pressure perfect.

But magnesium does so much more than that. It’s estimated between three to 400 different biochemical processes in the body are affected by magnesium, so even your teeth, your bones … Your bones are about 40% made out of magnesium. So the uptake of magnesium really depends a lot on the integrity of the gut of the person.

But from what I can gather from looking at many different studies, about 30 to 40% of the magnesium you swallow actually gets absorbed, and younger people tend to have a higher absorption rate than older people. So when you hit 60 or 70 years old, sort of a bit my realm, when you’re pushing into an age bracket, the absorption for a lot of minerals just starts to nosedive. And so conservative estimates are about … Well, being 60 now I would probably absorb about a third of what a really young person would absorb, basically. So the healthier the stomach and the small bowel is, meaning the better the balance of bacteria, keeping yeast at bay, beneficial bacteria at good levels. When things are humming well in the body, and particularly when the enzyme levels are good, the uptake dramatically increases.

So whenever you drink alcohol, have coffee or tea, or have junk food or stuff like that, when you start affecting your gut, it will also affect how magnesium is taken up. And this can explain also why many people feel different when they take supplements. Some people have got a gut in poorer state, needs to be brought up before it can accept those minerals, really absorb them.

So the ilium or the terminal part of the small bowel, is where most of the magnesium is taken up in the body, also in the colon in certain parts of the large intestine. So there is no doubt that magnesium will have a good effect on small intestinal … There goes my flashing light again that needs replacing. Bing, you see it flashing. And so magnesium is a good one for gut products but you need to be careful when you take magnesium, particularly initially take it as it powder, or a capsule, or a tablet, with SIBO or a gut problem because it can exacerbate things first.

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So just be wary of that. It can make the bowel work a bit faster, or a bit slower because it will affect the nerves in the gut. It will affect a lot of processes in the gut. But a healthy gut like mine, not a problem. I can easily take between four to 600 milligrams of magnesium without any issues. It’s a fantastic supplement to take. I really recommend it.

Now you’ll generally find magnesium bound to something, often an amino acid, we call them chelates. So chelate, I think it means to claw in Latin, to grab hold of. So when they bind magnesium, for example, to glycine, magnesium glycinate and it disassociates easier that way. That way you get a little bit of glycine in your body, but also a fair bit of magnesium. The older forms of magnesium, like the oxide for example, and the phosphates tend to be much harder to absorb. But then you have modern ones in most supplements now will absorb quite well.

But is it any good for SIBO? Yes, it is. But take it easy when you first start taking magnesium. That’s why I like it as part of a multivitamin. It tends to work better that way initially. And when you get more experience with supplements, you can actually just take the element itself.

Now, here’s an interesting one. Seven reasons why you may feel tired or spaced out when you’re taking supplements or starting a new or a healthy diet. Many times in the past, many times I’ve had people email me or contact me when I was in practice saying, “I feel like crap. What have you done? These tablets don’t work for me.” Or, “This diet’s not working for me at all. The advice you gave me is crap.” Or, “It’s no good.” Or, “I’m feeling exhausted, I’m feeling spaced out. I’m not sleeping, I’m not doing this.”

Now, let’s go over some of the key reasons why that may happen. Some of these reasons may really stand out to you and they’ll make sense. Others maybe not so because you may not have heard of these reasons, but I’d say the first reason is impatience because many people want something now. They don’t want to wait even five minutes anymore for it. Have you noticed now many people email you and then they expect a reply within literally 10 minutes or half an hour? Otherwise you’ll get another email, did you get my email? Impatience is a big thing today. Nobody wants to wait for anything anymore. Everything wants everything yesterday, don’t even want to wait today to get it. Many people will order something online, they’ll want to have it within an hour. It’s unrealistic.

But with your health, it takes a long time. It can take weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks for slowly for you to really improve. The body works like that. The body doesn’t work like Google. It doesn’t work like an iPhone. You can’t just swipe away depression. You can’t just push a button and the bowels work all of a sudden. It doesn’t work like that, guys. There’s no tech when it comes to the cells inside. You can’t speed things up. There’s no, let’s download a new app for the body to make me poo better or make me love someone with some crap like this. Doesn’t work like that. Nature takes her time. You can’t hurry up summer. You can’t push it into fall really quick. One day it’s pouring rain, one day the sun’s shining.

Your body’s the same. One day you got an itchy bottom and the next day you haven’t got an itchy bottom. That’s life, isn’t it? One day the neighbor’s going to complain to you that your curry smells like someone died and the next day someone’s going to tell you that your bacon sandwich smells amazing. That’s what life’s all about. Differences. Things change constantly. Nature takes her time. Lots of things. Me throwing things away again. Lots of things are thrown into the mix in life, have you noticed? This COVID-19 thing hit people like basically a baseball bat to the back of the head. Nobody expected it and it happened and we just have to live with it. Life is all about change. It’s all about variety. Nothing stays the same. But also learning to be patient is a very powerful tool for you when it comes to improving your health so you have to be patient.

The second point, many people take supplements on an empty stomach. They’ll wake up in the morning, they’ll take a handful of supplements. They’ll have a cup of coffee to go with it and then they’ll feel like crap for an hour or so. It’s not uncommon. I’ve had people take supplements with beer, with alcohol, with everything. I think I mentioned before, I told one guy to drink more, so he thought I meant more beer but in fact I meant more water. You got to spell things out.

Supplements mostly are not taken on an empty stomach. Generally, best to take with food. I’ve mentioned this many times. Probiotics should be taken with food, not before meals. Bacteria like to be with bacteria. They like to be part of the digestive process, so you’re best to take most supplements in the middle of a meal at the beginning or at the end. Multivitamins for example, go well in the middle of a meal. You’re working with food, you may as well put something in there that’s going to really work with that food and be absorbed at the same time. No point in taking something completely separate from a meal and swallowing it and expecting your body to really work with it.

I’m not talking protein powders or juice drinks or things like that. I’m talking supplements, hardcore supplements. Proper supplements that mitigate responses in the body that have effects on you. They really should be taken with food. Certain types of supplements like vitamin C powders for example, can be taken before meals or away from meals, but mostly think, I’ve got a supplement, I take it with a meal. That really lessens the ability of you to feel sick on nauseous or whacked out of your mind or spaced out or things like that because these things can happen. Many times when I did get feedback from someone that they felt stoned off their face or something on a supplement, it’s because they were taking three or four strong supplements away from food between meals. Now with Helicobacter pylori or certain type of stomach infections, I have certainly protocols where I will use a supplement before a meal or between meals. That’s for a specific reason.

The third one, you’ve cut back on your foods too much. Bigger people sometimes think if they cut all the food out, they’re going to lose weight. It doesn’t work like that. You can’t just stop food all of a sudden and then cut your calorie intake down to say 500 or a 1,000 calories a day. It doesn’t work like that. You’ll get spaced out, you’ll get blood sugar issues. Many things will happen. Losing weight, as I’ve always mentioned, losing weight, smaller plate, less food over a long period of time. Walking more, less food intake makes sense. Less calories and more movement means less body size. I lost 12 pounds over the COVID break, mainly because I was up and down ladders painting. You can probably still see the paint on my lovely watch here. Lots of painting made me lose weight. Being very active.

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Active and the other thing I recommend for a lot of people is to be very careful with the socializing part when you do diet changes. When you’re going out and you’re trying to make a new start, a fresh start, new diet, things like that, then you’re going out with a bunch of friends and then often to hell with it. I’ll have that pint of beer, I’ll have that couple of pieces of bread with my curry. You won’t really think about what you’re doing because you’re out with friends. Sometimes it pays to pull back. Talk to your friends about that.

The fourth point, your diet change was quite drastic. This can make you really spaced out. Some people, for example, will take out all meat out of their diet completely and then just go vegan. I’ve seen people do this. You can’t do that. You can’t just stop completely the diet in its entirety and start an entire new diet up and not expect to get off Scott free. You will end up feeling disturbed. You’ll feel tired, weak, sick. You could go through all kinds of different experiences. If you want to go from hardcore one diet to another, you got a little bit of softcore in between, if you know what I mean.

There’s got to be a period where you’re taking your time to slowly integrate into the new diet. That can take two or three weeks. Remember what I said, the first point? Patience. If you’re patient, you can easily go from one diet to another one seamlessly. By just making small changes over many, many days and you’ll come out quite fine. But if you just jump head on into a new diet, don’t expect to get off without some type of punishment because it will work. You’ll feel pretty crappy.

One, two, three, four. The fifth point, you took too many supplements. Some people take 10, 20, 30 supplements. You don’t need to take so many supplements. Any more than three or four is usually a waste of money, in my opinion. Taking pills for all ills is not going to create any real benefit for you and it could make you feel quite spaced out when you mix things together. In fact, some patients over the years improved so much from one thing than I did, I just basically told them to stop all the supplements they were taking for multiple years.

And in several accounts, people have come back and said, “Oh my God, I feel so much better.” And I say, “Well, you were spending thousands of dollars a month and you’re actually not spending the money. Of course you’re feeling a little better.” “No, no, no. My digestive system’s, the diarrhea is gone and the insomnia is gone.” And it was all from mixing too many supplements. Don’t fall for that trick of seeing multiple practitioners and then end up on 10, 20, 30 sometimes a 100 different supplements. I’m not joking. It’s not really good. It’s a bad move both for the bank account side and also for your gut. It’s a bad move.

Point number six, too busy at the same time as doing diet or supplementary changes. Lifestyle too hectic, not taking enough time to smell the roses. Too much work, too much computer time. You can’t do that. If you’re going to make a diet or lifestyle change, particularly a lifestyle change in terms of healthy eating and put some supplements in it, it’s good for you to back off and slow down. An optimal time to make these changes is during the vacation, during your holiday, during your break, not when you’re starting a brand new job. You just got, let’s just say you just got, you fired your old boss and you’ve got a brand new position. You’re now an office manager or you’re now, you’ve got a really good position and you’re doing that at the same time as the diet change. It’s not a good idea. Soon after you get married, you’re going to do a major change, not a good idea. Think carefully about planning. Planning is a key thing. Make a big difference.

And the last one, you didn’t tailor the diet or supplements to suit you. You just blindingly followed what someone else said. Now that’s again not a good idea because you may have been instructed by a physician for example, to take XYZ supplement at the rate of two of them three times per day. Now you may find on day one you feel really sick after you’ve done that. Do you do it on day two? Not really. You cut back. You stop that supplement and you’ll probably start again at the rate of maybe one supplement per day, one dose per day. And then see how the digestive system is. It’s more conservative. Don’t always follow the advice of the physician if you feel sick. Report back immediately, cut the dosage back and then slowly ramp it up. I never start people on maximum doses and this for very specific reasons.

It’s just like I would never put someone into a gym and expect them to do bench press a 300 pound on the first week. I’d probably expect it after maybe a couple of years. The very first day they’re there, they may not even pick up a bar. They’re just picking up a broomstick and they’re using that to get the motion. If you get my point. When you first start supplements, especially strong supplements, you don’t take lots of them. You start very low dosage and even five or 10% of what the doctor told you to take. And then especially if you’re a sensitive person and then gradually build up. That’s going to stop you from getting spaced out and feeling sick, especially if you know you’re sensitive.

I wrote about this extensively in Candida Crusher about the three types of people, the normal people, the sensitive people, and the super sensitive, the ultra sensitive.