The question is, is magnesium any good for leaky gut? Well, it’s probably good for just about everything but leaky gut. But what I like about magnesium so much, when you take it regularly, it has such profound effect on your body, on all the cells of your body, that you’ll certainly notice it. Most people notice magnesium supplementation within about a week.

So before I get bombarded with millions of emails, what type of magnesium? What form of magnesium? How many do I take? Pills or powders or liquids? This is something that you can discuss with your health food shop or naturopath. There’s about 30 types of magnesium out there. I could rattle off 15 of them just off the top of my head, but there’s way more than that.

So the basic magnesium that you might want to try is magnesium citrate, or citrate, or magnesium glycinate, G-L-Y-C-I-N-A-T-E. That’s a basic magnesium. But there are many other forms, and some have specific purposes in the body. They’re taken with calcium, for example, or other minerals. Others form part of a multi formula, but I prefer just to take magnesium on its own quite often.

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Now, if you drink coffee or tea or alcohol, magnesium’s a must. What I like about it, it has an effect on relaxing many parts of the body. It induces a good sleep. It also gives you good stamina. It’s fantastic for heart and cardiac muscle. But for many other reasons it works. There are over 300 different applications for magnesium inside your body from a biochemical perspective, so it’s impossible to say, “Yes, it will work for leaky gut,” or “No,” but likely it won’t have a direct affect on it.

Motility in the stool is affected by magnesium. We know if you take too much, you can get diarrhea, so you need to be careful with that. And if your diet is full of green leafy vegetables, there is not that much need for magnesium in your diet, but you’ll still find it useful if you’re stressful. And that’s what I like about it, is it works on anxiety and stress, and when we can mitigate that and help that, you’ll often find that will improve the leaky gut by default, because it’ll also improve your dietary choices, which will start changing the way you eat when you relax more.

When you sleep better, you’ll focus more, and also you’ll find it easier to say no to certain types of foods and things which rob the body of magnesium, like coffee, tea, and alcohol, which are typically consumed too much with a stressful lifestyle. So does it work for leaky gut? Not directly. Probably indirectly, but it’s a great one to take.

We’re going to talk about yogurt, one of my favorite foods, so a creamy, creamy yogurt. I got this recipe from a Greek lady a long time ago now. It would have been like 25 years ago, I think, a patient. And a wonderful recipe it is. I’m going to give you the link to the recipe in this video in the box underneath. You can click on it. It’s on my site, ericbakker.com, which we’re working on at the moment. Going to have some big changes on that site. So check the recipe out.

It’s a creamy recipe because it’s got milk powder with it. So you need to get preferably some organic raw milk, okay? So we’re quite lucky in New Zealand because all our milk is from animals that eat grass, not grain. In fact, all our meat is from grass animals. I find it quite weird how in other countries they have cows eating grain and stuff like that. So a creamy yogurt comes with that milk powder. You need to introduce a couple of capsules of a acidophilus, okay? So some probiotic, just a couple of capsules of probiotic if you want, one or two. When you put probiotics in with this recipe, make sure there are no enzymes with it, so you need just a straight probiotic, okay? Just one capsule. But you can also use a little bit of starter from a previous batch that you’ve made, okay?

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When you get over, I think it’s 46, 47, or 48 centigrade, it’s not good. So you can actually make this in a small crock pot, in a little crock pot on its lowest setting. Or in a yogurt maker, it’ll work well. Once you’ve tasted this, you won’t want stuff from the store anymore. It won’t taste anywhere near as good as this yogurt. This yogurt taste is sublime. It’s really good, especially when it’s really cold, a very cold yogurt. It’s also nice to mix in, and I’ll often do that in the summertime, make up a nice drink with yogurt, water, and a bit of honey and mix it. It’s very tasty. You can pulse some mango or banana through it, or some fruit, even nicer.

But definitely click on the link below and you’ll get that free recipe that I’ve been making now for a long time.

Turmeric, we’ve all heard of turmeric. I spent about a good two, three hours yesterday in fact, tidying up my little herb and spice cabinet in my new kitchen. So I built a little spice cabinet with, I think, 42 slots in it many, many years ago and I’ve just sort of restored it a bit and I’ve got all my spice jars back. And turmeric is something that I’ve been cooking with now for over 30 years long before people even heard about turmeric.

But there are so many other spices out there that are probably even better than turmeric, but turmeric’s just hit the news because of curcumin and its anti-inflammatory effects. And some studies show curcumin, the active ingredient is almost as good as ibuprofen. So Asian people have been consuming turmeric now for thousands of years and the Western country finally clicking onto these kinds of things.

As I said before, if you’re going to buy turmeric, get the yellow, the deep yellow powder. So turmeric contains an inactive called curcumin. Now curcumin, through many studies has shown certainly to have multiple effects on the human microbiota. For example, one study I looked at a while ago showed that it had quite a powerful effect on reducing the translocation or the movement of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides. So little bits of cell wall or dead debris from germs from bacteria actually got quite cleaned up quite nicely with curcumin. Curcumin has good anti-inflammatory actions.

So if you’re going to take a supplement with curcumin in it, for example, make sure it’s got stuff called BioPerine or even if you grind a bit of pepper on top of it, because pepper contains stuff in it, they’re active, which helps to really get curcumin into the body well. Okay? And this is why pepper is so nice with all your meals because it’s an active, which helps also to stimulate the gut allowing uptake of actives from many different herbs and spices. You don’t just put pepper and salt on your dish to make it cold or something or make it look sexy. You put on there for a reason, just like all herbs and spices traditionally for thousands of years were used for reasons over and beyond wanting to have a nice selfie on Instagram. Okay?

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People didn’t have Instagram 2000 years ago. I don’t think they did and they didn’t have to take pictures of all the foods that they quickly made to show people. People used spices and herbs for specific reasons and often they used them as flavor enhancing, but what they didn’t know is those flavors also had very active, quite active, strong actions that for example would stop food from going off that would heal the lining of the gut. It’s quite remarkable, but it’s true.

Curcumin definitely has a positive effect on leaky gut, but whether it cures it or heals it… I would recommend that you use turmeric regularly in your cooking like I do, and not go out and buy necessarily high potent curcumin supplements. Many people now view curcumin like a pharmaceutical drug, but when you think about it, companies have taken these spices and herbs and they’ve just taken the actives out of it and rejected all the rest. They’re doing all over again to spices what they’ve done with pharmaceutical medicines. They take a plant from the Amazon, take an active out of it, reject the rest. Doesn’t it make more sense to have the turmeric instead of just purely curcumin? Think about it. It does to me.

Add it to your diet. Try curcumin as a supplement. I’m not saying don’t try it, but I’m saying don’t just take curcumin. Take the turmeric because turmeric has more in it than just curcumin. The question was, is it any good? I think it is, but don’t overdo it because many people overdo things when it comes to curcumin. They take too much. Small amounts.

Best diet for Gastritis. You’ve got pain, you’ve got heartburn and you’ve got some painful stomach. Because the lining of the stomach is burning, it’s swollen, it’s really sore. What can you eat? What’s the best food? Well, think about this logically. You’re going to go to Google and you’re going to Google all these foods. And it’s going to say, don’t eat acidic foods, don’t drink alcohol, don’t eat spicy foods, avoid dairy, avoid gluten, avoid sugar. Avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid. And you get sick of all these avoids. It’s all fairly well. But here’s the funny thing. Some people with Gastritis can drink coffee perfectly well. Now you might go, “Ah, this guy’s nuts. Here he goes again, talking about all these things,” you know? Just because a webpage tells you to avoid a certain food, it doesn’t mean to say you need to avoid it.

You need to avoid what’s irritating your stomach. Okay? Now, common sense, all right? I’m not saying, I’m not condoning going to the Pizza Hut and having three pizzas and two liters of Coca Cola. I mean that’s just madness. But when you’ve got Gastritis, there are many things that you could eat that you maybe think you can’t eat. You may be avoiding them for certain reasons because you don’t like them or it could be certain types of vegetables. The alkaline diet is a nice one, an anti-inflammatory diet definitely does work for the majority of people. So meaning, when you have got Gastritis, alcohol is a no go zone and so is generally refined sugar. Honey should be fine, okay? So be careful of people who say avoid all sugars completely, it’s easy to make these blanket statements, but they don’t usually mean anything. Okay? Many politicians are good at these kind of things. So alcohol, coffee, obviously tea for some people, but many patients I’ve seen with Helicobacter or Gastritis could drink one or two coffees a day. No problem at all. All right?

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A clever thing for Gastritis, especially if there’s no known cause and the doctors can’t find it, is to step up the intake of different spices and herbs. Slowly over time. You may find massive aggravation when you first start. Now we’re talking ginger, garlic, many different types of spices like cinnamon, like clove. These could all be introduced into the diet. Colloidal silver, I’ve spoken of many times, is quite a good adjunct at little bits in the diet. Aloe vera can also help many people with Gastritis, so get some aloe vera drink, you just take a tablespoon per day in a bit of water, that can be really soothing.

One of the really cool things I found that works for many people is cabbage juice. Just green cabbage leaves juiced up, two tablespoons in the morning and two tablespoons before bed. Fresh cabbage juice. Bingo. No more Gastritis for the bulk of people who do that. All right? Cabbage juice works as well as many different antacids do for the gut, so try that out. Green cabbage juice, right? Aloe vera for others, but as I say, if you eat or drink any food and it flares the stomach up, write it down and make a mental note of all those foods. You might see some link between the type of foods or drinks, but there’s ways and means of not having bad attacks of this Gastritis all the time. Try the cabbage juice. It works.

I don’t want to go. There’s no toilets around. I mean all these reasons, I hear people saying that they can’t go to the toilet, or they can’t poop, or it’s too difficult to move their stool and things like that. If you look at the anal canal, it’s quite small. Hemorrhoids are all around the base there, and it’s anatomically easy for a vein to pop out and to become a little balloon like a… You know what I mean, a little blue balloon. So hemorrhoids are quite common with many people, particularly people who strain, who don’t eat enough fiber, who don’t drink enough water. Who sit on their you know what all day. So, very common disorder, and very painful. And, in 99% of cases an avoidable problem. All right?

So. How many times have I use the same big stools? Small hospitals, small stools, big hospitals. Meaning, that if you don’t poop, you’re going to end up in probably a hospital. So, I’ve made many videos previously on constipation, and also on sudden drinking sufficient water, eating sufficient fiber, the right kind of fiber to eat. But I can easily say, in where I’m sitting, the biggest problem with people developing massive hemorrhoids is pushing too hard, trying to push the stool through, too hard. We see this a lot with people with anxiety or emotional issues. They’re not sitting down and relaxing properly. They’re not really just relaxing, opening up that area, and just allowing nature to take its course. Everything is forced through. That can cause also diverticula, or small little pockets to pop open inside the gut. Little offshoots of the large intestine, and you don’t really want to have that happen.

So, all too many reasons why you need to relax more when you’re having a stool, and also drink more fluid. And, again, Coca Cola is not really going to help the gut much, is it? The right kind of fluid, and yes, there’s a big link with hemorrhoidal problems and many other gut disorders. If you’ve got hemorrhoids, it can be painful to pass emotion, so you may actually hold back and not pass so many emotions. And that can really cause a problem. Constipation can cause endotoxemia. You can get toxins reabsorbed back in through the bowel, into the circulation. Brain fog, tired, poor concentration, mood disorders, serious fatigue. All these things are a consequence from not pooping properly.

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What was the question again? Yes, you can get gut problems from hemorrhoids, many. So for some people, the hemorrhoid will become initially the problem, and then over time, other problems will develop. But for many other people, the hemorrhoids develop because of a lack of fiber, and a lack of water, and maybe other reasons. Pregnancy is an area that can make hemorrhoids are a problem for someone, and others not a problem at all. But guarantee you one thing. If you’ve got hemorrhoids and you don’t get onto it, literally, over time they can become significantly worse requiring operations and all kinds of things. So, the key thing is, it’s the fiber, and the water, and getting medications checked out, if you’re taking any because they can also push you into that state.

Walking is a really good thing. And you talk to many people with hemorrhoids, they’ll be bus drivers, truck drivers, people that are basically sitting down a lot. Teachers get it on often, too. So, especially people who just sit there and then at lunchtime they’ll have a couple of little slices of white bread they’ll eat for their lunch, and maybe a coffee or a donut. Not much fiber, is there? The fiber is what you really need because it’ll make a nice and easy to move that stool through. Plenty of water is what you need to help you move it through as well. And a little bit of oil in your diet. We’ve spoken about this. Olive oil, different types of oils will really help.

So, you don’t need to have gut disorders and hemorrhoids, in most cases. It can be fixed up through changing the diet and lifestyle, because hemorrhoids are not a pleasant thing to have. Thanks for tuning in.