[00:00:00] Carl Lanore: [00:00:00] I'm still fiddling with my camera here, trying to get me not to look like a ghost. Uh, there we go. Okay. Welcome back to another episode of super human radio. Uh, we have a really important show today and, you know, isn't it funny? I say we have a really important show today pretty much every day, because I try to focus on content that has the ability to help people.

[00:00:23] And today is no different. If you've listened to this show for any period of time at all, you know that I've talked about poop on this show a lot. Um, we can learn things from our poop if we're paying attention. And if you're offended by the word shit, you're going to be offended by today's show because are we going to fall on that word a lot today?

[00:00:42] Uh, I found the guy who actually feels the same way that I do. He's even written a book, uh, that can guide us to interpret what are. Poop is trying to tell us, I want to say shit, but I'm trying to keep it family friendly at this point. Um, the real value in this is, is your poop [00:01:00] tells you if your diet is working King for you, but most people ignore it.

[00:01:03] In fact, some people wouldn't even think of looking in the toilet until they flushed it because they are literally, uh, repelled by the idea that that came yeah. Amount of them. But there are lots of disease States that we know. Such as Parkinson's disease and the earliest signs that you may be someone who has Parkinson's disease is in fact, your bowel movement changes specifically.

[00:01:27] You become very constipated chronically all the time. Don't ignore this opportunity to determine if diseases in your future. And not only that, but today, uh, my guests, Dr. Todd Senate is going to tell you how to fix your poop. More importantly. Uh, and ultimately have an impact on your future health. Before we do that, of course, we have to thank our title sponsor and that is legendary foods.

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[00:03:13] And I tell you, it's exciting to get a box of these things, show up at your doorstep. So don't delay do that today and now without further delay. Well, that rhymes delay today is my guest, Dr. Todd Sennett. How are you doing?

[00:03:30] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:03:30] I'm great. And thank you so much for having me on.

[00:03:34] Carl Lanore: [00:03:34] So I, I got to play this video for the audience so that they understand what they're in store for today, because doctor said it, isn't just brilliant, uh, in identifying one of the greatest opportunities for you to guide yourself to what diet works for you, because I've sat on this show.

[00:03:52] If you're doing a diet, because it comes with an annual cruise and a membership card, you're doing it wrong. You need to do a diet that shows [00:04:00] in your poop that it's right for you. So just check this out. Check it out your shit.

[00:04:07] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:04:07] If you have any good, healthy shit, you buys digesting your food, do buys it, screening your foods and your buys functioning.

[00:04:13] I mean, what's better than really good shit in my book. The good shit. We're going to figure out what diet is right for you based on your individual unique digestive process.

[00:04:28] Carl Lanore: [00:04:28] And you can go to SHR network.biz/good shit. Uh, just don't type it in front of your mom. She'll slap you in the back of the head anyway. So, uh, what, what even put like, like this has been something that's fascinated me. And in fact, the Lisa said, I gotta get this guy on the show because Carl likes to talk about his poop all the time.

[00:04:46] And I do, uh, I'm a firm believer that well, we'll, we'll get into that later. What turned you on to this? Uh, it's a very good question.

[00:04:56] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:04:56] So, you know, I'm a chiropractor [00:05:00] and a lot of patients come see me and we'd be talking diet and people would ask me when I think about this diet, what I think about this diet.

[00:05:07] And I had issues trying to figure out, uh, what diet really worked for me as well. So I was starting to look into it and I found that for every diet that's out there, there's a complete, equal and opposite diet that's out there. So you have people, you have the Quito, you have the Palio people. Then you have vegetarians, you have high fat, low carb.

[00:05:27] You have. Go

[00:05:29] Carl Lanore: [00:05:29] hours

[00:05:29] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:05:29] without eating or really the benefits of fasting. Then you have the benefits of keeping your blood sugar balanced and even eating small meals all throughout the day. So for every diet that's out there, there's a opposite diet. And there's the only consensus when it comes to diet is there's absolutely no consensus.

[00:05:46] So it's the most conflicting thing there is. It's gotten to the point where no one knows what the hell they eat anymore. So I wanted to figure out how do I, how do I make sense of all of this? Uh, and what [00:06:00] happened was is that there was, uh, one new year's. I decided I was going to go on a health kick and I, you know, I don't drink alcohol.

[00:06:06] I don't drink coffee. I really eat pretty healthy, but I decided I was going to up my game. So I was going to have oatmeal everyday for breakfast, a salad everyday for lunch and lean protein, uh, for dinner. And within three things, my health completely changed. But it all got worse. Uh, I was gassy. I was bloated.

[00:06:26] I was achy. I was tired. I was foggy and it made no sense to me because I did everything. Right. Right. You would say, who would sit there and say an oatmeal everyday for breakfast or salad everyday for lunch would not turn out to be a healthy thing. Right. But it wasn't right for me. For some reason, it completely messed up my digestive system.

[00:06:45] So I went back to having some eggs. I had a Turkey sandwich for lunch. I had a little pasta. Uh, I just mixed it up and within three days, because I felt completely back to the way that I felt before and I felt great and I tried to figure [00:07:00] out, you know, that was my first aha moment. Is that the answer to the diet question is there is no right diet.

[00:07:06] The question is, is what's the right diet for you. So some people function better on proteins. Some people function better on carbohydrates. Some people are lactose intolerant. Some people are gluten can handle gluten everyone's digestive system is unique. So it's really about figuring out what's the right diet for you.

[00:07:24] And then the next question that took me a little while to figure out is how do you figure out what's the right diet for you?

[00:07:31] Carl Lanore: [00:07:31] And, and the reality is that your poop is a remnant of whether or not your digestive system likes the food you're giving it.

[00:07:39] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:07:39] Yeah. So the aha moment was I was sitting down on the toilet.

[00:07:42] And what was the common denominator? The common denominator is when I was eating the diet. That was right for me. I was having good healthy bowel movements or shits. Sorry, you can use that word a lot on your show. Uh, and when I was, when I was eating the salads, the oatmeal, I was gassy the [00:08:00] salads for me. I cannot personally eat salads for some reason, my body does not digest it.

[00:08:04] Well, creates diarrhea goes right through me. So the common denominator of whether you're having. The right diet for you is the quality of your bowel movements. So what I realized was is that everything that we know and we thought about diet and nutrition to me is all bass ackwards, right? Upside down.

[00:08:23] We're looking at the wrong end. So your food choices are your input. And your bowel movement or the output. So using the scientific method, your food choices are the hypothesis or the theory, right? What we think is healthy, but our bowel movement is the results of the conclusion. So it tells us how we did, or if we took a test, you study, you take the exam, but the bowel move is the, is the answer key.

[00:08:47] It tells you how you did it. You're great. So your moms will follow the answers that your body are giving you to tell you what you should be eating. So,

[00:08:57] Carl Lanore: [00:08:57] well let's, so now let's stay with this for a second [00:09:00] because, uh, I criticized, uh, Dr. Oz about eight years ago because he told his audience that a healthy bowel movement was like a rope and, you know, kinda the snake and it's, it's soft and it's all uniform one.

[00:09:18] And, and I railed against him because I said, No, that's not a healthy bowel movement. A healthy bowel movement is solid. It's shaped like a sausage, uh, and, and which is very evident by this pandemic. When everybody was buying loads and loads of toilet paper, you should be able to wipe once and be done. If you have to spend time, like really wiping, because it's like, you're eating the wrong food.

[00:09:44] What do you think? Yes.

[00:09:46] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:09:46] I I, 100% agree. So looking at your shit, you know, in the, in the book, I have all these funny chapters and whatnot and titles, but we got to examine what is coming out of us. We're missing an opportunity [00:10:00] because again, your bowel movement is one of the most important biometric markers.

[00:10:05] It involves so many different systems that if something's off. Your bowel movements, pre chance. There's a great chance. It's going to tell you. So there is a Bristol stool chart. There's pictures of my book. It's online, Bristol stool chart. It'll tell you exactly what your poop should look like. Your poop should look like a sausage.

[00:10:21] It shouldn't come out like hardened pellets. It shouldn't come out like smooth. Uh ice-cream from a soft serve. It's gotta be well-formed and it's gotta be coming out. Nice and easy. So. You know, uh, a big question is a lot of people like, well, what's normal, right? So how often should we be going to the bathroom?

[00:10:39] And the answer is really what's normal for you. So there's, sometimes it could be normal for someone going bathroom three times a day, and there's other people could be normal going three times a week. It's all about the ease and the way that it's coming out. If you're having a good, healthy bowel movement, your bite is digesting and excluding your foods properly.

[00:10:57] Carl Lanore: [00:10:57] Um, so I'm doing a time restricted feeding right [00:11:00] now, which I only meeting once a day. It's about 22 to 23 hours that I'm staying fast. I'm just doing some experiments with my body. And so I'm just pooping once a day. Normally I poop a couple of times a day, usually first thing in the morning, and then sometime later that day, but they're always well-formed um, I joke with them.

[00:11:22] People that I know that I talk about it. I say, I, you know, I have a Teflon butthole because like, I, I literally wiping. There's nothing there. Like, Oh, this is great. And I feel like I'm doing the right thing by eating the foods. Now I go out to Chinese restaurant. I eat that stuff. I eat all that rice game's over.

[00:11:40] I, the next day, my bowel movement doesn't look like that. And, and, you know, and I know people probably cringing at the thought of thinking about my bowel movement or their own bowel mode, because this is, you said something off-air, that's really true. People are much more comfortable talking about sex and open company than their own poop.

[00:11:56] Oh, absolutely. I mean, that's right. That's a [00:12:00] mistake. That is a mistake. A big mistake.

[00:12:04] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:12:04] It's it's, it's so important to check out your shit. I can't begin to tell you. So, you know, I, I really urge everyone to take a look at their food, uh, in a very different way. So, you know, our food choices important. Of course they are.

[00:12:20] It's just how we look at foods. Gotta be very different. So I ask a very interesting question or I ask, uh, everyone a very interesting question is, you know, what's healthier a piece of salmon or, um, a donut

[00:12:33] Carl Lanore: [00:12:33] they'll immediately say a piece of salmon.

[00:12:36] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:12:36] Correct. And I'll say that the salmon is more nutritious.

[00:12:40] It's not necessarily healthier. So my, my niece Casey has a severe, um, seafood allergy. So if she eats salmon, uh, it's going to send her to the hospital with, uh, you know, life, you know, a very important health emergency, the donut. She's happy. It brings her joy. She digests it well. So for her, a [00:13:00] donut is healthier than the piece of Sam.

[00:13:02] So I understand that that's an extreme, I understand that that's an extreme example, but that's really how our bodies work. We're all individual and unique. So I think it's so important that I was almost going to call the book, the homeostatic diet, right. So too much of anything or too much or too much or too little of anything is not good.

[00:13:23] So you can take any example, um, And it can make some sense. So if I said water, right, I was like, how much water should I drink? Um, you know, And the answer is that your body tells you how much water you should drink. So if you're a P is coming out yellow, you're dehydrating. If it's coming out clear, you've had enough water, but you could drink too much water.

[00:13:45] I mean, it could lead to deadly consequences. There's a condition called hyponatremia. It was basically you flood your system with too much water. It dilutes the sodium in your body and it can lead to death. So there are, there have been cases.

[00:13:57] Carl Lanore: [00:13:57] Well, in fact, there's a famous case of that on the Howard stern [00:14:00] show.

[00:14:00] When, when X-Box first came out, I guess it was probably about. Maybe 16 years ago, Howard was on it Louisville too. And they w they had to come in and drink a gallon of water in like in one sitting. And this, yeah. Woman came on to win the Xbox for her son. And she died in the, in the green room after she left the show because she suffered from hypernatremia.

[00:14:22] She developed a deadly arrhythmia and she, she, she died right there. Yeah, so,

[00:14:27] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:14:27] I mean, I'm just urging, listen, our body speaks, it's constantly speaking and for some reason we continue to ignore it and we're really ignorant when it comes to our bowel movement. So again, something simple as, uh, if you're hot or you're cold.

[00:14:43] Right. So if you're, if you're too cold, your body's gonna signal you're cold. It's gonna force you to, you're going to get the chills she buys going to want to cheat up by moving. It's going to tell you to put on a sweater. If you too warm, you're going to perspire and the skin card you to take off a layer of clothing.

[00:14:58] So how, you [00:15:00] know, if you're eating a good, healthy diet is based on your bowel movements. It really is that simple. That's the way that you evaluate a good, healthy

[00:15:08] Carl Lanore: [00:15:08] digestive system. People in animal husbandry pay attention to goats and cows and their bowel movement. I pay attention to the deer that live around my land.

[00:15:20] I can tell you, you know, the food that I'm feeding them is good because they not only, you know, they, they, they actually make like a ball. That's all those pellets pressed together. Well, and so, but yet people just don't care about their own bowel movement. I mean, if you and I, it's something you said off the air, you know, if, if your dog started having a loose stool, you'd be like, Oh, you know, we gotta feed him something different.

[00:15:47] But when did people stop caring about their bowel movement? I have to believe. A long, long time ago when we were a little more crude natured people cared. Is there any evidence that back in the day in the [00:16:00] 1800 doctors paid attention to people's bowel movements? Yeah. I mean,

[00:16:03] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:16:03] there are cult cultures. I, um, I treat a Russian woman in my office and she's like, yeah, Everyone in Russia, where I came from there's talks about their bowel movements, all the doctors check your bowel movements, you know, it's, uh, it's a vital usage of health in that culture.

[00:16:18] And for some reason in our culture, it's not. And it's,

[00:16:21] Carl Lanore: [00:16:21] uh, it's a mistake. This is interesting that you say this, you would think that, I mean, I've been to doctors my whole life. I've never had one say, how is your bowel movement? Like, I'll say, Oh, you know, I poop once a day. Okay. I'm done. They never say, well, what does it look like?

[00:16:35] Does it have a foul odor, you know, a tar, a tare bowel movement means you're bleeding internally. Like they don't, they don't want to know. It's like, no, I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

[00:16:44] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:16:44] Listen. I mean, there's, there's pictures of exactly what your school should look like. If it's coming out black.

[00:16:51] Uh, you know, it's a great concern that you could be bleeding in your upper digestives, uh, area. If it's dark Brown, you're having too much [00:17:00] salt and not enough vegetables. If it's light green, you're having too much sugar, too much fruits and not enough, um, carbohydrates to, or grains to really kind of give.

[00:17:09] Your, your bowel movement, that color, if it's coming out like a pencil, it's coming out very thin. It could be the sign of a blockage of up. So it's like, um, you know, a hose being crimped by something. So the, the

[00:17:23] Carl Lanore: [00:17:23] flow, well, when we were kids, we had the memory of the Play-Doh. Uh, a maker that you, you put a form on it and you would push it through and come out like a star.

[00:17:32] Well, if you, yeah, if you're, if your bowel movement has a groove in it, it means it's probably being pressed against the lump inside of your colon as it's coming out as it being formed.

[00:17:43] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:17:43] Yeah. I don't know, to me, one of the great, great things is I get to see how my body, my digestive system functioning every day, when I get to check out my poops.

[00:17:54] Carl Lanore: [00:17:54] And then obviously foul odors could mean that you're not digesting stuff a lot. [00:18:00] It's. So when you have, when you're gassy and FA 40 side gassy, if you're farming a lot, that means that there are foods that are being, they're not being digested. They're digesting by way of fermentation in, in the lower intestine and colon.

[00:18:14] And that's a sign that maybe you're eating too much of a given food. It's not your body's not capable of digesting at all.

[00:18:21] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:18:21] Hmm. Yeah. Again, I mean, I also mentioned that, you know, the lack of a good functioning bowel movement or gas in your digestive system can trigger so many different symptoms. So, uh, there's a direct correlation between gas and the digestive system and back pain and muscle aches, um, and tension in your body and headaches and toxicity.

[00:18:42] So. You really want to be reading your body of your stuff? You know, I also think it's so many people will ask me the question of, should I do a cleanse? Should I do a detox? Yeah. And I always laugh. I said, we already have, we have a built in detox system. It's called your shit.

[00:18:57] Carl Lanore: [00:18:57] Right.

[00:18:59] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:18:59] So, [00:19:00] you know, before you're going to do a juice cleanse, a vitamin cleanse, or any of these cleanses, you know, take a look at your bowel movements and do everything you can to get it right.

[00:19:09] You know, whether you're having, you know, whether you need to alter what you're eating, whether you need to have less salads or more salads, whether you should have less sugar, whether you need to have more carbohydrates, more grains or more breads to bind your food, you know, there's so many different ways to go about it, but you really gotta work hard to get your bowel movement functioning.

[00:19:27] Carl Lanore: [00:19:27] Right? So I'm experimenting with a more carnivorous diet right now. And you know, I'm, I'll eat potatoes. I love potatoes and eggs. I love potatoes and beef. Um, And, and I've noticed that my bowel movement has just gotten so much better. It's just, it's just, like I said, it's just, it's solid. It's sausage shaped and Mike and I don't have all the bloating.

[00:19:50] Yeah.

[00:19:51] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:19:51] Yeah. And that, this is, what's going to tell us if what reading is right for us, it really changes the way that we look at food. Right. [00:20:00] So I always recommend having good, healthy quality agreement ingredients. So there is a difference if I'm having a cheesiest. Uh, delivered frozen pizza with pepperoni on it.

[00:20:12] Or if I'm having going to a place that's making fresh tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, fresh dough, you know, there's difference in the quality of ingredients. You want to always have the good quality ingredients, but you want to be able to widen your palate too, because your body can handle it. Your body needs the variety.

[00:20:30] It can't be bombarded with the same digestive nutrients. My body couldn't handle oatmeal five days a week. So, uh, that's really important.

[00:20:39] Carl Lanore: [00:20:39] Let's get a couple of questions up here before we take our first break. So Jeff Clifton says, what is the good doctor's thoughts on gut biome testing? It's all the rage right now.

[00:20:48] Uh,

[00:20:49] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:20:49] it is all the rage now. And I really like looking at the gut biome to see what's going on. Um, but I think there's a very important first step that we're missing. [00:21:00] Right. And that's taking a look at your own shit and going on your own individual path, you know, in the book, I really urge people to basically fall a diary, right?

[00:21:08] You're tracking what you're eating, you're tracking how your bowel movements are. You tracking how you're feeling and putting the pieces together and let your body kind of guide you first. But. Yeah. Taking care of your gut. Biome is vital.

[00:21:19] Carl Lanore: [00:21:19] What are your thoughts on, uh, Robert Thompson says, what about probiotics or having fermented foods with most meals?

[00:21:26] There's a good belly probiotic that he apparently takes his bedtime. And he thoughts on the good belly? Yeah. I have actually

[00:21:32] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:21:32] some very interesting thoughts when it comes to probiotics. So probiotic, vitamins, all that stuff is input. So it's what you're putting in your mouth and I've had cases. Um, again, I'm a big believer.

[00:21:45] Uh, I'm really one of the only people in the country. Who's talking about the role that your digestive system and your diet has on causing and subsequently, um, solving your back pain. So I had a patient of mine who came in, I had been working with for a while and he [00:22:00] kept having this mid back pain. I treated them a whole bunch of times, and we could not figure out the origin of his back pain and how to get him better.

[00:22:07] We were doing everything chiropractically structurally discus. Wasn't changing. When I asked him if there's anything different going on. And he said, the only thing different was is that my wife saw a commercial on the importance of taking a probiotic. So she got me this probiotic. I've been taking it every day and upsets my stomach a bit.

[00:22:24] Every time I take it, but I thought it's healthy for me. So I just take it. I said, well, that very much could be the case, but if it's upsetting your stomach, that's right. Not for you,

[00:22:34] Carl Lanore: [00:22:34] not for you. Right. So I said, why don't you stop taking the

[00:22:37] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:22:37] probiotic for about five days and let's see how you feel. You stopped taking the probiotic.

[00:22:41] And to my surprise in his, his back pain goes away. I have another case where a patient of mine has this back pain in her gut is extremely irritated and inflamed. And I'm convinced it's from her diet and her digestive system and making the tweaks, the diet just wasn't working. And we [00:23:00] recommended the nutrition.

[00:23:00] My office recommended a probiotic for her. She took the probiotic, it regulated her digestive system. Her bowel movements changed and her back pain went away. So the, the, the moral of your stories are, is that these things are really inputs. So a probiotic could be extremely, extremely helpful or could actually be something that's not helpful.

[00:23:19] So you really want to see how you're feeling and functioning when you're taking these things.

[00:23:23] Carl Lanore: [00:23:23] Okay. Okay. So we're going to take a quick commercial break. We have other questions we will get to every question I promise you. Uh, but before we do that, I just want to plug the book. The book is called the good shit.

[00:23:34] You can get it at SHR network.biz/good shit. You also have. Uh, a website, right? Uh, that the Senate. Yeah, a

[00:23:41] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:23:41] doctor senate.com. So it's Dr. S I N E T t.com.

[00:23:45] Carl Lanore: [00:23:45] Okay. And you can go there and get the book as well. We're going to take one quick commercial break, stay tuned. We'll be right back with more superhuman radio.

[00:24:04] [00:24:00] welcome back. We're talking with Dr. Todd Sennett. We're talking about his book, the good shit, and we have lots of questions and we will get to them all. I promise you, I promise you. We will. Um, You know, this is kind of like evidence-based medicine, right? When you think about it, it's like, okay, everybody talks about individualized medicine, evidence-based medicine, but they miss an opportunity to actually practice that by not being more investigative about their patients, bowel movements and people themselves, you know, I'm sure that people will post a questions about their bowel movement.

[00:24:42] Probably feel like a little awkward about it, but there's a, there's a children's book. I remember I bought it for my kids when they were little, everybody poops. And it's like, it's like, when you realize like everybody poops, like what do you care? What they think about your bowel movement? This is probably the same as [00:25:00] yours.

[00:25:00] So it's just, it's really funny that we're so squeamish about this discussion.

[00:25:04] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:25:04] Yeah. I mean, people like they'll only poop at home. If they're in a new relationship, they don't, they're not comfortable going everyone does it, you know? And, uh, I think we should put out in the open here.

[00:25:16] Carl Lanore: [00:25:16] So a Phyllis, uh, LUN will yell Elmo.

[00:25:20] That's the right way to pronounce that name. Uh, she says loosen liquid stools. Why? So I'm assuming she's asking she she's having loosened liquid stools. Yes.

[00:25:29] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:25:29] So, uh, my answer is something's not right. Right. So loose stools is chances are, there's not enough binding in your bowel movements. So, uh, we would want to take a look at your diet, cause something's going through you, right.

[00:25:43] It could be that you're eating something that's too irritating for you. You could be having too much roughage, too much salad, too many fruits, too many vegetables. Maybe you're not having enough breads or grains or something that could bind it. Maybe you're eating a food that you are sensitive to. So maybe you're having some dairy issues that are creating it, but.

[00:25:59] You really [00:26:00] want to track it and do everything you can to change that. So you

[00:26:03] Carl Lanore: [00:26:03] figure out what you've changed. You can look back at when this first started. I'll tell you another thing that's notorious for creating loose stools. Um, people start taking supplements with amino acids and some of these amino acids actually caused something called osmotic diarrhea.

[00:26:19] Anything, anything that attracts water, uh, anything that is powerfully hygroscopic. When it gets into your intestines, it attracts fluid, attracts water, and it'll dehydrate you over time. If you keep consuming these types of things, because it's, it's, you're, you're losing fluid in your bowel movement. Um, but you got to look at things that that may attract water, uh, that once it's in your body, it's going to attract the fluid from your body.

[00:26:47] And it's going to create watery stool. But how long has this been happening? Uh, if you could answer that question, did it just come on? You know, um, because that, that's an important question because you can go back and look at what's [00:27:00] changed.

[00:27:00] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:27:00] Yeah. You know, again, I can't emphasize enough the concept of what's healthy for you.

[00:27:06] So she could be on the super great health kick and having, you know, a green drink every morning for breakfast. And that could be creating the issue. So it's really about what's healthy for you. So I'm all about, you know, it's not okay to have almost diarrhea or really soft bowel movements on a daily basis.

[00:27:25] So, and

[00:27:26] Carl Lanore: [00:27:26] I'm going to, I'm taking these questions out of, uh, out of a order for a reason. Um, so let me find it. And this is really good because I take enzymes. So, um, Faith fitness guy is watching on YouTube. He says, digestive enzymes really make my BM soft. Also vitamin C right after a meal tends to make them soft as well.

[00:27:51] If you're, if you're, if your enzymes and making your BM soft, take less. If you, if you feel like you need enzymes. And then they increase [00:28:00] gastric motility and food is moving through you faster, but they're softening take less because what's happening is the enzyme is surviving and it's going down into the intestines.

[00:28:10] Right? Dang. What's that or even every other day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, so there and vitamin C is notorious. So my cousin Eddie, when we were kids. They started selling, uh, orange crush soda, which was actually made with real orange syrup. Yeah. This, this is back in the sixties. Right. And so my uncle Mike got him a case and Eddie drank the whole case in a day.

[00:28:40] And, and then he complained to me about how bad it burned when he pooped. And it was all water. So vitamin C is notorious. Vitamin C is very hygroscopic. Vitamin C attracts fluid in the intestines and make sure your, your bowel movement watery. It's also good for people who tend to be constipated [00:29:00] because it'll, it'll, it'll help them loosen their stool a little bit.

[00:29:03] So yeah. Want to comment on any of that?

[00:29:09] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:29:09] I mean, I hate to sound like a broken record, but just because we hear the vitamin C is good doesn't mean that you need vitamin C. And if it's going through you that's either you don't need the vitamin C or it's not the right type of vitamin C or it's not a right amount of vitamin C.

[00:29:28] So I believe that if you're taking a vitamin C, it's going right through and creating diarrhea, it's a net negative, not in that positive.

[00:29:36] Carl Lanore: [00:29:36] So Robert Thompson apparently is a med surge nurse. And they track bowel movements of their patients. And he says, if they have someone that hasn't had a bowel movement in three days, they offer a laxative in their preferred laxative of choice is called.

[00:29:51] They call it Brown cow. It's milk of magnesia and prune juice. Very, very effective. Uh, next shift complained, like in other words, that the person [00:30:00] probably pooped all over themselves. That's how so that's where people who are having trouble. Uh, he also asked you have any opinions of claustrum. Uh, bovine colostrum is all the rage in my audience.

[00:30:12] It helps build muscle. It helps modulate the immune system. See any effects again, I know what you're gonna say. It depends if it gives you runny stools, it's not good for you if it tightens it up. Yeah. And I

[00:30:25] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:30:25] like, I know I sound like a broken record, but I can't, I can't get over the fact that I truly believe that we're looking at this in my opinion, 180 degrees incorrectly.

[00:30:36] Right is we're going under theories of what we think is healthy or we're going on to theories of what we think our body needs or taking something because this person squared by it, or we're going following a diet because this person has all this Instagram followers and looks amazing, right? The answer is that we're all unique and we're all different.

[00:31:00] [00:31:00] So if I sat there and took wheat grass, I don't think it's going to be a great situation for me because that stuff tends to go right through me. But for other people we crashed could be a great energy immune booster and work really well. So I want to try and dispel the myths that things

[00:31:15] Carl Lanore: [00:31:15] are good or bad, right.

[00:31:19] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:31:19] Have unique, different properties to it. Um, you know, at some point I would love the opportunity to discuss the way the role of stress and emotions play. Well, let, let

[00:31:31] Carl Lanore: [00:31:31] let's do that now. Let's do that now, please. So

[00:31:35] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:31:35] the role that stress and, and on your emotions play on your digestive system, I think is an extremely, uh, fascinating one.

[00:31:43] And I also think it's a bit on the misunderstood side, because if you eat a hot fudge sundae, when you're celebrating, there's a complete different biochemical process. Then, if you eat the hot fudge sundae when you're depressed

[00:31:55] Carl Lanore: [00:31:55] or feeling guilty for eating it. Exactly. Yeah. So

[00:31:58] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:31:58] I have faces all the [00:32:00] time who have to be extremely strict on their diet.

[00:32:03] They go on vacation, they drink, they eat foods very differently. Oh, really? How'd you feel? I felt fine. So, you know, we're making these decisions about our foods, but we're not taking into account the emotional component or emotional immune system. Unfortunately when my father passed away, uh, I was unable to digest orange juice in the morning.

[00:32:25] I used to wake up and have a glass of orange juice. And after my father died, the acid in the orange juice just upset my digestive so much. It literally took a year before I was able

[00:32:35] Carl Lanore: [00:32:35] to digest orange juice. Fascinating

[00:32:38] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:32:38] difference was not the orange juice. The difference was my adjustive emotional immune system.

[00:32:46] How you emotionally approach a food? And how you're approaching, how you're eating, uh, makes all the difference in the world. So it's very funny because there's so many studies out there to try to find the [00:33:00] right diet that's out there. And they're linking, they're doing all these studies about cultures and longevity, and they found that there were two diets that basically showed the best longevity and what was the Mediterranean diet.

[00:33:11] And the other one was the French diet. So the Mediterranean people and the French people basically exhibited a great longevity in life. But the fascinating thing is their diets were very, almost diametrically opposed where the French diet was filled with wine wines, EAs and whatnot and meats. And the Mediterranean diet is filled with tomatoes and vegetables and fish.

[00:33:33] But the interesting thing was too, this made perfect sense to me because I don't think it's much about the food. It's also about the emotions around the food. So these two cultures basically celebrate food. They sit around with their families. They have leisurely meals, their portion sizes are not gigantic and they enjoy what they eat and then they're digesting their systems properly and they're living longer.

[00:33:56] So there's so much more that comes to it regarding just [00:34:00] food portion. Sizes are a huge thing because instead of going to the never ending possible olive garden, you go to Italy, they serve you some pasta. It's sitting on an appetizer size plate, right?

[00:34:12] Carl Lanore: [00:34:12] So they laugh at us. The Italians from Italy laugh at us because we eat bread and pasta at the same time.

[00:34:18] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:34:18] Right. Like I went into, I was in a supermarket and there was a pizza that was an extra large pizza with sausage and pepperoni. They called it the big American.

[00:34:28] Carl Lanore: [00:34:28] Yeah. Right. Because it was extra large. So, so it is, but I want to, I want to stay with this idea about how the terrain changes. With your level of, of, uh, angst while you're eating.

[00:34:41] So one of the things that we forget about is that, that we use the word rest and digest, but nobody really pays attention into it. And so when a big cat kills an animal and eats it, what does he do? He goes and finds a shade tree lays down and falls asleep. [00:35:00] Yeah. Okay. Uh, the only time we do that is on Thanksgiving, most likely, but the reality is that F you eat.

[00:35:06] You should rest. And Jeff Clifton brings up a great point. He says he does breath work right after breakfast to get into a parasympathetic state to aid digestion. This, this speaks directly to what you're talking. Yeah. How about cultures that have a siesta culture? How about, how

[00:35:24] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:35:24] about cultures that have a larger meal at lunch?

[00:35:27] Carl Lanore: [00:35:27] Right. And a small meal at dinner, right

[00:35:30] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:35:30] dinner. So there's so many different ways that we can change up things that can make such a positive impact. On our quality of life. And again, how our digestive

[00:35:40] Carl Lanore: [00:35:40] system functioning Jennifer Cannon is posting this comment, uh, to, uh, Phyllis, uh, she said, don't forget about pathogens, H pylori, toxic molds.

[00:35:49] These can cause SIBO and dysbiosis and obviously watery stools. And she's absolutely correct. So we don't want to forget about that. Um, do you have any opinions on what causes diver [00:36:00] diverticulitis.

[00:36:03] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:36:03] I mean, not really, again, everyone's digestive system is unique and we want to target things that are not inflammatory in our bodies.

[00:36:14] So I, this is inflammation of our body. So for me, salads are inflammatory. Oatmeal is inflammatory for me, right? It's inflammatory. So even these diets that that are, that are supposed to be anti-inflammatory in nature. That's in theory, it's not necessarily an individual unique practice, right?

[00:36:38] Carl Lanore: [00:36:38] Because we're determined that whether or not they're anti-inflammatory is your immune system.

[00:36:41] So if your immune system doesn't like it, it's going to send out inflammatory sites, a

[00:36:46] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:36:46] great deed, right? Our cellular makeup and response and cellular response to food is unique. You have a yogurt and you feel fantastic. I'm sensitive to gluten. I mean, I'm sensitive to lactose. [00:37:00] I have the same yogurt and I'm in big trouble.

[00:37:02] It's a complete different response. The food

[00:37:04] Carl Lanore: [00:37:04] is the exact same. I will say this about diverticulitis. One thing that correlates very well with it, as people consume lots and lots and lots of nuts. Um, it, because what happens with diverticulitis is the weakening of the wall of the diverticulum, the area of the, the, the, uh, intestines.

[00:37:25] And it creates a pouch. So things that don't move through, they just kind of hang in there and things that are rigid and hard pebbles tend to push against the intestines. There is a correlation between nuts and diverticulitis. We've got to take a break, so be all. Um, uh, and by the way, I don't know if people realize it, but we've really shortened up the commercial breaks.

[00:37:48] They're just like a minute and a half now. So. Well, uh, people may comments and I'm paying attention. That's all. So I want to plug the book one more time. The book is called the good [00:38:00] shit. You can get it by going to SHR network.biz/good shit. It's fascinating. It's got lots of great information to help you determine what a good shit is for you.

[00:38:09] And as we keep talking about it, this is a very, very unique it's baby. Talk to say, what is good and what is bad? Pay attention to your bowel movement. And you'll figure it out yourself. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

[00:38:28] We're talking with Dr. Todd Senate about your poop. That's right. We have a camera in your bathroom and we know you poop. The whole world knows you poop. Now, uh, since that spot ran for P three O M uh, I have a fellow named bear who asked me a question about it. I have noticed a difference by using BiOptimizers mass Syme and PCOM and HCL.

[00:38:52] I noticed that if I take the mass sign NPR, I eat large amounts of protein. If [00:39:00] I don't take the BiOptimizers mass Simon Petri PCOM, I ended with protein farts, which means that there's a lot of protein not being digested. And when I take them, I don't end up protein farts, but I use the HCL for is in-between meals.

[00:39:15] To raise the, uh, lower the pH of my gut because I have some problems with, uh, with, uh, Vegas nerve innovation. That causes, uh, slow, uh, digestive motility, but more important. It shifts the pH of my gut to a more alkaline. And then what, w that's actually been tied to autoimmune disorders and stuff like that.

[00:39:37] So I use it more as a prophylactic, not for digestion, but the mass signs and the PTO and work for me. Will they work for you? I don't know, but they definitely work for, because I have no more protein farts and everybody in the house. Thanks me for that. So they show everyone's happier. Yeah. Yeah. So go ahead.

[00:39:53] I'm sorry. No, no. Th there's just, I think

[00:39:56] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:39:56] there's one other point that I think is that we haven't discussed yet [00:40:00] is, um, in every particular case disease process patient that I work with is that we want to look at on three different levels with a person. So we want to look at their, um, diet, right? Their diet nutrition, which we've flushed upon.

[00:40:13] We want to look at their emotions, which is what we've touched on. And then actually the other factor that's missing is the structure. So posture alignment is super important in lots and lots of different conditions and whatnot, but it's also very important for the quality of your bowel movement. So one missing factor can be the alignment of your bowel movements or your colon, and trying to have a bowel movement.

[00:40:39] Uh, and there's a, there's a product that I'm not necessarily familiar with. I don't make any money with it. Uh, called Squatty potty. They were on shark tank and quite popular, but because basically, um, the angle that we're pooping is very different than when we're in a squat. So if you're having trouble to have a bowel movements, try that, I would recommend [00:41:00] try the Squatty potty or try squatting to basically try to change the angulation of essentially your tubing or your piping.

[00:41:07] And it can be the difference of how your bowel bloom is functioning.

[00:41:10] Carl Lanore: [00:41:10] You know, when I w when I was in Yugoslavia, geez, I was 27 years old, so a long time ago, but, uh, most of the public bathrooms at, at, uh, You know, museums and they look like, they look like shower stalls with a hole in the floor where the, where the shower drain would be and, and handles that you hold onto and you just get down and squat, you're not sitting on anything and you poop.

[00:41:37] And I remember the first time I saw that, I thought, how the hell am I going to poop in there? Like I got to sit down to poop and you find that very quickly, that. Not only do you not need to sit down to poop, but you poop much more effectively when you're all the way down like that. So it's fascinating.

[00:41:54] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:41:54] So, you know, again, I want people to take a look, not just at what they're eating. I want them to take a [00:42:00] look at their emotions and don't discount, you know, changing the angulation or the structural alignment of your body when you're going to the bar.

[00:42:07] Carl Lanore: [00:42:07] So here's something else that I've just started to discover.

[00:42:10] And you may be real, you may have known about this for a long time because you. You are a doctor of chiropractic, but, um, from sitting like this for hours at your desk, you start to lean over. And when you lean over, you start to slump down and you literally take your gut and you, you compress it. And I think it's leading to a lot of the silent GERD.

[00:42:34] A lot of people that don't have Frank GERD, but they have, what's known as silent GERD, which is a leaky gut up into the esophagus. And I think it's like squeezing a tube of toothpaste tube. Eventually it's going to start coming up.

[00:42:45] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:42:45] Uh you're you're you're speaking my language here. Yeah. So I created a product called the back bridge that, uh, you can check it on backwards.com, but basically what's happening is where our body is going into too much of a forward hunch or crawl pattern.

[00:42:59] Right. So we're [00:43:00] sitting forward 105, our computers all day, and we're literally looking like that. And what we're doing is we're shortening the distance between our rib cage and our groin. So we're basically sh uh, compressing our whole digestive system. So it's impacting the way that our digestive system is functioning.

[00:43:17] What you want to do is you want to lengthen and open any long gate, the space between your rib cage and your groin, or you want to be long gate your digestive system to give it. The most amount of freedom. So, uh, yeah, I, I mean, I couldn't agree with

[00:43:32] Carl Lanore: [00:43:32] you more. Oh. I just thought of the place that I couldn't think of Leonard's of great neck.

[00:43:37] I don't even want him still open. I think he stole his keys and really that was when I was still in New York. That's funny. Um, Let's see here, Stan, I'm sorry.

[00:43:48] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:43:48] You know, that's also, um, uh, another reason I had written a book called setups are stupid and crunches are crap. So the, the argument is, I know everyone loves my unique book titles, but we're so [00:44:00] forward, hunched and compressed.

[00:44:01] The last thing you want to do is exercise that puts you more in that forward posture and alignment. So I was one time working out with a trainer. I, this was back in the day where he had me doing so many slips and crunches. I literally threw up. Not because I was exhausted, but he like stopped my, my whole intestinal system locked up because I was so crunched forward.

[00:44:21] So, uh, it's really important to elongate your digestive system.

[00:44:25] Carl Lanore: [00:44:25] I, I like inchworms with the wheel, you know, the AB wheel, you roll out, you roll in. I liked those a lot. Stand up for Dane is a form of bodybuilder and he talks about a diet that he advocates and he likes taking a 10 minute walk after eating.

[00:44:41] Uh, but I got to talk about this and I'm going to tell you something, part of the problem today is a lot of these suggestions are made because we have a sick population. So there was a study done eight, nine years ago that showed that walking after a meal, even just [00:45:00] standing after a meal, lowered postprandial, blood sugar, better than Metformin.

[00:45:06] But we're talking about a sick population from an ancestral position. Digestion should be fast because we have to eat again. You don't want to slow digestion down, but we're trying to slow digestion down in today's population because most of them are borderline type two diabetics. So walking after a meal is great.

[00:45:26] If you are insulin resistant, but it's not necessary if you're healthy. And in fact, relaxing after a meal is the right thing to do. I want to, I want to add one thing, doc. Yeah. The same thing with dietary fiber. I've talked about this on the show for years now. Um, the winter ground foundation when it was headed up, um, I've just forgot her name.

[00:45:50] Isn't that funny? I remembered Lennon of great deck now, now I, uh, I, her last name was on yellow. Um, she headed up the wintergreen foundation here in Manhattan. They're an [00:46:00] anthropological, uh, group. And they studied diet in humans and on our ancestors, she said high fiber diets were not a benefit to our ancestors because it made food move slower.

[00:46:14] And they really w they wanted food that was highly nutritious, not bulk. And the idea that fiber is all the rage today is because it slows down gut motility and slows down sugar from hitting the bloodstream. Again, high fiber diets are great for sick people. They're not necessarily great. The healthy people.

[00:46:35] That's it good.

[00:46:37] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:46:37] Yeah. No, I mean, I was going to just take a food, like, um, like rice, right? So if you sat there and said white rice, everyone's like, Oh, it's terrible. It's void of nutritional value. Entire cultures in ancestor in entire cultures were built around rice. Right. So I just want to really kind of drop that whole, um, Dogma, [00:47:00] right.

[00:47:00] We've got to drop the dogma. Um, you know, the nutritionist and my office, um, com kind of something that I always liked is, uh, F after you eat, you should always be able to, uh, pass the new treadmill test. And it basically means that any, at any point throughout the day, you should be able to go on a treadmill and jog, right.

[00:47:17] You shouldn't be so sickly, full or so full that you can't move after you've eaten a meal. It means you're eating too much. You're eating foods. That just aren't right for you. So

[00:47:28] Carl Lanore: [00:47:28] that's a great idea. I like that. So just, you

[00:47:32] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:47:32] know, just pay attention. Like if you're having a meal and you have to open up your pants and, and loosen up and whatnot, that's not a great meal for

[00:47:39] Carl Lanore: [00:47:39] you.

[00:47:40] Yeah. We're going to take our last commercial break. The book is the good shit and it's, you can get it by going to SHR network.biz/good shit. Or you can go to. It's Dr. Stinnett. I mean, senate.com, right? Yes. S I N E T dot. But is it Dr or is it Dr. Spelled out? [00:48:00] Dr. Okay. There you go. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

[00:48:06] I hope people appreciate the, a much shorter commercials.

[00:48:11] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:48:11] I love

[00:48:12] Carl Lanore: [00:48:12] to show the commercials. We'll say, let's see how it goes. I just have to put more of them in the show then. I don't know. We're going to say, wait, wait, wait. We're experimenting. Um, so again, the book is called the good shit. You can get it by going to SHR network.biz/good shit.

[00:48:27] Or Dr. S I N E T t.com. You should get it because it's got lots of enlightening information. Yeah. And stop paying attention to your poop because it's important. It's not just, you know, we call it a waste product. So that means, Oh, don't worry about it. It's a waste product. It's, it's really a remnant of how your body is doing with the food you're putting in.

[00:48:47] It really is. Good stuff. Uh, we're going to have Dr. Send it back on because he has another fascinating book about correcting back pain. And, uh, I love the angle of it. It's something that, uh, [00:49:00] Dr. McGill doesn't really cover, uh, when we have him on the show. And I think it's a very important distinction.

[00:49:07] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:49:07] Thank you. We'd love to be on. I have just one last point and one last kind of little snippet is a lot of times people ask me, um, W, what about superfoods? What's your superfood or people interview me. What's your superfood. Uh, and it's always a unique answer. Well, for me, my answer is, uh, is birthday cake and everyone always laughs and they figure why, you know, why is my superfood birthday cake?

[00:49:32] And to me, birthday cake is a time of celebration. You have your loved ones around you and it's delicious and you're emotionally enjoying it. So, uh, to me, that's my superfood. So.

[00:49:42] Carl Lanore: [00:49:42] Yeah. And it also means it also means you lived another year. Exactly. And you get

[00:49:47] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:49:47] presents too. So

[00:49:49] Carl Lanore: [00:49:49] I it's a superfood is a pet peeve of mine.

[00:49:53] Yes, mom, my too. So that's why I want to bring it up. Well, mine, because every everything's a superfood. The [00:50:00] reality is in my humble opinion, a superfood qualifies as a superfood. If you can eat it every day, every week, Every month, every year for the rest of your life and not end up with a nutrient deficiency.

[00:50:12] And there's only a couple foods that fit that only a couple. So all this other stuff is, Oh, this is a super food. That's just marketing. That's all that is. And people fall Walford. Listen, I want to thank you so much for being on the show today.

[00:50:26] dr. Todd Stinett: [00:50:26] I honestly, uh, loved it and, uh, you know, look forward to coming back and just thank you.

[00:50:31] So, so very much to you and your listeners. It's really. Okay.

[00:50:33] Carl Lanore: [00:50:33] Thank you. It's fascinating. All right, we'll see everybody tomorrow. No, I'm off tomorrow. I'm all. Finally, we'll see a Monday Oh Monday. I'm having a little problem with my, uh, my throat today. So Monday Joel green is coming on, uh, to help us understand dairy better and how allow us to be unconfused about [00:51:00] dairy.

[00:51:00] It's going to be fascinating. I promise you all the shows this week have been fascinating. And we're going to keep that up as we move forward into the next week. We have one more comment here. Uh, Tony peak is good shit, Carl. Yes, it is Tony. Miss you, man. I will see everybody Monday. Stay safe. It's a crappy weather out there, so, okay.

[00:51:19] See you then. Thank you. [00:52:00] .