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  • Co-founder of Microbiome Labs Explains Why Spore-Based Probiotics Are King w/ Kiran Krishnan  Co-founder of Microbiome Labs Explains Why Spore-based Probiotics

    Co-founder of Microbiome Labs Explains Why Spore-Based Probiotics Are King w/ Kiran Krishnan  Co-founder of Microbiome Labs Explains Why Spore-based Probiotics



    Introduction – Spore-based Probiotics

    [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Well, hello my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show about specific spore-based probiotics.

    We’re speaking with someone who needs barely any introduction. I am going to give him one, but he doesn’t really need one. You’ve definitely heard of this guy. If somehow, you have not heard of him, I know you have heard of the company. His name is Kiran Krishnan, and he is the co-founder of Microbiome Labs.

    That’s MegaSporeBiotic, MegaIgG products that so many people in the functional space have come to love because this is a science-based company. They keep things clinically backed. They know what they’re doing, wonderful products. And if you are not in the FDN course yet, or you’re a trainee, really good news, we actually get access to them as practitioners.

    That means we get significant discounts on all their products. You’re able to drop ship it to your clients for an upcharge, which is great. Microbiome Labs, the one thing I really like about them, there’s many things, but one thing in particular is that they don’t allow customers to come on their website and just buy products. They actually make them go through a practitioner.

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    If I’m a consumer, not a practitioner, and I just want to buy these products, I would still have to find someone’s website or find someone near me. I think it’s cool that they do that. Think about it. That’s money that they are just purely giving to the practitioners for the sake of doing that. They do not have to do that by any means. I think that’s really just a good thing.

    About Kiran Krishnan

    I’m going to read a little bit about him, just a quick thing before we get into this episode. He is a sharp guy, wealth of knowledge. This is more me just taking notes the whole time. Not literally, but basically, I am doing that mentally.

    Kiran Krishnan is a microbiologist who graduated from the University of Iowa. With a rich background in research, Kiran noticed that many supplement companies were lacking sufficient clinical data, which inspired him to design trials that were more affordable and fitting for the supplement industry. He then expanded his skillset into product development and formulation for a number of retail supplement companies.

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    Eventually, he was hired to study probiotics and discover what would become the next big probiotic in the industry, bacillus spores. Before Kiran discovered the spores, Dr. Tom, who was the other founder of Microbiome Labs, took a step back from supplement manufacturing, and settled into his own chiropractic practice.

    As his practice began to blossom, he found himself on the forefront of functional medicine, uniquely focused on his patient’s gut health. For years, probiotics had proven so ineffective and inconsistent that he eventually quit using them in his practice altogether. That is until he saw the research that Kiran had uncovered. And boom baby! Microbiome Labs was born.

    It is a massive company. They have done incredible things. And we actually talk about the growth that they experienced as a business from the time that the first product was launched in 2013, until now. This is insane. Your results may vary, but it’s pretty impressive stuff.

    Mom’s MegaSpore Spore-based Probiotics

    I think you’re going to learn a lot today about probiotics in general and especially spore-based ones and why these are so effective compared to the stuff that we get at the grocery store or the health food store from the refrigerated section. Without further ado, let’s get to the episode.

    All right. Hey there, Kiran. Thanks so much for being here with us today, man.

    [00:03:03] Kiran Krishnan: It is a pleasure. Thank you for having me.

    [00:03:07] Detective Ev: This is cool. In terms of just people making some real noise in the industry, I would say this is one of the bigger people that we’ve had on. And we’ve had some impressive names, I’m not lessening any of that. But I think I’m also biased, too, in a positive way. Because when you get into the world of FDN, for those that might be looking at the course or our trainees, Microbiome Labs becomes a huge part of what we’re doing.

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    I was laughing with Kiran before we started recording. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve ordered from there. My mom gets a huge benefit from it. My mom, still to this day, Kiran, I’ve been in FDN for five years, will not let me not order her the MegaSpore because she will not use the bathroom otherwise. If she’s running out, she’ll do it like two weeks proactively. She’ll be like, hey, make sure you get that for me.

    You guys are really doing cool things and it’s impressive what’s happening with these products. I think we have at this house right now, MegaIgG2000, MegaSpore of course, PyloGuard, and then MegaMucosa. We always just have some stuff here. So, thank you for what you’ve done.

    FDNs are Brilliant

    But before we get into any of that, only because we have a lot of trainees that listen, I know you do a ton of podcasts. I would love if we could just dissect some type of brief background from you. Again, some people are joining the world of FDN, they might actually not know who you are. They might know Microbiome Labs but haven’t gotten to meet you yet.

    So, what’s your background and how did you even get into this company and get this started?

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    [00:04:19] Kiran Krishnan: Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I also want to comment based on what you said earlier, how the world of FDN is very familiar with us. I think that speaks to how brilliant the FDNs are. I have a lot of friends who have great respect for in the community that are FDN trained. They really go through a critical thinking process about health and systems biology. So, it’s always been easy for us to speak to the FDN community because we are a very systems biology kind of company.

    My background is research microbiologist and my initial research work in the academics was around pathogenic organisms. I worked on listeria. I worked on E coli. We looked at swarming and mutated E coli and so on. That kind of starts to become the world of clinical microbiology, where you really focus in on pathogenic organisms. That’s the most interesting area. That’s the area that you can get most grants on and so on. It becomes easy to make a career that way.

    Looking at Positive Commensal Organisms (Spore-based Probiotics)

    One of the things that always bugged me about it was that all of this focus we put on these few pathogenic organisms causes us to negate the trillions of bacteria that are either non-harmful or beneficial. That’s just the world of clinical microbiology, clinical pathology, where you start looking at only the negative things.

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    I always wondered about what are the influences of these other commensal organisms and the ones that don’t actually cause infection, which make up 99% or more of the bacteria that we encounter. Fortunately for me, the human microbiome project kicked off back in 2005, 2006, which was great timing because I was really looking at kind of shifting my expertise within the world of microbiology.

    I very quickly dove into the world of microbiome research with the whole focus of, number one, trying to understand the microbiome and how it either conveys health or drives disease. Number two, what can we do about it? What are the tools we can develop and possess in order to modulate or influence the microbiome in such way that it helps and provides a health benefit to an individual? That became the origin of the company back in 2012.

    We basically mapped out a course that we would take from a clinical perspective on how to look at health problems, big and small. So, we became very focused on big problems with the first one being leaky gut. Then we launched a company with a goal of resolving leaky gut because it became very clear, even then, that leaky gut was an underlying driver of most of the chronic health conditions that we see. If you don’t resolve your leaky gut, it makes it very hard to make progress on these conditions. That’s the origin of the company.

    Nonsense in the Probiotic Industry (Not Spore-based Probiotics)

    Fortunately for us, we’ve stuck to our guns of letting research drive the bus, investing heavily in science so that we properly understand our products, properly understand how they work. We can actually utilize science to identify gaps in therapeutics so we can fill those gaps and create new things that really will help people get better.

    [00:07:35] Detective Ev: I think out of all the things you just said, I think the most amazing part, this wasn’t known to me, so you only started this in 2012.

    [00:07:42] Kiran Krishnan: Yeah, we did. The first product launched in 2013. We’re on our ninth year. We’ve scaled very quickly and we’re actually a very grassroots company. We never took investments, were never VC or private equity backed, and didn’t have any big investors.

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    So, we started the company with $80,000. That’s all we had in 2013. By the end of that year, we had almost burned through most of it. But our mindset was that this was needed so badly. We saw a lot of nonsense in the probiotic industry. We saw many of the companies going the very marketing route of just more strains, more CFU counts, refrigerated, special capsules, all kinds of stuff that really wasn’t validated well with science.

    And none of these supplement companies were doing research on their products. They weren’t studying the probiotics or anything. They were just kind of assembling random products and putting them out there in the marketplace. So, we truly felt that there was a need and we felt that health practitioners would feel that need more than anyone else because you guys have the skillset to vet products and to really understand do they work or not.

    Sharing the Good News about Spore-based Probiotics

    It’s different than going after a consumer that’s walking through a big box store and just grabbing a probiotic gummy, that’s $10 bucks. We knew that our marketplace was health practitioners. That we could illuminate for healthcare practitioners the gaps that currently exists in how people are developing and utilizing probiotics.

    We also knew that if we focus on science, that we would be successful, even though we stumbled a bunch in the beginning. So, we just stuck to our guns and sure enough it grew. What was beautiful about it is by 2017, so this is by the fourth year of being in business, what we started to see was an incredible surge of new practitioners that were coming on signing up for accounts and buying and utilizing products.

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    We survey them every time someone comes in and sets up an account. Eighty-seven percent of the practitioners that set up an account starting that year, said that they heard about us through a colleague. Not through advertising or any of that, cause we didn’t really have the budget to do any advertising or anything.

    That was the magical moment to us. Because we were like, okay, we’re putting out good stuff that seems to help people and that’s why practitioners are talking to each other about it. As you know, being a practitioner yourself, inevitably you find something that works, you’re going to tell your colleagues about it.

    Ultimately, the goal of all practitioners is to help people, right? You’re not competitive about it. You’re not like, ooh, I have this little secret that cures or deals with this disease. I’m not telling anybody. Inevitably practitioners share that information. That became an amazing aspect to the growth of our business.

    FDNs Want Everyone to Get Well

    [00:10:26] Detective Ev: Awesome! That’s certainly not true in the functional space, thankfully. I think one of the jokes that we always make is that one of the best things that could happen is that we go out of business. Now, we’re nowhere near close to that, unfortunately. The truth is it’d be great if we didn’t need all of this stuff.

    It’s insane to me to think about it sometimes. Cause I’m a guy, I think I’m reasonably intelligent, but I’m not a guy with some advanced college degree in relevant areas like medicine or whatever. Yet, people are coming to me with 10 years of health issues to get help. That’s cool and it’s a privilege, but I don’t want that to be the world.

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    I want you to be able to go to the dang doctor, your family doctor, and actually get help for your chronic issues. It’s amazing what we get to do, but then at the other side, it’s like, wow, all right, this really shouldn’t be happening. It does create a really authentic and positive industry, where if something works, we share it with everyone. You’re right. It’s not a hiding thing cause there is no competition in a sense.

    Now that I know when you guys actually launched the first product, it’s even more impressive to me. I’m sure you guys expected it to do well, otherwise you wouldn’t have started the company. But my God, I mean very few people could probably predict that, I’m assuming.

    [00:11:23] Kiran Krishnan: And to be frank, neither Tom, who’s my business partner, or I had built a product company at that point. We’d actually had other companies, but mine was in the research world and developing ingredients and so on.

    Marketing Stubbornness Pays Off

    Then I had a number of consulting things that I was doing. He was actually doing kind of distribution to other healthcare practitioners from his time working in Europe as a functional medicine doctor. He started importing some products from Europe because they really helped his practice in Europe.

    But neither of us had ever created a brand product and put it out in the market. I would definitely say we didn’t really know what we were doing, but we just were driven by this like belief and passion. And one of the adages that we stuck with that I think has helped us a lot, is we wanted to be disruptive, and we wanted to do it differently than other companies in our space did, starting of course, from just the principles alone around focusing on the science. That’s one thing.

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    The second part of it is like, anything that any marketing expert told us that we talked to during that time, we actually did exactly the opposite. You know, we would actually take interviews from marketing experts just to see what they say so that we could do the exact opposite. We were so stubborn that way, but it worked.

    For example, the name of our flagship product, the probiotic MegaSporeBiotic, we had talked to at least three marketing groups when we were starting. We were like, we might need a marketing branding agency to help us. Every one of them said, I understand your cool technology and all that, but whatever you do, don’t say the word “spore” in anything. They’re like, people are going to think mold spores or anthrax spores, and you’re going to kill your brand before you know it.

    Scary and Colorful, Inviting the Discussion

    We were like, we’re going to call it MegaSpore. The biggest scariest spore you can think of. So, we did exactly the opposite of what all the marketing experts, because, you know, we’re like, we want to invite the discussion. I want some doctor looking at me like I’m crazy going, what is this MegaSpore you’re selling? You know, that gives me a chance to talk to them. We were very disruptive. We did exactly the opposite of what all product and brand experts would say.

    Colors as well. We went to a couple of these shows where, you know, healthcare practitioner companies exhibit. What we noticed was all of them were trying to go more farmer looking. White with just blue labels and just very clean look. Our first booth and product was pink and orange and just like every loud color you could imagine.

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    So, here are these two guys that were, you know, unknown in the marketplace at that time, standing there in front of this big pink, orange, bright booth that says spore all over it. That was our plan. We’re like, okay, we’re here to make some noise so come talk to us.

    [00:14:02] Detective Ev: It must be amazing being one of those marketers that were on these meetings. Then like maybe months down the road, they get a Facebook ad or, well, not a Facebook ad in your case, but you know what I mean? Where it just says MegaSpore!! It’s like, all right, these guys are jackasses. But hey, it worked for you. You guys have done an amazing job.

    Starting Off with the Basics on Spore-based Probiotics

    And that’s where I kind of want to transition because, Kiran, I also know that you can get incredibly technical because you’re a pretty advanced guy. You’ve been doing this for a while, and I’ve seen some of your lectures. I was at that March Biohacking Congress. So, I know how far we can get this.

    My goal today as the host is just trying my best to really know who’s listening in our audience and serving them the best. I hate for you to have to tone anything down, but it seems like you’re pretty passionate about it, regardless, which is a good quality to have. Probably a reason why the business is doing so well.

    I just want to start with some of the basics for our trainees or people potentially looking into the FDN course, like what makes MegaSporeBiotic different? Why is this different than the stuff I can go to at my health food store, where I see a hundred CFUs (which is colony forming units, for those that don’t know), and it’s got to be refrigerated and it’s going to cost me $70 bucks or whatever it might be. How is this different?

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    Because I think a lot of people, even as my clients were thrown off, they’re like, okay, I have to spend like $55 bucks. I don’t have to refrigerate this, and I can just carry this around and it’s going to be like the best one I can do? I’m like, I promise you, yes.

    So, I’d love to hear, why is this different and what are spore-based probiotics? I’ll throw that in there as well.

    What Spore-based Probiotics Are

    [00:15:21] Kiran Krishnan: That’s a very important question. Let’s tackle the second one first.

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    A spore-based probiotic is really a probiotic bacterium that has the capability of forming an endospore. What that endospore means, it’s basically when the bacteria is not in a favorable location for its own survival, what it can do is actually go into a dormant state where it’s metabolically inactive. It basically shuts down all systems. Then it wraps itself with a protein calcified armorlike coding to protect the cell structure. It becomes this like impenetrable little ball, little armored ball, that is just sitting there. And it can sit there indefinitely until the situation becomes more favorable.

    The genius of vector that we work with is called bacillus. If people aren’t familiar, all bacteria are classified as a genus and a species, right? So, like, lactobacillus acidophils, acidophilus is a species. Lactobacillus is a genius. In this case, bacillus is our genus. The oldest bacillus endospore that has been found was found in Southern California, actually, in the salt crystals, in a cave.

    Scientists have been going deep into caves that have never been touched. The reason they’re going deep into these caves is they’re looking for molecules that may give them ideas or act as new antibiotics. Because as we develop more and more antibiotic resistance, we have to go look for new ideas. Of course, the first antibiotic came from an organism from penicillium. And so, we look to the microbial world to understand how you produce antibiotics because bacteria make antibiotics all the time.

    Finding Historically Old Bacillus Endospores

    They’ve been going to these deep recesses of these caves looking for new microbes to see if they contain any antibiotic capabilities. One of the classes of bacteria that they found in the salt crystals was a bacillus. They dated the bacillus to over 250 million years old. It was basically suspended in the salt crystals. Because under that high sodium concentration where the bacillus got trapped, it’s not a favorable growth environment. So, it went into its spore state and got suspended there. They were able to remove it from the salt crystal, dissolve it out, and still played it. It was still alive at 250 million years old.

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    The other one was actually in the digestive tract of an ancient, fossilized honeybee. The whole bee was fossilized in amber. They were able to pull out particulate matter from the digestive tract. One of the things that they pulled out was a bacillus endospore that they were able to still grow, that was 50 million years old. So, these organisms have been around here way longer than we have. And in fact, there is some evidence that maybe these organisms were the origin of cellular structure on earth.

    There’s this theory called Panspermia. Panspermia speaks about the seeding of earth with basic cellular structures like nucleic acids, DNA, RNA proteins and so on. The idea is that some of these building blocks of cells have bombarded the earth during the area of heavy meteor showers, where meteorites contain these kinds of cellular structures. They’ve measured this on meteors where you can take meteorites that crash into earth, and you can look at them. They happen to have cellular structure components on them. They’ll have DNA, RNA, and so on.

    Bacillus Subtilis are Ubiquitous and Adaptable

    Then they started looking at what organisms that exist today could have made an interstellar journey, have enough stability through the vacuum of space to actually seed cellular life on earth. Then they took bacillus endospores into space for seven years as a research study, outside, in the vacuum of space, in the cold vacuum of space. They were able to survive interstellar journey for seven years.

    These are amazing space microbes that have been on this earth probably since the origin of earth itself and billions of years before humans ever came along. They’ve been here, they know the rules, they wrote the rules on cellular communication. So, why did we hone in on them or what makes them different?

    What’s really interesting about them is that when you find the right type of bacilli (and they’re not all the same), you can find a bacillus subtilis, for example, that doesn’t really do much as a probiotic, even though it’s a bacillus subtilis because it’s adapted for different environments.

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    These organisms are pretty ubiquitous. They live on every corner of the earth. They found them in glacial ice cores in the Tibetan plateaus, in glacial ice cores in the South Pole, in the North Pole, in every corner of the earth with pretty good abundance in undisturbed environments. But they adapt to the environment that they’re in.

    When you find a bacillus that’s in a remote environment like that, it’s not necessarily going to function as a probiotic in your GI tract because it doesn’t know the human GI tract. It hasn’t had the millions of years of co-evolution with humans to understand the GI tract.

    Spore-based Probiotics Can Survive the GI Tract

    But when you do find a bacillus that has that, a bacillus that has been going and cycling through the human GI tract for millions of years, what you find is an organism that has developed a certain level of intelligence to understand better what a balanced microbiome looks like in our GI tract. Then we can understand, right?

    And the reason for that is this occurs through a process of symbiogenesis. Symbiogenesis is the forced symbiotic development of organisms that, through geographic or other forces, are forced to coexist in the same environment. Over time, what tends to happen when you force different organisms together, they find a way to work things out because everybody wants to survive.

    So, when we evolved as a species, we kept consuming organisms inadvertently because we ate off the land. We ate dirt, drank water out of rivers and streams, killed animals and ate their guts, all kinds of stuff. Dug for roots and tubers, so we got huge amounts of exposure to environmental bacteria.

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    The vast majority of those environmental bacteria do not survive through the gastric system because the gastric system is designed to kill microbes. But the spores with their armorlike coating have an incredible way of surviving through this digestive tract. So, as they’ve survived through, we’ve allowed them to actually inhabit our GI tract with an exchange that they police and monitor the GI tract if they’re given a chance to survive in there.

    Spore-based Probiotics – Nature’s Probiotics

    Over time, our constant consumption of bacillus endospores from the environment has created some of them to develop this probiotic like function, where, when we consume them, they go in the gut, they protect the gut, they read the microbial environment, they do a bunch of amazing things that we’ll talk about. At the end of the day, we poop them out in a couple weeks, they go back in the environment, and they look for their next host. That’s the origins and history of bacillus endospores.

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    The reason we targeted them was because they are nature’s probiotic. We have this mindset, and I have this mindset, especially as a microbiologist, that we can’t outsmart nature. We can’t. That’s what synthetic chemistry and pharmaceutical approaches have been trying to do for hundreds of years. They’ve been trying to outsmart nature.

    Just look at baby formula. Since the late 1800’s, these companies have been spending billions of dollars to try to develop baby formula that mimics mother’s milk. They still can’t do it. You cannot mimic mother’s milk biologically. It’s got over 200 different oligosaccharide prebiotics in it, hundreds of different species of probiotic bacteria, a nutritional composition that we can’t recreate despite the 110 years we’ve been working on it with some of the biggest biotech and science companies in the world. We can’t imitate mother nature in that way.

    Our philosophy is we can’t outsmart nature. What we should do is try to identify what nature has already created for us as a probiotic or a prebiotic. Study it, understand how it works, and then utilize that. That’s why we hone in on the spores. Because to us, they are mother nature’s probiotic that’s been here for millions of years.

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    Okay, back to the episode.

    A Seemingly Smaller Amount of Probiotics

    Detective Ev: Wow! You got it going on, man, with the speaking. I can’t believe that you have the ability for both. Well, normally it’s a tradeoff. I can speak, but the level of research that you do would not be my thing. Then I have a brilliant chemist friend, who could do research all day, but he doesn’t necessarily have the gift of sharing that information. Him and I would have to be a team, you’re a combo package.

    [00:15:21] Kiran Krishnan: Thank you.

    Detective Ev: Very cool.

    It was a great buildup for that, because all those things from the space to finding this 250 million years ago, it really does build up to the resiliency of the things that you guys are choosing to use, the strains you’re choosing to use, and why they’re in these products.

    Just so I can play kind of devil’s advocate, and I’m not going to mention any product names. When I go to my health food store, I could go to their fridge and they’re going to have all these probiotics. I’m sure that a lot of those companies did research and they’re not trying to waste money. They’re certainly not trying to hurt people.

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    But they have to put in like again, like a hundred million CFU, you’ll see this in stuff. It’s like, wow, that’s incredible. Whereas you guys have such a smaller amount. I’m already thinking, if I’m the listener, okay, clearly you guys are able to get away with a seemingly “smaller” amount. And for those not on video, I’m using air quotes because it’s not actually smaller, because it seems like it’s actually getting into the body.

    Do they have to use these mega doses because so much of it’s being killed off?

    Fighting for Market Share

    [00:25:38] Kiran Krishnan: That’s exactly right. I’ll give you a little bit of insight onto product development in many of these companies. Because prior to starting Microbiome Labs, I was a scientific consultant for many companies in our space where I would actually help them develop products or advise them on developing products.

    This is how it normally goes. And keep in mind that most supplement companies out there don’t have a scientific team within the company. Most supplement companies are marketing-based companies. They’re driven by marketing people. And they’re founded by marketing people.

    So, they don’t have in-house science groups and they work with people like myself to try to help them, support them on the science. The vast majority of companies, I think, mean well. There are some companies that are pretty egregious and are really just trying to make a buck.

    They are out there, but even the companies that mean well. here’s how they go about it. It’s really marketing that drives their formulation work. I’ve sat in meetings before where a company’s talking about the next probiotic they want to develop and they’ll go, okay, we want 50 billion CFUs and 17 strains. That’s their target.

    FIGHTING FOR MARKET SHARE, MARKETING PLOYS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    Then my first response is going to be why? Like, how did you come up with 50? And why 17? Like, what is that arbitrary number? Then the reason is because the company that they fight for market share with, whether it’s on the shelf or online, has, 11 strains and 30 billion CFUs. So, they want to be a little bit more than them.

    Study the Finished Product

    They want to position a potency claim over their competitor, but they want to be at the same price point. Now, because they’re trying to be at the same price point as 10 strains or 12 strains at 30 billion CFUs, they actually have to get lower quality strains because the price per kilo goes down. Which means you can do 50 billion at the same price of 30 billion. That’s how the conversations go.

    The more sophisticated companies will say, we want to put in at least two or three research strains so that we can speak to some sites. My response has always been, that’s good. I love that they’re looking at strains that have some research on them. But I also explained to them that you can’t necessarily take 2, 3, 4 strains and have research separately on their own. Combine them together and then throw in a couple other ones to get to 17, 18, 20 strains and assume they still function the same.

    Because this is not a small molecule. It’s not like a vitamin, it’s not a magnesium. This is a living entity that has thousands of genes that makes millions of proteins. It changes how it behaves based on its environment. If it’s mixed up with seven other strains or 10 other strains, it’s likely going to behave differently than when it was by itself.

    MARKETING, STUDY THE FINISHED PRODUCT BEFORE PUTTING IT OUT TO THE PUBLIC TO SELL, RESEARCH BACKED, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    For that reason, it’s a big leap to go, this strain has some research, that strain has some research, let’s mix the two of them together, add a few more things, and then say, this is a research-based product. It’s not. When it comes to biological material like that, you have to study the finished product in its finished form to really understand what it does.

    The Idea of Refrigerating Probiotics

    Then the whole idea of refrigeration. One of the projects that actually kicked my world off into the world of probiotics, this was prior to starting Microbiome Labs, I think it was 2010. I had a research company. We had a big multinational companies approach us to ask us to help guide them in development of probiotic, actually.

    They were looking for us to do research on other products, competitive products to see how they are positioned in the marketplace, because they were confused. They were like, do we do refrigerated, non refrigerated? Do we do a hundred billion CFUs? What dose do we go after? They were actually trying to understand the science aspect of it.

    So, one of the first things I started doing is going to health food stores to try to get recommendations from the clerk. Like, what would you take if you were trying to get a good probiotic? They would always point me towards a refrigerator. I kept thinking to myself, like why are these bacteria in the refrigerator? It doesn’t make sense.

    REGULAR PROBIOTICS DROP THEIR LABEL CLAIM CFU COUNT AS THEY SIT ON THE SHELF, REFRIGERATE, CLASS-ACTION SUITS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    Then you start digging into it. You call the companies. Come to find out that the reason they’re in the refrigerator is because the CFU counts drop from the label claim as they sit on the shelf. And some of these companies got sued by class action lawyers who would just go and pick up the product from the shelf, test it, and go, haha. The label says 50 billion, there’s only 20 billion. You’ve sold this in 25 states. Here’s a class action lawsuit for false advertising and blah, blah, blah. Then they’d have to settle out of court for millions of dollars.

    No Good Scientific Rational Behind These Other Probiotics

    These companies said, okay, we’re going to put way more than 50 billion if that’s the label claim, and you put it in the refrigerator. It’ll maintain the CFU count through the end of shelf life. That’s the only reason to do it. But that also indicates that those bacteria at the comfortable temperature of 70 degrees, which is the room temperature, they’re dying pretty quickly. Then the question I asked, what happens when you put it in your body at 98.6 degrees? Does it have any chance of survival at all?

    GASTRIC SIMULATION USED TO PROVE THAT OTHER REGULAR PROBIOTICS CAN'T SURVIVE IN THE TEMPERATURE OF A HUMAN'S BODY LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE GI TRACT, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    Sure enough, one of the first things we did for that research was we took 40 of the top retail provided product and we tested them. We put them through gastric simulation and all of them died in physiological conditions, just obliterated these probiotics. But the vast majority of what you get out there is just kind of dead bacterial moving through. You’re getting lots and lots of bacterial debris.

    So, the dosage that they’re claiming is completely nonsensical. It doesn’t matter if you go to the retail store and you buy a 20 billion product or a hundred billion product, or a 200 billion product. None of those have any real good scientific rationale behind them.

    You know, most probiotic studies, if we look at the literature, are done on single strains at 2 to 3 billion CFUs. That’s a vast majority of literature. Very, very little has been done on 50 billion or a hundred billion or more than that. So, it’s really marketing, unfortunately. And that was part of our impetus of coming into the market.

    We’re Done with the Sleazy Salespeople

    [00:31:32] Detective Ev: It’s sad to me that this is still a thing. I think this comment would be well received by this community. I’ll word it as, I think there’s a shift in consciousness happening right now, where people are done with the sleazy salespeople. They’re done with getting shrewd by companies, and good really is prevailing. It worked for you guys, it’s worked for FDN, where you stay the course, you sell something legitimate.

    NO PROBLEMS BUYING THINGS, PROBLEMS WITH GETTING SHAFTED OR RIPPED OFF, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    No one has any problem buying things. People think, oh, it’s the sales. It’s not that. People have problems getting screwed over and ripped off. They don’t have a problem giving you your money. We give people money every single day, multiple times, usually. It’s about what am I getting for this transaction?

    I’m glad that there’s companies like yours out there. Hey, maybe we won’t have the hundred billion CFU thing and look all fancy, but we’re doing the right thing. It speaks for itself. Because what was it? Eighty-something percent of these initial sales were coming from people talking to colleagues. You can’t beat results. If something’s working consistently, I mean, the reason that you guys continue to get an order every single few months, cause she gets the big one, from my mom, is simply because she knows how well this works and feels it in her body still to this day.

    This is someone, you know, ton of antibiotics got her thyroid removed. So, she really benefits from these things here, and it’s cool that she has access to it. Before we knew better, eight years ago, we were going to that health food store and buying this stuff and it was kind of a hit or miss.

    Practitioner Accounts with Microbiome Labs

    Like I think that did something. You buy it the next time. I’m like, this isn’t doing anything. Okay, let’s get it again.

    But now this obviously makes a difference.

    Wow, man! You’re like a two-podcast guy. You’re a wealth of information.

    I want to make sure, at least get to the main stuff today, that’s going to affect, again, our practitioners. One of the things I think is most ordered by the people in our space is something you guys called the Total Gut Restore. It’s a no brainer for those listening. I mentioned this in the beginning, but just to be clear for the trainees, when you graduate from FDN, you are going to have a wholesale account, basically, with Microbiome Labs. You’re going to get discounts on this stuff.

    FDN GRADUATES GET TO SET UP ACCOUNTS WITH MICROBIOME LABS, SELL THEIR PRODUCTS, BEST THING FOR THEIR CLIENTS' GUTS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    You can order large quantities and get bigger discounts. You can deliver this to your clients in that way or if you have an in-store somewhere, you’re able to do that, like an office that you do your coaching in or whatever it might be. So, pay attention to this stuff, cause it’s pretty cool that you could sell people this, make some great money doing it. You’re selling them something very legitimate, possibly the best thing that they’ve ever done for their gut. Because before this, again, they were running around the health food store doing God knows what.

    So, we have MegaSpore. Now there’s tons of products. Again, we could spend 20 hours talking about all of them. But the Total Gut Restore is a full system where we’re utilizing MegaSpore the entire time, but we’re also doing some other things. So, what are the other components of the Total Gut Restore? Who is this for? I’d love to hear everything you have about it.

    Spore-based Probiotics – Critical to Rebuilding the Gut

    [00:34:00] Kiran Krishnan: Absolutely. That’s a great question because it speaks to our development mindset. When we look at product development, we’re never going to be one of those companies that has 200 skews and every single vitamin and things that you can think of. It’s just not who we are in terms of how we operate.

    We were a single product company with just MegaSpore for the first, almost four or five years. The reason for that is, we only develop products when we see a significant need for it, and if somebody else isn’t already doing it well. In areas where somebody else is doing a great job with a product, there’s some great digestive enzymes out there, that’s why we’ve never developed a basic digestive enzyme. We don’t need to. Other people are doing it well.

    SPORE-BASED PROBIOTICS HELP REBUILD THE GUT IN GENERAL, LIGHTEN TOXIC LOAD, COMBAT PATHOGENS AND OPPORTUNISTIC BACTERIA, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    We started looking from a physiological standpoint or disease pathology standpoint, where are the big gaps in how we are dealing with people’s gut issues and then thereby systemic issues? We introduced the spores and know very well what the spores are doing in the gut. They are competing against opportunistic and pathogenic organisms. They’re helping bring down that load and the toxicity that goes along with that. We know that they’re enhancing the growth of commensal and keystone species, which are critical to rebuilding the gut in general.

    Dysbiotic Gut, Leaky Gut, Chronic Illnesses

    We also know that they produce things like short-chain fatty acids, lactic acid, other beneficial byproducts that support a healthy gut. That started becoming a really good picture on its own. But as we started digging into disease pathology, we started seeing that we were missing some steps for people that really wanted to restore their gut.

    People like your mom, for example, which actually represents the majority of people that have had multiple courses of antibiotics, may have had parts of their system removed, whether it’s their gallbladder, had resections of the bowel, even having your tonsils removed at some point.

    People that have had poor food choices and lifestyle choices for years on end, that’s just the average American, unfortunately. Then we continue to feed the American, the standard American diet. We end up with what we call the standard American gut, which is a severely dysbiotic gut, meaning this low diversity, low levels of keystone species, and high levels of opportunistic organisms, which may or may not be driving a huge problem, but certainly not helping the individual at all.

    A consequence of that is that mucosal layer in the digestive tract becomes diminished significantly. It gets eaten away and it’s not functioning the way it’s supposed to. Then eventually the intestinal epithelial cells, the one that the mucosal layer is supposed to be protecting, that the beneficial microbes are supposed to be protecting as well, that intestinal epithelial layer gets damaged over time and becomes leaky and dysfunctional.

    THE STANDARD AMERICAN GUT DYSFUNCTION DRIVES MOST CHRONIC ILLNESSES, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    We then started looking at what kind of conditions does this standard American gut drive. Come to find out, when you look through all the literature and map out all the pathology, this kind of standard American gut dysfunction drives the vast majority of chronic illnesses.

    Fixing the Gut Using Spore-based Probiotics & Prebiotics

    I used to get this question very commonly, like seven, eight years ago from practitioners. It’s like, how do I know what’s wrong with my patient’s gut who has diabetes, versus my patient’s gut who has allergies, versus my patient’s gut who has anxiety. These are three seemingly unrelated conditions that affect different parts of the body and affect patients in a different way.

    A trained practitioner knows that the microbiome plays a role in all of these, but what’s hard for them to understand is what is wrong in each of those guts and what to do about each one then. Like, how do I treat my autoimmune gut versus my anxiety gut? The answer is you actually treat them the exact same way, cause it’s the same issue in all of those conditions that drives their conditions. It’s an underlying driver of chronic low-grade inflammation.

    REBUILDING THE GUT, RESTABILIZING AND RECONSTRUCTING THE GUT, SPORE-BASED PROBIOTICS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    What we figured out is, we see where the pathology goes wrong, and we need to reverse that and start rebuilding the different sections of the gut lining in order to restabilize and recondition that entire system. It takes first a fixing of the microbiome, which is through the MegaSpore. The MegaSpore, as I mentioned, competes with the bad ones, increases the good ones, increases keystone species, starts a production of short-chain fatty acids going up.

    The second step is we need to reinforce this new microbiome the individual is seeing. We needed to create these new prebiotics, but oligosaccharides that were highly specific to feed keystone species. That was the whole idea behind it.

    The Total Gut Restore – Rebuilding and Reversing Damage

    So, we came up with this mega pre-product that has these oligosaccharides clinically shown to feed keystone species. Now you’re starting to regrow the bacteria that actually rebuild the gut lining. Then we give that new bacteria and the third step, all the tools that they need to rebuild the gut mucosa in the lining, which are four critical amino acids, polyphenols, and then IgG as well.

    THE TOTAL GUT RESTORE, SYSTEMATIC WAY OF HEALING THE GUT, LEAKY GUT, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    When you look at just those three components, they each have studies on their own. Then we’ve done a study on them combined to show that they become the essential building blocks of that entire gut barrier structure. So, the Total Gut Restoration is really a way of looking at the most predominant dysfunction in the standard American gut and in a very systematic way of rebuilding it and reversing that damage. It’s applicable for virtually everybody that an FDN would see.

    [00:39:37] Detective Ev: I’m so excited because I started a light therapy studio where I do some functional medicine stuff this past year. Now we literally started in March. I live in Pennsylvania. So, you get it. Chicago, right? Like terrible in the winter.

    I really wanted this to be open just nine months out of the year, but we’re like, let’s give it a go. So, as the fall comes, I wanted to stack my place with supplements. I got the wholesale thing, and I’m so excited to be offering our people the Total Gut Restore thing. It’s going to be like on the shelves, literally selling it to people in there, including it in membership.

    Working on the Foundational Dysfunction and Other Aspects

    We do a lot of testing here and I do think that our practitioners are trained very well. I do believe there can be some nuances in how the gut is addressed. Mostly depending on the pathogenic type of bacteria or parasites even, that they’ve gotten in there.

    If someone has blasto, I do think we can lessen it, but sometimes it’s helpful to get it out. I’m not here to debate that anyway. Total Gut Restore is absolutely going. I’ve never had it given to someone that it didn’t help, that’s for sure.

    [00:40:26] Kiran Krishnan: Yeah. And you can absolutely bolt on other therapies to it.

    TOTAL GUT RESTORE, WORKS ON THE FOUNDATIONAL PIECE OF GUT HEALING, OTHER ASPECTS, TAG ON OTHER THERAPEUTICS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    The idea is that it’s working on the foundational dysfunction that occurs. But if you have patients with other, you know aspects of it, like you said, they might have SIBO, they might have blasto, they may have other things that you may bolt on other therapeutics to the process. That totally works as well.

    We have, for example, patients with really bad candida that we will put them on the Total Gut Restoration, but we’ll add in antifungals as well, to parts of it. You can absolutely play with it. It just becomes foundational and then you can add on to it as needed for the patient.

    Total Gut Restore – Fundamentally, Good for All

    [00:41:01] Detective Ev: It seems simple, but I appreciate you specifying that because our trainees might be new to this world. You didn’t mean it this way, but when they hear the Total Gut Restoration, all of these things, all those conditions you mentioned can be addressed the same.

    THE TOTAL GUT RESTORE IS FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD FOR EVERYONE, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    They might be like, well, wait a second. Aren’t we supposed to be testing and looking at different things? So that’s where the line gets drawn, guys. What we’re saying here is the Total Gut Restore, fundamentally, is going to be good for everyone. But yes, there might be these small little differences. And, right, candida or a parasite or whatever, we can add on things, but TGR is going to be something that’s pretty solid for everyone.

    Now, one thing that always comes up with our practitioners and I understand that there’s probably some legality behind this, so I’ll word this correctly. In the second phase of TGR, the prebiotics, you have something on the bottom that says this contains corn and dairy. Now, I am sensitive to both. It has never bothered me.

    Hypothetically, let’s say you had a corn and dairy sensitivity, would you hypothetically be worried about that? Again, I know that you guys have to put that legally on, but people don’t understand that that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s the proteins in this product. Would you be worried about that if you had sensitivities to those things?

    Safe for Dairy and Corn Sensitive People

    [00:42:04] Kiran Krishnan: No, not at all. The reason for that is because the proteins aren’t present in there. Only one of the oligosaccharides does come from dairy, but, when you separate out the carbohydrate component from the protein component, you actually remove all of the casein and caseinates and all the things that actually cause the dairy sensitivity.

    Then you isolate these really complex carbohydrate structures. Then it’s purified, goes through all kinds of filtration and so on. Carbohydrates and proteins separate very easily cause their molecular weights and all that are very different. So there isn’t any in there, but from a legal standpoint, as you mentioned, you have to mention the origin side of it.

    The corn side is another thing. The xylooligosaccharides, which is actually a really amazing product and ingredient even on its own. I think there are maybe nine published studies on just that ingredient alone, not including our studies on the combined ingredients, comes from the inner corn cob.

    So again, there’s no corn proteins or anything in there. It comes from the cob on the inside, where there are these small amounts of very resistant starches that are loaded with these oligosaccharides. There is no risk for sensitive people. Thousands upon thousands of sensitive people use it all the time.

    THE GUT RESTORE, SAFE FOR CORN AND DIARY SENSITIVE, ANAPHYLACTIC WITH CORN AND DAIRY JUST BE CAREFUL, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    The only thing we always say, and this is out of a huge abundance of caution, if for some reason you are anaphylactic with dairy or anaphylactic with corn, then you’d take it easy, be cautious, try a small amount. But if you’re sensitive, there should be no issue at all.

    Necessary, But Counterproductive Labeling

    [00:43:28] Detective Ev: That’s the explanation I’ve been looking for for five years I did get this from a rep one time, and they explained it well. But it’s just cool to hear it from you. Because inevitably our trainees, the new people, they haven’t done this yet. They go through, oh, Microbiome Labs, this is great! Whoa, Total Gut Restore. It’s the first thing that they’re attracted to and they do it.

    Then they say, wait a second, corn and dairy. Like, we don’t do that. I’m like, guys, you got to think a little bit outside the box. You really think that they would be putting that just directly in?

    This is one of those times where, I’m all for labeling of like GMOs and all these things, but it’s one of those times where labeling probably is actually not so helpful.

    Kiran Krishnan: It’s counterproductive.

    Detective Ev: Yes, thank you. It’s a bit misleading.

    PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN SOURCED FROM DIARY BUT ALL THE PROTEINS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT IS SAFE FOR DIARY SENSITIVE PEOPLE, LABELING, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    [00:44:01] Kiran Krishnan: If it has dairy proteins in it, you should label it for people as sensitive. But if something comes from dairy and all of that’s been removed and there’s all this evidence for it, it doesn’t make any sense. But yeah.

    [00:44:14] Detective Ev: Well, we got a few minutes left. So, one thing I just want to ask, and I know that you guys are always working on something, it seems. I can’t believe the amount that you’re buffing out now. I mean, every time I go to the website, there’s something new and something really cool.

    Maybe I should word it as, to the degree that you’re able to share, is there anything that you guys are working on right now that you’re super excited about?

    New Microbiome Labs Products

    PSYCHOBIOTIC, MICROBIOME LABS, ZEN BIOME, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    [00:44:31] Kiran Krishnan: There’s a number of things. Most recently we came out with our psychobiotic, which is called Zen Biome. This strain is just, it blows my mind every time I look at our research around it. We’ve got eight published studies on it, reducing cortisol, reducing perception of stress, improving mood significantly, and as well as improving sleep. It also changes brain wave function, which is just mind boggling.

    This microbe can bind to receptors in your gut, shoot neurotransmitters up to your brain and put you in more of a theta wave band, which is the type of band that we’re trying to get to through meditation practices and mind/body practices and so on. It’s amazing that this probiotic can do that.

    We’re coming out with a product that has a cousin to that strain, which is also a bifida bacterium. It is also an exopolysaccharide strain, which is what makes it unique. But this species has around 10 studies on it on IBS symptomology – controlling the crazy peristaltic activity, the jumps in the bowel, the irritability of the bowel through utilizing this bacteria. It does it through controlling inflammatory response and neurological response in the gut.

    IBS TYPE OF BACTERIA COMBINED WITH PSYCHOBIOTIC TO CREATE THIS IBS MOOD PROBIOTIC, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    What we’re doing is we’re combining the two. We’re having this irritable bowel type of bacteria combined with the gut brain psychobiotic to have this IBS mood product. The reason for that is when you look at these statistics around 52% to 55% of people with IBS have confirmed anxiety when you compare that to the regular population of less than 19% of age match individuals.

    Powerful Product for Mental Health Issues

    Which means that if you have IBS, you’re almost two and a half times more likely to have some degree of anxiety as well, they go hand in hand. So, with the two strains, we’re actually doing a one, two punch under two dysfunctions that are related, but yet slightly different to be able to help with people who struggle with GI distress like that, who also have anxiousness to tackle both of those with one fell swoop.

    That’s super exciting to us to be able to do that. And combined they have 18-something published studies together. It’s a lot of science behind it. That’s one of the very exciting ones coming out.

    [00:46:40] Detective Ev: Awesome man! I had physical health stuff, and don’t get me wrong, that was serious. But my main story, one of the things that got me into functional medicine, Kiran, was severe mental health issues from about 5 to 19, 20 years old. It was pretty serious stuff, you know. I didn’t graduate high school, I’m pretty transparent about it.

    ZEN BIOME, MICROBIOME LABS, GREAT TOOL FOR THOSE WITH MENTAL ISSUES, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    To just think how many things there are out now, I love being able to share this with people. I know this isn’t a cure all, and you’re not suggesting that but it’s a very powerful tool, man. And one of the ways that I always try to connect this idea for people, because some people, they believe me, they believe my story. But they’re a little skeptical when I say, well, I don’t take any medications for this stuff anymore. And I haven’t dealt with a panic attack in six years. Like I don’t deal with it. They’re like, come on. Really?

    What FDN Trainees Can Do

    I actually referenced that exact same thing that you just talked about with the IBS, because correlations not causation, I get that. But my God, come on. Like sometimes you got to look at something and say, this is pointing in a certain direction. We need to use our heads a little bit. So, I digress.

    I appreciate you bringing that up and maybe I should try that product, even though I feel good. It’d still be kind of cool. I’ve never tried that one.

    All right. So, for trainees out there that are thinking about, cause I’m going to ask you now where to get these things.

    FDNS NEED TO GET WITH THEIR MENTORS AFTER GRADUATION AND CONNECT WITH MICROBIOME LABS TO SET UP AN ACCOUNT, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    For trainees, what you’re going to want to do is get connected with your FDN mentor. All right. Talk to them and they will show you at some point how to get connected with all these accounts after you’re graduated. Then you’ll be able to get hooked up with Microbiome Labs.

    Now, of course, we also have consumers that listen, Kiran, and that are just really interested in health. They’ll probably never be an FDN. Maybe they’ll work with one, but they might not be one. So, if I’m a consumer, I’m really interested in this. I’m like, wow, this guy knew his stuff. Where can I get these products as a consumer? What’s the best way to do that?

    Where to Find Microbiome Labs Products & Kiran Krishnan

    [00:48:05] Kiran Krishnan: Yeah. I know if you just do a Google search, a lot of our clinicians, our FDN partners, do sell the product on their websites. You can gain access from them at a retail value.

    WHERE TO FIND MICROBIOME LABS PRODUCTS, WHERE TO FIND KIRAN KRISHNAN, CO-FOUNDER OF MICROBIOME LABS, SPORE-BASED PROBIOTICS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    You can also come to our website, which is microbiomelabs.com. There is a find a practitioner portal on there where you can put in your zip code, and it’ll list for you all the practitioners that have opted to list their practices and connect information in order for you to be able to understand and access the products through them as well.

    So, just do a Google search and/or come to our website and put in your zip code. very

    [00:48:38] Detective Ev: I highly encourage the “find a practitioner” thing, guys, solely because there’s going to be people out there that might be smaller time people and you’re supporting them and supporting the company. I think that’s a very cool feature that you have.

    Now, Kiran, do you have social media personally where people can follow you?

    [00:48:50] Kiran Krishnan: Oh, sure. Yeah. You know, I try to engage with people as much as I can on social media, cause if I can provide anyone direction for their health, I’m happy to do that. I don’t see clients, of course, but I’m happy to point them in the direction of science.

    My Instagram handle is kiranbiome, so K I R A N B I O M E. And on Facebook you can reach me at kirankrishnan. I think if you just type that in, you’ll see it. So yeah, please do try to reach out. I try to engage as much as I can.

    Microbiome Labs on Instagram – click here

    Health Detective Podcast Signature Question – Take Researched, Spore-based Probiotics

    [00:49:15] Detective Ev: The signature question to wrap up is if we could give Kiran a magic wand and you could get every single person in this world to do one thing for their health or stop doing one thing, what is the one thing that Kiran would get them to do?

    [00:49:30] Kiran Krishnan: Oh that’s a great question. This might sound biased, but I would genuinely have them take a researched, spore-based probiotic. I think the impact that these microbes have on your system keep surprising us. You know, every time we look at it, every time we do a new study, it just baffles us the kinds of impact that they can make on your system.

    SPORE-BASED PROBIOTICS HELPS THE MICROBIOME BECOME MORE COMMENSAL AND MORE BENEFICIAL, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    Because not only are they themselves producing things and changing things and creating things that impact your health in a positive way, but they’re also influencing the rest of your microbiome to become more commensal, more beneficial and all that. That can be a sea of change for people with their health. Although it seems biased, that’s one thing I would do.

    The second thing that I would ask them to stop doing is, stop getting misguided information on health. One of the unfortunate things about the internet is that anyone can be on there talking about anything, giving any kind of advice. More often than not, people who are qualified, people who have the background, who understand science and health and so on are trying to undo misinformation that people have been baked into their brains.

    Stop Getting Misguided Information on Health

    STOP GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS FROM JUST ANYONE, FOLLOW PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO VET SUPPLEMENTS, FDN, FDNTRAINING, HEALTH DETECTIVE PODCAST

    So, follow somebody who’s trained, follow an FDN, right? Follow a nutritionist, follow a RD or doctor of some sort that seems to be trained in the field. Have a little bit more discernment about whose information you look at. Then try to get all your supplement advice and knowledge from people who know how to vet this stuff.

    That’s one of the one reasons why we love working with the practitioner community, because we think most people should be buying their supplements through practitioners. We don’t want you to waste your time or take the wrong thing and maybe take something that’s unsafe or get one of those a hundred billion, CFU probiotics in the refrigerator, that’s just going to die in your stomach anyway. You’re just wasting your time.

    So, listen to programs like this. Share programs like this with people you know so that people can get really good, vetted information.

    Conclusion

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  • Why salting your food at the table may not be good for your health – Daily News

    Why salting your food at the table may not be good for your health – Daily News

    Salt is a typical seasoning applied to enrich the flavor of foods. Salt extra to meals at the table accounts for only about 15 % of the salt eaten by most Individuals. Processed meals add to a considerable amount of the over-all salt consumed. On the other hand, including excess salt to food items at the table may perhaps be more problematic for overall health and longevity than we realized.

    A new review printed in the European Heart Journal in July found that these who always include salt to food have a 28 percent increased possibility of dying in comparison to all those who in no way or almost never increase salt. The researchers also uncovered that individuals who generally incorporate salt have a lessen lifestyle expectancy when compared to those who by no means or almost never increase salt. This signifies that at the age of 50, 1.5 yrs and 2.28 years were being deducted from the lifetime expectancy of gals and men, respectively, who normally increase salt to their meals.

    On the bright facet, the researchers uncovered that the risks appeared to be a little reduced in people who eaten the optimum amounts of fruit and vegetables. Fruit and greens are prosperous in potassium, which is protective and consuming them is associated with a reduce danger of untimely loss of life.

    Whilst this was a massive analyze, it did have some restrictions. Far more investigate is wanted to figure out if including more salt to food items triggers immature dying or is simply connected with it, maybe due to components like socioeconomic standing or an harmful lifestyle.

    In the meantime, there is little to no downside to taking a nearer glance at one’s foodstuff salting behaviors. Listed here are 6 quick procedures to assistance cut down your consumption of added salt.

    1. Increase salt-no cost herbs, spices and aromatics to raise taste when cooking with no the salt. Illustrations of these ingredients include garlic, onion, fennel, lemon juice, vinegar, rosemary, cilantro, dill, turmeric, black pepper and cumin.
    2. Choose for fresh new meat and seafood rather of healed, salted, smoked and processed meats and fish.
    3. Pick fresh new, frozen and canned veggies with no-additional-salt.
    4. Look at the sodium articles on the foods label of packaged food items to pick out products reduced in sodium. Look for labels indicating “low sodium” and “reduced sodium” information.
    5. When dining out, check with that no salt be additional to your meal.
    6. Decrease the amount of money of salt used in recipes and stay away from added salt at the table, in particular just before tasting the foods initial.

    Due to the fact this was the initially posted research on the romantic relationship between adding salt to meals and premature death (defined as loss of life right before 75 years of age) from all causes, extra research are desired to ensure and validate the outcomes in other populations.

    LeeAnn Weintraub, MPH, RD is a registered dietitian, providing nutrition counseling and consulting to men and women, family members and organizations. She can be achieved by electronic mail at [email protected].

  • The Top 10 Questions About CBD Salve – You Must Get Healthy

    The Top 10 Questions About CBD Salve – You Must Get Healthy

    1. What is CBD salve?

    CBD salve is a topical software that incorporates cannabidiol (CBD) and other lively elements that are helpful in dealing with different pores and skin conditions. It is only applied topically.

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    1. How does CBD salve operate?

    Hemp oil penetrates the pores and skin and interacts with your body’s endocannabinoid program. It regulates numerous physique features, together with soreness perception, swelling, and skin wellness.

    1. CBD Salve: What are its benefits?

    CBD salve is productive in opposition to a wide range of pores and skin challenges. In addition, it is identified to ease pain and swelling.

    1. Are there any facet consequences of CBD salve?

    CBD salve is usually well-tolerated with few described aspect effects. Most normally, gentle pores and skin discomfort is expert.

    The Top 10 Questions About CBD Salve

    1. How do I use CBD salve?

    CBD salve should be employed topically on the affected area. In intense situations, it might be applied regularly.

    1. Wherever can I obtain CBD salve?

    CBD salve is readily available on-line and in some overall health food retailers. It is necessary to buying significant-good quality solutions from a reliable supply.

    1. Is CBD salve authorized?

    CBD salve is authorized in most nations considering the fact that THC, which is the psychoactive substance in cannabis, does not exist in it. However, constantly verify your nearby rules ahead of paying for or applying CBD items.

    1. What is the change between CBD salve and CBD oil?

    CBD salve is a topical application though CBD oil is developed for ingestion. CBD salve does not enter the bloodstream when applied topically, whereas CBD oil does when ingested.

    1. Can I use CBD salve on my facial area?

    Indeed, you can use CBD salve on your facial area. Just make positive to opt for a product ideal for your skin style.

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  • Health Care — Administration plans getting vaccines to kids under 5

    Health Care — Administration plans getting vaccines to kids under 5

    The Smothers Brothers were forward of their time: Two people fell into a vat of chocolate at an M&M/Mars manufacturing unit in central Pennsylvania. They weren’t damage but reported they couldn’t get out … which is precisely what we would say in that problem.

    The White Dwelling outlined the plan for receiving COVID-19 vaccines to young ones 5 and less than if they’re authorized by federal regulators subsequent 7 days.

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    Ideas unveiled for COVID vaccines for young ones underneath 5

    10 million pediatric COVID-19 vaccine doses will be out there for states, Tribes and other jurisdictions to pre-order in anticipation of vaccinations for young ones ages 5 and young starting right before the conclusion of the thirty day period, the White Home announced Thursday.

    Administration officials outlining the program mentioned vaccines will be dispersed across 1000’s of different web sites, but they will set a focus on frontline providers like pediatricians and principal care medical practitioners, as that is wherever they expect quite a few families will want to go.

    “We have waited a very long time for this moment,” White House coronavirus response coordinator Ashish Jha said.

    “If the Fda and CDC propose these vaccines, this would mark an critical moment in the pandemic. It would signify that, for the very first time, fundamentally every single American, from our oldest to our youngest, would be suitable for the protection that vaccines supply,” Jha said.

    Facts: Jurisdictions ended up capable to pre-buy 5 million doses blended of Pfizer and Moderna’s shots commencing past Friday, and yet another five million have been produced readily available on Wednesday. The doses can not ship until eventually the Foodstuff and Drug Administration presents its authorization.

    Enthusiasm limited: To date, jurisdictions have purchased just 58 % of the offered Pfizer doses and 34 % of the accessible Moderna doses.

    But anonymous administration officials pressured to reporters it was however early in the buying procedure, and it followed a very similar pattern to what they saw with vaccines for grown ups and adolescents.

    Examine a lot more listed here.

    Biden weighing government orders on abortion rights

    President Biden said late Wednesday that he is thinking of signing an executive buy on abortion legal rights if the Supreme Courtroom overturns Roe v. Wade later on this month, providing a window into the administration’s considering as officers put together for the ruling.

    “There’s some government orders I could employ, we believe. We’re searching at that suitable now,” Biden stated through a taped look on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!,” prompting a spherical of applause from the audience.

    Biden did not broaden on what govt orders he is taking into consideration. He also urged voters to vote Republicans out of office occur November so that Democrats can move federal legislation codifying Roe v. Wade.

    “It’s obvious that if, in fact, the selection comes down the way it does and these states impose the constraints they’re conversing about, it is likely to bring about a mini revolution and they’re heading to vote a good deal of these people out of workplace,” Biden stated.

    Stress from Congress: His remarks appear soon after a team of Democratic senators led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote to Biden on Tuesday urging him to indicator an govt buy “directing the federal federal government to produce a nationwide approach to defend Americans’ basic reproductive rights, such as their ideal to an abortion.”

    Read a lot more here.

    REMISSION Viewed IN Each individual RECTAL Cancer Affected person IN DRUG Study

    new drug termed dostarlimab saw astonishing benefits in a 12-particular person rectal most cancers demo: Each a single of the dozen patients went into remission.

    All the patients have been nevertheless in remission in a six-month stick to-up of the demo as properly. In addition, none of the patients had obtained chemoradiotherapy or undergone any preventative medical procedures, and no instances of development or recurrence ended up described during the volunteers’ stick to-up appointments, in accordance to the analyze.

    The drug, offered under GlaxoSmithKline’s manufacturer title of Jemperli, has currently been approved by the Meals and Drug Administration (Food and drug administration) in the procedure of specified endometrial cancers.

    ‘Unheard of’ benefits: The research was posted to The New England Journal of Medicine, and even though it highlighted so number of people, these kinds of a success amount is “unheard of,” according to Alan P. Venook, a colorectal most cancers expert at the College of California, San Francisco who spoke to The New York Situations.

    Even now have to have far more exploration: The authors of the trial warning that whilst their examine is promising, it was fairly modest, and even further, more substantial analysis that includes much more assorted ethnic backgrounds will have to have to be done to see the correct efficacy of dostarlimab.

    Examine a lot more in this article.

    REPORT ON COVID ORIGIN Implies Much more INVESTIGATION INTO LEAK

    The chance that the coronavirus could have escaped from a laboratory warrants “further investigations,” a team of Earth Health Business (WHO) experts stated in a report produced Thursday.

    However, the preliminary report from the researchers investigating the origins of the coronavirus and other novel pathogens pointed out that the team had not been offered any new info to examine the “laboratory leak” risk as a pathway of SARS-CoV-2 into the human inhabitants.

    The report said all at the moment accessible info advise SARS-CoV-2 originated in animals, with the closest genetically related viruses identified in bats in China in 2013 and Laos in 2020.

    Missing data: Having said that, researchers stated the lacking data implies they have been not capable to discover the animal that contaminated individuals nor the place where the an infection could have happened.

    The experts claimed “it stays significant to think about all sensible scientific data” to assess the likelihood of a laboratory incident.

    Read extra in this article.

    Abbott, Fda warned of problems months earlier: report

    Abbott Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration (Fda) were being notified about feasible challenges at an Abbott plant in Sturgis, Mich., that helps make baby formula in February 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday and The Hill confirmed.

    The Journal’s reporting cites documents that the newspaper considered, a person familiar with the make any difference and a govt formal.

    The revelation is probably harmful in that it indicates officials realized about probable troubles at the plant substantially earlier than beforehand recognized.

    The Biden administration has faced criticism more than the newborn method lack, which has panicked moms and dads throughout the nation struggling to find method for their young youngsters.

    President Biden has authorized the use of the Protection Output Act to assistance deal with the lack, which has been blamed on source chain difficulties and the Abbott shutdown.

    According to the Journal’s report, a discrimination grievance was made to the Michigan Occupational Security and Health Administration (OSHA) by a former employee at Abbott following the worker was fired in August 2020.

    Study additional listed here.

    WHAT WE’RE Reading

    • California leaders shift to enshrine abortion, contraceptive legal rights in condition Constitution (LA Times)

    • NYC Overall health Chief Declares Newest COVID Peak Above Toddler Mask Mandate Ends Monday (WNBC)

    • The Supreme Court could conclude abortion in Michigan. The race is on to let voters have their say. (Politico)

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  • Nestlé snaps up Brazilian health food firm Puravida

    Nestlé snaps up Brazilian health food firm Puravida

    Nestlé has obtained Brazil-dependent wellness meals and dietary supplements enterprise Puravida.

    The offer, for an undisclosed sum, was completed through the Switzerland-based mostly food stuff giant’s Nestlé Health and fitness Science (NHSc) small business unit.

    Nestlé reported the acquisition will increase its portfolio aimed at supporting wellness and properly-being in Brazil into distinct groups “with much more methods to arrive at buyers and sufferers with trusted, nutritious and substantial-top quality products”.

    Puravida was started in 2015, in São Paulo, by Flávio Passos, with the purpose of endorsing wellbeing through nourishment.

    Its ‘clean label’, organic, all-natural and natural foods portfolio contains breakfast cereal, spices, treats, spreads and health supplements. It also manufactures vitamins, minerals and cosmetics.

    Nestlé reported the array enhances its very own, which in Brazil now provides oral dietary nutritional supplements, powdered proteins and all set-to-drink dietary beverages.

    Monica Meale, the government responsible for the Nestlé Wellness Science enterprise in Latin The united states, reported: “Bringing together the deep working experience of Puravida and Nestlé Overall health Science in nourishment research and growth will outcome in a lot more innovations, expanding the breadth and depth of the portfolio in purchaser and healthcare skilled channels.

    “Our retail existence will open up up new possibilities for Puravida’s advancement and our solid community with health care professionals will extend the brand’s presence.”

    Marcelo Melchior, the CEO of Nestlé’s functions in Brazil, added: “This is a good option to increase our existence in a group that grows globally from consolidated brand names, contributing to our intent of bettering the top quality of everyday living of all, nowadays and in future generations. It is an essential phase to go forward in promising market place segments that include innovation and technological innovation to our expertise in nourishment.”

    In February, Nestlé designed an acquisition in the space of “nutrition products” with a greater part stake in US-primarily based Orgain, a provider of protein powders, snack bars and shakes.

    Last 12 months, the group snapped up the vitamins and supplement brands of US-dependent The Bountiful Organization in a deal valued at US$5.75bn. That transaction involved the Nature’s Bounty, Solgar, Osteo Bi-Flex and Puritan’s Satisfaction lines, as nicely as Bountiful’s non-public-label business.

    In Could final year, The Monetary Occasions reported on a doc issued between Nestlé executives the publication explained mentioned a lot more than 60% of the company’s mainstream food stuff and beverages could not be regarded as wholesome under a “recognised definition of health”.

    According to the FT, the presentation excluded from its analysis products and solutions in sectors these kinds of as infant system, pet meals, espresso and professional medical diet. In reaction, Nestlé issued a statement to say it is “working on a business-wide task to update its revolutionary nourishment and health strategy”.

    Nestlé has turned to M&A to extend in Latin The us in current several years. In 2018, the company acquired a vast majority stake in Ecuador-centered business enterprise Terrafertil, a business promoting natural and organic and plant-based meals.

    In accordance to Nestlé’s 2021 yearly report, the organization has 12 factories in Brazil, spanning drinks, dairy solutions, geared up meals, confectionery, pet meals and diet and health and fitness science. Brazil is Nestlé’s sixth-largest market by annual revenue, hitting CHF2.93bn (US$3.04bn) in 2021, up 5.6% in Swiss francs and 13% in neighborhood currency.

    Overall, its Zone Americas division, which also features North The us, designed revenue of CHF33.8bn in 2021.

    The Nestlé Wellness Science business unit noticed sales raise from CHF3.3bn in 2020 to CHF4.8bn, year-on-yr.

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  • 3 Foods to Improve Memory and Brain Health – Cleveland Clinic

    3 Foods to Improve Memory and Brain Health – Cleveland Clinic

    They say, “You are what you try to eat.” And the meals we include into our eating plans does have a profound impression on our bodies. But can specific foods also raise the health of our minds?

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    Turns out, certain foodstuff can in truth enable with brain capabilities such as memory and concentration.

    “Different weight loss plans have been advised about the a long time for best mind health and fitness and we have powerful proof for some,” claims memory and mind health professional Babak Tousi, MD.

    Especially as we age, our brains go as a result of sure modifications. One thing that transpires, Dr. Tousi notes, is the white issue modifications in our brains, which can influence the way our brains communicate details to the relaxation of our bodies. Also, there is a lower in grey make a difference in our brains — the aspect of your brain that controls processing and considering.

    Fortunately, many weight loss plans and meals have been uncovered to aid sluggish down degeneration of the mind and lessen the possibility of illnesses like Alzheimer’s.

    Can certain diet plans help with brain wellness?

    Some eating plans have been shown to deliver a selection of wellbeing rewards. The Mediterranean diet program — which focuses on food items like greens, complete grains and olive oil — is identified for getting heart-wholesome. But it can also be fantastic for your mind, by reducing white and gray matter improvements.

    “It has been uncovered that the Mediterranean diet also decreases white subject improvements,” claims Dr. Tousi. “It amplified thickness in gray sections of the mind, we phone it the cortex of the brain where by the pondering course of action is.”

    Another regularly advisable eating plan, the Head eating plan is a mix of the Mediterranean eating plan and the Dash diet program, which was made to reduced blood strain. The Intellect diet regime focuses on mind-boosting food items like fish and berries, although nixing meals like red meat, fried foods, sweets and quickly foods.

    Chopping out professional-inflammatory and higher-sugar meals can improve your brain and also could assistance protect against disorders this sort of as Alzheimer’s and dementia.

    “Similar to the Mediterranean Diet plan, the Brain eating plan can enhance your brain’s complete quantity,” states Dr. Tousi.

    If you’re not prepared to commit to a whole new food plan, incorporating selected foods into your meals can even now have a large amount of added benefits.

    Listed here are some meals that will make your brain smile:

    Fish

    Turns out, the “chicken of the sea” is much more than a healthful meat option — it also serves as fantastic brain gasoline. Fish contains omega-3 fatty acids, which are beneficial for learning and memory.

    “There is solid proof that fish can support decrease degeneration of the mind,” says Dr. Tousi. “It may well also enable with memory drop in the elderly.”

    As you age, your brain’s gray make a difference — which assists with memory processing — by natural means decreases. The excellent news? Omega-3 fatty acids in fish can basically help increase your brain’s gray make a difference quantity.

    Some examples of fish and seafood items to include to your diet plan consist of:

    Berries

    “Add shade to your plate,” suggests Dr. Tousi. Building positive your meals have a mix of various fruits and veggies is a good way to get a stability of nutrition for your overall body and mind. Berries are on the list of encouraged fruits to include to your diet regime less than the Head diet regime because of to their supply of vitamins, minerals and fiber.

    Various experiments have revealed that berry fruits can have a good effects on neurodegenerative diseases thanks to growing old. Even though much more exploration even now requirements to be done, a 2014 review shows that consuming berries can boost memory. A bowl of strawberries never sounded sweeter!

    Some delectable berries to add to your food plan include things like:

    Whole grains

    Yet another food items swap that could have a optimistic effect on mind wellbeing is switching out refined carbs with whole grains. Alongside with other wellness benefits, complete grains can have a positive impact on mind overall health for the reason that of the way they’re processed in your human body.

    Not like the refined carbs in white bread, full grains are elaborate carbs that break down more slowly but surely in your human body and their sugars are launched gradually, which is a excellent point.

    “As quickly as you eat white bread, it breaks down promptly into sugar,” points out Dr. Tousi. “Whole-grain bread does not. Check out to keep away from meals that launch sugar very quickly into your entire body. Complicated carbs like complete grains are broken down much more gradually, so sugar is launched step by step, allowing your system to purpose extra proficiently.”

    Dr. Tousi details out that a significant sugar intake is also connected with an accelerating decline in brain perform. Even something as healthy sounding as pre-packaged prompt oatmeal isn’t as helpful to your wellbeing as the steel-lower oat edition.

    Test swapping out your basic carbs with entire-grain substitutions these as: 

    Overall, getting mindful of what you try to eat can have a lot of wellness benefits for your complete entire body — including your mind and memory. Even modest alterations can make a big change. Explore new diet programs or switch out certain foodstuff in your daily meals to deliver some mind-boosting goodness.

  • The Egg Crackdown — A Scorecard for Nutrition and Taste

    The Egg Crackdown — A Scorecard for Nutrition and Taste

    This article was previously published June 29, 2019, and has been updated with new information.

    Eggs are among the healthiest foods out there, but not all eggs are created equal, and sorting through the egg labels to identify the highest quality eggs can be a confusing affair.

    Health conscious consumers know to look for designations like “organic,” “free-range,” “pastured” and “cage-free,”1 but while you may think many of these are interchangeable, they’re actually not. In some ways, these labels are little more than creative advertising.

    The featured video, “Egg Crackdown,” a CBC Marketplace report by investigative reporter Asha Tomlinson, investigates the marketing of supermarket eggs and visits egg producers to get a firsthand look at what the company’s label actually means.

    There Is a Confusing Array of Egg Labels

    Unfortunately, while the Humane Farm Animal Care, a nonprofit certification agency, has set standards for free-range and pastured poultry for products bearing its Certified Humane label,2 there’s no legal definition of these terms in the U.S.

    The “free-range” definition established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture applies to chickens only,3 not their eggs. As a result, the commercial egg industry is able to run industrial farm egg laying operations while still calling them “free-range” eggs, despite the fact that the birds’ foraging conditions are far from natural.

    Confusing matters further, while organic poultry and eggs are guaranteed to be free-range, as required by organic standards, free-range poultry are not required to be organic.4 Importantly, the organic label is also the only way to ensure you’re getting eggs from chickens that have not been fed antibiotics for growth purposes, as this is not allowed under the organic standards.

    For chickens, the USDA’s definition of free-range does not specify the amount of time the hens must spend outdoors or the amount of outdoor space each hen must have access to. Nor do they indicate that the hen must have access to a pasture diet.

    True free-range eggs, now typically referred to as “pasture raised” as a way to differentiate them, come from hens that roam freely outdoors on a pasture where they can forage for their natural diet, which includes seeds, green plants, insects and worms.

    Large commercial egg facilities typically house tens of thousands of hens and can even go up to hundreds of thousands of hens. Obviously, they cannot allow all of them to forage freely. However, they can still be called “cage-free” or “free-range” as long as they’re not confined to an individual cage.

    Overall, the cage-free and free-range labels say little to nothing about the conditions in which the chickens are raised, and more often than not, they’re still deplorable. So, for the best quality eggs, from the most humanely-raised hens, the label you’re looking for is “pastured.”

    Putting Eggs to the Test

    In the featured video, CBC Marketplace also conducts a taste test to see how the different farming methods translate into flavor. Included in the taste test are conventional battery caged eggs, free-range, organic and pastured eggs. The two conventional brands tested were Burnbrae and Gray Ridge.

    In terms of flavor, the conventional eggs were deemed “bland,” and some of the testers expressed concerns about animal welfare being one of the reasons they avoid conventional eggs. Tomlinson visits a CAFO in Ontario to investigate the conditions in which these egg-layers are raised.

    The facility houses 20,000 chickens, and operations are automated. Each cage houses six chickens, the space being just tall and wide enough for the chickens to fit with minimal space to move. The eggs drop through an opening onto a conveyer belt.

    Next up in the taste test were Small Flock’s Delight’s brown eggs “from hens on grass,” a Canadian free-range brand, the label of which states: “Back to the old way, small flocks of happy hens picking and scratching through soil and green plants.” Some taste testers said these eggs had a much more robust flavor and aroma, while others guessed they were conventional.

    Enriched Colony, Nest-Laid Eggs Are CAFO

    Next, Tomlinson visits a CAFO with “enriched housing” facilities. Eggs such as these cost about 50 cents Canadian more than conventional eggs and are marketed as being more ethical. But are they? The hens raised in enriched housing facilities get double the square inch of space given conventional chickens, and each cage has a scratch pad and perch rail.

    They also have a darkened “privacy quarter” in which they can lay their eggs, as scientists claim hens prefer to lay eggs in a dark, private area. Other than that, the facilities and methods are identical to those of a regular CAFO. Eggs such as these are typically labeled as “enriched colony,” “enriched coup” or “nest-laid.”

    Pastured Eggs — A Superior Choice in Flavor and Nutrition

    As noted in the featured video, while “free run,” “free-range” and “pastured” may sound like interchangeable terms, they’re not. And the reality behind these terms isn’t necessarily what you might expect:

    “Free run” eggs are from chickens that are not confined to battery cages, but they’re still cooped up indoors, in a giant factory-style building, without access to the outside.

    “Free-range,” is basically the same, but with access to the outdoors — at least in theory: Pictures from some free-range farms have a conspicuous absence of chickens in their outdoor areas.

    Then there’s pastured. CBC visits Organic Meadows, a farmer-owned cooperative that raises “pastured” chickens and eggs. Each day, the barn is opened up and the birds migrate outdoors.

    “Fresh air and sunshine, that does a lot of good to an animal,” the farmer says. The hens are fed organic feed, and the eggs are hand-gathered. Thus, they command a markedly higher retail price.

    While everyone might not be able to afford pastured eggs, “the consumer can feel confident they’re getting their money’s worth,” the farmer says. As for taste, “creamy” and “delicious” were some of the comments given after tasting Organic Meadow’s pastured eggs.

    As noted in the video, the diet of the chicken can impact not only the taste of the egg, but also its nutritional value. CBC Marketplace had the different types of eggs tested for their nutritional content, and the differences were significant.

    Organic Meadow’s pastured eggs received the highest nutritional rating, having three to five times more vitamin E, twice as much omega-3 fat and significantly higher amounts of vitamins A and D than the other eggs.

    When it came to taste, Burnbrae’s conventional eggs came in last place, with none of the taste testers selecting it as their favorite. The free run eggs came in fifth place, followed by the free-range brand (Small Flock’s Delight) and Burnbrae’s Organic. Interestingly, the win was a tie between Gray Ridge’s conventional and Organic Meadow’s pastured eggs.

    Pastured Eggs Less Likely to Carry Pathogenic Contamination

    While not discussed in this CBC Marketplace report, pastured eggs are also far less likely to be contaminated with disease-causing pathogens. CAFOs are known to be hotbeds for Salmonella infection.5

    Eggs can become contaminated while they are being formed if the Salmonella bacteria exist inside a chicken’s ovaries. As noted in the report,6,7 “Food Safety and Cage Egg Production” by the Humane Society, published in 2011:

    “All 16 scientific studies published in the last five years comparing Salmonella contamination between caged and cage-free operations found that those confining hens in cages had higher rates of Salmonella, the leading cause of food poisoning-related death in the United States.”

    Today, we also have antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella to contend with, which makes potential contamination even more worrisome. While there’s no way to guarantee 100% safety at all times, the benefits of free-range poultry are becoming more well-recognized, and reduced disease risk is definitely part of that benefits package.

    Eggs Are an Important Part of a Healthy Diet

    As mentioned, eggs are one of the healthiest foods around, loaded with valuable vitamins and minerals, including selenium, vitamins B2 (riboflavin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B7 (biotin) and B12, high-quality protein, iodine, vitamin D, zinc, omega-3 fats and more.8

    Eggs are also an important source of lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants known to play a role in healthy vision and the prevention of cataracts and macular degeneration, and are one of the best sources of choline available, providing 430 milligrams of choline per 100 grams.9

    Choline helps keep your cell membranes functioning properly, plays a role in nerve communications and prevents the buildup of homocysteine in your blood, which is good because elevated levels are linked to heart disease.

    Choline also helps reduce chronic inflammation and has been shown to lower your risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, in part due to its role in phosphatidyl choline and transporting fats out of your liver,10 and part due to the fact that it’s an important part of the mitochondrial membrane, and mitochondrial dysfunction is a central mechanism in the pathogenesis of NAFLD.11

    Choline deficiency is thought to play a major role in NAFLD because it disturbs mitochondrial bioenergetics12 and fatty acid oxidation.13 Choline also enables your body to make the brain chemical acetylcholine, which is involved in storing memories. In pregnant women, choline helps prevent birth defects such as spina bifida, while also playing a role in your baby’s brain development.

    According to a study14 published in the journal Nutrients, only 8.03 to 0.56% of U.S. adults are getting enough choline — including only 8.51 to 2.89% of pregnant women. Among egg consumers, however, 57.3% meet the adequate intake levels for choline.

    Based on the outcomes, the study authors concluded that “it is extremely difficult to achieve the adequate intake for choline without consuming eggs or taking a dietary supplement.”15

    Some of the symptoms associated with low choline levels include lethargy, memory problems and persistent brain fog. Because your body can only synthesize small amounts of this nutrient, you must get it from your diet on a regular basis.

    Where and How to Find Organic Pastured Eggs

    So to summarize, what you’re really looking for is eggs that are both certified organic and true pasture-raised. Barring organic certification, which is cost-prohibitive for many small farmers, you could just make sure the farmer raises his chickens according to organic, free-range standards, allowing his flock to forage freely for their natural diet, and doesn’t feed them antibiotics, corn or soy.

    If you live in an urban area, visiting a local health food store is typically the quickest route to finding high-quality local egg sources. Your local farmers market is another source for fresh organic pasture-raised eggs, and is a great way to meet the people who produce your food.

    With face-to-face contact, you can get your questions answered and know exactly what you’re buying. Better yet, visit the farm and ask for a tour. Your egg farmer should be paying attention to proper nutrition, clean water, adequate housing space and good ventilation to reduce stress on the hens and support their immunity.

    To get an idea of what you’re looking for in a superior egg producer, take a look at Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm operation below. He’s truly one of the pioneers in sustainable agriculture, and you can take a virtual tour through his chicken farm operation in the following video.

    As a general rule, you can tell the eggs are pastured by the color of the egg yolk. Foraged hens produce eggs with bright orange yolks. Dull, pale yellow yolks are a sure sign you’re getting eggs from caged hens that are not allowed to forage for their natural diet.

    For store-bought eggs, be sure to check out Cornucopia’s organic egg scorecard that rates 136 egg producers based on 28 organic criteria. According to Cornucopia, their report “showcases ethical family farms and their brands, and exposes factory farm producers and brands in grocery store coolers that threaten to take over organic livestock agriculture.”

    Another Alternative: Raise Your Own Backyard Chickens

    This is the choice I have actually taken. I had a chicken coop built for 20 chickens and I now have 17 hens. The key is what you feed them. I give them 1 1/2 pounds of two-day sprouted field peas and 1 cup of white rice that is cooked with the peas in an Instapot with 4 ounces of tallow.

    To that I add 1 ounce of our organic beef organ complex and 1 1/2 ounces of calcium carbonate and a mineral complex. Also feed them 8 ounces of barley. This produces eggs that are VERY low in linoleic acid (about 75% less). As noted in the featured Marketplace report, backyard chickens are making a comeback, as more homeowners are adding free-roaming chickens to their gardens. If you are so inclined, it’s by far your best egg sourcing option.

    As you can see in the Polyfarm video above, raising chickens is not very difficult. If you are interested in the possibility of raising a few chickens yourself, a good place to begin is by asking yourself a few questions (see below). You can also visit Joel’s Polyface Farm Web site for more details on raising chickens.

    1. Can I dedicate some time each day? — You can expect to devote about 10 minutes a day, an hour per month and a few hours twice a year to the care and maintenance of your brood.
    2. Do I have enough space? — They will need a minimum of 10 square feet per bird to roam, preferably more. The more foraging they can do, the healthier and happier they’ll be and the better their eggs will be.
    3. What are the chicken regulations in my town? — You will want to research this before jumping in because some places have zoning restrictions and even noise regulations (which especially applies if you have a rooster).
    4. Are my neighbors on board with the idea? — It’s a good idea to see if they have any concerns early on.
    5. Can I afford a flock? — There are plenty of benefits to growing your own eggs, but saving money isn’t one of them. There are significant upfront costs to getting a co-op set up, plus ongoing expenses for supplies.

  • White House Announces Second-Ever Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health – Food Tank

    White House Announces Second-Ever Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health – Food Tank

    The White Property introduced that for the first time in about 50 many years, it will host a Convention on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and fitness.

    The Convention will concentrate on addressing five principal concerns: ending hunger, increasing nourishment, enhancing bodily exercise, decreasing diet plan-relevant sicknesses, and closing disparity gaps by 2030.

    “We’ll carry alongside one another anti-starvation and diet advocates, meals companies, local and state governments,  and tribal and territory communities to lay out our prepare to overcome hunger and boost nutrition for every American,” President Biden states in his announcement.

    The Conference will entail a collection of virtual, regional listening periods major up to an function in D.C. in September 2022. At the celebration, the White Home and Congress will announce a roadmap to address the 5 problem regions necessary to address hunger and inequity in the United States.

    Held extra than 50 many years back, the to start with White Property Meeting on Meals, Nourishment, and Overall health transformed the U.S. food stuff policy agenda. The Convention resulted in an expansion of the Supplemental Diet Help System (SNAP) and the National College Lunch Plan, as well as the institution of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Software for Ladies, Infants, and Kids (WIC).

    “The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the urgency of addressing these troubles. No one particular must have to surprise where by their upcoming meal will arrive from,” states Susan E. Rice, Domestic Coverage Advisor, in the White House’s announcement.

    Advocacy organizations like The Alliance to Stop Starvation look at the announcement a gain. They, alongside 180 other corporations, known as on the White Dwelling to reinstate the Conference.

    “The earlier two several years have shone a gentle on the gaps and vulnerabilities of food items safety and nutrition courses in this country,” Eric Mitchell, Executive Director of the Alliance to Finish Hunger states. “This announcement gives reassurance that starvation and malnutrition are not only priorities for this administration, but also underscore our nation’s determination to investing in our society’s wellbeing and wellbeing.”

    The White Residence is currently doing work on building a submission portal for tips. Updates on the convention will be posted on the White House web page.

    Posts like the just one you just read through are created doable by way of the generosity of Food stuff Tank associates. Can we you should depend on you to be element of our increasing movement? Develop into a member right now by clicking here.

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  • YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT — Boulder Nutrition

    YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT — Boulder Nutrition

    As a nutritionist, numerous folks suppose I try to eat only salads, kale, and goji berries.

    Once in a while, I run into my clients at the grocery retailer and am achieved with curious eyes peering into my grocery cart: “What does a nutritionist consume?”

    When I love me a delicious, colorful, and seasonal salad for positive (pictured previously mentioned), just the other night, I ate pizza 🍕.

    Our ingesting does not have to be “perfect” for us to be wholesome. 

    How we consider and sense about what we eat is every single bit (or additional) as critical as the the components on our plates.

    And, while I adore quite a few of the trendiest overall health foods items on the marketplace, very few are imperative for you to be balanced.

    Your wellbeing is not about environmentally friendly juice or roasted celeriac.

    I say this mainly because I want you to know that where ever you are, and no matter what means, wellness foods, time, and money you have readily available to you, you can increase your health –– even if you reside in a foods desert.

    When we focus on befriending our biochemistry — balancing our blood sugar, feeding our metabolisms all the macronutrients we have to have, and (if wanted) learning our food allergies — we can make  informed options that will foretell how we will feel around the coming hours, and even days.

    We can eat to come to feel how we want to really feel.

    Two months in the past, soon after a stunning mountain hike, Jason and I went to a little tavern in Purple Feather CO, around our cabin, and shared the most heavenly jalapeño mac and cheese.

    It was not gluten totally free, nor dairy cost-free. I am not allergic to possibly, so at times I eat them.

    When we are stressed about our having, or eaten with having “perfectly”, we overlook our primal really like affair with enjoyment and the complexity of how food performs into our bodily and emotional satiation.

    I appreciate how wholesome food stuff tastes, but sometimes I make a distinctive form of alternative.

    When I decide to indulge, I have acquired to pause and decide with my complete self––no shame, just pleasure.

    To that conclusion, at well and be kind to your attractive self!

  • Prevention’s 2022 Healthy Food Awards – Packaged Healthy Foods

    Prevention’s 2022 Healthy Food Awards – Packaged Healthy Foods

    We’re always looking out for the newest, tastiest, and most forward-thinking health foods on the market. And year after year, we tear through hundreds of packages trying out the best of the best to ensure what we recommend not only is good for your health but also tastes great.

    Testers from the Prevention Test Kitchen tried over 150 new food products that were launched nationally between January 2021 and April 2022. Additionally, testers also included some products they’ve adored over the last several years, creating a new list of noteworthy and long-lasting winners. Our panel of food experts tasted products out of the packing and followed any reheating or serving directions per the package’s instructions.

    How we tested

    Not only did these products have to wow tasters with craveable flavor, but they also needed to fit into most healthy diets by meeting strict nutritional standards. The criteria we used to choose our best products includes:

    ✔️ Clean Ingredients. Testers ensured that all packaged foods have real, recognizable ingredients.

    ✔️ Nutritionally sound. Every food product’s nutrition label was checked for no trans fats, they must include additional nutrients like fiber, protein, or vitamins and minerals, and meal makers had no more than 300 calories per serving.

    ✔️ Appropriate serving sizes. Gone are the days of picking out three chips as your snack. Our staff ensured an individual-sized pouch listed one serving or suggested serving sizes really fed our needs.

    ✔️ Limited added sugars. We capped added sugar to six grams per serving and allowed for some wiggle room with desserts up to 10 grams per serving.

    ✔️ Minimal salt. Most items on our approved list clock in under 400 milligrams of sodium per serving.

    From the best cereal and oatmeal for breakfast to the best enchilada sauce and baked BBQ tofu to make dinnertime a snap, we’ve named the items you have to try this year. After extensive snacking, tasting, and reading labels, see our 40+ winners that deserve a place in your pantry, freezer, refrigerator, and dinner plate ASAP.

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