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Gut Check: Exploring Viome's Biological Insights to Optimizing Health

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 68

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Join hosts Jason and Jana on a riveting journey into the mysterious yet critical domain of gut health. In this episode, they embark on a transformative adventure exploring the profound impact of gut microorganisms on our genes, hormones, and overall well-being.

Venturing into the unconventional and eye-opening realm of Viome testing, Jason and Jana share their personal odyssey, unmasking the process of gathering biological samples (yes, including stool samples!) for analysis. Discover how these microscopic entities residing in our digestive system hold the reins to our health, akin to maintaining a finely tuned engine.

Delving deeper, the duo navigates the repercussions of non-biological substances, focusing on the staggering effects of antibiotics on the delicate balance of our body's bacteria. Through insights gleaned from Viome's investigation into the gut microbiome and oral health, they shed light on the interconnectedness of our bodily systems.

But it doesn't end there. Jason and Jana lay bare the stark realities of the profit-driven healthcare system, emphasizing the urgent need for widespread awareness and education concerning the food we consume. The podcast unearths the hidden truths behind what fills our grocery store shelves and its profound implications for our health.

In a world where fortune favors the brave, the episode culminates with a powerful call to action—embracing the ethos of 'living lucky®.' Explore, learn, and be inspired by their insightful conversation, and embark on your journey toward wellness and fulfillment.

For more inspiring stories, insights, and to explore further, visit StartLivingLucky.com and unlock the secrets to a life of vitality and positivity.

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. We are doing Vion test. When the heck are we talking?

Speaker 2:

about this testing our saliva, our blood and our poop.

Speaker 1:

We're doing micro-bio, so we're doing. It's all about the gut, it's all about your gut.

Speaker 2:

Don't worry.

Speaker 1:

I mean, as as many of you know that have followed us, that have listened to our podcast, who have joined us for virtual coffee. It is no secret that I suffer from fatigue sometimes and I try my best to convince myself that I feel great. However, there's this fine line of being authentic and real and showing up as you really are, and yet you want to speak how you want to feel, so you want to be your best future self. So you know how some people say oh, you got to fake it until you make it right. But then there's also this I want to be my authentic self, so I want to say how I, how it really is. But but here's the thing how you are in your present is your thoughts and feelings and actions from your past. It's what you've grown to.

Speaker 2:

And so this is one of the things that's like checking out, like your gut, like what's going on in your biology and in your, like all these micro Organisms within your body that are creating how your genes express themselves on a regular basis, and what's Creating like why does your, why is your body releasing these hormones?

Speaker 2:

Why is, why is all this stuff happening within your body and making you feel the way you feel? Right, and hopefully we can change a little bit of our diet, change some of the things that are going in, how these micro biomes are or these organisms within our gut are reacting and engaging with the genes within ourselves, and start changing the way our body reacts to our internal environment and our external environment and we can just start regulating ourselves almost like a car, like how we regulate how a car works with the engine Is my, is my thought on it. I'm not a doctor, but I've been kind of watching it and studying it and looking at kind of how it works and it makes sense. I don't know. It's a good. I think it's a fun experiment to try.

Speaker 1:

When he says fun experiment literally the whole poop hammock that we are now catching our poop In a hammock and taking it to the mailbox, which I've done. One of those, I had one of those poop in a bag things yes, where you know you don't actually go get the where they check for polyps and stuff what are?

Speaker 2:

the cancer screening, not the cancer screening. What is it? What is it?

Speaker 1:

you know where you don't have the not the colonoscopy. Yeah, it's not the colonoscopy. They actually now they can do it at home by just checking your bowels, and so I had to go through this whole thing, and then, when I took it to the UPS, there was a dog that happened to be walking by. And yeah the dog was like that is sniffing my package going what do you have in there? I don't understand. And on the side it literally has warning VCs.

Speaker 1:

Bioman yes, as I'm carrying it like, hey, this is what I've got.

Speaker 2:

So all this leaves as a non biological substance, because it's all dead, it's a, but it's a. They come back with, apparently, all these bio markers.

Speaker 1:

I just found it so interesting. So we just got done doing all of the all of the question, air questions, the questionnaire questions and just the little things they asked you know like about my oral health, and they can tell all of this from your gut. Well, there's all stems back to your gut.

Speaker 2:

Well, there's an oral microbiome as well, like in your saliva. And where does your saliva go? We swallow saliva all day long, but there's a there's when we eat. That's the first place food starts breaking down is in your mouth.

Speaker 2:

Interesting and, like I know, my dentist tells me hey, you need to be focused on your gums, you need to floss more, you need to do this, you need to stop brushing so hard, like all these things. And I'm like, I'm doing the best I can, Like this is a habit, that this is the way I was taught to brush, and so I'm trying to do these little changes. But and they've got a loss inch with Viome that, like they say, take this loss inch. I don't, I don't know everything that they're going to tell us.

Speaker 1:

I sat in on the Viome, so it's Viomecom, that's the company Viome. V as in V, v as in victory. You kind of sound like you have a cold Victory over your microbiome. You're saying, you're kind of saying biome and biome.

Speaker 2:

Well, Viome with a V like victory is the company. But biome, like biology, is what is in your body.

Speaker 1:

Yes, because it's like a biodome. Yes, okay, so now that we have that clear that's clear, as we can get it.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh. Yes, well, I sat in on the company and and I actually got to talk to the CEO and what he was. He was just telling everyone about what he has invented, and Jason and I just happened to be one of the fortunate ones that get to try this. But what he was saying is sometimes, you know, people take mouthwash, for example, and he was saying that's not necessarily a good thing. Good thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it kills a lot of the healthy bacteria. Yes, Healthy like the healthy things in your mouth and he was saying the same thing about antibiotics. Oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

Like that goes in and kills a lot of the healthy.

Speaker 2:

Like kills, thousands, like hundreds of days and years worth of healthy bacterial growth that you've created In your gut.

Speaker 1:

And so he was saying, oh my gosh, you know you're going in and you're wiping out a lot of civilizations. Yes, it's like genocide of the, of the healthy life cycle that you've created, of things that you need inside your gut in order for you and your body to work as one healthy little system.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so basically antibiotic is dropping a nuclear bomb into your system.

Speaker 1:

Which, when you think about it like that, you're like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And yet, at the same time, I mean, this is where we don't know what we don't know, and we try to follow what the news says and we try to follow what the healthcare system says, but they operate off of fear and profit, and profit, and we need to remember this.

Speaker 1:

I mean, we go into the grocery store and if you really stop and start reading what is on the back of the foods that we eat, we would all be appalled. And why do those particular foods get space on the grocery store shelves? It's all because of profit.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and doctors don't make money to get us. Well, they get. They make money because we're sick To keep us sick.

Speaker 1:

I mean cancer should be, should be already eradicated. However, it does America no good. It does the pharmaceutical companies no good. If we have a well America Right. I hate to say that out loud. It's sad. I hate to say that.

Speaker 2:

That makes me sound like a conspirator but it's so true, we also need to do the research and take control of what we're putting in our bodies and then how we're treating our bodies. So, like that question that was asked is when you treat yourself, are you treating yourself well? Are you just treating yourself and treating yourself poorly, like because I used to say I'm going to treat myself, I'm going to go get some ice cream, I'm going to treat myself, I'm going to have some chocolate whatever, which is fine, every now and then, every now and then, I would treat myself at the end of every day and I would treat myself to like a half a gallon of ice cream.

Speaker 1:

So what Jason and I are trying with this test that we're taking is it really just goes in and it tells us specifically for our bodies what works for us, so what works, what our systems need Like. So it goes in and it just measures and it takes different I don't even. I mean, tomorrow is when we actually get the test, so then it takes two weeks for them to do all of the scientific research on the test that they take and then when we get the actual report and feedback, then I'll know a little bit more of exactly what they are measuring. But just from all of the questionnaires, I mean it took us an hour just to go through the questions they were asking and it was interesting, you know they were asking me do you have joint pain? And yes, I do, and I've just become accustomed to having joint pain.

Speaker 2:

Well, it was asking me things like is your libido low? Like do you have energy?

Speaker 1:

And yes.

Speaker 2:

Like do you get tired after a meal at dinner and things like that, and I'm like I was like I don't want to be honest about this, but yes.

Speaker 1:

Yes, the truth is my libido is low.

Speaker 2:

I do get tired after dinner Like I want to have more energy. I would like to have a lot more mental clarity and acuity I would like to have. I would like to build a little bit more muscle. My weight is. I'm happy with my weight right now. Oh, and that's the other thing.

Speaker 1:

Just, they were asking small things, Like when you go to do a task, is it hard for you to finish the small details? And I was like, oh my gosh, Jason.

Speaker 2:

Get out of my business, jason, and I have been having arguments about this.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I had a speech to write and Jason was like I was gone for three weeks. Why did it take you so long to write that speech? And there was something. There was like this emotional block and I would sit down and I was trying to do my best. I just, for some reason, I couldn't get my thoughts together. It was the most bizarre thing and frustrating thing.

Speaker 2:

So this is part of it, and one of the things that that Navin, the CEO of Viome, said was that in the culture that we're in, a lot of us are eating the same things and we were kind of in that fast food mentality and it's not just fast food but it's the and I don't want to, like I love grocery stores, but we're eating the same thing all the time and so we're homogenizing everything that we do, so we're becoming one, but we're all very unique and individual people and we all have our own unique individual needs and bodies, like we are all so unique Now we are. We are all more same than different, but our bodies are very unique, like our DNA is very unique.

Speaker 1:

One thing he said to me was that an avocado, an avocado even six years ago. You could get nutrients from an avocado. Today, you would have to eat eight avocados to get the same amount of nutrients. And why is that? It's because of the way we farm, the chemicals we use speed at which we grow them yes, I mean, there's so many, so many things that are going into this, but it's it's amazing how all of those little little things along the way that we think, oh, that's not a big deal.

Speaker 1:

That's not a big deal? Well, it's a big deal because now it's an. It's accumulated to the point where it's gonna take me eight avocados to get the same amount of nutrients.

Speaker 2:

And my body can't eat eight avocados because that's too many calories for me, not without suffering the consequences because that's too many calories, that would put on way too much weight for my body frame and and I can't be carrying around extra weight like that, it's gonna put a lot of stress on all the other organs that have to filter through the rest of the avocado to get the nutrients out yeah, so I mean there's.

Speaker 1:

So I am actually eating less, I'm getting less nutrients to try to keep my weight down and I'm not getting the the energy the energy and I'm not getting the. You know the brain food.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm not getting the brain stuff you're not getting yes, so I mean, there's just so much to weigh out. But anyway, I, just after talking to Navin, who is the CEO of Viome, I just found it so interesting what he's doing. I mean, he's like, he's like seven years old and he looks 40. I thought he looked. I thought he was my age, did you?

Speaker 2:

yeah, I thought it was 40 also.

Speaker 1:

I thought you're gonna say 42, 40 also. I want to make clear that we're in our we're in our 40s anyway, so we're gonna let you know just just wish us luck, because tomorrow we're gonna be poking each other, taking each other's blood and scooping each other's butts and yes, we have this little paper hammock that we have to hang on our toilet seat, which that might just tape mine to the back, to my backside.

Speaker 2:

I don't know the last time I've hoped. I do not remember the last time I've taken it.

Speaker 1:

See that in itself.

Speaker 2:

I'm hoping it cures that.

Speaker 1:

I definitely keep track of that. I that's one of the greatest pleasures of life. Okay, too much information. I'll back it up there, all right thanks for joining us we. We will let you know how this goes. We'll give you an update tomorrow. Okay, guys, thanks for joining us. Remember living lucky, comm. That's where it's at. Have a great day, bye, bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.