The Trust Your Gut Podcast

Dr. David Wiss became a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) in 2013 and founded Nutrition in Recovery, a group practice of RDNs specializing in treating eating and substance use disorders. He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health with a minor in Health Psychology from UCLA. Dr. Wiss is a scientific author with over 20 peer-reviewed publications, a nutrition and health consultant, functional medicine practitioner, recovery coach, and passionate educator. Learn more about the intersection of nutrition and mental health at Wise Mind Nutrition, where you can learn about his revolutionary mobile app, available for download today.   https://www.instagram.com/wisemindnutrition https://www.tiktok.com/@wise_mind_nutrition https://www.youtube.com/wisemindnutrition

It’s estimated that maybe 80-90% of houses have some kind of mold issue, which can really damage your health. Mold toxicity is one of the most common root causes that drives autoimmune issues and many other chronic diseases. Here’s 7 steps to take to protect your house against mold issues, which in turn will protect your own health.

Standard cholesterol and lipid testing does NOT give you any real information about your health. And it definitely doesn’t give you enough data to determine whether you should go on lifelong cholesterol medications. In fact, roughly 50% of people who die from heart attacks either have normal cholesterol levels, or are taking anti-cholesterol medications! In this episode I discuss what an extensive lipid panel needs to include, what the results might mean, and what you should do about it!

Is there a “best” diet for preventing or healing from cancer? Or are there different diets that work for different people, genetics, and types of cancer? In this episode I explore all of your burning questions about nutrition and cancer, including what the current research shows!

1 in 200 kids are estimated to have PANS/PANDAS – but that number is likely lower due to the lack of education surrounding PANS/PANDAS. PANS/PANDAS, which stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections, is a condition that affects children's brains and behavior. It can be difficult to see your child experiencing sudden and sometimes severe symptoms that may disrupt their daily life.  ⭐In PANS/PANDAS, the immune system, which is meant to protect the body, starts to act in a confusing way. Instead of only fighting off germs, it mistakenly attacks the child's own brain cells. This inflammation in the brain can lead to various symptoms such as changes in behavior, mood, and cognitive abilities. It's important to remember that these symptoms are not your child's fault; they are a result of the immune system's response. It's essential to seek medical care, find understanding healthcare providers, and access support systems to help you navigate this journey. Remember that you are not alone, and there are resources available to help you and your child cope with PANS/PANDAS. With proper diagnosis, treatment, and support, you can work towards managing the symptoms and improving your child's well-being.

Most standard Thyroid panels do NOT test enough metrics to help you make the best decisions around your health. If you’ve only tested 1-3 metrics - usually TSH, T3, and T4 - then this isn’t enough information to decide to go on medications. You need a bigger picture, mainly because the vast majority of Thyroid issues are actually being caused by something else underlying anyway. In this episode I discuss the full Thyroid panel that you need tested, and what the results mean.

I hear you - it’s overwhelming trying to be healthy! It feels like everything can kill you. And things that you thought were healthy are apparently bad for you! It’s so difficult to know what to do and easy just to throw up your hands and say who cares!  But I made this video to help you break it all down and give you a game plan to be able to build stronger health over time without the overwhelm and stress!

In this episode I discuss how the different types of diets can affect your health, and address whether Keto diet is the best diet for preventing and managing cancer or not.

Eggs truly are nature’s superfood, full of so many important micronutrients that we need to live a healthy life. However, not all eggs are created equal thanks to the living conditions of the laying chicken. When a chicken is able to live it’s natural lifestyle, foraging and scratching for bugs, outside in the sunlight and fresh air, while also not being injected with any hormones or antibiotics then their eggs will be amazing for your health. But a chicken that never sees sunlight and only eats a highly inflammatory diet of chicken feed made from corn and grains, then the eggs will not just be of lower quality, but might even be damaging to your health. So please be willing to invest a little more time and money into buying eggs that are of great quality so your entire family can reap the benefits!

Anyone who is suffering from any kind of chronic health issue - from autoimmune problems to cancer, or just any lingering symptoms - needs to undergo some root cause testing if they really want to heal! What are the most common underlying root causes you should test for? Start with mold, Lyme disease and its coinfections, gut infections including candida, and heavy metals plus environmental toxins.  In this episode I share my favorite companies and tests so that you can be your own best doctor and get the tests you need to finally uncover the reasons for your poor health!

If you’re suffering with IBS then your symptoms are very real. But the diagnosis itself is BS, and here’s why. A diagnosis of IBS says nothing about why you’re suffering, it’s just giving a label to your collection of symptoms. The same thing happens with Fibromyalgia. If you’re suffering with any kind of gut issue, then you need to get to the underlying root cause (or causes) so that you can actually fix the problem and truly heal! If you’ve been diagnosed with IBS then ask your doctor “So what’s causing the IBS?” If their response is we don’t know, or nothing, or that IBS is the cause and diagnosis, then either find a new doctor, or understand that you’ll forever be trapped by your symptoms until you decide to investigate deeper!

Obviously we all need to be exercising daily, and 99% of us could be doing more than we already do. But there’s some common mistakes beyond not doing enough exercise that keeps people trapped. If you want to lose weight, cardio is not the best exercise for you. Cardio is great for mental health, as well as lung and cardiovascular health. But it’s really not very useful for weight loss. Instead, you need to be lifting weights to put on muscle if you really want to speed up your weight loss. Another common mistake is doing too much high intensity interval training if your body is stuck in a stress response. Now don’t get me wrong, HIIT is one of the best forms of exercise out there. But if your body is pumping too much cortisol and other stress hormones every day because of too much emotional stress, or because you’re dealing with chronic illness from underlying biotoxins like mold toxicity, then the HIIT training can be too much of a good stress and will not only prevent you from losing weight, but can actually cause weight gain!

While it’s true that the majority of people will have a run-in with some kind of cancer in their lifetime, we need to remember that no 2 cancers are the same, and your overall metabolic health has a huge impact on how your body will manage the cancer and what your survival rates will be, plus which treatment path you should go down. To test your body’s current metabolic health status when dealing with cancer, there’s a number of simple blood tests you can run that will show how well (or poorly) your body is handling the tumor load.  You’ll want to run the following tests: CBC and specifically look at WBC, Platelets, and the Neutrophil to Lymphocyte ratio Comprehensive Metabolic Panel - Creatinine, Liver enzymes, Alkaline Phosphatase Inflammatory markers - LDH, ESR, hs-CRP

One of the most common questions I get asked is “what are the best tests for gut health?” My answer usually surprises people… None of them! What do I mean? Well, our gut microbiome literally changes every second in response to our stress levels, our toxic burden, what foods we eat and so on. So GI mapping and similar tests don’t really tell us much about what’s actually happening. Instead, I recommend that people do more “root cause” testing to find out what’s actually causing the gut symptoms in the first place so we can address that/those.

Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT, where she has had continuous affiliation for more than five decades. Currently a Senior Research Scientist (MIT’s highest research rank) at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she has supervised 21 Master’s and 14 Ph.D. students. For over a decade, since 2008, she has directed her attention towards the role of nutrition and environmental toxicants on human disease, with a special emphasis on the herbicide glyphosate and the mineral sulfur. In this interview with Dr. Stephanie, she covers the major damage that Glyphosate is playing on both the human body and the planet’s ecosystem as a whole. If you haven’t yet read her book “Toxic Legacy” then you need to go and buy it asap and read it! The information in there is vital if you want you and your family to remain healthy! https://stephanieseneff.net/book/ You can contact Dr. Stephanie here: https://stephanieseneff.net/

There’s no more powerful force in the world than the love a parent has for their child. But mother’s especially develop an unbreakable bond with their child after growing, feeding,a dn nurturing them. This is why when it comes to the health of your child, mother’s should ALWAYS trust their intuition. You know when something doesn’t feel right. It might be that you were dismissed even though you know something more is going on.  Or maybe a medical treatment was recommended that just doesn’t feel right to you. So what should you do? Always speak up. Always be the best advocate for your child. Get 2nd and 3rd opinions until you feel like you can be comfortable with the direction you’re going, or the diagnosis you’ve received. The biggest regret you’ll ever have as a parent is looking back and knowing that you’re feelings were screaming at you to do something different and you ignored them!

I’m sure the body positivity movement started with all of the right intentions. And I certainly agree with some of the premises. Every human should love themselves exactly how they are! But loving yourself doesn't mean the same thing as accepting less for yourself. And allowing your health to get away from you, and become obese, will impact your ability to live your best life. But it also affects your family. It’s not fair for them to lose you younger than they should because of poor health, or if you can’t do the things you want to enjoy with your spouse or kids or grandkids because your weight or health is holding you back. And before you get mad at me - I absolutely understand that many of you reading this are struggling with weight problems even though you eat a healthy diet. But if you find the right health practitioners to help you get to the root cause, you CAN correct the problem and drop all of that weight!

The majority of people watching this video are probably deficient in Boron. But don’t think of it like a supplement that you need to take. Boron is a trace mineral, and it’s very important to have sufficient levels of it. Like all things you want to try and improve the levels through diet, but some people will need to supplement with it if they’re severely deficient.  There’s a lot of reported benefits to maintaining adequate levels of Boron, from improved wound healing, to less inflammation and arthritic pain, to even decreasing the side effects of chemotherapy!

There’s so many reasons why the overall health of the Western world is going down the toilet! In this episode I talk about 9 of the most important reasons that can be controlled to help all of us turn around our collective health! How do you measure if you’re truly healthy and “metabolically flexible?” Only 12% of American adults are. Why is America ranked dead last out of all of the industrialized nations when it comes to safety for mothers and newborns when going through the birth process? How badly are average testosterone levels dropping in men and what can be done about it? Why do we change definitions when something is common but not normal, instead of looking at the reasons behind it? This is what is happening with the average onset age of puberty, especially in girls. How many members on the USDA dietary committee receive payouts from food companies? The number will shock you! Avoiding the sun is being shown to be as unhealthy as smoking. So is sitting inside all day. I share the research on how seed oils damage health every time we consume them. And finish with how effective exercise is for treating depression (hint: it’s better than antidepressant medications).

While I don’t recommend doing testing on your own when suffering with chronic illness, I also know how frustrating it is when you can’t find a doctor who can help you. So, let’s look at some of the most important tests to run, and more importantly, these can all be done at home without needing a blood draw or a doctor to help you! First is the Total Tox Burden by Vibrant Wellness. This urine test looks at mold, environmental toxins, and heavy metals. Get the test here - https://drrodneywhite.wellproz.com/patient/product/38563 Next is the OATs by Mosaic Diagnostics (formerly Great Plains Laboratory). Message me or comment on this video for help ordering this test. Then you’ll want to do a Hair & Tissue Analysis test by Trace Elements. Message me for help with this one too! Last is a Fatty Acid Blood spot test. Here’s the link to do it at home - https://www.zinzino.com/shop/2012993781/US/en-US/products/shop/home-health-tests/309000