Dr. Aaron Hartman breaks down viral gut-health trends: the Candida diet's carb restriction, the chia-seed "internal shower," fasting windows, activated charcoal binders, and antimicrobials. What actually works and what's hype.
Questions this episode answers
May 2, 2025.
Chia seeds, water, and lemon.
4–6 capsules (speaker also says ~1 teaspoon of activated charcoal can coat the small bowel).
The speaker says the average American in the mid-1890s ate about a meal and a half per day.
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If you're hangry, if you don't eat for four or five hours, you start getting irritable, shaky, jittery, nervous, you have sleep problems, you get irritable, you're hangry. That actually is related to the yeast creating these things called pseudo neurotransmitters, which are things that go to your brain and make you want to eat. Gut health hacks are all the rage. People are asking about what are some quick gut health hacks. You know, what about the Candida diet where the internal shower, which I'd never actually heard of this one before until it was brought to me by my social media team, which it's just basically chia seeds, water and lemon, which we talk about that a little bit. But the basic gist is gut hacks you can use to help your gut work better. Gas, bloating, constipation, gut reset diet. There's a whole host of things that are out there. There's always something new, whether it's fasting, whether it's juice fasting, whether it's paleo, carnivore, whatever. You're always gonna find something that somebody says was super amazing for them. So that's. I wanna talk about a couple of things. The Candida diet and the internal shower just cause that's something that's trending and then some other things as well. A Candida diet basically is just like a paleoish kind of diet. It's a diet that removes things that feed yeast or what feeds yeast, carbs and sugar. Well, why would you care about yeast? Yeast can cause estrogen dominance in women. So if you have fib pharmacistic breast disease, if you've got endometriosis, fibroids, having periods of null cycles, having yeast overgrowth can be a part of that estrogen dominance. Also Candida overgrowth can give some women actually cause oxalate issues and give some women vulva and DNA which is painful vulva or external. Your lay probably sounds soft. I'm trying to think a normal term for vulva, but can cause pain area, especially if you have oxalates. You can actually have painful intercourse because your area down there gets really irritated from not just the yeast and the ph issues, but also oxalates. There's a lot of lot of reasons why you'd want to know about or treat a Candida. But the biggest thing is dietary wise, removing carbs, sugars and even fasting. It's really interesting how you know, the average American in the mid-1890s, the average American ate a Meal and a half a day. The ancient Spartans ate one once a day. And then by the 1950s, the whole three square meals a day. And we started snacking. And now people eat throughout the day. And this pattern of eating carbs, processed foods, grains, sugars all day long, feed strep and yeast. And so one, when people have candida issues, tend to have strep issues as well. Just fyr that's not trending, but that's just the reality.
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And so just changing what you eat and, and when you eat, that's one of the powers of intel fasting or fasting. M making diets is you basically starve out yeast if you're hangry. If you don't eat for four or five hours, you start getting irritable, shaky, jittery, nervous. You have sleep problems, you get irritable, your head hangry. My son has a shirt that says, Forget give me 4 7. I was hangry. That actually is related to the yeast creating these things called pseudo neurotransmitters, which are things that go into your brain and make you want to eat what feeds them. And so it can kind of hard to remove those things. So you have to do it slowly. And that's where sometimes these diets you do over a period of time. But this is a real thing that can have real, real health consequences. The internal shower, on the other hand, which is what I was active ask about. It's basically chia seeds, water, lemon. I mean, chia seeds are a great fiber. They actually help increase butyrate. They're Very they're, they're a bulky fiber and actually for their quantity they're pretty pretty decent. They do have a significant amount of carbs though. And then water is just the water and lemon juice. Lemon acid vinegar. So many Americans have low stomach acid or hypochlorhyndria that can drive yeast and strep growth. And so just putting a little acid in your meal, whether it's apple cider vinegar, this, this case it's lemon can just help your digestion a little bit. The citric acid and citrate in lemon also helps alkaline helps your kidney function. So lemon don't usually these citrus extracts have a lot of health health benefits. But the big thing is that these are all, these are trending, these are great. But I think the biggest health hacks I've found for people's guts have been removing processed foods, controlling your feeding, eating. If you eat three times a day, you try, try to compress it into more like an eight hour window. We're eating twice a day avoiding processed foods. And then if you have a lot of gas and bloody activated charcoal to be honest with you is amazing. When you have overgrowth of bacteria in your gut, a lot of times you create endotoxins or lipopolysaccharide and activated charcoal binds those like a charm. Not only does it bind other toxins but also binds them and that can be amazing things can be really super helpful to help with a lot of your gut symptoms. So combining activated charcoal and an empty stomach, 46 capsules which a teaspoon of activated charcoal is enough to coat a small doubles quart which is the entire surface area small bowel. So that's kind of cool little thing thing you can do and then combine that with fasting and then if you need a little help adding a probiotic that's a simple biohack that's not. I mean activated charcoal's been around for millennia. Fasting's been around for as long as human history has been around. I mean probiotic fermented foods have been around forever as well. So I think sometimes sticking with the trial and true is better than using the the novel. But the reality is if you start tracking your symptoms, what's going on and then how you respond, you can actually figure out if you have low stomach acid, for example, if you do better with lemon lime apple cider vinegar. If you have sibo small intestinal bacteria overgrowth. Most people actually have issues with fiber and issues with probiotics. If you have a lot of bacterial overgrowth most people tend to do really well with and a lot of toxins your gut really well with binders like activated charcoal. People ask me about gas X. Gas X is just treating of symptoms. Some efficiency just decreases the gas production but doesn't deal with the source. And then sometimes just using some kind of antimicrobial herbs to help balance out your gut bacteria whether it's garlic, oregano or two mom's favorite, they do so much Allison is a very potent version of garlic and then adp Oregano is a form that actually is a delayed release that goes through entire small bowel. Those are some really basic tried and true hacks that Nature Paths have been doing for decades, functional doctors have been doing for last 15, 20 years. And then you take the information and talk with your practitioner, figure out what your issues are and do you need some enzymes as well. So anyway, hopefully this information is helpful. Hopefully those gut hacks were helpful. If you have a question, this information is helpful like Share subscribe below if you have something like a hack you'd like to learn about, we'll we'll collect those and maybe talk about those as well if we get enough feedback. So anyway, take care. We'll talk to you all soon.
