Gut Health 101-1 | Butyrate_ The Miracle Compound We're All Missing!

Pick a bad thing and butyrate is anti that, literally. And we are in a state of profound epidemic deficiency. We measure these. That's how we know that. Now, I know we only have our practice, but I would probably say that if we talk to other functional providers that are doing these, you know, stool testing, they would probably say that most people come through their doors, have low short chain fatty acids or low butyrate production. So first things first is when you see that in an individual, I'm trying to assess the lay of the land, is this an issue with their microbiome? And if you can see that, you see it. And in the past, we used to have to just kind of try to blindly support these bugs with the foods they like. Now you could take them in probiotic form, you can get Akkermansia, you can get Clostridium butyricum, you can get capsule forms of those butyrate producing, short chain, fatty acid producing bugs. So you can put those in, although you still have to feed them so that they implant and grow the things that they like to eat.