Robert Whitfield MD explains how poor diet drives inflammation and gut dysfunction. He describes a urine test that detects inflammation standard labs miss, and shows how removing gluten, dairy, processed foods, and added sugars lowered inflammatory scores in a patient.
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A urine-based test measuring thromboxane A2 metabolism.
Gluten, dairy, all processed foods, and added sugars (fructose and sucrose); keep sugar only from fruit.
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Garbage in, garbage out. So if you eat like trash, you're going to feel like trash. And if your gut doesn't work, no matter how well you're trying to eat now, you're, you're fighting an uphill battle.
That's good. Yeah. So when you find the uphill battle though, like when you're going through it, when you start to see garbage in and garbage out and, and I want Corny's input on this as well because we talked about it before, like if you have that much like, like bad diet and such.
Yeah.
What are some of the toxins that most people out there like from an infection standpoint do? Are there things that whenever you have a bad diet, you know, of course you're going to feed bad critters and such. Do you find like, you know, we're talking about that bacterial level that was really high is bacteria like the main thing that most people would find in their, you know, blood workers or any type of infections that they could see. Maybe they have it in their body that could be contributed to the breast implants.
Yeah, that's always a hard one because this is another reason why it's difficult for people to understand what's going on because it doesn't lend itself to a specific laboratory value. That's because you can have a lot of underlying inflammation as you know, and not have a high sed rate or a high crp. We were using a, a company who was a startup out of the pandemic and they were looking at thromboxane, a2 metabolism. Metabolism and you, you could measure it in the urine and it was good. It's super sensitive. So if you were taking anti inflammatory medications or homeopathics or eating a lot of ginger or turmeric, you would affect the result. But if you weren't, say, for instance, I got patient A and they are just learning about this, like we're discussing. They haven't done anything. And I take that patient, I get that test to them and we have a specific example. I'll talk about. I had somebody who couldn't come because of work and, and taking care of their kids for several months. So they basically banned the program. And we watched them drop their inflammatory score on this test. And all we did, you know, from the jump was after you get the test and take the supplements and do the test, we want you to do the following. Cut out gluten and cut out dairy, cut out all processed foods and sugar that doesn't come from a fruit.
Cut those out.
Yeah. And if you do that? You know, fructose and sucrose are awful.
