1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,480 When a paper, and I saw I was doing fecal transplant on patients, and noticed that not only am I improving their C. diff, but their arthritis was getting better, or the psoriasis was getting better. 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:23,840 And so it brought a curiosity to me that kind of spun by this picture, and I'm going to kind of show you this picture. 3 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,840 So this is fecal transplant. This is a case from Dr. Colleen Kelly, two cases of two patients. 4 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:40,840 This is alopecia areata, which is basically baldness, right? Patients lose their hair, it's an autoimmune disease, that they are bald. 5 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:52,840 The patients had C. diff, Clostridium difficile, and so she did fecal transplant on both of these patients, and sure enough, after fecal transplant the patients grew hair. 6 00:00:52,840 --> 00:01:01,840 When I saw this case report in this journal as a case report, I said, what is growing hair? What did we do? 7 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,840 So I became obsessed with the microbiome, essentially. 8 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,840 That's incredible. 9 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,840 Yeah, so what happened was a path for me, is I went to Dr. Sidney Feingold, and I said, 10 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,840 Dr. Feingold, what am I seeing when I'm improving Alzheimer's? 11 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:28,840 Because I had a case of a patient who was with C. diff, Clostridium difficile, and I did fecal transplant using his wife's fecal material, 12 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,840 and his memory started improving to the point that he remembered his daughter's birthday. 13 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:40,840 So I went to Dr. Feingold, and I said, what am I seeing when I see improvement of Alzheimer's? 14 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,840 And he said, you're seeing the microbiome in action. 15 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:53,840 And he gave me a paper that is his work of years and years of culturing these stools of patients with Alzheimer's, 16 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:03,840 and he identified a bacteria, and he said, put this paper in a safe, and when you buy this machine to analyze the stools, 17 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,840 you're going to understand the microbiome. 18 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:12,840 And so what happened was I started looking at the microbiome, and the first thing I noticed was, wow, we're all different. 19 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,840 And I'm actually going to show you the picture of how we're all different. 20 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,840 It's almost like a genetic code. 21 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,840 It's a genetic code. 22 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:31,840 So it's basically, so we take a stool sample that's the size of a fingernail, and in that stool sample are thousands and thousands of bacteria. 23 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:33,840 So we have a choice. 24 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,840 We can look at the surface of the microbiome, or we can go deep into the species. 25 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:39,840 And this is where we look. 26 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,840 So this is basically, I forget how many, 26 patients. 27 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:55,840 And each column is a patient, and each color coded is a group of bacteria, right? 28 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,840 A group of species of bacteria. 29 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:04,840 So when you look at every one separately, you see how everybody is different, right? 30 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,840 Yeah. 31 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,840 And which makes total sense because we all have different fingerprints. 32 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:09,840 Sure. 33 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,840 How can we not have a different microbiome? 34 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:13,840 Here you are. 35 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,840 You've eaten, I don't know where, yesterday. 36 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:16,840 Where are you from? 37 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:17,840 Where are you born? 38 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,840 And it makes total sense to me because, you know, I've traveled the world. 39 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,840 I was born in North Africa. 40 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,840 You know, so all these things change my microbiome, right? 41 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,840 That I was born with from my mother, from my grandmother, from my great-grandmother, et cetera. 42 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:40,840 So within each individual, you cannot possibly compare two people because they're completely different. 43 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,840 So what's good for you is not necessarily good for me, right? 44 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,840 So that's exactly why the COVID is showing up differently in people's bio. 45 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:49,840 Exactly. 46 00:03:49,840 --> 00:04:07,840 Because I knew this and I knew the science behind the microbiome and the differences in the microbiome, I realized that something is happening inside the microbiome that some people are having changes and therefore catch COVID. 47 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,840 And some people, it doesn't matter. 48 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,840 They're asymptomatic. 49 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 They're asymptomatic. 50 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,840 It's all in the fingerprint of your microbiome. 51 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,840 Yeah. 52 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,840 Probiotics affects the microbiome. 53 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:20,840 Is that the right probiotic for you that you're taking? 54 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:21,840 Right. 55 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:22,840 Vitamins. 56 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:26,840 Is there something in the vitamin that your gut doesn't, you know, agree with? 57 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:34,840 All that, your foods, a person that is from Africa is different from a person that's American African. 58 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:41,840 I think that that is a great point because you look at some of the cultures in Africa and they don't have a lot of the problems that we have. 59 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 Correct. 60 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,840 As far as like obesity or diabetes. 61 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:45,840 Correct. 62 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,840 The Amazon jungle. 63 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:47,840 Yeah. 64 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Right there. 65 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,840 I mean, no. 66 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:50,840 Do you think it's because of their diet? 67 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:52,840 They're living in the environment. 68 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:53,840 Right. 69 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,840 They're living in the environment. 70 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 They're eating the foods. 71 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,840 They have diversity. 72 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,840 The key to life is diversity. 73 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:04,840 Once you globalize the diet, you're creating. 74 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:09,840 And in fact, there is data that with globalization comes globicity. 75 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:13,840 Tell me what your thoughts are as far as the food that we are consuming. 76 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,840 The genetically modified seeds, for instance. 77 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:17,840 Right. 78 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:25,840 So I think that's a mistake, in my opinion, because we don't know what it's doing to our gut live bacteria. 79 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,840 Your bowel is your temple, right? 80 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:37,840 So you don't want to give it foods that could potentially alter the bacteria that is giving you your potential longevity, 81 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:42,840 or that is growing your hair, or that is growing your nails, or that is making you happy, right? 82 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:43,840 Happy, right?