Fatigue. It’s a health issue, plaguing America and it’s taking a toll on our mental and physical stamina. Take a look. We’re in the midst of an energy crisis. As most people are working from home handling remote learning and dealing with the stress of the ongoing pandemic.
People everywhere are feeling drained of their usual vitality, capacity, and clarity within their life. Worn out from trips to the grocery store or other activities, It’s simply affecting our quality of life. Even for the ones who live by the get-up-and-go mantra, the passion to seize the day has suddenly gone and they are in desperate need of an answer to why. So, do you feel like you just don’t have it in you anymore? Is there any way to turn it around?
Dr. Gundry, great to have you back on the program. – Hey, it’s great to be back. Thanks for having me. – Good to see you.
You know, it’s important for people to know fatigue is more than just sleep deprivation. So let’s dig right into it. What are the signs of just chronic low energy? – A struggle to get moving. The need to have, you know, three cups of coffee and an energy bar in the morning.
Trouble keeping up with your kids, taking care of your kids in ways that no one anticipated. And the struggle to make your brain work. That’s one of the big problems now, brain fog, that people never used to have.
Alright, Dr. Gundry, you got our attention here, but what can we do to regain our energy?
– Well, first of all, we’ve got to change what we eat and we have to change the timing of our eating. And we hear a lot about probiotics and people are beginning to talk about prebiotics, but we can actually eat prebiotics to make exciting new compounds that are called postbiotics.
And postbiotics literally turbocharge our energy. And it’s some of the most exciting discoveries in medicine right now. – Now, most people don’t hear a lot about postbiotics.
What are those? – So your gut microbes, when you feed them prebiotics, which is fiber, your gut microbes actually produce gases and short chain fatty acids that we now call postbiotics. And these postbiotics actually talk to our energy-producing organelles, the mitochondria, and literally tell our mitochondria to make more energy.
And it’s the presence of these postmeiotic that drive our energy production which is exciting because we can make more postbiotics by eating the certain foods we need to eat…
