Ultraprocessed Foods and Your Gut | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Live Q&A 

You have two guys have helped me heal my horrible GI issues and loose 52 pounds on a plant based diet with 10% or less ultra processed foods. You have so much info in simple, understandable terms. Your passion for the topics inspired me to follow you both and read and grow through my lifestyle change. I stopped drinking full sugar soda and all sugary processed foods and in days I felt better. In two weeks the cravings stopped and I was on my way to a new me. All from your book and these lectures. THANK YOU for helping more than my own GI doc did! I recently turned 40 and I feel and look 20 years younger! Thank you for prolonging my life with my hubby and helping me feel so great! Im also thankful for the perspective I have given where Ive been and where I am now. #plantbased #fiberfueled #wholefoods #nomoresodaandsugar!!!!

This is the kind of nutritional information that I’ve known for a few years since reading The China Study and subsequently listening to folks like Drs. Barnard, Bulsiewicz , Esselstyn, Klaper, and others, but I need to hear the same info over and over to reinforce it in my mind as reminders to eat WFPB as close to 100% as possible. Keep up the great work! You’re helping people daily!

My asthma and hay fever disappeared after going vegan…plus it helped my gallstone attacks …another Australian 😂

Love that message Chuck about embracing who you used to be because it’s that journey that got you to this amazing place!🎉❤

I always thought I stepped up my nutrition after going plant based until watching this conversation. I went plant based due to the information I learned in med school. I still continued to eat highly processed foods like chips & cookies till now. Love learning something new. Thank you for sharing this very enlightening conversation between you & Dr B. I’m needing to make a Costco run & removed potato chips off my list thanks to the information provided in this video.

My favorite whole food snack is air popped popcorn. The poppers are super cheap and last forever and organic popping kernels are surprisingly affordable. No oil/fat is necessary and I don’t usually season it, because I like the natural flavor. However, sometimes I’ll spray on a little low sodium soy sauce and sprinkle it with some nutritional yeast. It’s so tasty and the sky’s the limit with spices like cinnamon or cayenne! My second favorite snack is making homemade tortilla ‘chips’ by toasting corn tortillas in the oven, breaking them up and serving them along side a combination of humus and salsa. So delicious AND nutritious!!

Chuck and Will = Best combo! What a beast of knowledge, and Chuck never fails to make every single minute worth listening and entertaining. Couldn’t love you two more! 🪴🥑🍎

I gave up processed foods 4 years ago and gained No more loose teeth, bleeding gums, sensitive teeth, blocked sinuses, mouth breathing, left eye twitches, heartburn, calf cramps, yellow stool, blood in stool, edema below the knees, pain in feet when walking, I can stay out in the sun longer without burning or peeling, lower back has recently started feeling stronger.

I know this is over a year old but the info here is so helpful. Dr. B, you rock, seriously! Also, I love the chemistry the two of you have. I could watch Dr. B anytime, but the two of you together make it even more enjoyable. Thank you, kindly, for your honesty and care for humanity as a whole. PS...never apologize for being a nerd! 😊

Replace chips with wasa bread. Crunchy and somewhat salty. If fat is what appeals, I recommend hummus spread upon the bread.

Yea when I shop and grocery stores I see mostly processed foods and meat and dairy when I am looking at the cart in front or behind me.

Dr. B looks like he's 25 years old. It blew my mind when he said he was born in 1980. That makes him 43. I am amazed!!

I wish that I could View this live. I am Nurse in a Hospital and work a lot due to lack of Nurses. I love your podcast. I recently and gone plant based. I feel great. I am only beginning and found that i am eating enough.

I love love the questions!! Learnt so much and gonna to read up and find out more!! Thank you!!!

Salt free pretzels and hummus. I miss salt but when I'm eating the hummus I don't notice that there is no salt on the pretzels. You had me at 'Flavor Country!'

Replace with carrot celery capsicum sticks with a natural hummus. Loved the idea of coloured carrots.

Two of the best! Awesome conversation 🙌🏻

wow what an intro Chuck! Just getting right to my heart - showing me what's the right and wrong side, so we can be on the right side of life and celebrate! It's what I live for! Gets better everyday coming here.

I need to hear this!

Happy anniversary 💐 great conversation as always. Thank you.🙏🏻 Texas

Happy Anniversary to you Dr. Will B. It was a very informative conversation. I enjoyed very much. Thank you.

I am so grateful for your book "fiber fueled"! It is the information that has been missing. I've been working toward more plant based for six months. I feel better, sleep better, and have lost 15lb so far.

How neat. I have been married to my EHarmony husband for almost 17 years. However he won’t go WFPL with me. But that’s his decision & I respect his wishes just as he respects mine. My heart disease has been almost removed since I have decided to eat this way. No test have been done since August, but my cholesterol levels then are lower than ever. I am on a medication called Praluent & the Lipidologist says if I weren’t on the medication, my cholesterol levels would go back up. Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all.

Thank you fellas 🙏. I enjoy this podcast/ RU-vid channel 😀 every time they upload a new video. I hope this podcast can be our future entertainment. Our future t.v and main stream.

When it comes to the salt it can be good at first for people switching from salt to buy a package without salt and then add salt, and make a plan to cut back the salt over time. Many people including myself have baked potato slices without oil or salt and after the switchover from a salt diet they are very tasty. When laying out the slices on the tray, raise the edge of one on the tray's edge so it doesn't stick as much, and then for those in the middle, raise the edge over the edge of another slice. It sticks a little but it's nothing compared to laying all flat on the tray, and it cooks just fine. 👍

Greetings from Croatia. Thank you for sharing so many useful info ..God bless you.

Dr B I found your take on how carnivore diet through elimination of ultraprocessed foods was a positive. I agree, and also agree about potential long term cardiovascular risk given high LDL can cause soft plaque buildup after 30+ years and greatly raise risk of a major CVD event or paralyzing stroke. Also, I believe and you have mentioned this in other podcasts. And that is how eating a all canivore diet can change your gut microbes for the worse, by giving rise to those inflammatory species that have been associated with colorectal cancer, IBS, Crohn’s Disease, etc., I am not vegan or carnivore, but more a Mediterranean type omnivore. I would never roll the dice by going hardcore carnivore as the potential long term risks far outweigh any potential short term benefts, especially given my genetic predisposition to heart disease. As I am a kidney stone former, I have to be more cautious about sticking to low oxylate vegetables. That makes it more challenging for me to diversify my vegetable intake. However, I am still committed to optimize my gut microbial health, and that is my 2024 New Year’s Resolution. The strategy I am employing is including cultured/fermented vegetables using lower oxylate veggies. From what I have read fermentation itself can reduce oxylate. And I am also replacing milk with kefir smoothies made with berries, resistant starch, and/or ground flaxseed, oat fibre. For what it’s worth, I have started having awesome bowel movements since doing this. But the stool looks like a nicely formed big Bavarian Sausage vs a small breakfast sausage lol Thanks for all the great info Dr B

I really learnt alot today! Thanks doctor

Potato Chips: I had a small cheap mandolin slicer that sliced small potatoes thin enough to make chips. I baked in oven on top of parchment paper. There is no recipe it was all experimenting until I stopped burning them. This was years ago and no longer have a craving for chips.

Granola is great chip replacement. Very satisfying and crunchy. Store in frodge

Love dr. B and you Chuck for yr program as I listen and adapt my food to true plant based as I’ve been doing for two welks now so tanks from the north of Peru 🇵🇪 I’ll be promoting plant based now here

lol, when they first asked the question about a chip replacement the first thing that came to mind was a hummus and veggie plate with garlic and dill. Carrots, radish, cauliflower, cucumber, pine nuts, toasted pita. So good! a few figs on the side for some sweetness.

Thank you gentelmen!

replace chips with popcorn! my go-to snack.

Loved trying out your beans and sweet potato hummus! 💕Ranj

Sauteed sunchokes, plantain chips, cassava chips. You can make them.

Sometimes stress makes people reach for easily accessible processed snacks. A couple of strategies is to disentangle oneself from stressful situations and include a regular stress-reducing activity in one's life such as nature walks, hiking, etc.

I love looking in people carts when food shopping.

Happy Anniversary!

I Love your shirt today Chuck 🥰

Im brazilian and actually what happens is that this kind of foods are cheaper and easier to grab on the go than rice and beans(which os a staple here). So, its not about that brazil is getting more afluent but its a reflection of how the food industry works, the superprocessed are cheaper than fruits and vegetables. Btw, i love you both and im doing dr b courses💚💚💚🇧🇷🥦

Awesome podcast!

I can get raw, fermented kraut/kimchi at my Walmart supercenter (Cleveland Kraut/Kimchi) for maybe $5/bag, just take a forkful or two with my lunch daily.

4:49 to lasse sh in the live chat - the way I find a food intolerance is just to only eat the food in question until symptoms appear - and then find out what that is!

popcorn with garlic powder or nutritional yeast.

On my popcorn I sprinkle nutritional yeast and garlic powder... yummm

Oh my, who is that junk food for?!? Please don’t bring it to my house! 😂😂😅

My newish crunchy snack: well toasted Ezekiel Sprouted Grain bread, topped with roasted garlic hummus. Hummus can be addictive though, it is so delicious. Try to find one that is relatively low sodium. The garlic hummus I buy is brand Marketside from Wal Mart grocery, with 80 mg sodium per serving (2 tbsp), which easily covers the bread slice, which itself has 75 mg sodium per slice and is one of the lowest sodium whole grain/wheat breads I've found.

Cute - the "Minister of Microbiome". Honestly, I have nearly entirely cut out "junk foods" with the exception of good dark chocolate. Honestly, if it were healthy to live on nothing but extra sharp cheddar cheese, dark chocolate, and crusty and chewy bread, I would eat these things all day. But alas, while man can't live on bread alone, to use that hackneyed paraphrased quote, it's true we need our fruits and vegetables and whole grains, legumes, etc. and eat them in their least processed and most healthy forms and cut out the junk foods, the oils, etc. I've been trying to live a more plant-based diet since the beginning of 2022 and it's been going well. But just like my keeping a kosher diet has limited where I can eat outside my home, so has been keeping a plant-based and healthier diet because most of the homes I visit do not. Most keep a very heavily meat-based diet, and eat highly processed foods. If I'm a guest in their homes, I eat what's in front of me if it's kosher, but I limit my intake. I definitely notice a difference in how I feel after consuming different foods, not the least of which is the frequency and intensity of acid-reflux (GERD), flatulence, bloatedness, repeating of foods, excretion, etc. My basic rule on consuming foods like the rest of my life is trying to be is "Less is More" -- the least processed, the least complicated. I agree with Dr. B. If you can't make it at home with normal store bought ingredients, then don't eat it. P.S. On the "potato chip question," as Dr. B mentioned, fat, salt, and crunchiness. I admit that I will once in a blue moon buy some sort of potato chips or popcorn from the "healthy" aisle. But I don't do it regularly. If I had to make at home a choice, I'd make homemade "chips" of potatoes and sweet potatoes in the oven with baking and mostly garlic and smoked paprika. I nearly never cook with salt of any kind unless something is so incredibly flavorless without other herbs and spices and fruits and veggies. But yes, absolutely roasting or baking helps with the crispy crunchy nature. I don't own an air fryer, but I do own a plain toaster. I also have to mind the nuts too. I certainly enjoy my hummus with carrots and celery and apples.

How do they check the stomach biom everyday? What method did they use?

pita made with lentils and toast it.

I love Dr. Brenda Davis’s whole grain hierarchy to answer about things like popcorn! Puffed grains are at the very bottom from a processing/nutritional standpoint. 😊

Grazie

You can make oil free chips in the microwave. Getting Healthy with Stasia has a great healthy recipe.

How do you feel about oil?

Baked tostados from the mexican store. Nreak them up and dip in salsa

I am from Munich.

I absolutely see in my face and other people are floored that I’m 63 they always say you look 15 years younger

What about keifer as an probiotic?

6:19 yep, koolaid as a kid, Doritos as a young adult.

RIP MAD DOCTOR & LIL DEBBIE 🙏🏻

You can't make a cracker with just flour and salt. You need some sort of binder.

So you are saying that the intake for Americans of ingredients distinguishing ultraprocessed foods from processed foods such as the emulsifiers, additives, binders etc, is 2800-8500mg per day? (60% of a 2500 kcal diet => 1500 kcal. Average calorie density of UP foods 100g per 350kcal => 430g of UP foods. 2% maximum content regarded as 'safe dose' for those ingredients => 8500mg)

what do yall think about the plant base pea protein crumbles you can cook with. Too processed ???

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Not sure what I did wrong, but I was given a commercial for a psychic service at the end of this video.

Remember. If your not changing, your choosing...

I would replace potato chips with homemade potato chips…I’m thinking thin cut and oven baked or air fried. Has anyone made these?

Does Dr B. Have any thoughts on the role of the vaginal microbiome in UTI infections, particular recurring UTIs?

air fried potato with lime on it and ceyenne pepper to get the crunch

If i need Google Search to understand the ingredients it is over processed food = NOT FOOD!

I ate that junk from a very early age. It was always around. It puzzles me how ignorant our parents were in the 50’s and beyond. Just because this junk is manufactured, nobody holds a gun to your head to buy it or feed it to your kids.

Vegan Cheese balls replaced my favorite chips lol

I have been drinking homemade kefir made with whole milk several years. I recently have gone whole food plant based about a month. I am trying to evaluate if I want to give up kefir. What are your thoughts on this fermented food?

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I eat chips but sparingly. No more than a small bag that sells for 50 cents.

popcorn

Me realizing I just ate some of those mini powdered donuts 😮

I really didn't eat oil as a kid, but I tried doing whole food these days and I just can't get the nutrients I need and I fall ill. When I eat the plant-based junk foods like beyond meat, etc. I feel better. What am I doing wrong?

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Zucchini chips

Can some microbes eat good and bad foods. Can different microbes eat the same foods as other ones? So can a bad microbe eat a good food and do good and vice versa?

Does Dr. Bulsiewicz speak a little bit of polish? That last name tells me he has polish descendants :P

Just give me the good old days when people ate real food and lived well into their 90s with good health - no diabetes, no heart attacks. Bacon and eggs for breakfast, potatoes fried in lard, homemade bread with plenty of real butter, homemade desserts with every meal, full fat ice cream, vegetables from the garden, and homegrown beef and chicken. The only thing I don’t remember my grandparents eating is lamb and cheese, but they may have and I just don’t remember. Sometimes I think the best thing to do is forget all of these extreme diets and just go back to the basics.

Rip Mad Doc & Lil Debbie

I just throw all that stuff, on top of my salad. Problem solved. 🤔💭🌿🥗🍋🍩 I don't over, think it. 👣 🏃🏋🤸 It's all going, to the same place. 💩🌪🙈 - I wanna make sure, I meet my macros. 🤓📝 My eco system, doesn't discriminate. 🌊🦈

plant based diet is still bad for you, but ultra processed foods are the worst. I am fully carnivore, it works even better as vegan.

Dr. Bullschiz met his wife through online dating lmao.