Experts share health mantras

Numerous experts at In Goop Health spoke on everything from how to balance your gut biome to other wellness issues, including a veteran heart surgeon as well as actress Nicole Richie (pictured). Dr. Amy Myers, explained that 60 per cent to 80 per cent of the human immune system existed in the gut — so when the gut is out of balance, problems occured. There are many things that disrupt gut health, Dr. Steven Gundry added, including antibiotics, which can kill your microbiome for up to two years. (And probiotics won’t reverse that damage, he said – taking a probiotic is like “planting pine trees” when you’re trying to regrow a “lush rainforest.”) Anti-inflammatories are also destructive to the gut, he added. Taking just one Advil or Aleve is “like swallowing a hand grenade. It blows giant, gaping holes in the wall of your gut.” Instead of these medications, Myers suggesed, try natural remedies: Turmeric. Fish oil. Magnesium.

Also on Gundry’s danger list were Nightshades – better known as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants. The peels and seeds of these plants were “designed to penetrate our gut wall and make us sick,” Gundry said. He added that corn and soybeans, which is feed to chicken, was also bad for us, and that the French banned corn as “unfit for human consumption.” He however, endorse yams, sweet potatoes and jicama. Fasting should also be considered. “Don’t eat. I can’t stress that enough,” Gundry said. “We have the ability to store fat.” According to the doctor, humans evolved to fast and then feast, so for six months of the year he does not eat breakfast or lunch and consumes all of his calories in two hours each evening.