: Episode 644 – Microbiologist Kiran Krishnan joins Vinnie for a fascinating discussion of gut health and the human microbiome.

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KIRAN KRISHNAN

• Was just on the Monday show with Vinnie and Anna discussing leaky gut
• Esteemed microbiologist
• Check out his website at peakbiotics.com
• Great success in dietary supplement and nutrition markets
• Went to school at U of Iowa where he studied microbiology and biochemistry
  • Did Post-Grad in Iowa as well studying microbiology with focus on clinical microbio
    • Focuses on human diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.
    • Pathogenesis of disease
    • Probiotics
• After university he started his own research organization
  • Wanted to offer companies an affordable way of doing high-clinical trial
  • Did that for a decade, still does that as well as other work

• He is Indian, moved to America right before highschool; his name is pronounced KEER-in

ADDICTION

• Addiction works like everything else
• Vinnie found he even got addicted to face cream
  • After a while, his face stopped producing oil because it relied on the cream so much
• He stopped the face cream and his skin started oiling itself and his lips were more supple without the lip goop
• Our habits and addictions are recent
  • We have been evolving for millions of years
  • The addictions and weird habits we have have developed over the past 100 years
• Our bodies still exist how they did forever ago, but by doing modern day habitual things that we do, we are putting stress on our bodies
  • Ex: bathing!

DEODORANT

• Deodorant is a new thing
• You are putting aluminum under your arms — found to be harmful to the human body
• Regardless of how much deodorant you use, if you sweat you will still probably smell at the end of the day
• Crystal is definitely better than standard aluminum-based deodorant
• The type of aluminum used in crystals is not as harmful to your circulatory and lymphatic systems
• Dr. Krishnan uses Schmidt’s
  • It is essential oils and sage and such
  • He has some in a pot and only has to apply every few days because it works so well
  • Anti-oxidative properties in this are good
  • Essential oils keep bacterial load down without killing off the bacteria

SWEATING

• Sweating is great for your body
• Sitting in an infrared sauna is good to dilate vessels, drain out toxins, get the liquids in your body moving
  • It is a type of cleanse!
• Sweating is good to control good bacteria!

GUT HEALTH

• Over half of antibiotics prescribed are unnecessary
  • They are either not needed or won’t work on that type of bacteria
• One cycle of certain antibiotics can cause your gut to be harmed for a year
• One dose of augmentin wipes down your gut bacteria levels by almost 90%
  • Takes a week and a half or two to get back just from that one dose
    • However, the portions of bacteria that comes back are different
      • More robust species that are anti-biotic resistant have an easier time coming back when this happens
• Use of antibiotics when young also contributes to asthma and allergies
• The use of antibiotics under 4 has a profound effect in creating auto immune disorders