On this week's show, we are speaking with Dr. Josh Axe. He is a certified doctor of natural medicine and clinical nutritionist with a passion to help get people healthy by using food as medicine.

Josh created one of the top 10 most visited natural health websites on the planet, draxe.com. He is the author of Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It.

In this episode, we discuss:

• A little bit of dirt is great for your immunity and digestion
• Should you wash your vegetables?
• Leaky gut syndrome is the root cause of all disease
• Early warning signs & symptoms of leaky gut
• The 6 main causes of leaky gut
• All medications cause leaky gut
• Destress with an epsom salt & essential oil bath
• Josh's spiritual triathlon
• The #1 food for healing leaky gut is bone broth
• The food most diverse in probiotics, goat's milk kefir
• Redefining "good" and "bad" gut bacteria
• Properly preparing grains
• Raw foods and leaky gut don't mix
• The 5 gut types
• Spring and Summer are the best times to consume raw foods
• A diet to help heal from candida gut
• Combating EMFs through diet and lifestyle modifications
• When you buy meat, only buy organic
• Minimize your exposure to toxins by incorporating essential oils
• Tests for leaky gut syndrome
• Most people can radically turn their gut health around in 90 days
• No food or supplement actually heals you
• Soil-based organisms (SBOs) vs. probiotics vs. fermented foods
• Kids naturally eat dirt
• Other microorganisms besides bacteria can be healthy

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Dr. Josh Axe - Eat Dirt (book)

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Dr. Josh Axe - What Kind of Leaky Gut Test Should You Take? (blog)

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