Valuetainment - February 19, 2026


“The Microbiome Is Your Second Brain” - Dr Rhonda Patrick WARNS How Gut Health Can Shorten Your Life


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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Kelly Kennedy about the importance of the gut microbiome and the role it plays in our health and well-being. We also talk about the impact of stress and aging on the gut and how it affects the brain.

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00:00:00.280 Investing is all about the future.
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00:00:30.280 Gut microbiome.
00:00:32.380 Okay.
00:00:33.620 What does the gut tie to?
00:00:37.340 Is there stress?
00:00:38.460 Is it aging?
00:00:39.340 What does the gut tie to?
00:00:40.820 It ties to everything.
00:00:42.100 I mean, so the gut is the first organ that sees the food that you take in.
00:00:49.380 Right?
00:00:49.580 So, it's really prone to inflammation because that food is inflammatory.
00:00:55.060 Even if you're eating a healthy diet.
00:00:56.900 When you put food in your gut, it is forcing the gut to work.
00:01:01.580 And so, you do cause some amount of inflammation in the gut no matter what.
00:01:06.300 If you're eating an unhealthy diet and you're overweight or obese, that inflammation gets worse.
00:01:11.160 And what I mean by inflammation is your gut epithelial cells open up and they release something that's in the gut because you have trillions of bacteria in there.
00:01:19.640 The gut microbiome, as you mentioned.
00:01:21.500 Well, the gut microbiome, those bacteria aren't always living.
00:01:24.340 Some of them are dying off constantly.
00:01:25.940 You're making new ones.
00:01:26.660 You're having them dying off.
00:01:27.700 Well, bacteria have something on their outer cell membrane called lipopolysaccharide or LPS for short.
00:01:34.140 And that gets released in the blood system when you eat a meal.
00:01:37.740 And when that meal is really, really big, more of it gets released.
00:01:40.800 When that meal is high inflammatory, if it's refined sugar or saturated fat, more of that gets released.
00:01:44.980 When that LPS gets into circulation, it activates your immune system.
00:01:48.820 And it causes inflammation.
00:01:50.800 That affects the brain.
00:01:51.980 There are studies showing that if you inject LPS into a normal healthy person or a placebo saline control, they get inflammation in their brain.
00:02:00.500 They get depressive symptoms.
00:02:01.800 They get, you know, their cognitive function is depressed.
00:02:03.560 All coming from the gut, right?
00:02:05.080 LPS is coming from the gut.
00:02:06.640 So it does affect, you know, inflammation in the brain, which then leads to Alzheimer's disease.
00:02:11.360 And then the gut microbiome itself, which is specifically what you're asking about, is also there's a direct line, you know, there's like neurons actually in the gut.
00:02:21.200 And so there's like this vagal nerve that's connected, you know, from the brain all the way to the gut.
00:02:26.260 And the bacteria in your gut communicate with that, with the brain through this vagus nerve.
00:02:30.860 And so the different types of bacteria also seem to play a role.
00:02:33.560 Like certain types of bacteria in the gut can cause more anxiety.
00:02:36.680 And there's all these studies that have been done in animals where you can take a mouse that's more of an anxious phenotype mouse and take their gut bacteria and transplant it into a mouse that doesn't have anxiety.
00:02:47.200 And you can cause them to have anxiety, right?
00:02:49.900 And then vice versa.
00:02:50.780 You can take bacteria from a really robust stealth.
00:02:54.220 Like they're, you know, they don't have that anxiety and put it into a mouse with anxiety and lower their anxiety.
00:02:59.640 And that all comes down to, you know, there's neurotransmitters that are being stimulated with respect to the types of bacteria in your gut.
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00:03:20.420 I'm Kelly Kennedy.
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00:03:43.260 How does one find out what they have?
00:03:50.100 That's an emerging field.
00:03:51.480 So there are a variety of tests that are consumer available out there.
00:03:54.900 I would say that those tests are, it's hard to know what to do with that data.
00:03:59.500 So you can get a test done and get some data back and then some, you know, you might think you need to eat a certain diet or whatever.
00:04:07.500 I would say we're in our infancy of really, truly, accurately being able to do a test at home on the individual level and figure out like what to do with that data.
00:04:17.080 What I will say is that what we do know is that there are certain foods that you can eat that are known to be beneficial to promote the growth of healthy probiotic types of bacteria and decrease the growth of more of the pathogenic type of bacteria.
00:04:32.160 I know you're a broccoli person, if I'm not mistaken.
00:04:34.320 Yeah, broccoli is great.
00:04:36.520 I would say fermentable types of fiber are really good.
00:04:39.440 So those are the types of fiber that are found in mushrooms, like beta-glucans, oats, berries.
00:04:46.260 The skins of fruits are really, really, these are the fermentable, soluble type of fiber.
00:04:51.500 Skin of fruits?
00:04:52.680 Yeah, so like you eat like a blueberry and it's like the fiber, the fermentable fiber is in the skin of the fruit.
00:04:57.420 Believe it or not, vegetables are mostly the insoluble type of fiber.
00:05:01.640 That's the kind of fiber that's important for moving stuff through the system.
00:05:04.780 You want to get stuff, you know, out, which is also important.
00:05:07.680 But the fermentable type of fiber is the stuff that's actually viscous and it's fermented by bacteria.
00:05:13.420 And this actually allows the beneficial type of bacteria, the probiotic type of bacteria, to outcompete some of the pathogenic type of bacteria.
00:05:21.480 So you're having, you know, a better gut microbiome, which is going to basically help you lower inflammation when you eat food because it helps lower that, you know, the gut from opening up and releasing lipopolysaccharide into your blood system.
00:05:33.660 It's called the postprandial inflammatory response.
00:05:36.460 It's after you eat a meal, inflammation.
00:05:38.700 That's why people feel sleepy after a meal.
00:05:40.840 Inflammation is generated.
00:05:42.540 Inflammation makes you feel sleepy because it's taking energy away from your brain and it's also increasing these cytokines that make you sleepy.
00:05:51.020 So you want to lower that post-inflammatory response after a meal.
00:05:53.740 So that would be, again, you want to basically have the right types of foods.
00:05:59.780 Exercise also, by the way, helps strengthen the gut so that it's less likely to be what's called leaky gut, right, that permeability of the gut is another thing to do.
00:06:08.820 Some people can supplement with probiotics.
00:06:10.680 I would say that it's kind of flow-through.
00:06:12.940 If you supplement with healthy probiotics, the minute you stop supplementing with them, you're going to be back.
00:06:18.600 It doesn't take residence there.
00:06:20.420 It's a flow-through effect.
00:06:21.620 So it is having a beneficial effect, but it's a flow-through effect because there's really no residential space to occupy.
00:06:26.680 It's kind of like California.
00:06:27.500 There's nowhere to build, right?
00:06:29.440 The bacteria are all there.
00:06:30.980 It's just like California.
00:06:31.900 There's nowhere to build?
00:06:32.980 Well, I mean, there is places to build.
00:06:35.560 San Diego, there's nowhere to build.
00:06:36.800 Yes, yes, yes, yes, in the cities, yes.
00:06:40.120 Yeah, that makes sense.
00:06:40.880 But what I'm saying is that the real estate, it's limited, right?
00:06:44.260 And so there's not a lot of places for that probiotic bacteria.
00:06:47.300 You can always move to Florida, by the way.
00:06:48.760 It's a beautiful place here.
00:06:50.740 We love it in Florida.
00:06:52.140 But Dallas is great.
00:06:53.440 Where do you go in the summer?
00:06:54.840 Here?
00:06:55.640 New York, Hamptons.
00:06:57.000 Okay, yeah.
00:06:57.640 You go up.
00:06:58.680 You have so many options.
00:07:00.460 And it's easy, three hours.
00:07:01.500 I live 24 in L.A., five years in Dallas.
00:07:05.800 And officially, I've lived more in Florida than Dallas.
00:07:08.460 We love it in Dallas.
00:07:10.560 And when I was building a national business, what I liked about Dallas was I was a three-hour
00:07:14.000 flight from anywhere.
00:07:16.000 L.A., it's six, New York, you know, so it's a mess.
00:07:19.640 And in Florida, it's also easy.
00:07:21.700 And in L.A., there's nothing to do to go west.
00:07:24.260 It's just Hawaii.
00:07:25.460 But here, if I go east, the world is east.
00:07:28.360 But if I'm going to go to Europe, if I'm going to go to Germany, Italy, it's this way.
00:07:32.660 There's nothing this way.
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