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Citizen Science and the Wisdom of Pain: Will Bulsiewicz, MD, on PYP 520

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Will Bulsiewicz, MD, is back, with a cookbook that's actually a workbook on solving your gut health issues.

The Fiber Fueled Cookbook isn't just a collection of great recipes – and it is a collection of great recipes.

What makes it special is that the recipes are embedded in a step-wise, logical, flowchart protocol to help you get to the bottom of whatever dietary triggers are keeping you from a vibrant and pain-free life.

Based on his philosophy that restriction is rarely a useful tactic, and that the preferred move is to repopulate our gut microbiome so it can handle the widest possible variety of plant-based foods, Dr B shows readers how to assess their sensitivities to FODMAPS and histamines (totally new material to me, and I've been at this health thing for a while), and overcome them.

In our conversation, we talked about his GROWTH formula for healing gut issues: Genesis (find the root cause), Restrict (give the body a rest and test the Genesis hypothesis), Observe (validate or reject the hypothesis), Work it back it (reverse the restriction and move toward resilience), Train your gut (rebuild the gut microbiome from the ground up), and Holistic Healing (fire up all the jets of a healthy lifestyle).

We spoke of his move to the private sector, as US Medical Director of Zoe, a startup that's practicing citizen science to develop a global database of gut microbes (something like a Microbial Genome Project, if I'm understanding correctly).

We also talked about how the complexity of health and microbiome research calls for a new hierarchy of evidence, with the randomized control trial dethroned from its privileged position in favor of new models that can deal with near-infinite complexity.

And we talked about scientific humility, taking on a gastrointestinal profession that hasn't been trained to seek healing, above and beyond disease management through prescriptions and procedures.

We marveled at the simplicity of the Fiber Fueled solution, given the complexity of the problem. And we talked about the dual nature of pain; as a signal that can help us heal, and as an experience to avoid at all costs.

Links

ThePlantFedGut.com

The Fiber Fueled Cookbook, by Will Bulsiewicz, MD

JoinZoe.com – use code doctorb at checkout to save 10%

Fiber Fueled, by Will Bulsiewicz, MD

Empire of the Summer Moon, by S. C. Gwynne

Dr Howie Jacobson

This podcast is a labor of love and a way to give back to the world that has given me so much. That's why there aren't any sponsors (except me :).

My day job is helping leaders and their teams master their mindsets to remove all obstacles to heart-centered high performance.

Here are three gigs that I do:

1. Trigger-Free Leadership: Executive and Senior Leadership Mentoring and Facilitation

I work with high performing executive teams in organizations — and executive teams that need to become high  performing. My focus is mindset mastery, because it’s our mindsets that either support high performance or get in the way.

At this level, everyone’s got the skills and experience to excel and contribute at the highest level. What holds people back is mindset stuff: specifically the triggers that get them out of creative engagement and into fight-or-flight defensiveness.

My practice is all about teaching people to respond differently to those triggers by updating old maps — essentially removing the glitches that the triggers grab onto.

2. Executive Coaching: Quick Wins for High Performance

I work with individual executives and leaders, one on one. The program is called Quick Wins for High Performance, and what we do is, we work strategically on one or two areas that are holding you back and keeping you from performing at your best.

We reverse engineer the presenting problems — too much work and not enough time, underperforming employees and teams, maddening organizational inefficiencies, etc — and identify and rewire the suboptimal mindsets that are behind those problems.

The work is all about updating your mental maps so your actions and responses are always appropriate, proportionate, and strategic.

3. High Stakes Conversations for Fast Growing Small Business Teams

I help small business teams have high stakes conversations with skill, humor, and grace. When people feel safe, they can do their best, most creative, most collaborative work.

So that's what I do. If you'd like any of those results, drop me a line and tell me about yourself.

You CAN Change Other People!

Well, that's what Peter Bregman and I claim in our provocative book of that title.

What we really mean is, you can bring out the best in the people around you. If you think you're powerless to help people change, it's because you've been going about it the wrong way.

Discover our straightforward, replicable process here: You Can Change Other People.

Music

The Plant Yourself Podcast theme music, “Dance of Peace (Sabali Don),” is generously provided by Will Ridenour, a kora player from North Carolina who has trained with top Senegalese musicians.

It can be found on his first CD, titled Will Ridenour.

You can learn about Will, listen to more tracks, and buy music on his website, WillRidenour.com.

Gratitudes

Thanks to Plant Yourself podcast patrons – Kim Harrison – Lynn McLellan – Brittany Porter – Dominic Marro – Barbara Whitney – Tammy Black – Amy Good – Amanda Hatherly – Mary Jane Wheeler – Ellen Kennelly – Melissa Cobb – Rachel Behrens – Tina Scharf – Tina Ahern – Jen Vilkinofsky – David Byczek – Michele X – Elspeth Feldman – Leah Stolar – Allan Kristensen – Colleen Peck – Michele Landry – Jozina – Sara Durkacs – Kelly Cameron – Janet Selby – Claire Adams – Tom Fronczak – Jeannette Benham – Gila Lacerte – David Donohue – Blair Seibert – Doron Avizov – Gio and Carolyn Argentati – Jodi Friesner – Mischa Rosen – Michael Worobiec – AvIvA Lael – Alicia Lemus – Val Linnemann – Nick Harper – Bandana Chawla – Molly Levine – The Inscrutable Harry R – Susan Laverty the Panda Vegan – Craig Covic – Adam Scharf – Karen Bury – Heather Morgan – Nigel Davies – Marian Blum – Teresa Kopel – Julian Watkins – Brid O'Connell – Shannon Herschman – Linda Ayotte – Holm Hedegaard – Isa Tousignant – Connie Haneline – Erin Greer – Alicia Davis – Heather O'Connor – Carollynne Jensen – Sheri Orlekoski of Plant Powered for Health – Karen Smith – Scott Mirani – Karen and Joe Crabtree – Kirby Burton – Theresa Carrell – Kevin Macaulay – Elizabeth Rothschild – Ann Jesse – Sheryl Dwyer – Jenny Hazelton – Peter W Evans – Dennis Bird – Darby Kelly – Lori Fanney – Linnea Lundquist – Emily Iaconelli – Levi Wallach – Rosamonde McAtee – Dan Pokorney – Stephen Leinin – Patty DeMartino – Mike and Donna Kartz – Deanne Bishop – Bilberry Elf – Marjorie Lewis – Tricia Adams – Nancy Sheldon – Lindsey Bashore – Gunn Marit Hagen – Tracey Gulledge – Lara Hedin – Meg from Mamasezz – Stacey Stokes – Ben Savage – Michael K – David Hughes -Coni Rodgers – Claire England – Sally Robertson – Parham Ganchi – Amy Dailey – Brian Tourville – Mark Jeffrey Johnson – Josie Dempsey – Caryn Schmitt – Pamela Hayden – Emily Perryman – Allison Corbett – Richard Stone – Lauren Vaught of Edible Musings – Erin Hastey – Sean Owens – Sagar Naik – Erika Piedra – Danielle Roberts – Michael Leuchten – Sarah Johnson – Katharine Floyd – Meryl Fury – for your generous support of the podcast.

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1 comment on “Citizen Science and the Wisdom of Pain: Will Bulsiewicz, MD, on PYP 520

  1. Scott says:

    Why oh why did Howard Jackobson say to Dr Will B at 1:26:08 (I think it was) “you of all People should know that assholes have an important function”. That’s so crass! Dr B had no comment! Silence. Awkward. He’s too classy for that. Howard wtf?!

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