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Hey there. Alright, I'm going to start by saying something in life, right? I like to have a multi-tool with me. You can get a leatherman, Gerber, whatever. It's like a pair of pliers. It's got three or four knife blades, a file wire cutter, bottle opener. It's got things like that on it, like a modern version of a Swiss Army knife. So I keep one in the truck, I keep one in my backpack. If I go hunting, I have one with me. It's just a really compact way or efficient way to get a lot of different things done if you need to. Well, we also have those in functional medicine, a multi-tool of sorts. We have several of them, but absolutely without a doubt one of them, one of the best and probably one of the better well-known ones, at least as far as functional medicine practitioners go, is berberine.

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So berberine isn't extract of certain plants. You can get it from several different species, but it's an extract of those plants. I would consider it a very effectiv...

So next on our list of the foundational five, we've already talked about multivitamins, we've talked about fish oil. This video, we're gonna talk about probiotics. And the next couple of videos we'll handle vitamin D and magnesium. So probiotics, those are the good bacteria that are supposed to be in our gut. Now, a couple of misconceptions about probiotics. Many people feel that when you take a probiotic, you are trying to colonize the gut with what you're taking. I mean, it wouldn't be bad if that happened. I think probably a little bit of that happens. But by and large, the reason you take a probiotic is that on its way through your system, while it's temporarily in there, it changes the environment somewhat. Those bacteria that you put in there, and sometimes nutritional yeast that you put in there, they ferment your food on their way through, and the byproducts of that fermentation set up an environment that's advantageous for your normal flora to kind of gro...