so this question is a fun one i heard fermented foods are great for gut health should i be eating
them okay well there's something that we don't know about fermented foods but spirit does know
and and we should cover that it's important now fermented foods is that's not the same bacteria
that we have that's called beneficial bacteria in our intestinal tract so all of the thousands
of different species and varieties and kinds of beneficial bacteria and microorganisms in our
intestinal tract that keep us running, that keep us going, that keep the whole symbiotic
relationship together. None of that is in fermented food. That just has to be the first
thing you have to understand. Unless someone dumped it in fermented food as it was fermenting.
So that means unless someone actually put it in there. Other than that, the bacteria normally
that's in fermented food naturally is bacteria that doesn't live on or around or in things that
are alive. Instead, it breeds on things that are dead. So you have to understand how this is. This
is interesting. So kind of, I would fasten your seatbelt for this one because I'm basically,
I'm going against what, you know, it's like blasphemy, okay, for me to be saying this. So,
you know, hang in there for the ride and hopefully you don't hate me by the end of this question.
but so the bacteria on fermented food is bacteria that thrives on death that's what it does and
that's okay so when a plant or a vegetable is dying and dead that bacteria thrives on its its
corpse so if you have a dead vegetable meaning it's lost its life it has died it's decaying
that bacteria just thrives on a dead piece of vegetable just like when you run you know if
you've ever seen a squirrel or accidentally run over a squirrel on the street or whatever it is
and the squirrel's on the street, there's bacteria that takes over the squirrel as it's in the street,
as it's decaying, eating its flesh. That's bacteria. That is only for things that have died.
That's what fermented food is. It's everything that's died and not alive anymore, but bacteria
being on it or around it. Now that bacteria is not harmful. So I'm not saying fermented foods
is harmful. Not at all. I'm saying that bacteria isn't the bacteria everybody needs in their
intestinal tract to keep themselves healthy. See, fermented foods is ancient, of course. It's been
around for a few thousand years. The reason why it was a survival technique to keep people alive
because we didn't have refrigeration or freezers.
And so when the fresh garden season,
and we didn't have opportunity of getting imported food
from different parts of the country
or different parts of the world.
If you lived in China and you were basically,
you know, in the mountains or wherever,
and you basically lived with any food source you grew yourself,
you couldn't get any other food source,
you would die throughout the winter
if you didn't have enough food to eat.
There was no refrigeration.
There was no way to preserve anything.
So it was preserving.
Fermenting foods was a way to stay alive and survive
because it would keep the food viable enough to eat
and it had the bacteria that was thriving around it.
This was a food source to keep you alive
and it served its purpose.
But by no means do we need it now
because the bacteria that is involved with fermented foods is not the bacteria we have
in our intestinal tract unless it's added to fermented food, meaning unless it's thrown into
the mix and it doesn't mean it's still going to work because there is other microorganisms that
we need for our intestinal tract that don't live off of something dying, that are not death bacteria.
We need living, thriving bacteria that loves to thrive in things and on things that are alive.
That's the kind of beneficial bacteria that can keep us healthiest, not the fermented food bacteria.
So look, first of all, before I explain which bacteria that is in this question,
I want you to know that you can eat fermented food if you like the taste.
If you hate the taste, don't force yourself to eat it.
If you don't like it or you hate the taste or it doesn't please you, you don't have to eat it because of everything I told you about.
So like I said, it was an ancient staple to survive a winter.
And you would literally have your hut.
You'd throw all your crop in that vat.
You'd let it sit in the vat and you would hope that it turned into something edible.
And that was a way to stay alive.
and so like i said we don't need that anymore that's not something we need to survive on anymore
we have so many other options that bring more life and goodness let's talk about the bacteria
that matters the most there's something called elevated biotics that only spirit knows about it
i taught i wrote about it in my book elevated biotics you will see when you get to that chapter
it's very important and and and this is everything to what you need in your intestinal tract
These microorganisms live on living plants.
So if someone has ever picked one leaf of lettuce on a farm and eaten it fresh or at a farm stand and ate it without washing it thoroughly, without rinsing off that bacteria, if you've eaten that, that's how you're getting your good bacteria.
It comes from all the garden fresh produce without washing it.
It comes from when you pick an apple in an apple orchard.
It comes from picking berries.
Each berry on either berry vines or brambles, whatever,
each berry is on the stem that you pick is loaded with this microorganism,
this elevated microorganism, elevated biotic.
Let me talk to you about this for a second.
If you hang on, fasten your seatbelts.
This is another fasten your seatbelts.
Now, what happens is this bacteria is superpower. It's super powered. It's like it's the Superman of all bacteria because there's millions of varieties of these microorganisms. They're all powerful because they can handle sun. They can handle wind. They can handle rain. They can handle the elements.
and they live on the berries when you pick them.
They live on all the garden produce when you pick it.
They live on all the apples when you pick them.
This bacteria lives in kale.
You can even see the film underneath the kale leaf.
You'll see the elevated microorganisms, the elevated biotics.
Science just isn't caught up.
This is extremely advanced knowledge.
but this microorganism bypasses the stomach better than any probiotic on the planet by far
better than any fermented microorganism that's on a vegetable that's fermented fermented foods all
the bacteria in fermented foods dies in the stomach it's extremely weak but elevated biotics
elevated microorganisms bypass the stomach better than even soil-borne microorganisms you might have
heard about. Those are still weak too. They have to hide in the dirt. They have to hide themselves
deep in the dirt because in order to stay alive, they can't handle the elements. They can't handle
the sun. They can't handle the rain hitting them, but elevated biotics can. So when you grow a
little bit, something a little parsley, you know, in a pot, you pick a tomato and you don't wash it
and you cut it open and you just, you can give it a gentle rinse and you pick a cucumber out of the
garden, a whole film on that cucumber is a probiotic. And it goes deep into the gut,
into the intestinal tract, right into the colon, into the ileocecal valve, into the ileum right
before the colon. It goes in there and it brings your B12 back. It ignites your own B12 production
to stop methylation problems and gene mutations, methylation gene mutations.
that's a lot of info to take in i'm just like i you know i'm even like blown away i'm blown away
about the information because it's that amazing so that's the food you worry about if you want
your probiotic food so instead of whatever your diet is instead of saying well i better i better
choke down that you know that that fermented food a kimchi i better choke it down because i need the
benefit you know i need the beneficial microorganisms just realize just one cucumber out of a garden
farmer's market is more powerful than barrels of fermented food.
Barrels for restoring microorganisms.
It really is.
And if you're really sensitive too,
some people are so sensitive to fermented food,
they have belly aches, they blow up, they expand,
they have difficulties.
And so if you're like that, there's no need to even eat it.
So now you're off the hook.
You're actually off the hook.
It's amazing.
You're actually free.
You're free to roll.
you're free to roll just in the spring let's plant our own little planters if you don't have
a yard so what we'll get some planters we'll order them you know online get a little topsoil
plant some seeds and you pick one thing you grew and you got more beneficial bacteria that's
super powered this elevated biotic that could do more than any fermented food or probiotic on the
shelf or soil-borne microorganism on the shelf. So that's what I wanted to tell you. This, this,
this, you know, this is a great question because it really got me going in and for reason. But if
you love the taste of fermented foods, yes, you could eat it. It's not going to hurt you.
It's got some nutrients in it. It doesn't have as much nutrients as a, you know, a spinach salad,
but it's got, it's got nutrients in it. So anyway, something to think about. And don't be mad at me,
please, this is about getting you better and giving you the real information. That's all I
care about. This is about getting you the information. This isn't about getting you upset
because a trend has taken over and everybody's on board. I'm not trying to get anybody upset.
It's just about you getting better. That's what I risk everything on, just you getting better
and you getting the right information. I'll risk getting clubbed and stones thrown at me,
okay? Because I want you to have the information. It's not fair if I only have the information.
It is so not fair. And you won't find those microorganisms on Google. Nobody knows about
them. That is literally spirits. And spirit has provided that to me so I can provide it to you.
Blessings. Great question. We're going to get on to this next question.
