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Good morning to you, Cardi.
How you doing, man?
Man, I'm feeling pretty good, man.
The weekend's approaching.
It's Thursday, Thursdays.
I got me some Starbucks today.
How about you earlier?
I'm doing fine, man.
It's Thursday, so as we await...
Are you sure?
I'm a good friend, Dr. Omar the pharmacist.
There he is.
Hey, good
morning to
you, Dr. Omar.
How you doing, sir?
I am doing great.
I'm doing great.
Thank you.
Yeah, well, it's going to be 60 degrees a couple of days next week, man.
It's cold today.
I know.
It's not changing
fast enough.
The bones are cold again.
Yeah,
exactly.
So you won't have to flee to Vegas or Abu Dhabi or any of those places in order to feel some warm?
Actually, I'm going next week to Texas.
I am going for a seminar, two-day seminar about weight loss, functional medicine weight loss.
to learn more and get trained more about like what can we do to help people with obesity and weight management because it's still happening.
Well, I gotta ask you, why don't they hold those things in Finland?
I wish, I think we do, but you know.
Those are the ones you're going to.
Or at the North Pole.
Or
at the North Pole.
Oh my God.
So we're in a warmer place because we want to give you a good, good experience to learn and have good experience at the same
time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
So, so Dr. Omar, we are going to talk about probiotics.
Yes.
And I think we should begin by
explaining to people what probiotics are and why your body needs them.
Well, that's a very good question because the moment that you tell someone about probiotics, they say, okay, I eat yogurt.
Why do I have to have extra bacteria in my gut?
God created me perfect.
I have enough diversity.
So a simple
probiotics are live beneficial bacteria and yeasts that help support a healthy gut microbiome healthy gut balance good bacteria because they contribute to digestion immunity and overall health all right so they help to restore the gut balance crowd out the harmful bacteria maintain a balanced microbiome they help to support the digestion
breakdown of food, absorption of nutrients, and reducing bloating and gas, help to boost immune function, regulate immune responses, reduce inflammation, and the help to produce beneficial compounds, which is short chain fatty acids, and vitamins that support the health.
So many of us over the years, we take antibiotics.
Someone come and tell you, I got a Z-Pack because I had an infection.
or someone is taking medications that affected the healthy bacteria or people with Lyme disease chronic condition that make them take longer term antibiotics.
That all disturb the healthy living culture in their gut and that's when we say take probiotics.
So it is important to consider it as part of the treatment.
When you take an antibiotic
to take a probiotics with it.
Every patient that come and I dispense antibiotic, I tell them, hey, we have six months after you take this antibiotic that your gut health might be compromised if you don't take good probiotics for those six months.
So it's a wide topic and it is like so old that we talk about it, but at the same time as a blank term.
And people many times don't understand that there is many probiotic strains and the help of different conditions.
So when you talk about again, how often should people take probiotics?
That's a very good question.
I say six months in a year, I would say would be enough or would be kind of a step.
But I would start with the time that I take an antibiotic.
Right after that, I would do six months of probiotics rich in Lactobacillus bifidobacterium saccharomyces boulardii.
These are strains that can be used.
So after you take an antibiotic, you take probiotics.
If you're having gas and bloating and you did not see
the reason why it's happening and it's continuous you might need to bring some balance to your gut if you take probiotics and you're not getting better you might be getting worse then we need further digging to see what is actually going on so a probiotics we can think of it as a tool to bring balance to our gut health and we have to consider using it if we are
kind of having problem in digestion.
Patients with IBS and Crohn's, they would be very sensitive to what they take.
These are autoimmune conditions that just taking any probiotics might not make their condition better.
It might actually, they might get worse because of the severe imbalance that is in the gut.
So where do we start?
Where do we start?
That's a very important question.
I would start with
checking how I feel with digestion.
Do I have constipation?
Do I have diarrhea?
And then I ask the right question to my functional medicine practitioner or holistic pharmacy.
And I would be recommended a probiotics to take.
So when you, I have to tell you before our discussion, but totally ignorant.
on all of these discussions that you and I have never knew, knew of the verbiage, but never knew what these things did.
I always thought that probiotics were for, you know, constipation.
And so if I'm constipated, I run to the pharmacy to get some, you know, probiotics to help me, you know, you know, relieve myself as, but that's not.
It isn't.
Not enough to say that it would help only with constipation.
Some of the strains, like the Rhamnoses strain, think Lactobacillus Rhamnoses, the help with IBS and IBS can be diarrhea or constipation.
But there is also probiotics that are called psychobiotics that are important for the brain health.
So it would be actually there's communication that happens between the bacteria that's in your brain and in your gut.
And managing this delicate balance is very important.
Let's think of the gut.
This is the way that we absorb the nutrients.
Anything that you eat, you want to absorb the nutrients, get it through the bloodstream.
The probiotics or the healthy culture.
trillions of cells that are helping with this process.
So they definitely do an action that needs to be addressed.
And it's not just going to be addressed by a prescription drug.
Actually, the prescription drugs, many of them would cause the imbalance of gut healthy bacteria, like mitformin medication.
top number one medication that's prescribed for type 2 diabetes.
So that affects this healthy culture.
So yeah, it is not just probiotics, not just any probiotics, not just for any cause.
If you're constipated, lactobacillus would be very helpful.
But how about if someone is having
and antibiotic, we need to give them something that can live in the antibiotic culture that I am still taking.
So that will be something called saccharomyces bulardi.
You see the name is actually very long, but it's sac bulardi, let's say it's simply, that would have a lot of benefits for the immune system, for the absorption of food, and it's actually yeast, not bacteria, so it can help to live in the harsh culture.
that's created by the antibiotic.
Go ahead, Dr.
Umar.
I want to say that it's a wider term to be used and not just one thing that we're going to pull out from the fridge in the pharmacy because many times, actually most of the best probiotics now are shelf-stable, so they are not put in the fridge.
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Dr. Omar, as when you mentioned that we were going to talk about probiotics, I started looking things up.
So this B-lactis.
proven to enhance immunity and reduce frequency and intensity of respiratory illness.
L-Romnosus found to fortify immune function, improve mood, and help battle seasonal allergies.
B-Bifidum fights off bacteria and other harmful pathogens from entering or a bloodstream and making a sick L-Grasari.
Proving to help and I you know, I'm butchering the names, you know what they are proven to help the IBS and bowel problems and even reduce abnormal fat L salivarius Crucial for good oral health.
It also receives Allergy symptoms lower cholesterol levels and enhances immunity So you need to know what you're taking it for right and then you know, yeah
So let's do this eight five five seven five two forty eight forty two dr. Ma Let's let you apply your trade on the other side.
All I'm doing is you know You're trying to ask some
questions
that you know
great points all right
All right eight five five seven five two forty eight forty two dr. Omar the pharmacist is on board on the earling groom so
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Now, let's go in the pharmacy with Earl Ingram and Dr.
Omar.
show.
You're officially in the pharmacy with Dr. Omar.
The pharmacy is on the Erlingham show.
Dr. Omar is the proprietor of Mechwan, Thamesville.
Well, Topia Pharmacy.
Let me ask you, Dr. Omar, your colleagues and others, do they like the little jingle, the little song that we play?
Yeah, they love it.
It's just very suitable for what we do.
It's perfect, isn't it?
Well, in this weather, like when someone walks into the pharmacy, they have to be in the pharmacy.
They'd rather be somewhere
else, you know?
So Dr. Omar was, again, for those who are just joining us, you're talking about probiotics and gut health.
Any other questions or comments you have, certainly are free.
You can call us and Dr. Omar will certainly address them.
So Dr. Omar was talking about
all these different types of probiotics.
How do you know which ones?
You can't do this just really nearly.
You really need to have some involvement with your, with your, I mean, with your doctor or your pharmacist, right?
Yeah.
So I want to simplify things because it can be very simple and it can be very complex, but I'll tell you something.
Let's say the lactobacillus.
bacteria.
This is the gut's best friend of families of probiotics.
I'll talk about three of them and I'll tell you something very cool.
Lactobacillus rhamnosis that you mentioned that supports digestion and prevents diarrhea.
All right, so it'll be higher concentration in the probiotics that help with that to prevent diarrhea.
Then there is Lactobacillus acidophilus.
helps to balance the gut flora and helps with lactose digestion.
So if someone with lactose intolerance, they would take probiotics rich in lactobacillus acidophilus.
And there is also lactobacillus plantarum that decreases inflammation, interleukin-6, which is an inflammatory marker, help to decrease it, helps to improve nutrient absorption.
These strains of probiotics bacteria are in the fermented foods like yogurt, sauerkraut,
and kimchi.
So if you eat them more, you're going to have these diverse bacteria and you might not need probiotics.
So sauerkraut, like when was the last time one of us had
sauerkraut?
Cardi, have you ever had sauerkraut?
I
don't like it
though.
It's not exactly top on the list.
You know, maybe when
corned beef, you know, uh, uh, what is it?
Um, cabbage?
No, no, no.
The, the, um, iris, iris that, um, iris, uh, I forgot what it's called.
When the corned beef and, and, and, uh, why am I having this, this, this brain funk right now?
But, you know, yeah.
Anyway, go ahead, Dr. Omar.
So I want to tell you like we are not eating the fermented foods that we need.
And when we start to eat the fermented foods, sometimes we're going to get worse, not get better because we don't have the weeding of the bad bugs in the gut.
So where do I start?
I get this question a lot.
I am having troubles in my gut.
Where do I start?
And I tell them we start with eating healthier, diversify what you eat.
And we have to decrease the inflammation in your gut.
And we have to work on putting the good bugs in your system, all right?
How do we do that?
Simply, I try to use probiotics that will have more than one thing.
We'll have the good bacteria, like good lactobacillus, and the food for the good bacteria.
I have something that I, in my pharmacy, a probiotics called Dr. Ohio Probiotics.
made by Japanese technology, Dr. Ohaira O-H-H-I-R-A.
It takes five years to make it.
They put the probiotics with fermented food for five years to be fermented.
So it becomes super concentrated, super fermented.
So if someone is having food poisoning, I have them take a number of the capsules, like three or four capsules twice a day.
And within a couple of days, the signs of the food poisoning that they have, it goes away.
And these are patients who are not going to take an antibiotic to treat this infection, because most of the time you would be told by the doctor, just keep drinking water and it's going to go on its own.
So this is one of the probiotics that I use for a certain cause.
I group it.
into one certain brand and I train my patients how to take it.
All right, how about after I get kind of an antibiotic and I need to do something after the antibiotic?
So that's when we have also something with high concentration of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium.
So it's like, you know, we try to group them into certain brands very well made.
and offer it with good direction.
How long do I need to take it?
Dr. Mahangir, let's go to Bill.
Bill, quickly, you say what?
All right, we lost him.
But let me, the word I was thinking about, Dr. Omar, was St.
Patrick's Day.
So St.
Patrick's Day, corned beef, and that's when I have sauerkraut.
I don't, you know, they kind of go hand in hand during St.
Patrick's Day, but during the rest of the year,
I'm as far away from, you know, sauerkraut as anything, but you just stayed it, you know, because it's got this unique taste.
And, you know, it's not something you, you know, want to partake in very
often.
The tradition of it, the tradition of it, but the fermented pickles, you know, we can find fermented foods that we like.
If we look deep enough, when you go to Costco, you find these fermented pickles, this is healthy food for your guy.
fermented pickles.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-2-8-4-2.
That's exactly what I'm going to do, Dr. Omao, and I'm finished going to get me some fermented pickles.
You know, I'll follow your advice with the fermented pickles.
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They'll be able to go on civicmedia.com.
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7 5 2 4 a
4 2 my
bad.
No problem, man.
Thank you very much.
Let's go to Ali.
Hey, good morning to you Ali.
Thank you very much for the call you say what?
Before we go any further Ali, how often do you eat?
That's
what I'm calling about is the sauerkraut.
I love good Reuben with sauerkraut corn.
Yeah, I do too.
And also a great way to get sauerkraut is to bake sauerkraut and spare ribs in your oven.
Also, just for a quick meal with sauerkraut, you can have sauerkraut with a cut up beef hot dog or a chicken sausage.
Those are all great ways to get in sauerkraut.
You know, Ali, you're right.
I love Rubens.
Yeah, that's when I get sauerkraut, but I'm not eating Rubens that often.
So Dr. How often do we need to be eating the sauerkraut?
So it's just fermented foods, you know.
When they did studies for people who live in the blue zones that they live healthier, longer, the big part of the study was the type of foods that they eat.
So they found always that their diets in five different places in the world one of those was in Italy one of those was in Japan and I think one a place in in California they found that those people are eating always diets that are rich in naturally fermented foods like in Okinawa Japan they eat Miso and Netto and
we might not be very familiar with netto here unless we take a certain supplement.
In Greece they are eating Greek yogurt and that's yogurt that has lactobacillus and bifidobacterium strains that do not contain large amount of sugar because unfortunately people eat here yogurt that has 30 and 35 grams of sugar that's like five or six tablespoons.
teaspoons of sugar.
That's a lot of sugar that kills the idea of having fermented food.
So Greek yogurt, kefir, fermented olives.
And then in Sardinia, Italy, they eat something called Pocorino, Romano cheese, a form of cheese that's aged.
And so it's kind of find the fermented food that you like.
Pickles, tempeh.
uh fermented vegetables so on a daily basis for the god diversity and if you don't like that if you don't want to eat them make probiotics as part of god diversity and if you don't like that if you don't want to eat them make probiotics as part of
i'm sorry go
ahead
dr umar
yeah i was telling you like top five women that go through menopause they won't have a lot of change i'm sorry go
ahead uh dr umar you got a relay on there i think
Inches
are in their body and one of it is gut
tells a relay on there.
I think
Is no better.
Can you hear
me
better now?
Go ahead doctor.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was telling you the general idea is to eat fermented.
Go ahead.
All right.
Thank you.
We got we got I was just telling you the general idea is to eat fermented.
No, how about now?
No, no, we got we get we got we get How
about now
all right
All right, we've got a
We've got a I'm gonna try and fix this real quick.
Give me one second
All right, all right, okay,
we
got it go ahead.
All right, so the fermented foods
All right.
Okay.
I think we got it.
Go ahead.
All right.
So we don't
have it.
Is the idea
with
a doctor.
My pickles.
No, no, we
don't have it.
Uh, let's hang on.
Dr. Mark.
Hang on.
How about that guys?
We're gonna
Sorry about that, guys.
We're going to put this down.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Let's try it again, Dr. Omar.
All right.
All right.
So we were talking about fermented foods.
Let's try it again,
Dr. Omar.
All right.
All right.
So we were talking about fermented foods and
longevity.
Do you want to go to a break?
I don't know.
What do you want to do?
Cardi, Cardi, do you
want to
go to
a break and
see if we can?
A very important question is why fermented foods matter for longevity?
No.
So
this is
a very important question is why fermented foods matter for longevity?
No.
This is this is we
still don't have
it.
Let's take a quick break real quick.
Hey, Dr. We're gonna take a quick break and hang on on the lines.
We'll be right with you.
All right.
Hang on on the lines.
We'll be right with you.
All right, Dr. Omar, let's try it again.
Go ahead, sir.
All right,
Dr.
Omar.
I don't know, Cardi.
Let's try this.
Let's try going to the phone lines with Mary and see if that'll do it.
Mary, how you doing?
Thank you very much for the call.
You say what?
Let's,
let's do this.
Dr. Omar, hang up, call back, and let's try that.
So Mary hang on while we, uh, see if we can get this technical, uh, issue worked out.
Uh, but Mary, you know, um, probiotics, um, certainly something that, you know, I don't recall ever having taken probiotics in my life.
Dr. Omar, let's try it again.
I don't recall ever having taken probiotics in my life.
No.
Dr. Omar, call us at 855-752-4842.
Let's try that.
855-752-4842.
All right.
Uh, you know, technical difficulties happen from time to time.
And, uh, we want to apologize for that, but we're going to try to work through it.
Um, girl, I've been taking a probiotic for years now and I'm under the care of a functional medicine doctor.
So I'm just so grateful for, you know, this, this advice from him.
You know, you know, Mary, um, why did you, why did you know?
that what happened that made you think that you needed to take probiotics?
And at what time in your life did that happen?
Actually, I didn't know myself.
I had no symptoms, no GI symptoms, but it was just a regular protocol by the functional medicine doctor who said, do this for your health.
So for years, I've been taking one.
And so
really
great.
You know, you heard the doctor talking about, you know, different things that you can take where you would not even have to to take probiotics, you know, in the foods that you eat.
And you're very cautious and careful about the foods that you eat.
You know, I don't know, I
guess.
Okay.
confidence in my knowledge about diet.
And so I take the probiotic just to, you know, supplement, you know, my, my, my diet.
Okay, Mary, hang on a second.
Okay, Dr. Omar, we, Dr. Omar, you're there.
I'm
here.
I can hear you very well.
Okay.
All right.
So, so Mary, you can call back.
And, uh, and we'll work it through.
Dr, you were saying, uh, before we had the technical difficulties.
I was saying that longevity and probiotics goes hand in hand.
Because the longer that you can keep your gut healthier.
It's going to be easier to always get the good healthy nutrients from the foods that you eat.
So.
That's why I am saying recommending take a shelf stable probiotics for six months in one year.
That will be minimum, I would say.
A good healthy probiotics is one of the very important supplements that we recommend to any woman during menopause.
The time that the body changes and there is bloating, there is gas, there is...
in the body composition because there is hormonal imbalances.
One of the things that help us to bring that balance back is to take probiotics rich in electobacillus, saccharomyces bulardi, and other things to support the gut health.
You know, Dr. Amar says, but you'll want to be careful because all probiotics are created equal.
are not not all probiotics are created equal and with so much clutter on the market is tough to know which ones are actually effective.
I agree with you and then there is playing on the number they tell you the higher the number of strains the better this is 20 billion 30 billion 50 billion and many times the lower number is better it's more about the strains of what to use we as practitioners get
to be confused about the different types out there.
So, I recommend that you always have guidance with the type of probiotics that's suitable for you in general and suitable for the health condition you're looking for.
Dr. Omar, hang on.
Mary, hang on.
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We hope we have the technical difficulties worked out.
No, there it is, Dr. Omar.
We're still facing.
Okay.
All right, so we're back.
I think we got it worked out.
Cardi, we're back.
We're okay.
Okay, Rose, I mean, Mary, you were saying Dr. Omar can go ahead, Mary.
Hi, Earl.
And I have a couple of quick questions for Dr. Omar specifically about eating sauerkraut.
I'm wondering if the product that is sold on the grocer's shelf, that is a quality product, or do we need to look for one that's refrigerated?
And also, how often do we need to be eating like sauerkraut?
Is it daily need or is weekly consumption sufficient?
Thank you.
Mary always has great questions.
Dr. Omar.
We have Dr. Omar.
I would say weekly would be okay, but just eating fermented foods, naturally fermented food, not pasteurized.
is what we look for, because the naturally fermented are the ones that have the life probiotic bacteria.
So the ones that are naturally fermented is what you need to eat with whatever you find it, all right?
So the ones that are non-refrigerated are equal to no probiotics.
The shelf-stable ones are typically pasteurized, which kills the beneficial bacteria.
And you always start small, like one to two tablespoons per day.
You mean of the probiotic?
I mean, sauerkraut.
Oh, sauerkraut.
Oh,
only one to two tablespoons a day.
Oh, I mean, that's
something, that's something that's... You don't need a lot.
You don't need a lot.
Yeah, that's something, and Mary did say, you know, the stuff you're buying on the shelf.
in the cans and no telling how long they've been there.
That you don't encourage.
That's our typically pasteurized that kills pasteurization process kills the beneficial bacteria.
So I think the ones that are saturated will be would be always better because these ones will have the life probiotics bacteria.
All right, let's
go.
Oh, go ahead, Dr. Omar.
I just want to say like probiotics also goes the different way with the probiotics themselves because now the technology of making the probiotics shelf stable is makes the best probiotics always shelf stable.
So you don't need to take many of the good probiotics from the fridge.
Look for the ones from reputable companies that follow the research in using the correct strains with the right concentration.
like from orphan molecular, microbiome labs, xymogen.
These companies have excellent probiotics for different purposes, but they need guidance.
What's for the gut?
What's for the brain?
What's for diarrhea?
What's for constipation, et cetera?
Cardi, let's just bring up our next caller.
And who do we have?
This is Dave from Milwaukee.
Okay,
Dave.
Yes.
Question to
comment.
Yes, Dr. Omar.
Um, we know that, uh, from science, uh, uh, the, the good bacteria in the microbiome feeds on fiber.
Could you speak to the importance of a high fiber diet for a healthy microbiome?
Because this is one of the biggest mistakes people do with probiotics.
Probiotics need prebiotics.
Prebiotics are the fiber that are needed to make the bacteria thrive.
Taking probiotics without those prebiotics or fiber or foods rich in fiber makes the probiotics have limited effect in the body.
Because when we take probiotics, they live in the gut.
two to three months, and then they wither and die.
And that's the Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium.
When we have fiber, it makes them feed and grow and stay for those three months.
But also it's important to say that there is other strains of probiotics, or the spore, or based probiotics.
These spores, they are living in the harsh condition until they reach the intestines.
and be helped to crowd and encourage the natural good healthy bacteria in the gut to live and grow.
But also, taking fiber is going to always be helpful foods that are rich in fiber and that's why we encourage to eat salads and to shop from the, not from the middle of the.
department store, but from the ages where you can see the tomatoes, you can see the different vegetables and fruits, these are important to feed the healthy, good bacteria.
Even if you take probiotics and if you do not take probiotics, but excellent point.
You know, Dr. Omar, I wish we had more time.
I want to apologize for our technical difficulties.
And, and certainly, yeah, but it's a great topic.
It's a great subject.
If people want to get in touch with you, how do they do it?
They can call at 262-429-9429 and we'll answer them right away.
All right, Dr. Oma, we will see you in a week.
Thank you very much as always.
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