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Presently Present with Mama, Papa & Babs!
Recorded: Jan. 17, 2026 Duration: 1:03:19Space Recording
Short Summary
In a lively discussion, participants explored the launch of Toasted Pastries NFTs on Grave Mint, emphasizing the importance of gut health and its connection to mental well-being, while also highlighting emerging trends in holistic health within the crypto community.
Full Transcription
We hope people show up today.
Oh, what's good, legit?
That's a nice PFP you got there.
Pop-tarts.
Toasted pastries, my bad.
Papa corrected me. I always have to push a lot of buttons.
Our guest of honor is here, Babs.
Hello, Mama.
Hello, Papa.
Good to see you all. Good to see you all good to see you too yeah hello no credits and legit and tamif we've had a couple we got a couple um pfp changes there
i know i feel like everybody's changing their outfits i know what's up with that? Maybe it's a January thing. I don't know.
Yeah, they're like, new year, new whatever.
I know. I don't... Oh, yeah. Okay. I couldn't see his PFP at first.
I did not catch the reference initially, but no credits.
His is actually off of the Jurassic Park.
The imagery, like the colors.
We're just going to give it a couple more minutes,
see who else we can get in here.
I was talking and I had myself muted.
I think he's worn this one before.
Has he? Okay.
I just had never caught the reference,
so he had to tell me yesterday. Yeah, yeah. That's good because I wouldn had never caught the reference so he had to tell me yesterday yeah
yeah i that's good because i wouldn't have caught the reference either
okay i'm gonna shut up now and go repost space you're good Thank you. Damn, we got toasted pastries in here.
Nice.
What's popping?
Toasted pastries.
Toasted pastries.
Exactly.
How are you, Papa Bear?
Been a while.
Since I heard your voice.
Yeah, good.
Nice, nice.
It's been a while.
I don't know why, but I've been on,
my life has been so crazy. I mean, maybe it's a a while i don't know why but i've been on i've been my my life has been so crazy i mean
maybe it's a couple days that's it feels like it's a long while when you come to space every
day and you know you aren't there for a day or so it feels like it's a long time
yeah i know i get that yeah i don't know why like it just um this week has been really weird. Yeah. I agree.
It's been a weird week for me, too.
Very weird week.
It's all right.
Did you see these toasted pastries, though, Babs?
They're minting right now.
Started at
2 p.m. Eastern Standard.
And it's on the
Grave Mint.
I can't wait to see who's behind the account, honestly.
That's a gauge.
Oh, it's a gauge.
How's it going?
It's all good.
Yeah, so this is my collection here.
And it's something I've had going for a while.
Obviously, you guys know I also CTO'd the Crazy Chickens.
And whenever I did that, that was kind of a little bit of a taste of all that.
But yeah, it was kind of cool being able to actually get this launching and going.
And on Gravement, of all places, is always a pleasure.
And just, you know, always a fun process. So that's it, man.
We're launched right now on Gravement since 2 o'clock today, Eastern.
You can grab you some toasted pastries for 0.08 Solana.
So they're pretty affordable and they're pretty tight.
So, you know, all the weed heads out there, go grab a couple and let's keep doing this thing.
That's right.
No, it's good to see you, Gage.
I was thinking, does...
Sorry, I was about to choke there.
I do this on space.
Do the crazy chickens eat toasted pastries?
That's what I was thinking.
I mean, I'm not thinking that they're going to necessarily eat them.
Okay, okay.
But they're friends.
They're friends.
Okay, they're homies.
I got it.
Yeah.
You down there laughing at me, mankind.
Son of a!
Okay, got my co-hosts in order.
Everybody go check them out.
Go get yourself a toasted pastry.
We were talking about them, though, because they were making us think of Pop-Tarts.
Yeah, that was like the irony there, you know.
My bad. I don't know if I just cut someone off. Sorry.
No, you're good. Go ahead.
No, I was just saying that was kind of like the ironic thing.
You know, it is a toasted pastry, but you know they're they're all high and
you know they got their thing going so check them out they got cool traits and it's it's fun it's
fun nfts yeah i i am happy about the nfts pumping lately though i mean i've seen a little bit of
movement so it's good to see all righty well everybody if you guys will make a comment and let's get this room reposted
um we're just trying to get some maybe tag a couple friends um today is a space with babs
and you know if it's a space with babs it's always special so we can get started whenever
you would like madame of course you call on me exactly when I picked up my water to drink my water
yeah sorry about that I know and me I tried to um I have this really weird thing that happens to me
sometimes if I'm talking and I have something in my mouth I freeze and I can't swallow it
so that's what happened to me before and then I almost choked. So I think it's like a nervous thing.
Yeah. So I always try to make sure I don't have anything ever in my mouth when I'm on spaces.
Okay. Yeah. I always have my water with me. I don't know why. Oh God, me too. I,
I drink a lot of water and I drink out of the same cup. I just bought myself a new cup, but I haven't given myself permission to use it yet damn it so oh go use it go use it yes oh gosh Babs I know I had a pair of shoes that Papa bought me
and it took me over a year probably damn near a year and a half to wear them so yeah I gotta
I gotta work on those things man yeah life is. Life is short, man. Wear those shoes, girl.
Wear those shoes.
I love it.
We're just funny humans.
That's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I don't know if you all saw what our space is about today.
We'll see.
I had a really fun little image.
I don't know if you want to put that up.
But we're talking gut mind stuff.
So we're going to actually talk about gut health which you're like what the heck are we talking about
gut health um on a presently present space but where we go from what do you say papa bear from
dgen to zen in 0.06 seconds or something like that a big part of that zen is the gut health most people don't
know this but um you know what gut health and your digestive system is a huge um part of
well-being so we're going to talk about practical ways to care for it um we're going to talk about
why we're even talking about gut health and why that's important for mental well-being and overall well-being.
So one of the big things is that most people don't know is that like over 90 percent of our serotonin in our body, which is serotonin is the happy chemical that most people think is produced
in your brain, but actually over 90% of your serotonin is produced in your gut.
So if your digestive system is not healthy, you are not getting enough serotonin.
So this is like the one little hack that I want to make sure people out there know is
that you got to work on your gut health if you want to be, if you want to have that happy chemical serotonin bouncing around in your body.
Because like, it's, it's a medical fact that, yeah.
I was just going to say, I think I heard recently that it's considered like your second brain.
I think we're learning a lot about it, though.
That's for sure.
We're learning a ton about our gut health and also our heart. But your gut, yeah. So the gut and the brain, there's this thing called your
vagus nerve, which is one of the central nerves in your body. And it's constantly communicating
between the brain and your gut. So there's a lot of things that don't flow into your brain because
there's what's called a blood brain barrier. But this vagus nerve takes all these little chemicals
that are safe for your brain to use. And it brings it up to the brain from your gut. So if you don't,
if your gut isn't healthy, you're not, these chemicals aren't moving and they aren't getting
to your brain because they're not, there chemicals aren't moving and they aren't getting to your brain
because they're not, there's not enough being produced within your gut system. So super,
super important. And one of the things that's also super important is that chronic stress
disrupts digestion. It disrupts the whole, it's called, there's there, it's called a microbiome.
So I feel kind of so amazing.
Like, okay.
So if you unfolded your intestines, like, cause they've got all these little bumps and
divots in it.
If you unfolded your intestines for the average human being, it would fit a football field.
Wait, football field.
It is there.
It's huge.
You're, you don't realize like, it's like, if you stretch it all out, it's is there it's huge you're you don't realize like it's like if you
stretch it all out it's like it's it's a crazy little system inside your gut um and so they're
always it's always trying to get it's got its own kind of like this microbiome so it's got its own
little um own little environment that that that likes to stay in what's called homeostasis
that likes to stay in a, um, like a happy, a happy state. Um, there's different parts of your body
that are, that do that also, but your gut also loves to be like healthy. It's got, um, these,
these, these, um, bacteria in it. They're healthy bacteria for you because it helps you break
down all your foods and stuff, but it gets disrupted. It's kind of like, if you think
of it, like it's kind of like a jungle and let's say all of a sudden there stops, there's stop,
it stops watering in the jungle. There's like the rainforest kind of is gets depleted of rain,
everything changes. Or if some kind of logging company comes in and they mow down all the trees that
screws up the whole environment it's the same thing in our guts like when we take certain
chemicals when we take some some even some medications um and we don't we don't try and
build that up that like our whole good gut bacteria kind of just goes out the window
so like have any has anybody who's been up here
like taking an antibiotic and then they get the runs or they end up like their gut is just
miserable. Anyone? I know there's lots of people up here. I don't know. I'm not going to. I thought
Papa, I thought Papa was going to jump in on this one. I have been told and I have heard that after
you take an antibiotic, it actually gets rid
of all of the good bacteria and the bad bacteria.
And that's where it just wastes you out.
And I also read, and I'm not sure if this is true, that it can take three months for
that microbiome, I think is the word you use, for it to build back up to a healthy state,
which is mind- blowing from one medication.
Yeah, I don't know the exact the exact time, but it can take a very, very, very long time.
So part of my journey with this was I went to Africa for a little bit.
I was doing some work out there and I got myself a very nice little parasite that liked to take up residence
in my gut, which I didn't even know about. And I lived there for years and I couldn't figure out
what the heck was going on. I was so sick for so long. Were you losing weight? Oh, I was totally,
totally skinny. Yeah. And then I think it just changed the whole flora. Eventually I went to
go see a naturopath and started doing some work on gut health and started clearing up all of that
and got rid of the parasite. But then I ended up with all these other issues that I didn't know I
had. So that's just kind of like what got me into this. So I just want to talk a little bit about
it because it's so important for everybody.
So like, so when our gut feels like you even said, it's when the gut feels unsafe, when it feels inflamed, when it's under stress, our mind often follows because like I said,
when the gut isn't healthy, it can't produce the chemicals that our brain needs
to be healthy, or it can't produce it in the right amount of quantities. So for me, whenever people
come to me and say, like, how are you, if they're feeling pretty down, if it's been, if they're
struggling with depression or something like that, one of the first things I always work with people
is like, okay, how's your gut? What's going on in your gut? And let's see if that will help in addition to doing other stuff. So I think it's super important to look at that. So
yeah. Anybody else have any thoughts on that before we move into some of, there's some
practicals. We're going to talk to be pretty practical about some stuff that we can do to help our gut.
But does anybody else feel like,
how does stress show up in your digestive system?
We have to call on Tricky
because I know he doesn't come unless he's called on.
So Tricky Buddha.
Do you have any?
Yeah, feel free.
Yeah, interrupt anytime, Alamara.
I don't like calling on people because I don't like to put people on the spot
But Tricky, talk to us
It's Tricky Buddha from Defy Space Donkeys
There was a lot of easy jokes there
I'm trying to behave
Oh man, what was I actually going to say that wasn't inappropriate
Oh, how does that manifest in my digestion?
Blood!
Oh my god, Tricky.
That is not good.
He just said blood and then he turns off his mic.
Oh, there's that.
I'm not even joking.
If someone were to hack my phone, I could actually just keep my seed phrases in my phone
because if someone were to hack my phone they'd go through the photos and they'd instantly be like
fuck no i'm not going through this camera roll
that's funny tricky do you notice though like with your stress do you what does your gut health
like really act up when you are stressed out like do you see a difference oh yeah yeah directly autoimmune is like directly connected to stress
so any kind of stress it could be like drinking alcohol working out uh being sick from a cold
uh bad medication fucking the wind blew the wrong direction like you don't know it's just you don't know how it's gonna react but yeah it
gets fucked up easy uh and i mean i'll have arguments with someone um which doesn't happen
very often but but when i do uh it's like i gotta go to sleep after that like if i don't go to sleep
after that it yeah it gets bad uh i've I've been in flares for a long time,
just because I was so stressed out living with my dad, I didn't even know what the hell was going
on at the time, so, yeah, you gotta maintain your vibe and de-stress, and a lot of that is just good
sleep, honestly, um, it's good to have a friend or a therapist that you can kind of, like, you know,
It's good to have a friend or a therapist that you can kind of like, you know, talk things through to gain like more perspective.
But in general, you know, anti-anxiety meds seem to help me a little too.
You know, but not everyone, you know, can be on medication.
So, yeah.
And most of those anxiety medications aren't very good.
I like the Buspirone.
It's very mild.
It looks like Xanax bars, but it's not anything like it.
Xanax leaves me angry the next day and groggy.
Yeah, that's not cool.
Yeah, not cool.
Not cool, yeah.
How's the tea going, Babs?
How did you try it?
What's going on?
Yeah, I started the tea.
It was not happy.
It didn't make my tummy happy.
And it affected my sleep.
Because that's what we were talking about.
So if your tummy isn't happy, you don't sleep so well.
So I think there was something in it that didn't go well with me.
So I kind of paused it.
Yeah.
So yeah. We can talk about it, too, if you want to call me whenever. that did not didn't go well with me so i kind of paused yeah so yeah well let's um let's we can
talk about it too if you want to call me whenever but um were you using like a teaspoon or a
tablespoon how much were you using per cup because you could oh wait it was a small amount okay it
was a small amount yeah maybe i could have put it back down maybe as you try eating it with food
because if i eat any kind of things without food, sometimes medicines and stuff like that, they kind of impact.
Yeah.
But if you eat it with food, then I don't know.
We can go back over and see what your allergies are and see if there's anything I could do to modify it.
Because basically I have a big, huge group of herbs, and then some things I took out because I'm allergic to it.
huge group of herbs and then some things I took out because I'm allergic to it and then anything
that interacts with like chemicals or other people's drugs or birth control I took out all
those ingredients so I ended up with like a you know a friendly a public friendly version you
know that's not going to hurt anyone hopefully but but yeah there, if you're allergic to one of those ingredients, that's all it takes, you know?
Yeah, you never know.
And that's, that's the truth.
That's part of what we're talking about today is like kind of listening to your gut.
I think that that's what's important is listening and figuring out slowly over time what, what is helpful for you and what isn't helpful for you.
It could be healed in a matter of days.
It could take months,
but typically it's like one to two months to like completely inoculate your
gut biome and like recover.
And that's if you have like good probiotics and you're doing the right
things.
Yeah,
exactly.
And that's exactly what we're going to transition to talking to right now is the
what he was saying the probiotics so a lot of people have heard the term probiotics but
this is important to talk about because this is what probiotics and prebiotics are two really
important things in your gut and so the probiotics are actually, they're living live beneficial
bacteria, microorganisms that help digestion, immune function, and help regulate your mood.
They really influence how much serotonin your gut can produce. They also reduce inflammation.
And if you're, especially inflammation in your gut and in your body, that can 100% affect mood
and your mental clarity. And if you've got a good probiotic, like a good healthy microorganism. So
think about like, if you're, if you're planting a plant, if you, you want a really probiotic, like a good, healthy microorganism. So think about like, if you're,
if you're planting a plant, if you, you want a really good soil, you know, and if you want to
have a really big luscious plant, that's the same thing in your gut. You want to have a really
healthy soil, which is your, your probiotics. And so they're super easy with that before you're
going out buying expensive like probiotics, you can
buy it. You can buy them. You want to make sure they got live cultures and stuff like that in them,
but there's a lot, um, you can, you can use yogurt. Um, if you, if you tolerate it,
plain unsweetened, if possible, um, kefir is an other great source of, uh, of a food that
naturally contains, um, probiotics in it.
Sauerkraut.
I don't know if any meals like sauerkraut, but I love sauerkraut, kimchi, miso, tempeh.
So there's a variety of things you can even look in the internet.
There's a bunch of look up foods that, that have that support that support probiotics
that have probiotics in them.
You don't need a lot. And so start small, small, consistent is better than large, huge doses.
You know, because if you're going to go back to the good soil, if you just dump a whole bunch of
soil in on, on top of some seeds, it's not going to grow so if you but if you if you just
gently tend the soil and care for it then it will grow over time better than if you just dump a
whole bunch into it um but again everybody's body is different so just be aware ask your body okay
what what does this does this work i love miso soup so that's a great way i have yogurt every day
um there's there's a whole way. I have yogurt every day.
There's, there's a whole bunch of other things that you can have that help.
One thing that people don't often think about is what's called prebiotics and tricky. I see your hand up. Let me finish prebiotics and then I'll get to you with, with that. So prebiotics
are what the probiotics eat. So prebiotics is the food for the good bacteria. So they help
that good bacteria, the probiotics thrive. And also the prebiotics support blood sugar.
And so some of those food, the food-based kind of sources for that are oats. So like if you like oatmeal or
granola bars, those kinds of things without not too much sugar, garlic, onions, leeks, asparagus,
bananas, especially if you want slightly green bananas. I really don't like that. That's not,
I don't, I don't like green bananas, but they work. Apples, flaxseed. So prebiotics, a lot of people forget about prebiotics and they're just as important,
if not more important than the probiotics because your gut kind of produces naturally those
probiotics, but you obviously want to help them out sometimes. But the prebiotics that you get
that from food, that's what you really need to get that from food to feed that, feed the good, healthy microbiome. All right. Tricky, what's up? So there's a couple
ways that you can speed up the process, but they're weird. I've never had a fecal transplant,
but that is one way you can actually inoculate your, the lower part of your, of your gut biome,
inoculate your the lower part of your of your gut biome of your intestinal biome
yeah it's kind of weird but that is a thing and I have a probiotic that and
you're completely right about probiotics by the way a hundred percent I and I've
switched to fruit instead of candy basically because I'm allergic to most
things so I'm eating lots of apples and bananas and every kind of fruit I can
get my hands on and maybe put a little peanut butter on there so it's got some protein.
Yeah, apples and peanut butter are like my new favorite snack.
The honey peanut butter?
But anyway, so the probiotic I got is, well, for perspective,
there's a billion cultures in a good yogurt, right?
Like one billion cultures, if you're lucky. Some of it is going to burn up in your stomach, but most of it is good. My prescription is for a packet that I take, it's 900 billion.
Like, I feel like that can inoculate your system a lot, a lot faster.
Prescription strength.
So if you've just gone through a bout of antibiotics, right, or, you know, or you just want to, you know, re-inoculate,
yeah, I would ask your doctor, especially if you have good insurance.
A prescription might only cost you, you know, 5, 10, 15 bucks. And now you've got the prescription strength.
Mine has to be kept in the freezer or refrigerator.
I can tell you what it is.
It's called VSL number three probiotic medical food.
So that's what I would recommend really, because insurance, I mean, that's going to be your most cost effective solution.
Yeah,
for sure.
If you can,
if you can get your insurance to pay for it and yeah,
and then be careful with that and be,
see how your body reacts would be the only other thing to,
to just give a caveat because that's a huge ton.
Eat food.
Yeah.
Start with less than you think you'll need.
Absolutely.
Yeah, because your body is, yeah, everybody's
different. Everybody's different. Yeah.
So, yeah, very cool. I was going to say, that's
probably one of the biggest things, challenges,
Babs, is there's so much stuff out
there, and I don't ever know what is
the good stuff. You know what I mean?
Because then I think I find
something and people are like,
oh my God, that has so many toxins and crap in it. I'm like, damn it.
You've got a research analyst that wouldn't mind helping you out in the room. So let's go.
Yeah, turkey will be great. And I can also help you look at stuff. My rule of thumb is if it's
got a whole bunch of other things and added ingredients, I just pass it because you
don't need added ingredients for most of this stuff. And most of us, unless we've had some
really bad gut problems can do a lot by being conscious of the foods that we're eating and
being conscious of caring for our, our food. So these are some couple of things that I want to
just go over really quickly.
A couple more foods that help kind of support kind of this gut and mind kind of access. So
fiber rich plants, like he was saying, I'm not sure if I'm thinking of fecal transplant. I just
think, I don't even know if y'all need to know what that is, but if you can just think about it. It is uncomfortable.
It's an uncomfortable situation to process in your brain.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. That's just, that's just like, no, thank you.
Yeah. Hard pass.
Yeah.
Hard pass on that one for me.
Thank you very much.
Even though I've done some crazy stuff when I had to, when I, when my whole system was
my, when my whole system was really bad. So yeah. So fiber rich, fiber rich plant foods,
really bad.
So yeah.
amazing for motility and a microbial diversity. So vegetables, berries, legumes, seeds,
unless you've got Crohn's or any other type of digestive ongoing issue. Sometimes the berries
and the seeds will kind of get,
it will really be irritating. So obviously if you've got some kind of chronic condition,
this is not, this is not, don't listen to me. Um, healthy fats, um, avocados, nuts, seeds,
olive oil are your healthy fats. Um, they support brain and gut signaling. So it helps your gut and brain
communicate and reduces inflammation. Protein helps the support the gut lining. And it also
helps with neurotransmitter production, eggs, fish, legumes, tofu, poultry, those kinds of things.
A lot of times people, red meats can be tolerated for some people.
I'm going to get to something down here a little bit later, but red meats can be really hard for some folks to digest. So listen to your body, listen to your body, and then two more, and then
I'll get, get to your hand tricky. Warm cooked foods. They're often easier to digest during
stress. Soup, stews, roasted vegetables.
So if you're stressed, warm your food.
So it helps break down, helps break it down a little bit already.
If you're not in a stress state and if you feel like that's pretty happy, then you can
just go without having to have it.
You know, you can go the more of the fresh route.
There's some other type of polyphenol rich foods. They're basically, they're really good to
feed beneficial bacteria. So that's like berries, dark chocolate, green tea and some different herbs.
They're also kind of like a prebiotic thing. Yeah. What's he got tricky.
I see your hand up or am I the only one seeing his hand up?
I was like, I don't think I have my hand up.
One thing, you know,
like all the things that we've been passed down all the little,
if all got like a meaning or an origination. And this is just good. An apple
a day keeps the doctor away. Yeah. Cause you ought, you need to have a little bit of prebiotics
every day to keep your gut biome intact. And that's where like 60% of your serotonin is coming
from. So, you know, if you're not in a good mood, you're stressing out your body. Now you've got
all your organs last, you know, less, less time when you're, when you're stressed out. So you've got to have a prebiotic. And that's just a hilarious thing to think though,
right? An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Yeah, that makes sense.
Maybe they should say an apple a day keeps a psychiatrist away. Um, that might be a good
thing. And Jerky, so you're saying 60% of the research I've been looking at lately has said
over there finding it's over 90% of your serotonin is produced in the time.
I mean, it could be like a newer study that has a higher range.
But, yeah, I remember learning it was like 60, but it varies so drastically depending on the person that it's kind of like almost irrelevant.
It's good. Just
do it. Just take care of that biome. It's way more than half of the, you know, so it's definitely
something that's worth looking at, right? Even if it was just 10% of your serotonin, right? 10%
of your serotonin would be enough for me to be like, oh, well, we should check that out. It's
probably, that's probably worth the time, you know?
But yeah, I'll do a little thing and see what the current averages are.
Hold on.
Yeah, that's at least what I was reading in my latest research and digging into this. Okay, so I want to go into just a couple of things that are like,
we've got like eight different practical everyday gut care.
All right. One, it's not always easy. I'm not saying that I do all of these things and I'm not
saying that it's easy. All right. But if we can, as much as we can, it was helpful for this gut.
for this gut. Eat in a calm state. So just that digestive, the whole digestive system works
when the nervous system feels safe. It works much better when the whole nervous system,
since remember we're talking about the vagus nerve is super entwined within the gut.
It's really connected in there. So just as much as you're able to just pause take a breath before you eat i this would be so
beneficial for me like just sit down one slow breath before we eat maybe we can see it maybe
you know everybody in this space took just one calm breath before we
eat i think we would be all of us would be so much better off and just have you know oh do
amazing things okay number two chewing chewing is as good as medicine so we don't think about this, but digestion actually starts, begins in
your mouth. The breaking down of the food particles, actually things become better absorbed,
the better they are chewed. So you chew your food until it's soft. You just don't gulp it down, chew your food.
This kind of reduces the workload that your stomach and your gut has to do. And if it's
already partly chewed, it helps reduce inflammation. So take a breath, chew your food.
take a breath, chew your food, um, regularity over perfection. Um, the gut loves like the rest
of us. It loves to just have a similar rhythm. Um, so like similar meal times matter more than
kind of perfect diets. Like, so keep your gut in a rhythm so it knows what to expect. So it knows,
oh, it's going to be time for me to start setting out some of these secretions of this acid.
I mean, that comes when the food hits the stomach, but the gut loves that rhythm.
So just slow it down.
Slow down.
Slow down.
Keep it.
You were correct as well.
Oh, go ahead.
Yes, you are correct.
90 to 95 percent in the gastrointestinal tract.
Majority of it in the lining.
Like, yeah, like you said.
And then 5 to 10 percent is made just by your nervous system.
Which is crazy.
That's insane.
Why don't people talk about this more?
Like, that's your happy chemical, guys.
This is what keeps you happy and balanced. And like, we all think, Oh,
it's because we were so in the West.
We're so fricking caught up in our brain that the brain is like the best thing
ever. But your gut is actually fricking amazing.
So they work together. So yeah.
And even anti, anti psychotics, antidepressants, anti-anxieties, they all work with different ways of controlling your serotonin or helping with changing the receptors.
So if you don't have the serotonin that you're generating to begin with, none of those things are going to even work properly.
Correct.
Yeah.
If your gut isn't healthy, none of those will work well because you don't have
enough serotonin to make a difference. So yeah. All right. Hydration. Okay. We all talked about
this. Mama Bear and I were talking about this earlier. Hydration is water. If you can't stand
water, I put tea bags in my water. I put a little bit of drop of lemon. I actually sometimes do
apple cider vinegar,
whatever, so that you just keep hydrated. Nobody likes to be constipated. No, it's nasty. Nobody
likes to be constipated. And the gut doesn't like it when it's constipated. It's not pleasant for
it. So yeah, it's better to sip the water like we're talking about, that consistency,
smaller over a long time, sip that water between the meals rather than chugging water.
About a gallon a day is actually appropriate.
And 15 minutes in the sun,
like in the desert could be another bottle working out for about 15 minutes.
That could be another bottle as well,
but you should be drinking at least a half a gallon, upwards of a gallon,
if you're really trying to be healthy. Really, it depends on your body. So what I say is you
should pee clear at least once a day. Yeah. Aim for clear pee. If your pee is dark,
even if it's bright yellow, no, we're looking for clear. We want like water,
almost water looking pee. That's very
helpful. And it's also very healthy for your kidneys on a whole other level. We won't talk,
we won't get into there. All right. Stress. We've talked enough about stress, but basically
if you're stressed, your, your blood goes to your head and to your, to other parts of your body
and moves it away from your digestion. And then things get stuck and gets constipated
and stuff like that. So gentle movement after eating, like even if you just go for it, and
it's hard to do. I've been trying to do this myself lately. Just go for a little walk or gentle
stretching, or like I've got a little stair step. I just get on the stepper for 15 minutes. Super
helpful. Just move a little bit after eating. Candy, I see your hand up. Let
me go. I've got two more things and then I'll get you. Listening instead of forcing. So listen to
your gut. Symptoms, gut symptoms are just information. Don't shame yourself. Don't blame
yourself. Just it's information. If your gut isn't happy ask okay what can i do
different okay what did i eat i have too much of this what's what's going on am i too stressed
because your gut has got so many sensory receptors like it's incredible how many
sensory receptors have and if you just begin to tune into them it can tell you so much
um again like i said shame there's no shame there's no rigidity in any of this. That's the
last thing. Self-compassion is gut care. So when you're doing any of these changes, like
learn to care for yourself, be gentle with yourself, be gentle with your gut
as you're learning all these things. Yes, Candy.
things. Yes, Candy. I just had a comment on the water. You were saying it's better to
sip it all day. I do agree. That is good. Being a mom and always turning to coffee,
and always turning to coffee, I learned that chugging a, you know, like a standard water
bottle, like, you know, the dollar water bottle that you get, that standard size, chugging
that whole thing actually gives you enough, as much energy as coffee.
So I just thought it was funny because when you said sip on it all day,
I actually have a challenge with myself that if I'm going to go grab a bottle of water,
I'm going to chug the whole thing because then I get like, I get that little pep in my step of the
water, like coffee, you know, waking you up. And you actually really do notice that if you if you
chug the water you know like drink it all um and then also in the morning time like as soon as you
get up and you drink a big you know there's real tall skinny smart waters if you drink that whole
thing right when you wake up like you are off to an awesome day. But yeah, just, just my personal challenge with myself is if I
pick up a bottle of water, I'm going to drink the whole bottle like right away. And then too,
I feel better because then I don't have to keep thinking I'm dehydrated because I'm like, no,
I just pounded water. You get so dehydrated throughout the night. A lot of people don't
realize it, especially if you like sleep with your mouth open or something like that.
But you're constantly transpiring.
So there's a lot of things that actually say it's really good to do that, to chug a bottle
of water when you first wake up for a couple of reasons.
Your stomach and everything's super active right then.
You're dehydrated, so you need it anyway.
But then also coffee, first thing in the morning,
they did a study and they showed that if you drink water and then have the coffee in 30,
45 minutes after you wake up versus getting up and having the coffee, then the caffeine
actually does its job better. So when you wake up, you should chug a bottle of water,
you should do some pushups, some pull-ups,
stretch, make sure you're kind of like stretch your legs, maybe some lunges or just like take a little bit of a walk. Like five minutes is really, you know, just a good starter for the
day. And you're going to, yeah, it's going to, it makes a huge difference. Chug a bottle of water,
walk around the block, make sure you're nice and like stretched out. Um, kind of like your brain
will slowly wake up because you're walking um
also i like to do like any kind of hand coordinated thing um is good to wake up as well that's why i
like it's i do nunchucks in the morning like it's like you got you have to be awake to do that
so you start them spinning and then you quickly yeah that might be a real bad thing tricky hit
yourself in the face with the fucking nunchucks.
Right.
Well, there's some things I just don't practice.
Like, are they around the head chucks?
And, like, yeah, there's some tricks you don't need to do.
I, you know.
Agreed, though.
Be careful.
I always say that's why you don't want to pick a fight with someone who's got nunchucks.
Nunchucks aren't deadly or anything, but that guy's hit himself so many goddamn times.
There's no way you're going to hurt him.
There's nothing that you can do, bro.
Yeah, nothing you can do.
Like those guys that gave him sticks, like, in Asia.
It's like, damn, could you imagine
breaking a chair over him in a bar
and he's just, like, unfazed?
Hey, Pans, I see your hands up
dude have you seen those people that throw like like throwing knives and throwing axes and stuff they're just like i want to know what they're training for like i feel like we're all on one
stuff like one level and they they're on the next level.
Have you seen these people on YouTube?
Is it maybe the 1700s that they're still throwing knives anymore?
I mean, that's what I thought, but then, I don't know.
I guess if the electrical grid goes off off and then we all have to reset back
to the dark ages those people with the knives like the nerds are gonna win bro like they've
been doing this for for time like they've been practicing like the rest of them we gotta keep
them on our we gotta keep them on our friends list pad that's what we gotta do we gotta keep
people like that on our friends list damn jo, okay, Jomama's back.
You just need one good friend that can tell you the passcode.
That's all I need.
I did want to interject really quick, though, going back to the stomach health.
From my experience, when my boys and I were really going through a tough time,
we all ended up getting on this stuff. It's called Omeprazole. And a lot of people have told me
like crazy things about it down the way. I've gotten pretty much off of it, but I used to be
on it daily. I still take it every once in a while and I'm always like, God, why are you taking this
crap? But the interesting part of it was, is that not only did my doctor put me on
it, but my children's pediatrician put them on it and we were on it for a very long time. And the
reason why is she said that when you're in a stress situation, the blood stops flowing exactly
like you were saying, Babs, to your stomach and it's a stress situation. So everybody was having
all these digestive issues and it really puts it a different meaning to having a nervous stomach or a nervous, I don't know, like I used to read my boys this book when they were little called The Volcano in My Tummy.
But it's true.
That's where you start to feel these emotions initially is in your stomach.
So I've learned a lot more about it, but I want to learn a lot more about it. Does that make sense?
Yeah, the stomach is an amazing thing.
Yeah, it makes sense.
And your doctor is fairly forward thinking.
So that's kind of cool.
I love that.
Yeah, and I think that's, I think I'm going to leave you all with all those little things.
Maybe you guys can think about like maybe one thing that you can take
from this little talk about your gut and put into practice. It doesn't have to be all of it.
If just one thing affected, you know, one thing you said, oh, maybe it, maybe it's increasing
water. Maybe it's chewing more. Maybe it's, you know, taking a, taking one conscious breath before
you eat or all of these things,
or maybe including some prebiotics in your, in your diet, any of these things. Um, but I am gonna,
um, go into a, go into our short, uh, into a short meditation and quick correction. Okay. So
72%, sorry. Uh, yeah. 72% of a gallon for females is the recommended per day and 0.97 gallons for men.
There you go.
There's the numbers behind it.
Beautiful.
Those are great numbers.
Yeah.
And it's just increase a little bit.
If you're not drinking a lot, increase a little bit.
If it means that you need to chug that water to get that water in, that's better than not drinking the water um if you can sip it throughout the day
that's awesome well however you get it in um aim for clear room temperature yeah that's that's true
too that works too yeah it's actually better i like cold water though so i'm i don't do the
room temperature water i always do it nice and cold i do too babs cold cold is excruciating a lot to me and anything that's
excruciating to me i'm just overly sensitive to everything which means it is causing some stress
yeah take it yeah hats before we go where did you have a question i think your hands up i think it
um no not really question i just wanted to kind of build on what you said So I think it is.
No, not really a question.
I just wanted to kind of build on what you said.
You mentioned Omicrazole.
So I've been on that for basically two or three years. I think they give it you when you have anti-inflammatories
or when you're on painkillers for a long time,
they give you Omicrazo all as well so that isn't
like the way i understand it so that it doesn't your stomach lining up basically because when you
take painkillers or stuff like that it does it like wears away and there's other goals
I don't know, I just wanted to say, it's interesting to listen to what everyone has had to say really, but like Bab's talking about the gut and stuff.
i don't know i just wanted to say like it's interesting to listen to the um
Yeah, I believe in that a lot, but I just don't know enough about it to comment.
I was just going to say, yeah, interesting chat, kind of.
Very different from the story. I went to it in 17 and haven haven't stopped it's just non-stop
you can never learn it all i'm sorry no no you can never learn it all no you can't ever learn
it all but i do think even if one person who hadn't heard about gut health and the importance
of gut health has heard it today i think that that's amazing and now we're going to have a
little interesting little meditation that might be a little bit different.
What do you, because this is a gut health. So we're going to be talking about turning,
tuning into our gut. So I'll start with a bell. I'll end with a bell. And then mama bear, do you
want to, do you want to have any, you want to do anything with the announcements before I do do the meditation?
Actually, maybe you ought to do that.
I was just going to say that.
I was like, dang, I don't want to cut her off again.
But yeah, going going through our our jumbotron, you guys.
So digital nights, you guys, I'm a huge fan of mankind's.
If you guys are not in that discord, I would love to see you in there.
I need to be a little bit more active in there.
But, you know, just showing him that support.
They actually have something going on right now.
So go check out Digital Nights, Mankind's.
He's legit.
We've got What If has a reminder for an upcoming dead space.
And I believe it's at 6.03, 6.05-ish is usually when he drums it up.
But even if you guys can go make a set of reminder,
make a couple comments for that. And then I wanted to do another reminder about Babs
inner refuge. She's going to be doing a half day inner refuge retreat. Papa, hint, hint. I don't
know if you took care of that yet, but there is a suggested donation. It does go to her nonprofit, but she'd rather people just be there.
So if it's something you can't swing, that's okay too, because she'd love to see you there.
We'd all love to see you there.
And then another one I wanted to talk about is toasted pastries.
Their mint started a few hours ago, you guys.
They're really affordable.
Make sure you guys gauge some love.
He's just a great supporter, and he's over there with the Solana Duds.
And, again, I love all those guys over there.
So those were my announcements, and we will do the meditation with Babs,
and then we will close it out, and I will see you guys on some other spaces, I'm sure.
All righty.
Sounds good.
Yeah, I love all the all the notifications.
So I'll put the stuff up in the Jumbotron.
Good people are doing good things in this space.
And I do love that.
So, all right.
I'll start with the bell.
Like I said, I'll end with the bell.
There's nothing you can do wrong.
Be as present as you, as you can for the meditation. If you, if you like that, if that's
feels good to you. So I'm going to go probably like 10 minutes, maybe a little bit over, but
not too long. All right. Let me make sure my, my phone is already muted. Okay, here we go.
So I just invite you to just settle into your body.
Make any adjustments so that you feel comfortable and supported.
You can lay down or sit down.
Be having your feet on the floor.
That feels good to you and just begin to tune into your body
begin to feel where your body is supported
that's in your back if you're laying down or your
hips if you're sitting down. Your feet on the floor.
Just feeling your body.
Let's take one gentle breath in and out, letting your body soften and relax. One more time.
and out.
Letting that exhale be nice
and long.
Just feeling your body without judging it.
As you slowly bring your attention to the center of your abdomen, just right below your ribcage.
Maybe even putting your hands there
if that feels comfortable to you.
You don't need to visualize anything, but just feel.
Just notice. Notice any sensations. Might be warmth, maybe movement, Maybe movement or stillness.
It could be tight or gently relaxed.
Whatever is, just welcome it.
This area is not only digestion.
It's intelligence.
It's communication.
It's nourishment from both the body and the brain.
With each breath, begin to imagine the belly softening, relaxing, letting go.
Nothing is forced, just the belly relaxing.
Maybe feeling the abdomen rising and falling with each breath.
Sending warmth and appreciation to your gut for all the work it does.
Just letting the breath gently massage the abdomen.
Letting the body know it's safe.
Letting the gut know it's safe to digest.
To grow healthy bacteria.
It's safe to receive nourishment. Just being with your belly for just a few moments.
Maybe even pausing and asking your abdomen, your gut, what it needs.
No answer is required.
You can just listen.
Maybe something arises.
Maybe something doesn't.
It's okay. Our abdomens give so much more to us than we might have ever imagined.
And take another breath in, all the way down into that belly, into that gut. And then gently with your next out breath, slowly getting a sense of the whole of your body again. Maybe even imagining
that connection of your nervous system, that nerve that goes from your gut up through your spine area and into your brain.
Allowing that connection. And slowly, with your next out breath, once again feeling the places where your body is connected to the earth, whether that's your feet or hips or back,
if you're laying down, feeling that grounding, the presence of the earth supporting you.
the presence of the earth supporting you.
The whole of your amazing body, just sensing that.
Taking another beautiful breath in and out. and bringing a little movement to your hands and feet,
sending some gratitude to your body, to your gut,
and to this time together.
Namaste. Baba Bear, when you're ready, you can go ahead and close us out.
Thank you so much, Babs.
And thank you guys for all showing up.
We'll be back again tomorrow, 4 p.m.
Papa Standard Time, 7 o'clock Eastern.
Until then, do something kind for yourself.
Take a moment and stay present.
And as always, move with intention.
We'll see you tomorrow. .
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that you got to work on your gut health if you want to be, if you want to have that happy chemical serotonin bouncing around in your body.
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I was just going to say, I think I heard recently that it's considered like your second brain.
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is like, okay, how's your gut? What's going on in your gut? And let's see if that will help in addition to doing other stuff. So I think it's super important to look at that. So
yeah. Anybody else have any thoughts on that before we move into some of, there's some
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