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L. Scott Ferguson: Time To Shine Today. Podcast varsity squad at Scott Ferguson. And this episode, just as a caveat, it’s a little bit longer, probably went about an hour of my guy, Josh Dech. And the reason why it being is that I’ve dealt with a very bad gut issues in my past and people like Josh have really helped me to level up in, in, in get over the gut issues, be able to deal with them.

Be able to live a fruitful awesome life and this conversation if you’re dealing with any gut issues or know anybody else That has any gut issues Then make sure you tune in and share this with them or hit the subscribe button or like or whatever you want to do But do not miss this episode Josh is super knowledgeable Holistic guy, but he also works hand in hand with a lot of different medical professionals as well.

People go to him to get their gut right. I know that the knowledge nuggets he drops on here will help you just as much as they help me. So again, if you’re dealing with any stomach, belly, gut issues, whatnot, please break out your notebooks and take notes and let me make a [00:01:00] warm introduction to my good friend Josh Dech.

So without further ado, here he comes. Let’s level up. Time to shine today. Podcast first thing squad. This is Scott Ferguson and the people that are following me a little bit. If the few people follow me on social, but especially the people close to me know that this past week, I’ve been really dealing with some gut. Issues really stopped me. I had to actually stop on stage for a minute and walk off and I had to play it off with a deer in the headlights look.

And I just was like praying for somebody to kind of come into my life. And , my fiance Susan’s like, Hey, you’re interviewing this guy, Josh Dech. This week and I was looking, I was like, Oh man, this is actually perfect. And Josh is the CEO and founder of the gut health solution. And he’s an ex paramedic and holistic nutrition and currently a holistic nutritional specializing in gut health.

It was, it was the success of his clients have had with complex digestive diseases. previously thought to be impossible like me that got him connected to some of the world’s most renowned doctors. Since then he’s been recruited [00:02:00] to the priority health Academy as a medical lecturer, helping educate doctors on, on the holistic approach to gut health and complex digestive issues and squad.

Don’t forget holistic does not mean foo foo or say herbs and spices only holistic means a complete full body and, and feeling good. And again, he’s got his podcast. Don’t go there now. I’ll put the link in the show notes, but the reversible, the ultimate gut health podcast, which top 5 percent in the world squad and not misspeaks top 5 percent in the world.

He absolutely crushes it. And he has a program for those with severe IBS with irritable bowel syndrome and IBD Crohn’s colitis, as well as a free gut health programs available on his website. And Josh, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself to time to shine today podcast varsity squad.

But first what’s your favorite color? And why 

Josh Dech: favorite color? I would say it’s blue. Just like your background. Actually, some of those nice deep blues. It’s a relaxing, soothing color. Psychologically. It’s actually a trusting color. It’s one of those things that we can lean on. There’s a [00:03:00] reason banks use blue.

It’s a very trustee trustworthy color. So I find it very soothing and comforting like the ocean. 

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. And and also, You’re from, , north of the border, man. You’re from Canada and everybody’s nice and blue and chill up there. At least I know I grew up in Detroit and I’d go to border Windsor and it was like night and day with attitudes and everyone’s smiling and moving around and whatnot, but it’s 

Josh Dech: way different.

L. Scott Ferguson: So you, you were a paramedic for a minute then. For a while. I was. Okay. Yeah. 

Josh Dech: So I was actually my first career and , I loved being a paramedic. I really did. But truthfully, as I grew and like matured to become an adult, I realized I loved it for the wrong reasons. I love being in medicine. I love being in healthcare, but I realized very quickly that like paramedics, it was sick care.

You get people, you pick them up for the same illness, the same disease, the same, everything you take them over to the hospital because in paramedics, it’s probably 80 percent medical stuff, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, et cetera, 20 percent trauma, car accidents, and , bloody gory scenes. And so we picked a lot of people up for a [00:04:00] lot of medical stuff.

They go to the hospital, get medicated or remedicated for the same stuff, send them back until they died and stop calling. And so it wasn’t what I wanted to do. People weren’t getting better. And as I became an adult, I realized that honestly, if I can look back and reflect, my ego was in the way I liked the uniform.

I like being important. I like being needed in that way. And so once I moved on from being a boy to a man, I was able to see. Yeah. That healthcare was really important, like actually helping people and not being front and center stage. It’s not about what I do for them. It’s about how well they can do for themselves, following the things we give them.

It’s a, it’s, it seems like a minuscule shift when it comes down to it. I’m not the hero of the story. They are. Because I can write the protocols, get people better. We reverse Crohn’s and colitis. Like 95 percent of people can get better in 16 weeks when these people are 20 years on medication with their doctors might have their bowels removed and they can actually get better.

And so it’s them who have to do the changes. They have to do the discipline. They have to make the protocols actually work for themselves. [00:05:00] I just put it on paper. And so they really are the heroes when they follow through. I get clients like, thank you so much for what you’ve done. Thank you for changing my life.

I said, thank you for doing it because people wouldn’t know what’s possible without you actually following what we tell you to do. And that’s really what makes the difference. 

L. Scott Ferguson: And what I got to ask them, what got you? Cause I mean, holistically, I understand the guts, the second brain, or maybe even the first brain, right?

I mean, everything, arguably 

Josh Dech: the first, 

L. Scott Ferguson: yes, arguably. Thank you for saying that. And because I know that if I’m off up top brain, I’m like, okay, I can outthink it. Right. If I’m off down in the, in the belly brain, bro, I, I can’t, , I just, I get a little lost. So what, what puts you towards. , I’m going to coin that the belly brain, like what puts you kind of towards the belly brain, brother?

Like what, what kind of like shifted you that way? Because as a paramedic, you’re working with a lot of, again, trauma. And like, I love that you said, medicated and remedicated, and they weren’t really getting better. They were just going home [00:06:00] and doing it. Now you’re holding people accountable to really level themselves up.

And they’re holding themselves accountable with you helping challenge them. But why the belly? Why the stomach? Why, why there? 

Josh Dech: Well, I like to say my entire life to this point was just a series of happy accidents, right? Just falling forward, following to the next thing. I left paramedics and I actually got into a job as a personal trainer in my early twenties.

I was probably 21 at the time and I love doing it. But the people that we were seeing every time they come in, we’d fix them. And it always came back to the gut. If they had asthma, anxiety, whatever the one common denominator. Between weight loss, between health improvements, between getting rid of asthma, brain fog, ADHD, whatever it was, the one center part was always the gut.

And so it always came back there. And so I got really interested in diving into this stuff to see what the human body’s capable of. And like, when I was probably 21, one of my first clients as a personal trainer, after I left paramedics came to see me 57 years old, 17 pills of insulin for breakfast, nine pills of insulin for bedtime, every medical [00:07:00] condition, heart issues.

She was on disability at work. She had high blood pressure. All these things were piling up. She was 57 when she came to see me, Scott. By the time she turned 59, we worked together for two years, food, nutrition, wellness, fitness, 59 years old. I put her into her first weightlifting competition in the raw division here.

It’s a power lifter. She broke a world record. Nice. And she kept breaking them until she was like 62 and she retired. And so the human body literally going from 26 pills a day to breaking world records and being on no medication. That’s what the body is capable of. And so I got more and more interested.

And I was actually at a trade show one time for a whole different job that I was working as a side gig. And I saw a woman on stage talking about the gut microbiome and I was hooked. She was talking about from birth to life to death. Arguably, it may actually be more important than our DNA, how it’s actually connected.

What a gut microbiome even is. My jaw was on the floor for 30 straight minutes watching her talk. And I said, that is what I’m doing. For the rest of my [00:08:00] life, like I was love at first sight and it’s been an undying passion since. And then people just come in to see me for need. And the more need that came to see me, the more severe the cases.

It was really bad IBS, 15 bowel movements a day until it was 50 bowel movements a day with blood and mucus and crippling pain and agony and weight loss and medication on the table, like ready to go for surgery. And we’re fixing them. 

L. Scott Ferguson: And so 

Josh Dech: we just unwound this mystery disease that doctors seem not to be able to manage.

And that’s how I fell in love with the gut disease space. It was meeting people’s needs with something I enjoyed. 

L. Scott Ferguson: That’s awesome, dude. And I love the happy accidents too. it’s just funny how that thing’s happening. You and I are kind of like. I might be a little older than you, but like, we’re kind of brothers from different mothers, man, because I started, , I, I was a medic on our, I was in the military and did some kind of stuff.

And I was that guy. Right. And then I got out and I was a personal trainer for like, what I’m saying? I didn’t, I have not, I wish, and [00:09:00] then make the MPC for many years. And and did it okay. , but that’s just funny that how close we are like in relation. It’s just I never followed the gut I’ve heard about it and I feel it every day.

It’s like, , what are you every single day you you get hungry also I mean, it’s something that you never ever will get away from and that that’s amazing So what are the challenges you’re facing? With I believe 100 percent in what you do. Okay. I mean just a trillion percent I everybody that I talked to about even just fasting which we’ll get to that.

Okay, but the to what it did for me and How my blood panel is perfect and I can kind of show people my blood panel and like really clean up diet But what kind of pushback do you get from those nine? The people that prescribe the nine pills a day and a shot of insulin for dinner. And then what was it?

17 in the morning and another shot. Like what kind of pushback do you get? And also what’s your response to it? Not react. Cause I don’t see you as much of a reacting person, , but your [00:10:00] response to it, 

Josh Dech: well, I can tell you this, I’m pretty confident the, almost the entirety of the medical community thinks I’m a quack, , because we’re going, we’re going holistic and natural.

I mean, here’s the thing. When the body is inflamed. It’s reacting to something. It’s healing you from something. Imagine you’re outside, you’re on a mission, or you’re playing with kids, or whatever you’re doing in the woods, and you get a puncture wound. There’s a thorn in your hand. Right? It swells and it inflames.

Well, imagine going to the doctor 3 4 months later with this thorn stuck in your hand, full of pus and blood, and it’s infected, and they give you ointment for the pain. It wouldn’t make any sense. You like pull the thorn out. That’s why I’m inflamed. And so what we just did is we went back and said, well, you’re dealing with inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s and colitis.

There’s inflammation. What is your body trying to heal you from now? External inflammation. We look for a puncture. We look for these things. But in medicine, in Western medicine, when it’s internal, we don’t look for the internal inflammation. We just see you are inflamed. Here’s an anti inflammatory. How about asking?

Why are you inflamed rather than chalking it up to all kinds [00:11:00] of BS reasons? And so when it comes to pushback from the doctors, it’s a lot because they’re not taught to look for those routes. They’re taught to manage the symptoms, right? They have to go in. They have to look at these people and say, okay, you are inflamed.

Here’s what’s going on symptomatically. Here’s what our blood work shows. Here’s what our lab tests or colonoscopy reports or CT scans. Here’s what they show. Therefore you meet this. Box called diagnostic criteria. So you get your diagnosis of Crohn’s or colitis or IBS or whatever they give you. And then they give you these prescriptions accordingly, like a cookbook.

That’s all it really is. And so they’re not taught the pathology reversal or taught how the breakdown, what the problem is and how to mask it. And so. I’ll tell you, I’ve been doing this for a long time. I’ve been working with clients for probably 10 years now in my entire specialty of just doing Crohn’s and colitis, hundreds of cases reversed.

I have had maybe four or five GI doctors out of hundreds actually say, I’m interested in at least learning. I’ve had zero in my entire career actually connect with me. They’re too busy. [00:12:00] Their hands are tied. They change their mind. They think I’m an idiot, whatever it is. My entire career where it’s at.

Minus the hard work. I actually owe to Dr. JP Salibi. He’s the one who brought me in after we fixed one of his patients. They were working with him for about three years and she got 30, 40 percent better. We fixed her in 90 days. She was almost a hundred percent fixed. He gets on the call. He says, what are you guys doing?

Teach me. He actually recruited me to that priority health academy as a lecturer now, and he’s introduced me to all these doctors around the world. Some of the most famous Stephen Gundry, William Lee, it’s because of him and his connections, because he brought me in. And it’s just unfortunate more doctors aren’t willing to look outside of what they already know or believe.

Sure. To see what can be possible. So it is a very small percentage. 

L. Scott Ferguson: I love that you said that it’s, they look for the symptoms, not the root because they’re, they feel like it just feels like when I go in, there’s like, here’s a bandaid and a size, , metaphorically, , and it’s up to you to figure out the root and they need to talk to people like Josh stack, , and it’s, it’s, it’s too bad that it’s rooted that way, but it is what it is.

And that’s why we bring people like you on [00:13:00] here to get the, get it out to my little bit of the masses. Right. So. You work one on one with patients as well? I do. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So if someone’s kind of coming, you’re in that discovery conversation, what kind of protocol do you have to maybe help them shine a blind spot on that symptom or what, , deeper than the system into the root?

Like what is kind of your protocol when you, when you first start working with someone? 

Josh Dech: First things first, we have to do a history, , we have to go back and figure out where, when, why, and how did this whole thing start, , if someone’s dealing with gut issues and those who are listening who don’t have Crohn’s colitis ago, why am I listening to a Crohn’s colitis specialist?

It’s a spectrum, right? It’s always a spectrum. We look in the Western world and say, Crohn’s and colitis is one thing. I irritable bowel syndrome is another acid reflux gird is another bloating is another we separate all these things. I look at it as a spectrum of severity, right? Imagine you’re wearing a pair of shoes and you’re not wearing any socks and you go for a run.

What happens to that heel? Right? It [00:14:00] rubs rubs till it gets red blisters and bleeds. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. 

Josh Dech: So if you have a little bit of bloat today. Irritable bowel syndrome tomorrow and colitis a decade from now that wore out that rubbed raw. And so it’s a wear and tear process. Other people, they went from healthy to sick, whether again, it’s anywhere on that spectrum, sometimes in a very short amount of time.

Give you a great example. Scott got a client of mine, 22 year old male, and he went to his doctor and this is part of the protocol. We did a first interview to sit down. Talk about your history. Can you go to your doctor? You say, here’s what’s going on here. My symptoms, you go for a checkup. They say, what’s been working.

What’s not okay. Here’s the next drug. We’ll give you, they’re moving forward. They’re going to the right. I’m going all the way to the left. Tell me what’s happening now. Let’s go back to before this started. Right. And so we took this 22 year old gentleman in, we sat down and he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis proctitis, which means the lower 15 centimeters of his rectum was actually inflamed.

He had urgency blood in the stool, mucus. Like uncontrollable bowels. And these people are prone to accidents. So that’s the very severe end of the spectrum. [00:15:00] And so we had to look at him. We sat down, took us all at 15 minutes to his doctor said, well, you’ve got this colitis it’s genetic. He literally told him, he said, it’s because you’re Jewish.

He said, Jewish people get it more than other people. It’s a Jewish person’s disease. Oh, we laughed out loud. It was hysterical. And so we said, that doesn’t make any sense. And so we sat down and figured out. He was maybe, I think it was maybe two months into a job. He started a new job. He developed IBS. So irritable bowel syndrome, food sensitivities, bit of blow, little bit of urgency, , bowel movements went from too healthy a day to four or five loose bowels.

I went to his doctor, said, yeah, it’s IBS. Here’s something to help slow down your bowels. Okay. Took that six months after that, he developed ulcerative colitis. So now he’s got these ulcers in his colon. He’s highly inflamed. That’s 

L. Scott Ferguson: shoe rubbing right now. Right? That 

Josh Dech: shoe rub. Exactly. Right. So it got worse over two months.

He developed IBS. It progressively got worse for six more months. He’s now eight months into having this issue. And now he’s got colitis. Doctor says, genetic, there’s nothing we can do. It’s because you’re [00:16:00] Jewish or it’s, who knows? It’s random, right? Bullshit answer. Makes no sense. It took us 15 minutes to figure out.

He got this condition two months in after starting a brand new job. Okay, this is part of our intake. What job did you start? I was working in HVAC. So ventilation, he says, yes. I said, did you wear your PPE? Says, what’s PPE? What’s your personal protective equipment? Did you wear your mask? He goes, no. I said, awesome.

What kind of homes were you working in? Old homes, new homes, Renos, whatever. Perfect. There’s a good chance based on your history, based on your symptoms, you have a mold infection. And so we ran a mycotoxin urine test and we found him positive for something called OTA or okra toxin a it’s a it’s a nasty mold toxin well known to cause liver disease kidney disease gut dysfunction and all kinds.

So we got that out of the system 10 weeks later. He’s gone. No symptoms, no medication, no inflammation. Doctor can’t figure out why he’s better. It must be a miracle. And he’s still Jewish. What did 

L. Scott Ferguson: you do for him again? The protocol? I mean, it’s like, okay, obviously you, you [00:17:00] probably encouraged the PPE right?

With, with the with that, but what else did we do? 

Josh Dech: So we have to stop the re inoculation, right? If you got a headache, Scott, cause I’m hitting you in the head with a hammer. The first way to get rid of the headache isn’t to give you aspirin. It’s to stop hitting you in the head with a hammer. 

L. Scott Ferguson: We 

Josh Dech: have to stop the inoculation.

So if you’re going back into work in ventilation, put on the mask. So you’re not inoculating yourself with the mold. Number one, number two, we have to find non irritating foods that are still healthy, right? A lot of these people might eat white bread, white pasta, white potatoes, white things. Cause half that breaks down in your mouth.

There’s no mechanical work like mulling and turning and moving of these foods through the intestine. So you’re not requiring work. Out of inflamed tissue, imagine having a sprained ankle and you’re walking up a flight of stairs, right? The more weight you put in a backpack while you walk, the worse your gut’s going to feel.

So if you’re eating beef jerky, you’re eating these things, you’re actually putting load mechanical, physical load on inflamed tissue, like putting weight in a backpack with a sprained ankle. And so we had to find foods that were non irritating so we can give the tissue some [00:18:00] rest. We had to figure out what toxins specifically were in his system, because there are certain ways to get to certain toxins.

Hold them out. That’s the thorn in his hand. We found out what his body is reacting. Is that through bloodwork Josh? No. So we actually did a urine test for him. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay. Very good. Yeah. Okay. So 

Josh Dech: there is a whole section of functional medicine called functional blood chemistry, where you can look at blood work and you can look at these and say, okay, well, this is elevated.

That’s elevated. Here’s your ratios from markers one to seven. It indicates you might have a parasite. You might have mold. You might have Candida infections or bacterial overgrowth. We can see this in blood work. If you’re skilled enough at that. Okay. Frankly, I’m not, I got a specialist on my team who is.

And so we did a urine test to figure out where his mold was. And that’s how we detected it in values. We got another urine test to follow up and it was gone. Therefore the thorn is now removed from his hand. The thing that was causing the problem, what his body was inflaming to is gone. Body heals itself because your inflammation is just your body trying to heal you.

So we just have to ask, what is it healing you from? 

L. Scott Ferguson: I know [00:19:00] that, but I’ve never had anyone say it. Now that I say it, I’m going to say it to everybody all the time. You know what I’m saying? You’re the inflammation is your body trying to heal, which is true. , that’s why it’s sore. You sprain your ankle.

It’s sore. It’s trying to heal you over time. I love it. And , you will get back to the, like having a client in your office, but you said something about fasting that just in your, one of your last podcasts, , I was sitting there and I remember I was on the plane and I just was like, Whoa, I’m Like you said, like about if you sprain your ankle, you’re not just going to keep walking on that ankle.

You’re going to fast the ankle. You know what I’m saying? You took the weight off and fasted. That’s fricking money, dude. Thank you for putting that out there. And I’m going to use all this stuff. Thank you very much. But so you, maybe you’re still in that discovery protocol, man, or, , the timeframe that does that discussion and you’re going through the history, And working with them.

Is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do? 

Josh Dech: [00:20:00] What are you asking? If there’s a question, my clients would ask me that they never do. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Maybe they’re a prospect. They’re not quite a client. Like you’re kind of starting to work with them. You, is there anything like if I was to go in and talk to you, is there any question that you really wish?

That, that I would ask you, like me as a coach, like I would love, , for my mindset clients, whether they’re professional athletes to house, , wives or domestic engineers, like I like to call them, like they, they say, , what, are you going to give up on me? Like, what is there that they, I want, how committed are you to my success?

Like, Is there any question that you wish people would ask you? 

Josh Dech: There is, there’s actually a question I wish they would ask more and one I wish they would stop asking. Please, 

L. Scott Ferguson: both of them, please. 

Josh Dech: So the one I wish we would stop asking is what supplement can I take? Because we’re always looking for a silver bullet.

We’re looking for the one thing. It’s a very complex disease in terms of its layers. Any gut inflammation, again, whether you’re starting now with bloat, you have IBS, which is medium, or severe with blood in your stool, Crohn’s, Colitis, on the way, or a diagnosis, we’re always [00:21:00] looking for a silver bullet.

What kind of condition? What’s the supplement 

L. Scott Ferguson: you 

Josh Dech: can take? That hack, it doesn’t work that way. It’s many layers of complexity. We have to peel back. It’s like a cake. You can’t eat it in one bite. Imagine cutting the cake from the top. You got to go layer by layer till you get to the bottom of the plate.

And that’s how you clean your plate. And people are just asking, what’s the way I can swallow the whole cake? Like you’re not a pelican, so don’t try. So I wish they would ask is where does this start? Or how did I get this? Because we’re so conditioned to go, and this is from Western medicine. We say, well, you have inflammation.

Therefore, it’s this diagnosis. And I don’t care if you’re dealing with heart disease, liver disease, arthritis, asthma, any symptom. In your body is simply your body screaming at you saying, I need help. There is something wrong with this system. You’re having trouble breathing. When you run, you’ve got asthma.

There’s inflammation in your airways. Where’s that coming from? You’re dealing with Crohn’s and colitis inflammation in your gut. Where’s it coming from? Skin issues, acne, psoriasis, eczema. Where does it come from? And so instead we [00:22:00] go to the doctor, they say, okay, well, here’s your diagnosis. It’s almost like it’s this terminal lifelong condition.

Like there’s nothing we can do. You have this disease. Therefore, here’s the drug we give. Which mask the symptoms, right? Your body is being held hostage by disease. You can put tape over its mouth to stop it from screaming. It doesn’t mean it’s happy to be there. Right? And so you’ve got these information issues and we’re simply giving your body medication to mask the symptoms.

We stop the scream, but we don’t fix the problem. It’s still a hostage. And so what I want people to ask is how does this happen? Where does it start? Only then can you go back to find the root. Pull it out and give your body the room and the latitude it needs to heal itself. 

L. Scott Ferguson: That’s strong, man. I got notes upon notes squad.

And if you’re you or somebody, you have to know somebody out there that’s struggling with, with the gut issues. I mean, if you don’t, then you’re not living in America or any other first world countries, because we’re fed a lot of crap across the board. And it’s funny, , because [00:23:00] someone had said, maybe it was Bracca, maybe it was , somebody else, but like, and I’ve been to Italy, , and I’ve, I had to like really jog my memory, but I never really saw or seen a fat Italian, like a, that lives in Italy.

Because of the, what they put, they don’t allow on their foods. When I flew to Italy, I remember I had a a little thing of crackers and they said, do you want to declare that? And I’m like, I don’t even know what declared crackers or whatever. And I’m like, no, you can have them. And they said, good. They, the guy was like thick Italian accent, but spoke, good.

You don’t need it anyway. It’s kind of feeling right, but they don’t have any of those pesticides and they don’t allow that crap in there. And they, how many of those people I eat pasta every single day. Okay, I bread every single day and because I was on vacation and I did not have any maybe a little bit as maybe 3 percent of what I would have if I was to do that stateside So what’s your take on what’s going on with the [00:24:00] food?

That’s here is it, in especially in the United States I know you’re north of but I don’t know exactly what they do up there. But here the labeling is enriched in fortified and blended and all that jazz. Like what’s your take on that, brother? 

Josh Dech: Well, we used to be different Canada and us but now honestly, Canada is going to hell in a handbasket, man.

We are importing all kinds of work. The city of Toronto is literally at a point where they’re actually going to tax the rain. They’re taxing the amount of rain you get on your property. I don’t know why, what the justification is. So point being the country’s absolutely run by lunatics. We could go another 

L. Scott Ferguson: route with that, but I’m going to, that’s a whole 

Josh Dech: other thing.

I’m religion or 

L. Scott Ferguson: politics too much on here, but true though. Anyways, go ahead. Yeah, 

Josh Dech: that’s it. Our food legislation, just like everything else has gone 

L. Scott Ferguson: downhill. We’ve 

Josh Dech: imported more us foods, but as far as I’m concerned, the FDA Big pharma. Everybody’s in bed together. It’s one big incestuous pool where you get sick and pay for a solution to mask your symptoms.

And illness is a 5 trillion business in the [00:25:00] USA. And so there is so many issues with the food out there. Like, look at McDonald’s French fries, right? You go to the UK. You get potatoes, you get vegetable or canola oil and you get salt. Now I don’t condone vegetable or canola oil, but whatever you go to the U S there’s 17 ingredients.

Carl’s jr. 21 ingredients in the French fries, it’s chemicals and fillers and junk because the FDA is effectively bought off to allow these things into our food. And so they’re generally approved. It’s 144, 000 plus chemicals add into our, mostly into our food supply in the last, 80 years, 100 years or so artificial sweeteners, artificial chemicals, preserves, pesticides, the USA.

Is by far the gut disease capital of the world. So look at look at census data, for example, we can see, depending on the sample size, 60 to 72 percent of Americans complain. Having some kind of gut issue once a week, so bloat gas pain, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel. Acid reflux, whatever it is. And how many listeners know someone or [00:26:00] yourself who has chronic bloat, who has some kind of gut issue, 60 plus percent of the Americans over 50 or 60 are on a two or more prescription medications, right?

You’ve got 40 percent of the population who’s pre diabetic or diabetic, another 40 plus percent who are clinically obese. And look at gut disease as a whole, because gut’s at the center of all of this. I mean, your gut is connected to 14 of the leading causes of death. Right. As per the CDC, heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, kidney disease, respiratory issues, even liver disease, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, all these things are connected in some way to your gut.

And so we know 60 to 72 percent of Americans complain of gut issues. Well, let’s take that. That’s the low end of your spectrum. So let’s wear and tear that sock a little bit. Globally, Scott, since 1990 cases of inflammatory bowel disease have gone up about five times from one and a half million global cases to about seven to 8 million.

Globally, as per the CDC, well, the United States of America is 5 percent of the [00:27:00] whole world’s population. Yeah, they have 50 percent of those gut diseases. And so you got 60 to 72 percent who are low on the spectrum, 

L. Scott Ferguson: right? 

Josh Dech: 50 percent of the world’s cases are in the USA at the severe end of the spectrum.

And so it’s the junk in our food. There’s 19 times more variety or different types of pesticides sprayed on our foods every single year, 144, 000 new chemicals. We’ve got four times the amount of pesticide dosage being used now, a billion pounds a year on top of our food. And so when you go to Italy and you’re eating gluten and breads and wheats out there, you don’t have the glyphosate.

You don’t have the folic acid sprays. You don’t have all these other additives and chemicals and GMOs. By the way, Vladimir Putin like him or not actually made. Growing GMO crops, an act of terrorism in Russia because they’re so well known to be bad for you. You eat them, corn, soy, wheat, all those things over here are GMO based.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. 

Josh Dech: And so we’re eating garbage on a nonstop basis. It’s no wonder we’re all so sick. 

L. Scott Ferguson: All right. So [00:28:00] we were let’s get into kind of fasting. Now you listen to episode 58 in your podcast. Fantastic. When we brought it up a little earlier about the, the ankle and like you kind of fast, the ankle from the pressure. kind of heal it. Now, what, what, what, what’s going on with yoUr, what is your take on really kind of healing the body through fasting?

And also I love that you gave the information that if you don’t have a lot of body fat, because you said you, you were, I believe at a 96 hour fast. And you, cause you’re so lean. I mean, look at you pretty well put together and stuff. You’re probably kind of running on the fumes and whatnot, and you made it through, I’m sure, but the ideal fast, the people that should be people that shouldn’t be, , like what’s your take on fasting, sir?

Josh Dech: Well, fasting is great. It has its benefits and shit. Go listen to episode 58. But yeah, we talk about it, 

L. Scott Ferguson: go out, don’t go yet because I have some awesome questions still ask my guy, Josh here, but definitely go listen to episode 58. 

Josh Dech: Yeah. Yeah. So when we talk about [00:29:00] fasting, , there’s pros and cons to all of it.

So people who are fasting and doing a good job with it. But their body’s reacting really well. Maybe you’re someone who’s fasting. You have a lot of body fat. Like there was a fella back in the early 1900s. They actually did. All right. They maybe didn’t fast. I don’t think you fasted quite as long, but he fasted for a whole year.

Did not. No, not me. Or 300 is 

L. Scott Ferguson: what I meant. 

Josh Dech: Not that big. So guy fasted for a whole year straight, but he had, it was 400 plus pounds. So his body actually consumed the body fat as fuel. And so you can literally go. A lifetime never eating a single carbohydrate, for example, provided your body has nutrient stores to tap into.

Now, picture somebody like today, right? 100 years later. Now, who goes to fast? Who’s maybe 400 pounds overweight? Well, they might be overweight, but the amount of toxins accumulated from From the pesticides, from the glyphosate, from the junk in our food, the added chemicals, all these things are stored in these fat cells.

They’re like the dumpster of the body. And so when your body doesn’t know what to do with stuff, it can’t store stuff. Oftentimes it will go to fat [00:30:00] cells to sort of lay relatively dormant. Now fat cells produce all these extra inflammatory toxins and stuff, but they’re there. And so now imagine going to lose all of this weight and all these toxins expel from your body, what it can do to you.

Right. Great example, friend of mine, Melissa McAllister. She’s a fitness influencer and she actually was born with deformities in her feet and her the bones in her feet. So she’s missing a couple of toes or x rays actually have holes in the feet and the bones. And so what happened her dad. Was actually in Vietnam and he has, she has 2 healthy older siblings, but her dad was in the Vietnam war was exposed to agent orange.

And so just before having her, he actually lost a whole bunch of weight. Well, not agent orange toxin was stored in his fat cells. And so as he started to lose weight, those toxins left his cells went into his body, actually affected his sperm. And so when. Her mom got pregnant. That sperm was mutated. It created these birth defects in her.

And so that’s why her feet are the way they are because this agent orange. So imagine now we have all these excessive toxins not agent [00:31:00] orange, but we’ve got all these hormonal toxins all these endocrine disruptors are actually found now a recent study came out showing them being found inside of atherosclerosis like artery plaque being built up from microplastics so much so We Scott, we eat so much plastic.

It’s approximated to be about five grams a week in microplastics between what’s wrapped in your food, your water bottle. You know what weighs five grams, Scott? A credit card, we eat a credit card a week in plastic. Now that’s microplastics recent studies have suggested in nanoplastic stuff. We can’t see and test like right away.

We have to really get in there with higher technology that we might consume up to a hundred times more than that. Throughout our day and our week. So argument could be made. We consume 50 to 100 credit cards worth of plastic a week, which is absurd to think about, but look at the water, our water recycling plant.

All these toxins are in everything. The hormones, the birth control, the medications that we pee out that get into the water system. We [00:32:00] can’t remove. So they’re everywhere. So to bring it back to fasting, if they’re stored in your body, some of these toxins can get out and can be problematic. So maybe fasting right off the get go is bad for you.

Maybe it’s good for you. Try it. Start slow. Start with 12 hours. Yeah. Start with 16 hours, work at 20 and 24 hours and slowly progress. Hunger will come and go. But if you’re someone like I walk around at probably 12 percent body fat, like my abs have abs. And so I try to fast. I don’t really have a whole lot extra to go.

So I will say that. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. 

Josh Dech: All right. There’s not enough, not enough storage. So I’ll lose a lot of muscle, but a lot of that, your body stores roughly 2000 calories or so of what we call glycogen. So that’s like. Picture bricks in a house, glucose or sugars and carbs, right? They get stored as glycogen. That’s a house and your body pulls them up brick by brick to consume them.

And that’s how we break glycogen down to glucose. And it’s stored in your liver and your muscles. And so if you know someone, I imagine, right, you fasted. And so you’re, you’re a pretty muscular guy. You go to the gym, you work out, you All your muscles look after a fast, you feel like a little boy [00:33:00] because you’re all shrunken and flat, right?

There’s no definition, no muscle volume, no body because your body use the food stores from the muscle. And so that’s what we see a lot of shifting. But fasting can be great to give those tissues a break. On the other hand, again, consider are you lean? Are you toxic? Is it causing anxiety? Are you having mood swings?

Night sweats? Someone who’s already nutrient deficient. If you’ve got inflammation in your body, right? Picture these like little fires, like a little brush fire, and you have a firefighting department, that’s your immune system. And your immune system is trying to put out these tiny fires of inflammation throughout the body.

So it’s going to run around and use only got so many resources when we use vitamins and minerals and other nutrients. That’s your water. Your immune system is a firefighter. So they need tools to put out the fire. And so if you are highly inflamed, right, you’re probably not breaking down, digesting or absorbing your nutrient stores are going to be low.

You’re not going to be able to bring in new nutrients and you have issues in the body. Elsewhere. And so you require excess use of your immune system, excess use of your water to put the fires out, your nutrients, your [00:34:00] vitamins and minerals and calories and all these things. You’re in the red, you’re in severe amounts of debt.

And so what happens is your body will take nutrients from other places. I guarantee there are some listeners listening who have inflammation in their gut or issues in their body. And they have sensitive teeth that they never had before. Well, do you know your body actually extracts minerals from your teeth?

To use elsewhere. It will extract it from your bones. You have osteoporosis because when I had 

L. Scott Ferguson: this thing this week, anything cold or anything, I don’t care if it’s lukewarm when I was drinking it. It, I never had that feeling, bro. Oh, yeah. Cause it’s calcium and all that jazz in there, man. So 

Josh Dech: whatever, 

L. Scott Ferguson: let me, I said, like, cause okay, you’re lean, you’re very well put together and you still, you still like fast and stuff like that.

But if you like, I’m a big believer, not just in the fast, cause I have leaned out again, I’ve talked off camera. I was two 87. I’m in the two 31, two 32 mark right now. I feel great on the jujitsu mats. I’m moving. Everything’s like, it’s a different world. [00:35:00] And I would, I think that I would still continue to maybe not do as many a year as I get maybe down in the 210s to 215s because I’m 6’1 right?

And I’ve built a lot of muscle over the years, but just for like the, the, the autophagy or autophagy, however people say it, , just to, to renew those cells and the old cells eating the new cells. Do you still, would you still recommend? It with people that are like you. 

Josh Dech: Yeah. There’s nothing wrong with a couple of times a year.

Okay. Doing a fast. Like I’ll typically take Mondays. I end up doing a 24 hours. Some of the time 

L. Scott Ferguson: you and I, every Monday, man, Sunday night to seven to Monday at seven. I, I don’t, I fast. It’s a game changer for me. 

Josh Dech: Yeah. Okay. Great. And the mental clarity you get, right. Cause your body is upcycling. We are the same.

I used to be, I used to be a bodybuilder. I used to compete, all that stuff. Like we’re twinsies. But it is, it’s turning over old cells, upcycling, recycling that we call autophagy where your new cells coming out actually take. Away and consume the proteins and parts and pieces of your old [00:36:00] cells. On the other hand, there’s some really good evidence that compares and says, well, a simple calorie deficit can do the same and it might be less miserable, but there may be benefits we get from fasting that we don’t get from a simple calorie deficit.

So there really is pros and cons to all the above. It just really depends on what your body needs at the time and the place. And so that’s how I sort of deduce this down. Try fasting. If it helps you great. If you feel negative symptoms, go eat. It’s, it’s not something that we have to commit to. It’s not like you’re getting on a medication, like an antidepressant where you need it in your system for six weeks to build up.

You just try it or you don’t and you’re good or you’re bad. Yeah. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. I love it. So another thing that helped me, cause I had sleep apnea bad, , I would in my, like, I had to turn it up to about 18 on my sleep thing in which, , the VA hospital’s like, Oh, we’ll just keep turning it up. We’ll be fine.

, when I got into the right crowd. I’m proud I say, , like the people that say, okay, we’re going to fast. We’re going to do this. Like, and I also added a methylfolate, which I still take this day and methylated vitamins. And [00:37:00] did I like, yes, I did drop some weight, but I had dropped weight before for bodybuilding.

Like I’d go from like two 65 at like about 20, 20, 20. 4 percent body fat and I’d get it down to like six or seven, right. And, but I still, still had to wear the sleep apnea mask. Okay. And I’m way heavier than I was ever on stage right now. I’m like, again, two 32. I was always on two Oh nine to 10. But I don’t wear my mask and I really feel like the added the methylated again I’m asking to get your take on this like I add the methylated vitamins the methylfolate once I started that dude I I have not had to wear it at all.

I think a lot of it’s the inflammation’s gone that was in here , in in the upper but like what what is your take on methylated vitamins? 

Josh Dech: Well, they’re incredible. So methylation, and this is stuff that Gary Brekka actually you mentioned talks about quite a lot. There’s a certain gene SNP we call it.

SNP stands for single nucleotide polymorphism. I have the mother effer 

L. Scott Ferguson: gene too. You do have the mother effer gene, yeah. [00:38:00] 

Josh Dech: That’s how everyone remembers it. And so you have this gene, which means you’re gonna have issues with methylation or extracting raw material or converting things from inactive to active forms.

So for example, 44 percent of the population is estimated to have this gene where they can’t convert. Folic acid to folate. So folic acid being the artificial or the compounded form to an active bioavailable ready, easily used form by the body. You have to methylate that. So if you have this gene issue where you can’t methylate, you’re going to lack these nutrients, which will actually build up things in the system, like your blood pressure, amino acids, like homocysteine, which can cause blood pressure issues, contribute to sleep apnea, toxicity issues, building in the body, the works.

And so it’s also part of like. Using basic nutrients, right? Your body, everything works together. You mentioned holistic at the beginning of the episode and you said holistic isn’t chance and crystals and rain dancing. Holistics means whole body, right? People literally think I’m a hippie runs naked in the woods when I say holistic.[00:39:00] 

That’s a whole new podcast. That’s another channel altogether. But when we talk about holistic, your whole body works as a unit, your gut, your liver, your lungs, your brain, all of your organs, your skin, your hair, they all communicate with each other in some way, shape or form. It’s like neighborhoods in a city.

All the neighborhoods have certain functions. They contribute to the economy. They have how certain types of communities, like, All neighborhoods are different and they have to interact to make the city function. And your body does much the same. If you’re lacking nutrients in the city of your liver, it’s going to create negative byproducts that affect the other communities in the city, right?

And so this is what we have to look at. And if your gut is a mess, it actually can create more toxicity in the liver. Which your liver has to then deal with. So you have more garbage building up in the city, which means you need more garbageman, more resources, more finances funneled to there. So you lose money in education and maybe your brain starts to fall apart.

Everything is connected. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Right. 

Josh Dech: And so look at how sleep apnea is connected, right? Obesity is one thing. Well, that’s a gut issue, a liver issue, a dietary [00:40:00] issue. We can look at nutrient deficiencies, 

L. Scott Ferguson: money. Yeah, right. Keep going. Connected. 

Josh Dech: Yeah. Nutrient deficiencies. If you’re not breaking down, digesting, absorbing, you have a gut bacterial issue.

We haven’t even touched the gut microbiome, Scott. Holy shit. That’s something to get into. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. 

Josh Dech: But if you’re not breaking down, digesting, absorbing your nutrient deficient, which can contribute to sleep apnea, vitamin D and folate, all these different things. If you have inflammation. Yeah. Yeah. In your gut or your bacteria is overproducing toxins because you have imbalance in your gut bacteria.

It can create inflammation, what we call oxidative stress, which can actually contribute to the progression of things like sleep apnea, more liver toxicity, then go on hormone imbalances, food sensitivities, allergies structural issues in your body can create sleep apnea, stress, mental health, lifestyle, environmental.

There’s so many things that can simply create sleep apnea. So instead of going to your doctor and going, Oh, I have a diagnosis, it’s a thing I have. Why do you have it? What is a systematic systemic wear and tear of your heel in the shoe? Where did your sock go? [00:41:00] What’s wrong with the shoe, the shape, the size that leads to this breakdown, creating these symptoms we label with a diagnosis.

L. Scott Ferguson: I love this man. I love this. And we’re going to keep it moving. Cause I have some other questions I got to ask, but like the squad, go to his podcast, it’s going to be in the show notes. He covers this stuff and even more depth, but I got to know something. Have you seen the movie back to the future? 

Josh Dech: Like 40 times, right?

L. Scott Ferguson: Let’s get that DeLorean with Marty McFly, man. Let’s go back to the double deuce, the 22 year old Josh. Okay, what kind of knowledge nuggets might you drop on him to not change anything because your progress through life has been pretty awesome, right? But maybe shorten the learning curve or blast through maybe just a little bit quicker.

Josh Dech: Yeah, short things. We need to know every symptom has a root diagnosis is BS. It doesn’t actually mean anything We often cling to those because well now I have answers now. I have a solution now. I have whatever it means nothing It’s just a word to describe your symptoms. Your symptoms have a root. That’s number one Number two, your gut [00:42:00] is the center all diseases bold capital underline all diseases Diseases begin in the leaky gut.

Take care of your gut first and foremost, and everything else will fall into line. I don’t care if you have a skin issue, a cognitive issue, ADHD. I had severe ADHD. It was my gut, Scott. Everything’s back to the gut. And so we have to treat our gut with some bloody reverence. We have, like I said, we haven’t even touched the gut microbiome in this conversation yet.

If we do, who knows? But it is everything. It is vast. In fact, I’ll give you a little snippet. We say microbiome. People go, what is that? That’s bacteria. A microbiome just means a small ecosystem. Did you know when we’re born, right? We’re born. You actually have some bacteria in the placenta. You get some actually through the birth canal coming through.

You get actually covered by vaginal birth is so important. We’re born about 1 percent microbes, 99 percent human cells. By the time we die, we’re 90 percent microbes and 10 percent human. They literally outnumber us nine or ten to one and they are [00:43:00] everything. And so we need to have some reverence for that.

Those are the two things I would say first and foremost, if you want to understand health from the deepest of levels. 

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it, man. Okay, how about your dash, man? How do you want your dash remembered? Like, that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date. Like, hopefully it’s way down the road.

Life date Ideally. Right? We all want to die from TMB, right? Too many birthdays, right? But so, it’s like, but how do you want your dash remembered? 

Josh Dech: I want to be the guy who bankrupted Big Pharma. I love it. I would love that. Oh my gosh, that’s 

L. Scott Ferguson: badass, dude. That is fantastic, brother, man. What’s your definition then of a life well lived?

Josh Dech: Oh, that’s another question I It doesn’t have to be about the gut, 

L. Scott Ferguson: man. Like, overall, brother. 

Josh Dech: A life well lived is somebody who’s left an impact and not a legacy in a sense where I have all this money to leave behind. It’s what did you leave the world? How did you leave it better after you left than before you showed up?[00:44:00] 

But before I showed up, there were people dealing with disease who had no answers. They were dealing with gut disease, which literally cripples. Imagine having 50 bowel movements a day with blood and pain. You’re afraid to leave the house, your sex life, your work life. You literally lose your job because you can’t maintain one.

And these are the people we get to affect for better or for worse. , Gut disease is a huge thing and so we’re going to fix it and we can literally I little boy. I was working with quick side anecdote Severe mold infection. His gut bacteria was one of the worst I’ve ever seen He had 17 different kinds of mold in his body’s five years old this little boy With limp around the house because his joints hurt so much.

He couldn’t eat Participate. Couldn’t be a kid. He was having 15 bowel movements a day. Doesn’t know why he’s in pain. Doesn’t know why he’s hurting. And this little kid just couldn’t be a boy. And we got work as doctors and human biologics for the rest of his life. And we had this little boy, Scott, I’ll tell you, he got his life back like this little boy.

This, this is why I love what I do because we literally gave this kid, this family, their [00:45:00] lives back that they would have otherwise never had. Because their doctors would have just medicated them for the rest of his life. That’s what they wanted to do. That’s what they were trying to do. No issue anymore because we were able to find the root of his inflammation.

And this is the power that we have doing this. And that’s what I want my dash to be. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Dude, that’s, that’s amazing, man. That’s your, that’s definitely a life well lived. A hundred percent. It’s making that impact on people in BK and big pharma, right? Time to shine today podcast varsity squad. We are back and Josh. We’re definitely gonna meet up man We’re gonna rock some stages I also do some collaborations. I have things going on in my head right now, but we will talk some of these questions, 15 to 20 minutes.

Right. But today you got five seconds with no explanations. And I promise you, they can all be answered that way. You ready to level up? 

Josh Dech: Cool. All right. I feel like I’m on who wants to be a millionaire. That’s right, baby. 

L. Scott Ferguson: No lifelines. So maybe they can just trip the trip, the electrical. All right, here we go.

Let’s level up just what’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received. [00:46:00] 

Josh Dech: Five seconds. All right. Best leveling up advice I’ve ever received. Educate yourself. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yes. Share one of your personal habits to contribute to your success. 

Josh Dech: Sleep hygiene. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yes. See me walking down the street and like, Fergie looks like he’s in his doldrums a little bit.

Maybe we’re at a networking event. What book might you hand me that really enlightened you? 

Josh Dech: The Alchemist. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah, there you go. Polo. Pohilo. You would love it. Your most commonly used emoji when you text? Hands up. Yeah. Nicknames growing up. 

Josh Dech: Beamer. 

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. Any hidden talent and or superpower that you have that nobody knows about well until now 

Josh Dech: hidden superpower.

Oh my gosh, Scott, you surely have five seconds for this one. I am in, I have an engineering mind. That’s how I 

L. Scott Ferguson: deduce. Beautiful. That’s perfect. What are you doing? Chess checkers or monopoly 

Josh Dech: monopoly 

L. Scott Ferguson: headline for your life. 

Josh Dech: Fuck big 

L. Scott Ferguson: pharma. See any superstitions you buy into 

Josh Dech: [00:47:00] superstitions or conspiracy theories.

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay. And now we’ll, we’ll stay out the conspiracy superstitions. You and I can talk a long time. All day. 

Josh Dech: No superstitions. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Perfect. Go to ice cream flavor. 

Josh Dech: Hmm. Rocky road. 

L. Scott Ferguson: There you go. There’s a sandwich called the beamer. Build that sandwich for me. What’s on it. 

Josh Dech: Steak. Lots and lots of steak, honey, mustard, and sauerkraut.

L. Scott Ferguson: Oh, they’re sorry. I got to have that. That changed my life on the micros to microbiome. Also, favorite charity and organization that could give your time and time and or money to 

Josh Dech: any pet rescue. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. Thank you for saying that last question. You can elaborate on this one, but what’s the best decade of music, 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s.

90s. All right. My guy. So Josh, how can we find your brother? 

Josh Dech: Easiest way to get ahold of me, Scott is gut solution. ca. Of course we’ve got our podcast. We have programs and courses. We just recently launched a program community on school, which is phenomenal. It’s like the perfect blend between a Facebook group and a course community with all [00:48:00] kinds of live events.

If you’re looking for stuff for your gut issues, like that is the gold standard of what we’re starting here. So everything you need can be found at gut solution. ca. 

L. Scott Ferguson: And you’re on the school platform. You’ve started SKOOL? 

Josh Dech: You got it. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Got it, man. Awesome. That’s beautiful. And let me just see, you have also, I believe, kind of a free gut health programs that are available online.

Like, can you take us, are they, are they available on your site then? 

Josh Dech: Yeah, I made them available on the podcast website on my gut solution website. Again, the podcast website can be found through that gut solution. Yeah, they’re very simple. They’re just very blanket programs that will cover 60 80 percent of basic stuff and get you at least 50 percent better for the most part based on what I’ve been doing for a decade.

And so I wanted to make those available to everyone at no cost, just so at least we can plant a seed to give you guys some help. If you’re like, you know what? I’ll put my foot in the water, join school. It’s less than a coffee habit, cost about as much as a cell phone bill. And it’s all the courses, everything you need.

And we just launched it a few days ago from the time of [00:49:00] this recording. So that’s, that’s going to be blowing up. So get in there ASAP. And then of course, if you need help one on one, hit the contact us and chat with us button. 

L. Scott Ferguson: Is there a direct link to the, to the school? I’m just going to call it school.

Is there a direct link to the school that’s on your site? They don’t want to make sure. Yeah. 

Josh Dech: So if you go to gut solution. ca and just click the tab that says join the community. Got 

L. Scott Ferguson: it. Got it. Okay. Perfect. Donnie, you got that? Okay, cool. Awesome. So Josh, do me one last solid and leave this with one last knowledge nugget that we can take with us internalize and take action on.

Josh Dech: Don’t accept sickness. Never accept disease. Never lean into a diagnosis. There’s so much that we look at and go, I have this, this runs in my family. Genetics mean nothing. Genetics simply are a loaded gun. Something has to pull that trigger. Just because you might have genetics in the family doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to get it.

It simply means you are predisposed. We all know people who have arthritis runs in their family, low thyroid runs in the family, fatty liver, gut issues, run in the family. They don’t, they [00:50:00] mean you’re genetically predisposed to having breakdown. That’s the weak link. When you pull the chain, that’s what breaks first.

So what’s pulling the chain, no matter what your conditions, your diagnosis, your genetics, they mean nothing 

L. Scott Ferguson: so good, man. Squad. We just had literally like, I know I went longer on this one. I know you’re still listening because it’s it is, it was fricking perfect. 

And we did really had a free master class here. My good friend, Josh, , he’s a paramedic. It was about sick care. , he medicated and remedicated people. The people were just weren’t getting to, , getting better. And, , he really wanted to find the root cause, , and I love that he said that his entire life was happy accidents and he found a common denet denominator out there and he found it all in the gut and he.

Another blown away thing he says when the body’s inflamed is trying to tell you something is trying to heal itself and the doctors out there which you got to have doctors I’m, not gonna kill them too much, but you got to have doctors out there, but they’re taught to look for symptoms Not the root , there’s a when, where, when, why, and how [00:51:00] history to everything.

Stop asking for that silver bullet supplement, like something that the hack that’s going to fix you. Get with Josh. He’s going to work with you and he’s going to get to the root. In 14 out of 15 diseases, The, the major diseases out there are from death , or they form death. , the, they’re from the gut and , the FDA a is a $5 trillion business.

And my guy Josh here, is looking to really bk, , big pharma, the FDA, the people that stop spreading those lies, they’re out there that actually killing us. And I have a whole conspiracy theory. On, , baby boomers and, , like killing people off and working on population control. And we won’t get into that, but my good friends know what I’m talking about.

Okay. And the whole, he reminds us that holistic is whole body. It works as a unit. They, they work and communicate with each other. And again, the gut is the central The CDC of your body, that’s where it all comes from. And he said genetics, people that say [00:52:00] genetics is causing this, that’s a freaking lie.

It’s a loaded gun. Somebody has to pull that trigger. , I want you to get with Josh. This guy is, does things for the intention, not the attention. That’s sort of the kind of people I dig being around. , he’s planting trees that he’s never going to sit in the shade of because he’s so freaking passionate about what he does.

And lastly, don’t lean into diagnosis. Get with somebody like Josh. Let’s get to the history. Let’s get to the root. Let’s get you fixed. And that’s what my guy Josh does. He levels up his health. He levels up as well. He’s humble yet. He’s hungry. He’s well put together. Handsome dude. He’s earned his varsity squad letter here.

Time to shine today. Thank you so much for coming on brother. I absolutely love your guts. 

Josh Dech: It’s been a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me. Just give me a platform to share this message and plant those trees. 

L. Scott Ferguson: You bet brother chat soon.

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