A Healthy Gut = A Much Healthier You!
All disease begins in the gut.
– Hippocrates
Hippocrates said this more than 2,000 years ago, but we’re only now coming to understand just how right he was. Research over the past two decades has revealed that gut health is critical to overall health.
An unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, autism spectrum disorder, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome.
In fact, many researchers believe that supporting intestinal health and restoring the integrity of the gut barrier will be one of the most important goals of medicine in the 21st century.
There are two closely related variables that determine our gut health: 1.The Gut Barrier, and 2. Gut Flora.
The Importance Of Your Gut Barrier.
To truly understand the role of gut health for immunity, we need to examine the health of your Gut’s barrier, also known as the Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT).
The GALT thinly lines the mucosal layer of your gut wall and acts as a barrier, filter and detection system for everything that travels through your gut and could be potentially absorbed into your bloodstream.
The GALT is richly populated with special clusters of immune cells known as ‘Peyer’s Patches’. The role of the cells within these patches is to identify harmful bacteria within your gut, ensnare these potential pathogens and disarm them before they can enter your bloodstream (and thereby hitch a ride throughout your body).
These Peyer’s Patches also stimulate a chain of immune reactions that stop further movement of invading bacteria throughout your gut lining. Ultimately, this defense system is extremely important to stop harmful bacteria from invading your body!
The Importance of Your Gut Flora.
Gut flora is also known as gut bacteria, gastrointestinal flora, or the microbiome, and in short basically, define the ‘good’ bacteria in your gut that collectively carry out wonderful work to keep your gut in tip-top condition!
When you have a wealth of ‘good’ bacteria in the system, people see a variety of general health benefits.
Benefits of Having More ‘Good’ Gut Bacteria
Good bacteria also helps ferment fiber and resistant starch to form a fatty acid called Butyrate.
Butyrate increases blood flow to your gut wall, which is great for healing. Butyrate also provides essential energy to the cells that line your colon and is extremely important for the repair and growth of healthy colon cells. This is one of the reasons why resistant starch and fiber is associated with lower rates of colon cancer.
Good Gut Bacteria & Wellness.
From an immunity perspective, having plenty of the ‘good’ bacteria in your gut helps to keep the ‘bad’ bacteria in check. When ‘bad’ bacteria are too prolific, they smother the lining of your bowel so that the sentry cells within the Peyer’s patches cannot perform their task of protecting you properly.
The result? You are more vulnerable to pathogens that you pick up from the environment and may find yourself getting sick more often than you’d like!
Good News: You Can Increase Good Gut Bacteria
There are 2 types of ‘biotic’ compounds that work in the gut to help increase good gut bacteria: Probiotics and Prebiotics.
Probiotics are the actual good bacteria in the gut that support optimal gut and human health. Prebiotics are materials that feed probiotic bacteria and support their populations in the gut.
Inflammation And Your Gut
A healthy gut flora has also been shown to reduce inflammation, a key factor that is associated with many health issues from the common cold, through to cardiovascular diseases, cognitive issues, arthritis, and even cancer.
Probiotics, prebiotics, and anti-inflammatory minerals like MSM can have a large impact on reducing inflammation in the gut and throughout the body.
The ‘Brain’ In Your Gut.
Our gut is also full of nerves and neurotransmitters that form a neural network called the Enteric Nervous System (ENS). The ENS is wired directly to the brain, hence why stress and anxiety can exert such a powerful effect on our digestion.
Research is only beginning to uncover how complex the functions of the ENS are, including the fact that our gut cells even produce the mood-enhancing neurotransmitter, serotonin.
This mechanism has prompted some fascinating research into the link between our gut and certain behavioral disorders, and more understanding will evolve that will continue to prove Hippocrates correct in his 2000-year-old assertion.
Key Steps To Support Gut Health:
✔PROBIOTICS: These restore the ‘good guys’ in our gut, especially if you’ve been through a recent round of antibiotics.
✔EAT ORGANIC: Avoid the pesticide sprays that kill off bugs on our plants… and in our gut!
✔LOW TOXIC PRODUCTS: Use non-toxic cleaning aids in your home.
✔USE ANTIBIOTICS AS A LAST RESORT: Antibiotics can be life-saving in certain situations, however unnecessary use clears out our good gut bacteria.
✔USE MSM Daily: MSM provides a secondary line of defense of toxins (and many parasites) in both the digestive tract and bloodstream. MSM also significantly reduces inflammation in cells.
✔KEEP UP THE H2O: Our bodies need to be hydrated to keep bad bacteria propelling through our digestive tract to be easily eliminated.
✔GIVE YOURSELF DIGESTIVE REST: Our gut cannot rest and repair when we overeat or eat too often. Whilst there are many benefits to eating small, regular meals, try to avoid snacking constantly.
✔EAT PLENTY OF FIBER, RESISTANT STARCH & PREBIOTICS: This is A-grade fuel for the friendly bacteria in your gut.
✔INCLUDED FERMENTED FOODS: These support healthy gut flora too!
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