"If you want to fix your health, start with your gut. Gut health literally affects your entire body.
Consider the important jobs your gut performs regularly, including breaking down food, absorbing nutrients, keeping out toxins, and producing nutrients. That’s a lot of work! For optimal immunity, detoxification, and nourishment, your gut must function seamlessly.
Even in a perfect world, our gut has a hard time keeping things balanced. But in our world, there are many things that knock our digestive system off balance. Those include:
A junk diet. This nutrient-poor diet makes all the wrong bacteria and yeast grow in the gut, leading to a damaged ecosystem.
Medication overuse. Anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, acid-blocking drugs, and steroids damage the gut or block normal digestive function.
Infections and gut imbalances. These include small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), yeast overgrowth, and parasites.
Toxic overload. Including mercury and mold toxins.
Inadequate digestive enzymes. Stress, acid-blocking medications, and zinc deficiencies can all contribute to a lack of adequate digestive enzyme function.
Stress. Chronic stress alters your gut nervous system, creating a leaky gut and changing the normal bacteria in the gut.
After you cut out all of the bad things, you can add in more fiber-rich foods, probiotics, omega 3 fatty acids, zinc, glutamine, and other healing nutrients." - #REPOST @drmarkhyman