HOW TO REPAIR YOUR MICROBIOME

In our previous post, we looked at how your gut health impacts your health, mood, brain, and just about everything else physiological in your brain and body.  This week we are going to take a quick look at what can be done to heal your gut, and thereby heal your microbiome.  

The first step is to figure out what the issue is with your gut.  Among the most common is leaky gut syndrome.  Leaky gut syndrome is a repetitive cycle where food particles and toxins escape the intestinal lining due to damage usually caused by a poor diet for multiple years.  The food particles and toxins enter into parts of the body they should not be, thus triggering an immune response.  That immune response is continuous and remains triggered for as long as the intestinal lining is damaged. 

Bacterial imbalance is another potential cause of gut issues.  We all have billions of bacterial cells in our intestines.  Sometimes, the ratio of these bacteria can be thrown off by things like antibiotics or a poor diet.  Where certain types of bacteria make up too large a percentage of the microbiome, dysbiosis occurs.  Like leaky gut, bacterial imbalance is a repudiative cycle that does not end until the gut is healed. 

Two more things to consider, which often occur in concert with leaky gut syndrome, are histamine intolerance and yeast imbalances.  A yeast imbalance is very similar to bacterial imbalance.  We all have yeast in our bodies, but if the balance is thrown off, often by poor diet and/or antibiotic use, the result is again, dysbiosis.  Histamine intolerance involves our body's inability to breakdown certain histamines.  This results in our systems releasing histamine to counteract the incoming histamine, resulting in a histamine overload.  For people with histamine tolerance issues, this exacerbates our gut issues.  

So, now that we know what can go wrong, how doe we fix it?  The first step is often an elimination diet.  Second step is a cleaning up your diet, managing your stress, and eating prebiotic and probiotic containing foods.  There are also products on the market like Ion Gut Support, that help rebuild intestinal linings and put in order bacterial and yeast balances.  

Next month we will dive headlong into the elimination diet.  Until then, if you would like more information about how to fix your gut issues, please click below.

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