A Healthy Gut Means A Healthy Body

There are about 10 trillion cells in the human body, but there about 100 trillion cells in the digestive tract. You need at least 85% of beneficial bacteria and less than 15% pathological bacteria to be healthy. Our gut bacteria are intimately linked to our immune systems and help to keep inflammation under control, which is a vital biomarker for chronic disease. The gut bacteria also produces serotonin, which is the feel good hormone. A healthy gut therefore helps to fight depression.

Your diet can rapidly alter your gut bacteria. Other lifestyle factors such as sleep, mood and exercise can also alter your gut bacteria.

Your gut bacteria may even reveal your risk for, or presence of, colon cancer. Researchers have also linked certain gut microbes to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) and others have been linked to the improvement of MS symptoms.

In order to maintain a healthy balance of gut bacteria:

1. You should avoid; processed foods, refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup, GMOs, herbicides, pesticides, crops that are treated with Roundup, conventionally raised meats, gluten, antibiotics, NSAIDS, anti-bacterial soaps, chlorinated and/or fluorinated water, stress, pollution and antacids. This is quite a list and not that easy to accomplish, which is one of the reasons why Americans have so many health issues!

2. You should try to eat as many of the following foods; unprocessed and whole organic foods, unsweetened foods as well as fermented vegetables and cultured foods, such as kefir and yogurt.

3. You may also want to consider a high-potency probiotic supplement.

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