It Starts With You

It Starts With You

How are you feeling? Happy, lost, scared? These emotions can usually be sensed inside your body, rearing their instigative heads with loaded barrels infiltrating your gut and/or mind.

So much of what we perceive is orchestrated by our Gut-Brain Axis, which is a complex system of hundreds of thousands of nerve cells that link the two, and facilitate constant communication with everything from nutrients, deficiencies, toxins, depression, and anxiety, to name a few.

Decades of research has unfolded a vast microbiome within the human gastro-intestinal tract that not only benefits man, but keeps him alive. These ninety trillion cells of bacteria, fungi, and viruses colonize in a way to optimize the healthiest you by synthesizing vitamins, some of which would not occur without them, fiber, amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes, neurotransmitters, over ninety percent of serotonin – that feel good neurotransmitter, and a vat of hormones.

Even though they sound like they should be garnering capes and defeating wrong-doers, they rely on you to do your part, which includes prioritizing diet and lifestyle. Sugar, white flour, processed/fast foods, and alcohol will kill the Good Guys.

This has a two-fold ramification: the actual die-off of these essential workers, and the wanton proliferation of the opportunistic critters, because the beneficial ones are no longer present to keep them minimized. With an overflow of all things foul ruling the roost, bedlam in the form of allergies, GI disturbances, hormone dysregulation, brain fog, autoimmunity, and even cancer can materialize.

With such disarray within the microbiome, and its direct line to the brain, it can be extrapolated that one's mood may be negatively altered with links to depression, anxiety, or even Schizophrenia. Today's tensions and infinite deadlines also disrupts these tender do-gooders, making stress reduction techniques and self-care all the more imperative.

Meditation/prayer can ground, heal, relax, connect with God, and provide answers that the ordinary mind may miss. Grabbing a green salad and sitting still to hear the small voice within can procure all kinds of curative remedies, and nurture the little guys within to have the necessary ammunition to thrive, and foster the best you. While a festive jamboree sounds like a whooping bulls-eye, a leisurely promenade for the microbiome may be just what the doctor ordered.

However, even healthy food without the Lord is just eating. How are you connecting with The Almighty?
~" And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have then for food,'" Genesis 1:29.

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