Previously, I made some posts about dealing with diarrhea and constipation, as well as commenting on the AMD article on DMSO for gut health. But I also want to collect general gut health info on this page.
Gut health is intimately linked to mental health, as the gut is considered our “second brain.”
Causes of poor gut health
Severe stress/adrenal fatigue: This can cause a lack of mucus to line the stomach, which in turn causes burning, difficulty absorbing nutrients, and so forth. And every other gut issue can also be partly related to this. My mindset page and loveyhuasca protocol can help a lot with this, as well as my deep sleep tips.
Poor diet: industrial and processed foods, especially oils, are often empty calories full of countless toxins and oxidation byproducts. Toxins are sequestered in fat cells to prevent them from damaging organs, but this toxic fat (especially visceral fat) becomes a chronic health issue even as it protects us from immediately dying from the sequestered toxins.
Parasites, mold, metals: We are often addicted to junk food due to a vicious cycle in which the junk feeds parasitic organisms and bad bacteria, yeast, etc, which then send signals to our brain to consume more junk. Thus, we have to target the problem from various angles — cleansing out pathogens, repopulating good bacteria, addressing vitamin (especially thiamine), mineral, and enzyme deficiencies, and changing what we eat. I wrote about my detox protocol (which includes the gut) here.
Plant foods: The carnivore diet is trending, as many people are noticing they cannot handle fiber, oxalates, and phytates in plants. It’s certainly a diet worth trying, but it can lead to deficiencies over time, especially with regard vitamins C, E, fiber, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iodine and other trace minerals, and bacteria needed to process plant foods (which already are likely missing in people who need this diet), thus making the carnivore diet sort of hard to get off.
SIBO: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is a huge issue underlying a wide range of illnesses. One of the most effective cures for many people is SIBO Yogurt. I also sell these SIBO yogurt bacteria (along with other helpful herbal juices and minerals) in liquid form for vegans.
Leaky gut: a widespread inflammatory condition often intersecting with other categories of illness such as Crohn’s Disease or IBS, and what many alternative health practitioners consider as a root cause of most diseases. Game-changing treatments: Liposomal first-milking colostrum and zinc carnosine, along with the juices of turmeric, red cabbage, celery, beet greens juice (not just beet root).
Low stomach acid, enzymes, and thick bile: which in turn are often due to poor diet, stress, infections. T.C. Hale has a lot of videos on healing digestion issues, which in his experience as a health coach, are often due to these root causes. He’s a bit controversial on some points such as his urine pH testing for anabolic/catabolic state freezes, but he does have some good suggestions which I haven’t seen elsewhere, collected in this video and his channel.