Do you know what can damage our gut flora?
If your immune system, or your “gut”, is full of enough healthy bacteria you won't get sick. Plain and simple.
- You feel good and have energy.
- You can focus on what you're doing.
- You won't have migraines, anxiety issues, or even depression.
- Your mood stays more level.
- You won't get every cold or flu bug in the air and you certainly don't have to worry about squirting that dumb antibacterial junk on your hands every time you turn around.
- You won't have to freak out if your kids touch a shopping cart and then, GASP!, touch their eyes or mouth. (Like I used to freak out over such things.)
- You won't have digestive issues, and don't we all know someone with those problems?
Obviously, this list could go on for days, but you get the idea.
Before we go further, were you just looking for some quick links?
- Click here for the GAPS Diet book by Natasha Campbell McBride
- Click here for the strong probiotics
- Find the cod liver oil here
- Click here for Grain free meal plans
- Click here for a GAPS Starter Kit
- Click here for What Can I Eat Now? 30 Days on the GAPS Intro Diet
Wonder how your gut flora becomes depleted in the first place?
Watch the video below for more, but here are some excerpts on what can damage your gut flora, from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride:
- Antibiotics
“As soon as antibiotics were discovered, the damage to a large percent of the population began.”
- Bottle feeding
“Breast feeding is essential for a baby to develop normal gut flora.”
- Prescription medication given on a long-term basis, such as the birth control pill
“The effect of contraceptive pills on the composition of bacteria in the gut is devastating. The longer the lady is on the contraceptive pill, the deeper will be the damage on her gut flora.”
- Junk food, other processed foods, especially processed carbohydrates
“Processed foods feed, almost exclusively, abnormal species of microbes in the digestive tract, they do not feed the beneficial bacteria.”
- Exposure to large amounts of various toxic substances at work or elsewhere. Such as radiation or alcoholism.
“Whatever toxins we humans have created, if we are exposed to large amounts it will have an effect on gut flora.”
“So all these factors together created generations of women with seriously abnormal gut flora, and that's what they pass to their newborn babies nowadays, and as a result we have epidemics of learning disabilities and physical problems in our children.”
Improving gut health can make all the difference in your health! But how do we do this?
For some, they'll need to go full-out on the GAPS Diet in order to heal from serious health issues, and this includes taking strong probiotics to fill their gut with a LOT of healthy bacteria – the “big guns”, as I call them. (Where to buy probiotics.)
For others, they may need only to get rid of processed foods and eat more Real Food, especially fermented foods which can also fill your gut with healthy bacteria. You could make delicious fermented vegetables using this starter – learn how here!
Your turn!
Be sure to share your stories of healing in the comments! Have you healed your gut and then seen a drastic change in your health?
Watch the video with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride mentioned above to learn more about gut health:
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Also there are several herbs that are great to help boost the immune system, including Olive Leaf and Astragalus. We like to drink our Immune Improve herbal blend as a tea to boost the immune system.
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Kristy says
My 10 year old son was diagnosed with celiac disease last year. I was devastated. The more I learn about nutrition and how a mother’s gut bacteria (or lack of it) affects her child while pregnant, the more guilt I feel. He was my third child born too closely to the other children, and I was not healthy. But GAPS diet is changing everything for us. My son is starting to grow again. He is short for his age because for so long he wasn’t absorbing any nutrients due to the condition of his intestines. But they are healing and he is starting to grow again. My other son had a strange rash clear up quickly just by being on partial GAPS with his brother (partial because he still eats junk at school and church) and my daughter is calmer and has less of a teenager attitude. I feel great too – I got off antidepressants and dropped 25 pounds pretty quickly. GAPS makes me feel like I don’t need antidepressants anymore. I definitely see a difference when I eat processed food now – my mood turns sour and I get angry very easily! Good nutrition is the key to everything -including mental well-being- and GAPS diet can get your intestines back in shape so you can live a better, happier life.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
Thank you so much for sharing, I’m sure you just gave so many their first glimmer of HOPE!!
Amanda Y. says
Yes, I’d also like more information on the contraceptive pill affecting the gut, as I have tried hard to take good care of my gut, but I have medical issues (ovarian cysts) that have not seemed to be helped by a natural diet that are requiring me to stay on the pill. I would like to know more about this though
Laurel says
Just wondering if there are any published studies for this:
“The effect of contraceptive pills on the composition of bacteria in the gut is devastating. The longer the lady is on the contraceptive pill, the deeper will be the damage on her gut flora.”
Or anywhere on the web that I can read proof of this?
Thanks
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
Try Natasha’s site or maybe googling with her name. Sorry can’t look it up right now, I’m not at home…
Susan says
My daughter (7) was diagnosed with peanut/tree nut allergies, asthma and juvenile arthritis by age 2, uveitis at age 4 and ulcerative colitis at 5. She had the GI issues from age 2, but the various doctors dismissed our concerns until her symptoms worsened. I had already tried eliminating many of the known possible offenders like gluten, dairy and soy when my daughter was 2 to see if it would help her, but we saw no improvement.
At the time of the UC diagnosis, I learned about the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and put my daughter on it. This month is her two year anniversary on the diet. We have gotten her of her weekly and biweekly injecions and all other meds except low dose Naltrexone.
She looks and feels better, but is still not 100%. Her inflammation markers remain elevated so I have been trying several supplements over the last few months like FCLO and vitamin D3. Yesterday I took her in for her first craniosacral therapy session. I don’t know if it will address her different illnesses, but it should help her sleep better, which should then help her immune system. She is a teeth grinder and wakes up almost daily complaining of some ache/pain. I didn’t notice any grinding last night and she woke up in a great mood…no pain complaints. I hope it is more than a coincidence!
Susan says
Typing this from my phone so I apologize for the typos! I also meant to add that SCD seems to have helped to greatly reduce my daughters asthma and outdoor/seasonal allergies. She used to have chronic bronchitis, but as only had one episode in the past two years. Her allergist wanted her on a daily steroid powder inhaler which I refused to do. At the last checkup, her breathing was ‘the best it has ever been in the six years she has been a patient.’ She still has asthma occasionally, but nothing like she used to!
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
Wow, that must have you giddy, I love stories like this!