22/05/2025
🌱Think of your gut microbiome as a diverse native garden that you rely on for nutrition & sustenance. When your garden is healthy and thriving, you thrive, too. But if the soil is depleted or polluted, or if pests or unhelpful weeds are overrunning the helpful plants, it can upset your whole ecosystem.
The main types of ‘pathogens’ are bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa - undesirable parasites, prions, and viroids can also act as pathogens.
A strong, healthy gut mirobiome creates a powerful immune system that protects us – but if gut health is compromised - pathogens can invade the body through the various portals – the portals of the eyes, nose & mouth including direct contact with bodily fluids/secretions, indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, and through respiration –
Beneficial microbes in your gut help to train your immune system to tell them apart from the unhelpful, pathogenic types. Your gut is your largest immune system organ, containing up to 80% of your body’s immune cells. These cells help to clear out the many pathogens that pass through it every day.
Helpful gut microbes also compete directly with unhelpful types for real estate and nutrients, preventing them from taking up too much territory. Some of the chronic bacterial infections that can affect your GI tract, including C. difficile and H. pylori, SIBO, IBS, are directly related to having a diminished gut microbiome.
Gut microbes can affect your nervous system through the gut-brain axis – friendly bacteria actually stimulate production of neurotransmitters (like serotonin) that send chemical signals to your brain. An unhealthy gut microbiome is involved in various neurological, behavioral, nerve pain and mood disorders. A poor gut microbiome is involved in metabolic syndrome (obesity, insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes).
The term “dysbiosis” refers to an unbalanced or unhealthy gut microbiome.
Just like a garden, your gut microbiome is affected by the nutrients and pollutants, pests & weeds it’s exposed to. The diversity of plants & their different seasons or life cycles also affect it. In your gut, this means your diet, chemical exposures, pharmaceutical chemicals including mRNA vaccines & childhood vaccines and antibiotics, prescribed medications like antibiotics, dis-ease causing organisms and bowel movement regularity effect your gut health & can hinder it.
The variety of microorganisms in your gut microbiome requires a variety of plant fibers to thrive. Different organisms prefer different whole foods. In turn, they produce short-chain fatty acids and other byproducts that nourish your gut and lower the pH inside, which favors the more beneficial microbes. A diet high in refined sugars & saturated fats favors the less helpful types of microorganisms & is harmful to your microbiome. Chronic exposure to certain medications & excessive alcohol affect gut health composition - it prevents certain microbes from thriving.
The unprecedented forced surge of mRNA injections being passed off as helpful has been now proven to be of excessive damage & harm the gut microbiome- as it it wipes out the very healthy, friendly gut flora bifido bacterium & continues to reduce it’s much needed prevalence in the digestive system. Those injections are designed to never cease creating spike proteins- THIS is a serious continuous harm the gut microbiome.
In a healthy gut microbiome, different types of microorganisms support each other. Just as different plants in a garden cross-pollinate or nourish the soil for each other. For example, some types feed other types by breaking down compounds, or their byproducts change the acidity of the “soil.”
On the other hand, a microbiome that doesn’t support a healthy variety of microorganisms is more vulnerable to being overrun by the invasive types. Without healthy competition, these “weeds” and “pests” take over the habitat & deplete the resources that the other types need to survive. Enter parasitic infections that create life altering dis-ease like cancer, when left unchecked for years.
This is why our ancestors practiced Spring & Fall herbal cleansing to re calibrate the gut microbiome as a normal dis-ease prevention method.
Your motility is the regular movement of your bowels. This is how your “crop” of microorganisms turns over. After traveling through your colon, where they help break down undigested compounds into nutrients you can absorb, many come out with your p**p. How long this takes affects your microbiome.
The movement of food waste through your GI tract helps to distribute different microbes into different places along the way. If it’s too fast, they don’t have time to settle or to do their jobs before clearing out. But if it’s too slow, they can overeat and overgrow, spreading beyond their territory.
1-2 minimum to 3 bm's a day is holistically a health-thy pattern.
Healthy diet & life patterns encourages a healthy gut microbiome. For example:
•Improve your gut health naturally with a diverse and plant-rich diet. Aim for a variety of whole foods like whole grains, vegetables and fruits. These offer plenty of dietary fiber for your gut microbes as well as micro nutrients for you. These foods reduce inflammation in your gut, which affects the environment inside. Processed and convenience foods do the opposite.
•Use fresh & dried herbs & plant infusions/herbal teas as probiotics & prebiotics.. Probiotics are helpful microbes that you can ingest, from plants, herbs & fermented foods, that’ll take up residence in your colon. Prebiotics are the dietary fibers found in fresh vegetation, fruits/veg and herbs/herbal teas/spices that feed your helpful gut bacteria.
Use antibiotics with care. Take steps to re-populate your healthy gut flora once the use has ended.
The gut microbiome is a hot topic in holistic wellness & it’s easy to see why. The gut microbiome has impacts on so many different body systems that it’s easy to see that poor gut health means poor body & mind states.
Herbal Cleanse Protocol ~
Please see Wormwood Extract and/or Black Walnut Plus for Adults & for Children aged 2-10 years see ParaCare on my website.
👉 BE SURE to scroll down on these pages to read the info under: Spring/Fall/Parasite/Fungal Cleanse Tips 👈
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Black Walnut Plus Compound - https://www.stonehouseholistics.com/product-page/anti-candida-compound-tincture
ParaCare Intestinal Support for KIDS - https://www.stonehouseholistics.com/product-page/paracare-intestinal-support-for-kids
