04/19/2025
As we discussed in our March 15 post when you eat food the bacterial cells in your digestive tract digest that food and spit into your blood, as their waste products, all of the nutrients that your body needs to survive and thrive! Some of these nutrients are the pleasure hormones tryptophan, serotonin and dopamine. Immune cells and antioxidants are some of the other health producing chemicals that the bacteria produce.
The bacteria, your microbiome, need to be in balance and be of the “right” type. As promised, thank you for the suggestion cousin Angela, we are now going to review some of the major lifestyle choices that promote a healthy microbiome. When the microbiome is healthy your overall health and well being is maximized. Here we go:
● your microbiome feeds best on non-soluble fibers, the best being vegetables, raw onions are ideal.
● sugar promotes production of the “wrong” bacteria
● emulsifiers cause leaking gut syndrome allowing bacteria and other harmful materials into your blood. This can result in stiffness of joints, digestive problems, autoimmune disorders just to name a few! Emulsifiers improve shelf life and are COMMONLY found in most milk substitutes, ice cream, salad dressings, yogurt, candy bars including chocolate, baked goods, and many other food items that live on the shelf of your supermarket for 42 years. READ LABELS, they show up as the lecithin, soybean oil, mono and diglyceride, and all of GUMS,(guar, xantthum, locust bean, carrageenan, etc…)
● coffee is a good source of fiber and also balances out the two main different types of the 500-1000 types of bacteria that make up yur microbiome which is comprised of over of 75 -200 trillion bacteria. As noted on our March 15 post our we also have viruses, protozoans, funghi and archaea.
So you truly are NOT what you eat. You can eat the best foods in the world, but unless you have a good microbiome to break down those foods, you will never utilize the nutrients.
In fact, there are many other factors that affect what you digest, absorb and assimilate. Exercise, sleeping patterns and stress all affect how your gut utilizes the food you eat. Over the next several weeks look out for follow-up newsletters to give you some health tips that improve the gut microbiome, but for now we’re going to cover the most important one of all!
Your gut bacteria communicate with your brain via the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is part of the autonomic nerve system that regulates just about every function in your body! However, about 70 to 80% of the vagus nerve goes directly to your gut. When you are anxious or stressed, the vagus nerve, the major part of the parasympathetic system, is overridden by the fight or flight, sympathetic system. Consequently, when you eat when you are stressed you do not digest your food properly. In fact, you might feel abdominal discomfort, gas and not at ease mentally. There is another very common thing that will interfere with the function of the vagus nerve. When spinal vertebrae, especially the first bone in your neck, get misaligned the resulting subluxation will shut down the vagus nerve. This happens commonly during the birth process and may result in a newborn having colic.
Correcting subluxations over the past 40+ years has helped so many people improve their health by helping the body to digest, absorb and assimilate the foods that they eat. We have been blessed to witness thousands of children and adults improve from so many different conditions. Quite frankly, it is mind-boggling that people take all sorts of dangerous medication that may not need if they had their nerve system cleared of vagus nerve irritation, subluxation. You truly are what you eat, digest, absorb and assimilate. You assimilate MUCH better when your spine is free of nerve interference!
