Gut Health

Why is Gut Health So Important?

1- Most Diseases start in the gut
The human digestive tract forms a defensive barrier between what we ingest and prevents harmful substances from reaching the bloodstream. Environmental factors can alter our Microbiome causing our intestinal barrier to break down leading to malnutrition, systemic immune responses, and systemic inflammation. It is this inflammation that can be the root cause of disease.

Here are diseases we are discovering that are involved or related to dysfunctions of gut:

• IBD, IBS, ESBL, VRE, Insulin Resistance, Type-2 Diabetes, Autoimmune Diseases, Alzheimer’s, SIBO, Celiac, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Crohn’s, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Hypothyroid, Immunodeficiency Syndromes, Obesity, Parkinson’s Disease, Rosacea, Ulcerative Colitis, Atherosclerosis, Liver Disease, Metabolic syndrome.

2- About 70% of our Immune System is located within the Gut
The Gut Immune system acts as our boarder control to monitor what is and is-not allowed to enter. It is in the gut where the intertwined relationship between our body and the microbiome exist. Our immune system works to keep the microbiome in-check and to create a barrier between the outside world and the inter world of our bodies. If there is a break down in our gut immune function this leads to increased inflammation and metabolic dysregulation. The relationship between the microbiome and our bodies can be symbiotic or harmful.

3- Bacteria (Our Microbiotia)
The Gut Microbiome composition can either shape a healthy immune response or predispose one to disease. The Gut Microbiome is an essential component to immune, metabolic, cardiovascular, neuro, and brain health. An imbalance of the Microbiota leads to inflammation and metabolic dysfunction.
The Microbiota role:

• production of peptides that act as neurotransmitters estrogenic compounds (enterodiol, enterolactone) Vitamin synthesis (B12, biotin, thiamine, and vitamin K)
• metabolism of chemicals, hormones, dietary oxalates
• lipid absorption regulation
• 36% of small molecules found in healthy blood is created by the gut microbiome.

4- Gut-Brain Axis
The majority of our Neurotransmitters are made in the Gut.
The gut effects

• The levels of GABA, Norepinephrine, Dopamine, and Serotonin
• Cytokine stimulation and Stress Hormone Regulation via Hypothalamus, Pituitary, and Adrenal Gland axis.
• Vagal Nerve Signaling. Involved in development of disease motility disorders, behavioral disorders, neurogenerative disease, strokes, neuroimmune disorders.

What we do to heal and protect your Gut Health

• We take In-depth history of your personal story that identifies triggers that altered your gut health and the factors that maintain that imbalance.
• Test, Don’t Guess. We perform a stool analysis looking at
• Digestion, Absorption, Immune, and Inflammation markers. This gives a picture of your gut health
• The compositions of your gut microbiome IDs the types and levels of bacteria and fungi in your gut.
• The metabolic products created by your microbiome IDs deficiencies or toxicities
• Remove, Restore, Repair, Reinoculate, Relax. Based on your history and test results we identify the necessary
• Changes to make in your lifestyle
• Medications and or Supplements (if needed)
• Diet plan to restore your gut health.
• Changes in diet can cause large shifts in the microbiome in just 24 hours. The diversity and type of bacteria and fungi that live in the GI tract are directly influenced by diet and lifestyle.

Please Contact Our Office to start your journey to Gut Health.