Prebiotics and Probiotics.

Think of your gut microbiome as an intestinal garden, teeming with trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that play a crucial role in your health.

Whether the beneficial microbes in your gut are flourishing or getting crowded out by unwelcome guests largely depends on how well you’re taking care of them.

Scientists estimate that a typical person’s gut microbiota contains between 300 and 500 species of bacteria. Your gut microbiome is a complex ecological community, and the food that you feed it, the new species you invite, and the waste products they create all can affect your physical and mental health.

Taking probiotics are not really that effective.  Probiotics don’t work for everyone. Your unique gene makeup, age, health, bacteria you already have in your body, and diet all affect how probiotics work. The dose isn’t correct (too few CFU). Also most of what you supplement does not make it past the stomach. But taking a supplement, which common sense tells us cannot be alive unless flash frozen and very carefully kept refrigerated. They are ineffective and can be harful if they reach the lower intestine and begin growing and can lead to an imbalance.

So what do you do?

It’s really pretty simple.

Americans eat mostly cooked or processed foods. Once you have heated or processed  foods the enzymes that are present in that food are no longer alive. Enzymes are what help us break down the food into a form that we can actually absorb the nutrients from. Most Americans have poor gut health. When you look at the rate of diseases we have they are almost all self-inflicted. No one eats enough salads, no one needs enough fruit, very few people have raw food in any form along with the cooked food that they are eating. And that is the answer. When you have breakfast have some fresh fruit along with some coconut yogurt with it and then eat the normal breakfast that you would have. And it shouldn’t be cereal, it should be a high quality protein with perhaps some vegetables involved. For your other meals you want to have a salad or fruit before or after the meal.

If you look at most cultures and how they have have eaten for centuries you will see that pattern of eating raw food with every meal. My rule of thumb is you never eat cooked food would have something raw with it. I generally get up in the morning and have Turkish coffee accompanied by a banana. A little while later I have blueberries and coconut milk yogurt followed immediately by either an omelets with vegetables, or eggs cooked another ways along with some vegetables. Same thing with your other meals, avoid processed food, avoid grains which are very hard to break down, lean toward proteins that are easier to digest and are not hard on the colon such as Seafood, beans, or eggs. You can have fruit after a meal or a salad before the meal or vice versa and it’s going to give you the results you want by aiding your digestion, making sure that you are digesting your food effectively. Also remember the depression and other emotional issues are linked to brain health and there is a direct link between gut health and brain health. If you don’t believe me, try eating perfect for a week and notice how much happier you feel, how much better you sleep, how much more energy you have.

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