GUT FLORA: THE BODY’S GAURDIAN
The major barrier for anything toxic in this world is the gut flora. It produces antibiotics, anti-fungal and anti-viral substances. It is the first protection from carcinogenic and toxic substances by neutralizing them and sending them out in the feces with bacteria. The gut flora produce enzymes, release minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients, ensure transportation across the gut wall happens while synthesizing other nutritious substances for transportation of water soluble vitamins into the bloodstream. Many auto-immune (AI) diseases are linked to microfloral imbalance; diabetes, systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis to mention just a few. Here we have the opportunity to utilize nutrition to prevent, reduce, or eliminate many AI diseases.
The four steps to establishing normal gut function are:
1. Remove any dietary antigens, pathogenic organisms, or dysbiosis. This can be accomplished without using more ‘good flora’ killing antibiotics.
2. Replace hydrochloric acid to aid digestion and inhibit bacteria and digestive enzymes. The enzymes will also inhibit bacteria, aid digestion, and reduce the antigenicity of food proteins.
3. Reinnoculate with probiotics.
4. Repair the integrity and function of the mucosa, the quality and quantity of gastric, biliary and pancreatic secretions and the intestinal immunity. Plus the intestinal motility and the intra- and extra-intestinal regulatory processes that involve the endocrine organs and the autonomic nervous system.
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