The Balance of the Intestinal Ecosystem & Gut Brain Link

How the Dysbiosis Condition DEVELOPS Over Time

In our last article, we learned about the mechanics of the gut biome hormonal imbalance and how it leads to sugar addiction. Today we will dive deeper into the gut biome, how it is ever so delicately balanced, and talk more about the pathway of communication between your belly and your brain.

Your Gut & the Rain Forest – A Comparison

To better understand its nature, I like drawing a comparison between your gut and the rain forest. The rain forest is a complex ecosystem that has thousands of species living in perfect balance. When you throw off that balance, the rain forest suffers.

Your gut biome is strikingly similar. The wide variety of microorganisms living within must also be kept in a state of healthy balance. When that balance is thrown off, the biome becomes unhealthy and the body suffers much in the same way that the rain forest would.

It’s actually quite an extensive ecosystem. The number of microorganisms living within it is ten times more than the sum total of all the cells that make up the entire human body. That’s why it is critically important to maintain a proper healthy balance. Its health is directly connected to the overall health of the body.

To greatly generalize, there are “beneficial bacteria”, and “non-beneficial bacteria” living inside of your intestines. A proper balance consists of 80% beneficial bacteria versus 20% non-beneficial bacteria in your gut.

The first question that might pop into your mind is, “why do we even have non-beneficial bacteria living in our bodies?” The reason is, they help your body to know how to react to pathogens. It’s part of your immune defense system.

But here’s the kicker…

The organisms that live within your gut are “smart”, and they have evolved in such a way that guarantees their survival. The non-beneficial bacteria don’t just naturally stay under the optimum level of 20%. Under the right circumstances, they’ll surpass that level.

All they need is the right food supply. That’s why the Candida bacteria hijacks your brain to ensure that you are feeding them what they need to overpopulate and control your gut.

The Gut Brain Link

The connection between the non-beneficial bacteria in your intestines and your brain is often called the Gut Brain Link, or “GBA” for short. In our last article, we learned how these microbes communicate their message to your brain in order to influence your eating habits.

The GBA, or pathway of communication between the candida bacteria and your brain, can take place along several different pathways. Experts say that there are as many as 7 in total. The main pathway is through the Vagus Nerve, but the communication also takes place through neuroendocrine signaling (by way of gut hormones), interfering with tryptophan metabolism, and also by altering your intestinal permeability.

We don’t need to get into the nitty gritty biochemical explanation of each of these pathways. There are plenty of super smart cellular biologists and medical doctors specializing in gut biome research that can bore us to tears with research papers on the topic. We just need to realize that complex communication is going on between your belly and your brain, and you are being hijacked without your awareness.

However, the most important thing to know about is the end result when your body’s communication system has been hijacked: It marks the beginnings of a candida overgrowth condition.

Candida overgrowth is often called Dysbiosis of the gut. Others call it Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth syndrome, or “SIBO” for short. But it basically reflects the condition of microbial imbalance.

This condition of imbalance is the first step in the development of a myriad of chronic degenerative disease conditions. Sadly, most won’t know there is a problem until the damage is already done. It can take years, and even decades before the degenerative symptoms manifest.

When left unchecked, candida overgrowth will lead to a thinning out of the small intestinal lining. This is due to the nature of the candida bacteria to burrow deeply within the cell walls. Over extended periods of time, physical damage results with the degradation of the lining. That’s when things start to head south and the symptoms start to pop up.

And remember, all of this happens because of the ability of the non-beneficial bacteria keeping control of your dietary habits without you being consciously aware of the fact that your gut biome is severely out of balance.

This is certainly enough information to “digest” for now (sorry, I couldn’t resist). In my next article, I will talk about “The Triangle of Disease”, a term coined by Pharmacist Benjamin Fuchs, which is the condition that is the foundation for 95% of ALL chronic degenerative disease situations.

After I scare you with the gory details of how the disease conditions develop from the condition of imbalance, we will start the process of learning how to stop the sugar addiction dead in its tracks and turn your switch to the OFF position permanently!

Carlton Flowers
VitalHealth Discovery

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