Super Gut
I’m currently in the process of reading this book so what follows will just be a messy dumping ground for quotes, and learnings. I’ll come back and organize it later
Dysbiosis - defined as an “imbalance” in the gut microbial community that is associated with disease. This imbalance could be due to the gain or loss of community members or changes in the relative abundance of microbes.
Microorganisms can determine if you will eventually develop Parkinsons’ disease or how rapidly you heal from an injury
SIBO - Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth
SIFO - Small Intestine Fungle Overgrowth
Standard Dr.’s fail to treat SIBO/SIFO at the root and only treat symptoms. ie. skin conditions, headaches
Mothers are incredibly important in gifting newborns with a full microbiome. this is from the birth process to skin contact, milk, and even what antibiotics the mother has taken prior to and during birth.
Children who are breastfed for at least 3-5 months are 42% less likely to develop atopic dermatitis
We refrigerate food to prolong its shelf life but deprive ourselves of fertile growth of microorganisms that appear naturally in fermenting foods, and thereby set ourselves up for autoimmune thyroid disease and rosacea - (page 5)
SIBO manifests in a breathtaking variety of ways. SIBO and, to a lesser degree, SIFO can appear as the aches and pains of fibromyalgia, the bowel urgency of irritable bowel syndrome, sleep-disrupting restless leg syndrome, gallstones, food intolerances and allergies, skin rashes, social isolation and feelings of hatred, anxiety, or depression, and hundreds of other health conditions and social situations.- (page 7)
Examination of surgically removed sections of small bowel with SIBO shows that the presence of excessive numbers of unhealthy bacterial species inflames the intestinal wall, occasionally causing ulceration (a break in the mucous membrane), blunts the ability of the hair-like villi to absorb nutrients, and disrupts the digestive process, leading to diarrhea and failed absorption.- (page 7)
Impaired digestion of fat and protein is especially common, resulting in some of the telltale signs that I shall discuss, such as seeing fat droplets in the toilet after a bowel movement, which signifies that unhealthy microbes have blocked the process of fat digestion in the small intestine. - (page 7)
We now know that 35–84 percent of the thirty-five million Americans diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, as well as the equal number who remain undiagnosed but grin and bear bowel urgency and bloating, have SIBO.6 - (page 10)
Americans with the pain and disability of fibromyalgia, up to 100 percent have the bacterial overgrowth of SIBO… - (page 10)
Evidence tells us that supplying this microbe as a probiotic allows the child to metabolize milk oligosaccharides while it also reduces the numbers of unhealthy stool organisms.13 (Later in the book, I will show parents how to make a B. infantis yogurt that moms can consume and thereby provide this microbe - (page 18)
Antibiotics are the most frequent class of drugs prescribed for children. It is estimated that up to 50 percent of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, prescribed for viral, not bacterial, upper respiratory and middle ear infections that antibiotics are ineffective against. Pediatricians often choose broad-spectrum antibiotics that eradicate a wide range of bacterial species and that encourage fungal proliferation (due to reduced competition from bacteria) rather than narrow-spectrum antibiotics with fewer consequences. - (page 18)
toxic by-products of microbial life and death transported outside the GI tract, called endotoxemia, trigger inflammation and disease in distant parts of the body, from big toe to brain. - (page 19)
L. REUTERI: THE LOVE BUG The bacterial species Lactobacillus reuteri is a star in the world of intestinal microbes… - (page 25)