Abnormal bacteria in the gut is a factor behind inflammation,
food cravings, obesity, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's and
many of the other chronic diseases seen today. When your gut bacteria (flora)
is unhealthy a leaky gut syndrome can develop causing food particules to leach into your
bloodstream where they can trigger allergic and inflammatory responses.
An abnormal gut environment can also lead to long term depression
and other emotional and physical problems, because your gut bacteria provide a
significant source of your amino acids, vitamins and other important compounds.
Three major ones are ATP, tryptophan and serotonin.
The chronic use of broad spectrum antibiotics has also created
abnormal gut flora leading to long term health problems. Many inflammatory
illnesses that affect brain health can be prevented by getting a healthier gut.
What's the Smartest Decision?
Our natural biology was accustomed to a diet filled with mainly
wild plants and animals, berries,
nuts, and roots, which were significantly higher in nutrients than our
foods today. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed nearly 100 grams of fiber
every day, compared to the 8-15 grams now consumed in the average Western diet.
The foods we
eat can be our medicine or our poison .The processed foods found lining grocery
store shelves are not the foods we were designed to eat. Ninety percent of the
average American diet is fake food out of a box, can, jar, or tube.
Most of the foods the body reacts to are genetically modified and
chemically different then even the last 10-20 years. The most common culprits
being soy, gluten from hybridized wheat, corn, sugar, and highly pasteurized
dairy, for example. These modern foods are foreign to your body, so it’s common to have problematic reactions, including inflammatory and
autoimmune responses, which can lead to allergies, cardiovascular disease,
cancer, and the list goes on and on.
One of every four Americans now has type 2 diabetes or
pre-diabetes and is a precursor to Alzheimer's disease.
Americans have shunned fats for the last 40 years after being
told they cause heart disease, when the real culprit is sugar. The epidemic of
brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple
sclerosis, and the like are evidence of what happens when your brain is starved
of beneficial fats while being bombarded with toxic insults over time. Your
brain is made up of fat, so it’s no surprise that low-fat diets have been linked
to depression and suicidal or homicidal behavior.
We have outsourced the making of our food to corporations that
have cut corners, added chemicals, and altered the genetic makeup of what we
eat. What the average American eats is not food anymore but rather “edible manufactured
products.” Our
children pay the heaviest price, becoming biochemically enslaved to sugar.
This is not an exaggeration as studies have shown sugar to be
eight times as addictive as cocaine. Would it be okay if the government began
marketing and subsidizing cocaine? Of course not, but that’s
exactly what they’re doing with sugar with their subsidization of
the corn and fructose industry and manipulative marketing campaigns.
Beneficial bacteria in the gut also play an enormous role in your
genetic expression—continuously
helping flip genes off and on as you need them. Your genetic expression is 50
to 80 percent controlled by how you eat, think and move, and your genes change
daily—if not
hourly.
Better Brain Tip
It is critical to make SMARTER choices about what you eat.
The question I often ask my patients is…?
Would you feed your dog what you eat on a daily basis. Most
people role their eyes and say;
“Of course not, that would make them
sick!”
Well, WAKE UP and listen to your own answer. We are getting
sicker and sicker year after year as a society
Start removing one food a week that you KNOW is not healthy.
After a few weeks when you start to feel better it will be even
easier to keep removing the TOXIC foods that are affecting you and your family.
START NOW!!!
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