Ever Taken Antibiotics? Your Gut Never Fully Recovered (Here’s the Fix)
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How to heal your gut after antibiotics.
Unfortunately, many people never fully
recover after even one round of
antibiotics. And unfortunately, I'm
talking about myself because I had
antibiotics literally twice a year my
entire childhood. The worst thing you
could do for your health is have this
idea that every time you get sick, you
have to run to the doctor, get a
prescription for an antibiotic.
Antibiotics do not work for viral
infections, only for bacterial
infections. And you have to realize
antibiotics come with a package, okay? A
lot of side effects. And I know
sometimes a doctor will tell you, "Oh,
your gut will fully recover, okay? All
those microbes that we killed will come
back to normal." That is absolutely not
true. The numbers of microbes might come
back. The forest in your gut microbiome
might come back, but you have a
different forest. You're going to have a
lot of new different strains that you
didn't have before. Plus, on top of
that, you're going to have added
resistance genes. Genes that now resist
antibiotics. So, every time you take
them, you become more resistant and more
resistant to the point where they don't
work anymore. I think a really important
purpose of eating is to support your
microbes because they can give you so
many health benefits. And if they're not
there in the right ratios, they can make
your life a living hell. So, even though
they're not really an organ, they act
like another organ. And we can't even
live without the microbiome. We have
trillions of microbes that we have a
relationship with. We allow them to live
in our body. They help us break down
fiber. They make vitamins. They support
our immune system. They make
neurotransmitters. There's a whole
gut-brain axis. So, in other words, our
mood is greatly affected or influenced
by the gut microbes. So, we just have to
realize that and we have to feed them
correctly and we have to take care of
them because when you start killing them
off, the relationship changes. So, now
they start fighting you and they start
becoming antagonistic. And all the
microbes that they were keeping in check
and keeping suppressed, like candida,
yeast, fungus, mold, things like that,
now can come out and create secondary
infections. So, let's start with this.
There's two main types of antibiotics.
You have the broad-spectrum antibiotics,
okay? And then you have the
narrow-spectrum. Like, for example,
penicillin is a narrow-spectrum
antibiotic. This was the first one
discovered. When you're at the doctor,
you might want to bring that up and say,
"Is there a chance that I can take a
narrow-spectrum antibiotic for your
infection?" Because then if we contrast
that to a broad-spectrum, like Cipro, it
wipes everything out. And there's major
damage that can occur years later
because the entire ecosystem, everything
connected, is influenced. This is why
there's a lot of mood disorders after
antibiotics, like depression, anxiety,
panic attacks. We also have microbes
that make the majority of serotonin in
your body, okay? Like, 90% of all the
serotonin, which has a unique function
of supporting the peristalsis or the
pumping action of the colon to allow you
to eliminate. If you don't have enough
of that, you can get constipation.
There's even microbes that make bile.
You wipe those out and now you don't
have bile. So, now we have additional
problems with fat digestion, increased
risk of SIBO, and all sorts of things.
So, let's say, for example, you take an
antibiotic and then afterwards you take
a probiotic. And you're thinking, "Oh,
this will just replace all the strains
that were missing, right?" Well, a
typical probiotic might have three to 10
to maybe 20 different strains of
bacteria, whereas your gut microbiome
has hundreds, okay, of different
microbes. And who knows if the ones in
the probiotic are the ones that you
really need. I'm not against probiotics,
but just realize a lot of times it's not
reseeding the microbes, okay? So, in
other words, you take the probiotic, it
might get killed at the stomach acid
level, and it never ends up reseeding or
adding new bacteria to your gut.
However, there are certain probiotics
that do survive the stomach acid, so
always make sure you get one of those.
You want to take probiotics
during the process of taking an
antibiotic. Do that at the same time.
So, as the antibiotic is killing the
good and the bad, at least you're
putting some of the good back in. So, a
probiotic is good, but there's something
way more important, and it's sauerkraut.
And what I'm about to share with you
will probably make you want to consume
sauerkraut on a daily basis. Sauerkraut
not only gives us a lot of different
microbes that are conditioned to survive
the harsh elements of the stomach acid,
as well as the harsh bile salts, okay?
They survive all of that. Because when
you make sauerkraut, you have to go
through these different stages of acid
levels. It trains your immune system,
okay? You have the fiber in there in a
state that your body can easily
assimilate, so you have the prebiotic to
feed the microbes to make short-chain
fatty acids, and short-chain fatty acids
are what your colon cells actually use
as fuel. So, when you're taking
sauerkraut, you're making your colon
cells very, very happy. Out of all of
the vegetables, okay? Cabbage, which
makes sauerkraut, has something called
vitamin U. It's a chemical proven to
actually heal ulcers. And I'm going to
recommend the raw sauerkraut. Get it in
the refrigerated section in the grocery
store. Even though the pasteurized
sauerkraut can give you some good
benefits, believe it or not, I just
recommend the raw stuff. Now, Stanford
University did a research study. Two
different groups head-to-head for 10
weeks. One group consumed a high fiber
diet, legumes, seeds, whole grains,
vegetables, nuts. The other group
consumed high fermented foods, yogurt,
kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, and fermented
vegetables. And the results of the fiber
group, guess what happened to the
microbiome? You would think that the
diversity of microbiome went up,
completely unchanged. And also in the
fiber group, those inflammatory proteins
did not drop down. They did not
decrease, none of them. So apparently
fiber does not reduce inflammation,
especially in your colon. In fact, I
think it increases it, and this is why a
lot of people have gone to carnivore and
they've been very very successful. Now,
in the fermented group, there was a
massive microbiome diversity. Increased
in every single participant, and 19
inflammatory proteins were decreased.
So, fermented foods decrease your
inflammation. And you don't just have to
do sauerkraut, you can do a high quality
yogurt without all the other crap or
emulsifiers. You want to get something
really good. I like the Bulgarian yogurt
myself, or some of the other sour
yogurts, and kefir, which is even better
because kefir has a lot more microbes.
Your microbes also eat polyphenols. So,
cacao, I put that in my coffee. I might
have a little dark chocolate, like at
least 85 to 90%. I have a free download
that I want to give to you. This free
download is my daily routine and a
checklist. This is a routine that I use
every day to feel like I'm 18 years old,
even though I'm 60 years old, and I want
to give it to you for free. And so
there's a little link down below, click
it, and definitely download that. The
other point I want to bring up is fulvic
acid, which is a type of compound that
acts as an antioxidant that we can
actually use in our bodies. So, it's a
lot of times in supplements and things
you can add it to the diet and it's
really good to help the environment of
your microbiome and there's been a lot
of great success with fulvic acid and
humic acid. And don't waste the
sauerkraut juice. If there's some extra
juice in there, drink a little bit of
that down each day. It'll really really
help you. There's a lot of stuff in
there. I also want to mention what the
appendix really is. It's a reservoir of
microbes. When we have diarrhea and we
lose all of our microbes, these microbes
can go out there and reseed the gut
microbiome. So, a lot of people ask me,
"What supplements do I recommend?" Now,
of course, I'm not biased with my own
high-quality supplement line, but if you
go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg
supplements,
you'll find more information. I also
want to mention dormant bacteria. When
you get an antibiotic, you don't always
wipe out every single thing. Some of
those microbes go into a dormant state
and they just wait there until the
environment's better. This is why it's
so important to consume these foods and
eat for your microbiome to support the
environment so the spores can come back
to life cuz it's already been in there
the whole time. It's just waiting for
the right time to come out and thrive
and grow. My viewpoint is I'm not here
to sell you on a certain diet. I suggest
you try different diets, see which one
works for you.
Be a vegan for a while, be a carnivore
for a while, or do what I'm doing, which
I'm half carnivore, half vegan, some
plants, a lot of meat. And since we're
on the topic of gut health, if you have
not seen my interview with Dr. Williams
and the L. reuteri microbe, this
particular video got well over a million
views. I'm going to put it up right
here. Check it out.