Correcting Your Microbiome
A Balanced Microbiome Results in Improved Physical and Mental Health
The Effects of Good Bacteria on Physical Health and Emotional Well-being
Below is the chapter on Your Microbiome, Your Mind, taken from Dr. Sean Woods’ book, “The Healing Vibe.”
Restoring balance to both your intestinal flora and lymphatic flora is tough work, but it is the foundation for healing disease in the body. There are plenty of studies on the effects of good bacteria on both physical health and emotional well-being. The good bacteria in your body, especially in your bowels, is a large determinant of your emotional state. These good bacteria are partly responsible for creating serotonin, a neurotransmitter that the brain needs in high quantities to keep a healthy positive attitude and a view that things are all right. The good bacteria have a consciousness that is in harmony with your consciousness. Yeast, parasites, viruses, and bad bacteria have a consciousness well below that of a human and are in part responsible for the low emotional states we can find ourselves in. Poor food choices, toxic chemicals and metals, and undigested food in the gut create an environment that allows these bad bugs to flourish. Your true self may enjoy a sweet treat once in a while, but it does not crave cookies, cakes, and pies. It is the bugs inside of you that do the craving and they ensure their environment remains intact to keep them alive.
We are all carrying several pounds of bacteria in our gut on a day to day basis. It is the health of this soil in our gut that determines our health. Just like a potted plant is growing from the quality of the soil in which it sits, you are growing, healing, and creating your emotional reality from the quality and quantity of bacteria, yeast, virus, and parasites in your gut and in your body. Read that last sentence again.
If bad bugs become systemic and move from your gut to the meridian and lymphatic systems, directly from the result of leaky gut, you can often wind up with deep and chronic problems physically and emotionally. It’s not that the bugs are attacking us, but they are there because we have weakened our body from the toxicity of improper waste removal. We form breeches in our protective layers and are providing an environment that is suitable for them to flourish. This developing weakness concept is important to understand as we move forward. It’s the same concept that Louis Pasteur (the Father of Disease) postulated before his death. He said it’s not the bug that causes disease, it is the operating medium which allows them to exist in the first place. When the Ph of the gut is off, the bugs we don’t want start showing up. These harmful microbes feed on undigested foods and begin to breed.
The microbiome consists of the billions of microorganisms that are in your gut and throughout your body. Recent numbers have the number of bacteria in our body outnumbering the number of individual cells in the body. Bacteria do many good things for us when balanced but can do many bad things to us when imbalanced. A healthy balanced microbiome is essential to restore anyone’s health and to heal from any disease they may be suffering from. This comes naturally as you begin eating better and improving your digestion. Sometimes it doesn’t take much, and sometimes it takes a lot of work; everyone responds differently. It really ends up depending on how infiltrated the bowels, lymph, and meridians have become with the bad bugs, toxic waste, and the complications of a glued-up bowel wall.
It’s a terrible feedback loop where the waste causes the systems to congest, and congested systems allow the bugs to grow. Over time this creates an imbalance of yeast, bacteria, viruses, parasites, and even the spirochete responsible for Lyme disease. These microbes pose a significant threat to any immune system when overgrown and one, two, or all of them can exist simultaneously.
Recent research into the concept of co-infections explains this phenomenon. What many don’t realize is that the waste from these microbes can be even more toxic than the bug itself. Their waste is very acidic and causes many unwanted and unexplained reactions in the body.
An example of this process is seen when someone has yeast overgrowth and they feel ‘hung over’ after eating a carbohydrate-heavy dinner the night before. This happens because one of the byproducts of yeast fermenting carbohydrates is alcohol. There is an interesting story of a woman who was pulled over and charged with a DUI. The woman did not drink alcohol but must have had a diet full of complex carbohydrates because it was found that an overgrowth of yeast in her body was making all this alcohol. She blew a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit.
Currently, the microbiome is being studied worldwide. Researchers are discovering fascinating information on how our body is being controlled by the different variations and sheer volume of bacteria that exists within our bowels. With the hundreds of groundbreaking research studies connecting the gut bacteria to every aspect of your health, it would only make sound reasonable sense to improve the gut no matter what the diagnosis may be. Remember, we have several pounds of bacteria in our gut all the time. These bacteria are helping digest our food, make and regulate certain hormones, kill and control other bugs from living there, and communicating very important information to our brains as to how well are things going inside the human body. These are amazing findings that could fill several books.
The goal of this book is to teach you that it is not necessary to understand the complex inner workings of the digestive system beyond the basics for you to find your health again. It is about keeping it simple and paying attention to your improvements and reactions along the way. Correcting the bowels helps ensure the microbiome grows strong and deep into the bowel wall and mesentery. This health shift has an extraordinary ability to correct the microbiome, which is one of the main problems that cause all disease.