Reverse Gut Dysbiosis by Addressing the Internal Terrain
Jul 18, 2024Reversing gut dysbiosis requires addressing your internal terrain.
This picture illustrates the impact of antibiotics on your internal environment, particularly your microbiome, using Salmonella-induced colitis as an example. Antibiotics target Clostridia species, which are responsible for producing butyrate—a vital energy source for the cells lining your intestines. Butyrate enables these cells to effectively block the influx of oxygen into the colon.
However, when butyrate production is disrupted by antibiotics, oxygen easily penetrates the colon, creating an oxygen-rich environment ideal for the growth of Salmonella bacteria. As a result, Salmonella overgrowth occurs, potentially leading to infection.
It's important to note that this overgrowth wasn’t caused by eating raw foods; in fact, Salmonella already exists in our gut, much like almost any other “pathogen”.
Key takeaway: focusing on killing the pathogen alone, will not fix the problem.
With this being said, here are our top butyrate producers (you can asses them with the GI MAP):
- Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
- Clostridium spp.
- Firmicutes
- Akkermansia muciniphila
You definitely don’t want these guys to be low!
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