Last Updated on March 15, 2023 by
Alternative to Meds Editorial Team
Medically Reviewed by Dr Samuel Lee MD
Table of Contents:
- Podcast: Gut Health & Mental Health
- The Microbiome & Mental Wellness Connection
- Mental Health Symptoms of a Dysfunctional Microbiome
- Maintaining Healthy Gut Flora with Prebiotics & Probiotics
- Your Intestinal Bodyguards are Your Personal Dept of Defense
- Toxins & Psychiatric Symptoms
- The Importance of Cleansing Toxins
- Microbiome & Mental Wellness Treatments at Alternative to Meds Center
The gut microbiome and its effects on mental health have been the subject of rigorous clinical studies in modern times. Today we can draw on the richness of human history with whole, unprocessed food choices, and food preservation techniques that have enhanced human health and survival even through tough times when food resources became scarce.
How important is a healthy gut? It seems that both physical and mental wellness depends on it. Find out how you can improve gut health and reap the benefits that are available through proper diet and supplementation.
Is there a connection between
the gut microbiome & mental wellness?
Alternative to Meds Center has been helping thousands of clients for nearly 2 decades to apply some basic principles of orthomolecular medicine, applying fundamentals of nutrition and other holistic means to improve mental wellness. We are pleased to share our independently documented success with you. We welcome your call to find out more about our programs and services. Read on for more interesting information about the important and sometimes incompletely understood role that the intestinal microbiome performs in the journey to natural mental health.
But unlike a machine, the body is a living organism. So perhaps a better comparison would be to liken the microbiome to a factory, inhabited by a community of billions of industrious workers. These are good bacteria. Guards at the gates (the protective mucosal barrier cells) keep intruders out but allow for free travel, and transport of exchangeable, valuable goods. If the community’s population is well-paid and well-fed, and the roads to and from the area are open and protected, gardens are able to flourish, and the rivers are clear and free-flowing. As a result, the population is happy to live and work there, and their products are able to be transported to the wider world around them. The products of that community and its factory are naturally going to be excellent, usable, functional, and proliferous. But if the environment becomes threatening and dangerous to them, is littered to the brim with junk, and the roads and rivers are choking with poison, and the guards have all disappeared, nothing but chaos and malfunction can come from such an arrangement. The natural order of things, the overarching hierarchy of nature itself would have been decimated.1 The population will dramatically shift. Good workers will leave or become immobilized from exhaustion, or die. Thieves, parasites, and other undesirables will flow in freely and overtake the operation. This is a pretty good description of an impaired microbiome.1,2
Mucosal barrier cells line the intestine to monitor the presence of such pathogens and toxins. Many pathogens and toxins are simply too large to enter the bloodstream through the protective barrier cells. In this case, a healthy, intact intestinal wall forces their elimination through the bowel. Some other types of unfriendly molecules are tiny enough to escape through the barrier wall and into the bloodstream. But there is a second line of defense — killer cells are waiting to tackle and neutralize dangerous pathogens.
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