"More than 90% of the body's serotonin lies in the gut"

Gut–brain axis:

/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%E2%80%93brain_axis

Anyone ever done the arise and shine 28 day psyillum and bentonite clay bowel cleanse?

https://www.ariseandshine.com/cleanse-28/

You can assemble this cleanse yourself for way less.

Life changing

Well, there are so many billions of organisms inside our guts, it's like I'm trying to feed the good ones cabbage and hope they can outnumber all the bad ones!

I saw a presentation about fungi, this guy Stamets knows all about mushrooms, how they evolved to digest externally whereas we evolved to fold around our food into our mouths and gut! It's really weird and deep stuff. It's really strange how he describes it.

The largest living organism on the planet is a network of living fungi somewhere in the NW USA. (I think! If I understood the talk correctly..) here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agK0nkiZpA Mushrooms as Medicine with Paul Stamets

one of the more fun (and alarming if scientific) facts is that we "split" from fungi 650 million years ago (!)

Anyway they are really onto something as I take mushroom supplements when I have some money (Siberian Ginseng, Cordyceps). I haven't taken Lions Mane yet but I hear it can really help some things. And Turkey Tail could be miraculous.

I like the adaptogens like those supplements I just mentioned above, rather than some of these psych meds and other "blockers" and "inhibitors" that zap entire actions of broad spectrum neurotransmitter activity, fouling up entire processes meanwhile. Then so much down and up regulation afterward, of course no wonder one feels out of it!

Yeah we may indeed look back on this time of medical treatment and wonder how it got to be that bad until (x) is discovered and explored comprehensively or (y) is more recognized..

I think the (x) and (y) might be (gut-brain axis) and (more broadly accepted infectious origins of disease)... just my opinion, an educated guess if you will.

Thats the very reason some LLMD's try getting an "ill" gut in a little better health before administering ABX. Experience shows that oral ABX will make the gut worse than it already is. Mine did gut health 4 months prior to ABX. Might not have been the case if I was recently infected though - prob ABX right off the bat.

There is always the IV ABX option too.

WalkingbyFaith said...

Rikky1 said...
Seems every time you turn around you find out a very large percentage of your immune system and other important materials are in the gut.

Yet here we are with modern medicine telling us to napalm our very defense system (via antibiotics) over and over again to kill the invaders. It's 100x worse for those with lyme and co-infections.

There HAS to be a better way then destroying our defenses to accomplish. This is why I believe the future of curing disease is not in better antibiotics but alternative methods (e.g. energy medicine is a big area of study).

People will probably look back 50 years from now and say what the heck were those people doing to themselves?

Rikky,

Wow!! I didn't expect to hear that from you, LOL!!! I agree. That is one reason I just can't bring myself to go down the abx path. Something inside of me just screams that there HAS to be a better way. I just can't imagine bombarding my already toxic, sensitive, and impaired detox organs with multiple abx for years.

I'm not criticizing those who do it, but it just simply doesn't seem logical to me. There's something everyone is missing. I hope someone somewhere figures it out soon.

I certainly hope they find some breakthrough that replaces lengthy abx treatment but at this point I feel it is the best option.
I believe abx are still better than leaving the infections to continue their damage.
The infections themselves left unchecked can also do damage - to critical structures.


It’s hard to believe that not much has changed the past 4 years regarding treatment.