Bowel problems do not always manifest themselves in digestive complaints, but often also in seemingly unrelated symptoms such as skin, allergies or mood swings
This episode brings us to part 3 of our summer series, in which I republish older episodes of my podcast in August. And today is a very special occasion:Darmglück-Podcast is celebrating its 5th anniversary!
It's a perfect time to repeat one of my very first episodes. Because it's about a topic that is at the beginning of all gut cleanses and gut health optimizations. The realization that the physical problems you have actually have something to do with your gut.
In this episode, I talk about:
- What symptoms indicate that something is wrong with your gut?
- What could be the causes if you have these signs?
- Why you won't be able to rebalance your gut without diet
- What else you can do for your gut in addition to your diet
What are the signs?
The following signs should make you prick up your ears and take care of your gut and diet in addition to medical treatment:- Digestive complaints such as bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irregular digestion
- Skin problems such as neurodermatitis, psoriasis, acne rosacea, blemished skin, eczema
- Allergies such as hay fever, animal hair, dust, but also asthma or other respiratory problems
- Hormonal complaints, including infertility
- Tiredness, sleep disorders
- B12 or iron deficiency
- Mood swings, depression
- Chronic inflammation, which underlies almost all diseases of civilization
- Autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis
- Chronic weight problems, whether overweight or underweight
- Fungal diseases(nail fungus, athlete's foot)
- Bladder infection
What causes can be behind this if you recognize signs that something is wrong in your intestines?
Caesarean section: If you were born by caesarean section, it is quite possible that you have already had an unfavorable first colonization of the intestine because you did not pass through the birth canal. This is where we pick up the first good bacteria.Taking antibiotics: Antibiotics not only destroy harmful bacteria, but also beneficial ones. The earlier in life and the more often you have had to take antibiotics, the higher the likelihood that you have also messed up your intestinal flora as a result.
Long-distance travel: You can pick up bad bacteria, parasites or other problems in other countries, which is why we recommend that you take a probiotic before traveling to faraway countries so that your gut can fight off harmful things immediately
Taking medication ingeneral: Many medications change the environment in the gut and therefore have a negative effect on the gut flora
Unfavorable diet: Refined, industrially produced food, too much sugar, but also too little variety in food or eating too quickly disrupt the gut
Stress: Brings with it increased stress hormones, can promote inflammation, has a slowing effect on digestion and can therefore be a contributory cause of gut problems
Why you won't be able to get your gut back in order without diet
Many people think that it is enough to take so-called gut remedies, forgetting that diet plays a decisive role in whether these remedies can work at all!Because you are constantly changing the environment in your gut in a negative way by eating an unfavorable diet, this can mean that actually positive remedies such as probiotics cannot have any effect at all.
Certain foods can also promote inflammation. And if you are constantly generating new inflammatory processes, the gut cannot heal! Such inflammation-promoting foods include omega-6-rich oils, sugar, white flour products, wheat and cow's milk products. Not everything triggers inflammation in everyone, it depends on the quality and quantity of the food! An unbalanced diet also leads to an impoverishment of the biodiversity of intestinal bacteria. A varied diet is therefore crucial to increase bacterial diversity.
What else can you do for your gut apart from diet
Diet alone cannot always fix everything, which is why you will have the greatest success with your gut if you approach the issue from as many angles as possible.For example:
- You can take probiotics and prebiotics (I recommend Herbal, Acacia Fiber Grow to start with, for example, and also bitter drops)
- Make fermented foods yourself or if you can find good products in raw food quality (not pasteurized), then you can also buy them
- Reduce stress in a way that suits you, actively or passively, with sport, meditation, nature, good conversation and so on!
LINKS
Bristol Chair Shapes Scale Herbal
Acacia fibers Grow
Bitter Elixir
Blog article about self-fermentation
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