Your Microbiome

“Better Health Begins At The Cell.” -Dr. Bill Cole

Hey everybody, today I want to talk with you about our microbiome. It’s a real buzz word today, right? I want to get a little bit down and dirty with you, and explain what that is all about and how it’s relating to your health. Before I do that though, I want to always remind you if you’re looking for more information as it relates to your health and in particular the subject we’re on today, click on the link above or go to ColeClass.com, and we’re going to have all kinds of information for you there.

But when it comes to this microbiome, I want to just define things if we can. In our gut, we have this environment, this internal environment that is made up of what we would call good bacteria and bad bacteria. This microbiome, this balance between the two is integral to our health. We’re finding out so much more about how the health of our gut is internal ecology, if you will, of our gut is related to everything in our body from brain function to energy levels, the ability to lose weight, to digest your food. The list is just endless because it has to do with all parts of us. These are things we didn’t know that long ago, but we’re finding out more and more that the balance in this internal environment is playing such a role in our health.

You know the father of modern medicine Hippocrates said over 2,000 years ago that he believed that all disease begins in the gut. I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but I know so much of what we see disease-wise today has some relationship to a bad gut. So, we want to make sure our gut is healthy.

Today, what I want to do is I want to talk with you about these microorganisms that so many of the patients that I see are deficient of. They’re deficient in these things because of the foods that we’re eating in large part, antibiotics we’ve been taking, antibacterial soaps, the chlorine we drink in our water, and the pesticides that we may have in our foods. These things that are designed to kill living things or wiping out our internal environment, really decimating our good bacteria, and they’re allowing the bad bacteria to take over.

We need to change that dynamic. If you’re having anxiety, if you’re having brain fog, energy issues, you have to understand that it starts with a healthy gut. You need the ability to digest your food. Even if you’re eating a good diet, but you’re not able to take advantage of that because your gut is so bad that you’re not able to digest and assimilate the good food you’re eating, you’re not going to get that benefit from those foods.

We want to talk about a couple of things here. But there’s two things I want you to understand: prebiotic and probiotic. Most of us have heard about probiotics. These are the actual microorganisms. The good stuff that’s in our gut and helps us do all of these good things. A lot of people today are taking probiotics, but I want you to understand something. Man is never going to put into a pill what God provided for us in our food. My four favorite probiotics are raw sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, and kombucha.

When you eat sauerkraut, you have to make sure that it’s raw sauerkraut. If it’s been cooked, the probiotics, the good bacteria have been destroyed. Kimchi is a Korean dish. It’s kind of similar to sauerkraut in the sense that its base is cabbage, but it tastes different. They have spicy versions of it, but you usually will find this in a health food store.

Kefir is something that is my favorite. If you’re not sensitive to dairy, making your own kefir is what I really recommend for people who have this abnormal relationship between good and bad bacteria. It’s loaded with the good probiotics. You have to use raw milk. That’s my preference anyway. I like goat’s milk. Then to make your own kefir, there are all kinds of recipes online, but it’s so much better than anything you’re going to buy in the store if its source is that raw milk to begin with. Organic grass-fed milk is going to be your absolute best choice. It’s super easy to make, and it’s super loaded with probiotics.

Then kombucha is something a lot of people don’t know about. Kombucha. It’s a fermented tea. A lot of stores are carrying it now. It comes in different flavors. But these four things are going to provide you with the probiotic that we need, these microorganisms to recede a gut where it’s been damaged from too many of the things that destroy our guts.

But I want to talk with you now about prebiotics. Prebiotics are not that well understood. We hear so much about probiotics, but we don’t hear a lot about prebiotics. Can I give you an analogy of what this would be like? You remember the Pac-Man game back in the day where the yellow Pac-Man was eating the dots? Imagine that the Pac-Man is the probiotics, a living organism. The prebiotic would be the dots that the yellow Pac-Man was eating. It’s the food for the probiotics.

These are the foods here that are most readily-accessible for most people, but just understand that concept that the probiotics eat the prebiotics. So, it’s nourishing the probiotics and supporting this healthy environment in our gut. Raw garlic, raw leeks, asparagus, and onions. You can cook the onions or have them raw. Those are going to be four really good prebiotic foods. In essence, what you really need to understand is that high-fiber foods are going to be good for you from a prebiotic perspective. I hope that helps you guys understand that if you want to fix your gut, you’ve got to make sure you got the healthy bacteria. But you have to make sure that you have the food for the healthy bacteria also.

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I hope this helps.

Take care, guys. God bless.