Listen To Your Gut, Feel Healthy and Function Better!

We have all heard the saying, “listen to your gut.” And while that advice is usually referring to our intuition, it just as easily can speak to our well-being. Your gut is quite literally, the epicenter of your mental and physical health. Yet it’s all too common to experience lots of digestive issues that make a huge impact on our strength and vitality. If you want to feel better, have a stronger immune system, improve your mental clarity and balance, you need to focus on rebuilding your gut health.

Thousand years ago, Hippocrates said that "All disease begins in the gut." Current research has revealed that gut health is critical to our overall health, and that an unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, autism spectrum disorder, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome. By supporting our digestive system, we can reduce chronic health issues like fatigue, fogginess, colds, and aches and pains, and we can feel abundant energy return to our bodies.

Our gut is actually an important barrier between our body and the things we consume. In fact the contents of our gut are technically outside the body! You can think of the gut as a hollow tube that passes from the mouth to the anus. Anything that goes in our mouth that isn’t digested will pass right out the other end. This is, in fact, one of the most important functions of the gut.

When the lining of our gut barrier becomes permeable (i.e. “leaky gut syndrome”), large protein molecules can escape into our bloodstream. Since these proteins don’t belong outside of the gut, the body doesn't recognize them and thus creates an immune response, and attacks them. Studies show that these attacks play a role in the development of autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto’s and type 1 diabetes, among others.

But its not just the lining, our gut is a vital part of our immune system. In fact 60-70 percent of our immune system is actually in our gut. This vital tissue is know as gut-associated lymphoid tissue. Our GALT lies just below the mucosal lining of the gut wall. It’s an incredibly thin (only one cell thick), integral part of our immune system. The GALT contains specialized immune structures called Peyer’s patches that are filled with immune cells, such as B cells and T cells, which are responsible for recognizing and neutralizing harmful bacteria. When pathogenic bacteria visits our gut via food or our environment, the Peyer’s patches trigger our immune response to prevent them from passing through the gut wall.

One way to help our gut protect us from infection and disease is by creating an abundance of healthy bacteria. Healthy bacteria (probiotics) keep the harmful bad bacteria from overthrowing our gut system. If we want to be healthy, we need the healthy bacteria in our gut to thrive and cover our gut wall — the only thing standing between the contents of our gut and our bloodstream. Taking a high quality probiotic will help you accomplish this. As you probably know our favorite probiotic brand is Jarrow, because of their high quality strains, and their attention to ensuring that the probiotics are kept alive during shipment.




Aside from having a thriving community of healthy bacteria, repairing our gut lining might be the most important thing we can do for our health. Antimicrobial short and medium-chain saturated fats help to reduce overgrowth of bad yeast, fungus and bacteria in the small intestine. They can also help tighten the junctions between the cells that line the small intestine (repairing the gut lining). The best sources of these special saturated fats are coconut oil (MCT oil is even better) and butter from grass-fed dairy cattle. Coconut oil is anti-viral, and contains lauric, capric and caprylic acids which are always recommended to combat yeast over growth. Grass-fed butter contains anti-microbial fatty acids including butyric acid, which has strong anti-fungal and gut strengthening effects effects.

Another very often over looked gut building supplement is L-Glutamine. Glutamine is the most abundant of the amino acids in the human body.  While glutamine is consider a non-essential amino acid, it is often thought of as a "conditionally essential" nutrient, because it is non-essential in normal situations (manufactured by the body in adequate quantities; not required in the diet), but under stress, severe illness or injury it becomes insufficient. Glutamine has protective effects on intestinal mucosa by decreasing bacteremia and epithelial cell apoptosis, this reduction enhances the gut barriers function, and influences our gut's immune response  So glutamine can fight against bad gut flora, keep the epithelial cells from dying, and support the immune systems ability to keep us healthy in other words it is pretty awesome stuff!

Our Favorite Gut Repairing Protocol is:

Grass Fed Butter - 1-2 Tbs Per Day
MTC or Coconut oil 1-2 Tbs Per Day

Glutmine -

• Consume 80 grams during the first five days:
  • 10 grams every 2 hours on the dot until 80-gram quota is reached
• After the Initial five-day loading period:
• 10-30 grams per day. 

Probiotic - 10 - 150 Billion active cultures per day.

Try it for 30 days, and see how much better you can feel.