When things happen in your gut, where 80% of your immune system exists, yes, pay attention to that again. Your gut houses 70–80% of your immune system! This has a direct effect on the immunological response in the brain. Neurotransmitters are made in the gut and directly absorbed through the blood system and make their way to the brain.

The gut is either the biggest supporter of the brain or can become the most toxic thing to the brain over time.

Over 30 neurotransmitters are produced in the gut. This is huge!

For example:

Your gut is producing neurotransmitters right at this moment!

When we suffer from leaky gut, we should expect there will be consequences in the brain. Dysbiosis causes anxiety, depression, PTSD, autism, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and much more. This is why doing the Gastrotest, Comprehensive Stool Analysis, Food Sensitivity, and sometimes more testing are the first steps to fixing mood disorders.

Digestion is the center of our entire and overall health. This takes time, and it’s hard work, but it can fix the issues! This is why I tell you guys to dedicate yourself to making significant changes to the gut and diet for a minimum of 6 months so that you set your body up to replace and restore what is damaged.

The gut and brain are intimately connected and communicating by the following parts of the body:

Problems in the gut will commonly manifest and present as mood imbalances. We need to have a healthy gut to have a healthy brain and other organ systems.

Collection of micro-organisms: fungi, bacteria, archaea, viruses, parasites are inside our gut. Trillions and trillions of these microbes are a part of you. They outnumber our human cells. They cover us from our head to our toes, from the inside out. The most concentrated place is inside of us in our colon. Remember, our bowels are facing outwards and an external surface. A large part of the microbiome is concentrated inside our colon, where they are to work. They are our best friends. We lean on these organisms to help us digest, regulate our metabolism, balance our hormones, and they affect our brain health. More importantly, they can affect the expression of our genetics. What else is left? This is where our health, our total health, is! Inside your gut!

Let me break that down:

We have 22,000–24,000 human genes and 2.5–3 million microbial genes within our body. That is over 120 times more microbial DNA that makes up our system than our human DNA.

These microbial genetics within our body account for over 90% of our biochemical functions in the human body! All of our human functions are controlled by the microbes in our system!

Microbial genes help us to break down foods that our human genes are not able to do. For example, our ancestors ate a plant-based diet, and these microbes had these enzymes to break down the food.

Issues with microbiome which lead to chronic diseases, emotional disease, cognitive dysfunction (brain fog):

The most prominent research institutions are studying this: American Diabetes Association, NIH, and more.

Leaky gut, otherwise known as dysbiosis, means fewer good guys, more bad guys, and not as much diversity as there used to be. This affects the lining of the gut. There is a breakdown of tight junctions, and things get into the bloodstream and cause inflammation in the body. Toxic food proteins get through to the bloodstream, your immune system finds it immediately, inflammation rises, and then leads to all sorts of symptoms: brain fog, abdominal pain, headaches, migraines, joint pain, chronic pain, mood disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

For mental health, you need to seal up the gut! The leaky gut becomes the most TOXIC thing to the brain. Why is that?

Other examples:

As a physician this is why we always investigate the gut/food:

To reverse conditions and heal, we always have to look at the gut!

In a research study showing just in 3 weeks, the Roundup destroyed the diversity of the microbiome found on foods resulting in rising opportunistic organisms. There was an overgrowth of fungi and opportunistic bacteria within the first three weeks of studying these foods sprayed with Roundup, otherwise known as glyphosate. (This is a dangerous pesticide that Monsanto uses to spray foods that are not organic)

These organisms, fungi and bad bacteria, produced more toxins and caused leaky gut, inflammation, chronic disease, decreased mental health.