Your Microbiome: Why It’s Important for Staying Healthy
We all have a microbiome, located in our guts. It consists of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microscopic living things. If those elements didn't exist in our bodies, we wouldn't exist. In fact, a majority of chronic illness and unhealthy states of being can be traced to an imbalance in our microbiome.
What Can Happen with an Imbalanced Gut?
What Can Happen with an Imbalanced Gut? When we don’t have enough good bacteria in our microbiome, too much bad bacteria can increase, causing an unhealthy condition. These unhealthy issues throughout our body can be damaging and ongoing, which include: * Food intolerances or sensitivities, reduced ability to digest food, and so-called ‘leaky gut’ (intestinal hyper-permeability) * Overgrowth of damaging organisms, bad bacteria, and yeasts, often referred to as candida overgrowth * Inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, including some bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, some allergies, asthma, and diabetes * There are some indications that it may contribute to obesity in some people Why does the gut get out of balance? The balance between good and bad...