Here’s the thing about your Gut Bacteria…
Although they play a critical role in the overall function of your pretty cool meat suit, producing essential metabolites and compounds which optimize the function of your many organ systems within, they’re not here to help you.
They’re here to USE you…. As a host. They are a non-self entity within, and your body doesn’t necessarily like them. So as a compromise, it has created a few habitable and buffered environments for these creepy crawlers to live, primarily the gut, mouth and skin.
However, when these buffered environments become compromised, and bacteria or their byproducts sneak into other areas, all hell proceeds to breaks loose. To be specific, a military grade immune response begins to remove these “non-self” entities from the restricted area. One of the most common examples of this is in the gut, when the mucosa layer buffering these microbes from the gut wall breaks down, triggering an immune response for as long as it takes to rebuild.
The catch is, unless you’re actively putting your body in a position to keep these buffers strong and intact, the “rebuild” never comes. Creating a scenario for a chronic interaction and thus chronic inflammation.
Sooo what can you do? Well, the most important modulator of these all important buffers happens to be… Lifestyle.
