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i want to talk about why harmless

bacteria

can turn bad so there’s all sorts of

different relationships

that we have with bacteria you have good

bacteria that

exchange with us we provide a home for

them to live in

they give us vitamins immune protection

then you have another relationship with

bacteria which is commensal

in which one organism benefits with

another

without hurting them or necessarily

helping them so

in this relationship they’re just living

there they’re just neutral

they’re not causing us any harm and then

sometimes they will flip

in the relationship with us and turn

pathogenic

which they can cause disease and there’s

a handful these bacteria that can do

this a certain types of strep bacteria

e coli candida that basically is

harmless

and then something happens and they flip

and they start

creating harm in fact some of these

bacteria

in a 30-day cycle can go through 500

generations

and morph into something very harmful

to our bodies they can go from harmless

to actually

killing us now the key factor that

changes this relationship

is the environment that they live in

it’s the environmental

pressures so when this environment

changes in ph

oxygen levels oxidative stress

temperature chemicals and this can all

occur

with what you put in your body what you

expose your body to

in a mainly talking diet based on what

you feed your body the environment can

change from

one spectrum to the other people that

live on

junk food end up having a lot more

pathogens

people that eat healthier have less

pathogens

and of course this also relates to

plants if a plant is given enough

nutrients they have less pests they have

less pathogens

they have less disease and so the

nutrients

build up our own defenses so in other

words the good bacteria can actually

defend us

and protect us against the pathogens so

um one big factor that changes the

environment really fast

is antibiotics because for some reason

bacteria don’t like to be killed so when

you try to

kill them they resist being killed

because they want to survive

and so they start to become super bugs

resistant to that antibiotic

and they flip their relationship and

they start to harm us

an example that would be this infection

called mrsa

and you usually see this in hospitals

and mrs a very highly resistant strand

of bacteria

that is very difficult to kill with

anything

including antibiotics another example

would be c

diff and there’s another adaptation that

occurs too with bacteria when they’re

stressed

because of environmental pressures is

they start developing

these little igloos to live in that’s

called biofilms

so they start to develop colonies and

protect themselves against

anything that can try to kill them and

now we have a situation because these

biofilms

are very very difficult to get rid of

and they’re linked to a lot of disease

and pathologies now the other thing i

want to point out

is this when our bodies are under stress

our immune system becomes weakened in

other words

all the white blood cells become

suppressed

so stress increases cortisol

that shuts down our immune system

and this makes us very susceptible to

developing

additional infections and susceptible to

pathologies

and pathogens so out of all the things

that can harm us from an infection

i would say stress hands down is the

single

biggest factor now the next thing i want

to bring up is an interesting

strategy that bacteria do when they’re

under stress

it’s called horizontal gene transfer

so when these bacteria are under stress

they will literally grab the dna

from other dead bacteria pull them into

themselves

and start to manipulate that dna to

become

more of a pathogen it’s kind of like dna

sex where you’re mixing this

other dna from a bacteria or

a virus i mean that’s just wild

so there are some things you can do

about this to prevent these pathogens

from existing

number one make sure that the

environment that your microbes live in

is

very very friendly make sure you only

take an antibiotic if you absolutely

positively need it

and also if you are taking an antibiotic

also at the same time

take a probiotic the other thing is do

whatever you can

to minimize your stress level watch my

videos on that

make sure your diet is very very good

because especially if you’re on a high

carb diet you’re eating a lot of sugar

that’s going to feed the unfriendly

yeast and candida

and make them grow because they live on

glucose

but the other thing that you can do

that’s very very important start doing

intermittent fasting

fasting strengthens your immune system

fasting strengthens the diversity of

your good bacteria

and so fasting is a necessity not only

as a preventative thing

but also if you actually have pathogens

in your body

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