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let’s talk about the relationship between your gut bacteria and viruses

now in your gut you have something called the microbiome okay I don’t know

if you knew this but that’s a combination of not just friendly

bacteria but you also have yeast in there you have parasites you have even

Candida and viruses yeah I know there is something called VLP viral like

particles and you have a lot of these in and around your body

now the VLPs are not infected they don’t have any genetics inside the cell but

they’re viral like particles that exist throughout the body there’s not a lot of

things known about them but they’re doing research on them now I don’t want

to alarm you or freak you out but there’s something called the human gut

virome which are clusters of viruses that live in your body and there’s a lot of

them I mean think about how many bacteria you have you have like

trillions well these viruses outnumber your bacteria by ten to one and

sometimes 20 to one now these viruses coexist and many times they don’t create

a problem unless you have some lowered resistance or some medical problem where

you become susceptible and then they start to create problems but you do have

a lot of viruses living in your body already and this is why it is so

important to keep your immune system very very strong something they don’t

talk about on the news and you do have sitting in the background this army of

immune cells not just white blood cells but the microbiome the good bacteria are

part of your immune system and I’m going to talk about some of the

things that they do related to keeping your immune system strong if you’re

lacking good bacteria maybe you took antibiotics or something the bad

bacteria can then thrive and also if you’re eating foods that stimulate

inflammation the inflammation alone will create a shift from

good bacteria two bad bacteria and you lose the diversity of friendly bacteria

but this good bacteria called the microbiome helps maintain the integrity

of the intestinal barrier so picture this you have this large intestine and

you have this mucous layer on both sides okay and then right across this

intestines you have this lymph layer it’s like lymph tissue and you have a

lot of white blood cells and immune cells through here so you have this

protective mucus layer and then you have the good bacteria right here and let the

pathogens and viruses live throughout here as well so one of the key things is

keeping these bacteria working to create this wall to prevent the bad guys from

going across the wall inside your body so this is your immigration okay you

have to get the stamp of approval you have to have a good passport to have

access inside so this is a protective defense mechanism so you have good

bacteria and your white blood cells helping you in defending against the

pathogens so the good bacteria help maintain the integrity of the intestinal

barrier they also keep the inflammation in check so that’s important they also

compete for space and food so they don’t let the unfriendly bacteria have enough

space to live or enough food because there are so many of these good bacteria

they just basically compete for space and food that’s one of those strategies

and they inhibit pathogens by these two mechanisms as well as many other

antimicrobial defenses they have the ability to directly kill pathogens they

also help enhance your immune system when they eat fiber from vegetables for

example they make short chain fatty-acids and these alone can help

reduce inflammation and support your immune system also one of the names of

these short chain fatty acids is called butyrate and that is a really good

anti-inflammatory it helps blood sugars and actually feeds

your colon cells so these microbes make food for your cells now there’s also a

crosstalk or a link between the microbes in your gut and your respiratory tract

if you think about these microbes and they’re in the trillions they live not

just inside but they live outside the living your lung they help protect

things so there’s definitely communication going on through the

entire body there’s even communication going on from

your microbes to the colon cells so there’s a lot of coordination in the

immune system and you don’t have a strong integrity of your good bacteria

you’re very susceptible to getting all sorts of pathogens and infections also

the bile salts which are recycled and modified by your friendly bacteria are

antibacterial and also the microbiome has antiviral properties as well one

thing you need to realize is a lot of these pathogens love sugar especially

Candida so that would be something very easy to avoid to keep your immune system

strong also you want to replenish the friendly bacteria sometime and this is

why I always recommend periodic probiotics to keep the good bacteria at

a high level also the prebiotic that’s your fiber these microbes love fiber if

you consume a good amount of vegetable every day you can feed them the food

that they thrive on and if you haven’t seen my comprehensive digestive video

it’s very very simple but it’s very comprehensive I put it right here check

it out