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I want to discuss the relationship between your friendly bacteria your gut

bacteria we’re gonna call that the microbiome and your immune system in

fact 70% of your immune system really is this microbiome your gut bacteria you

have trillions and trillions of microbes living in and around your body that are

a constantly exchanging with you you’re giving them a place to live and what

they give you is immune protection they give you nutrients they help your blood

sugars and they give you other things that are beneficial there’s over 10,000

different species of friendly bacteria in and around your body and 99% of them

are non pathogenic they’re the good guys the great majority of microbes in your

body are living in the large colon just above and in the mucus layer and then

you have the colon cells and then you have another layer of protection where

you have certain immune cells or guards waiting for an invader to pop through so

they can attack and eat them up what happens is when you have an imbalance in

the microbiome you start to lose your gut lymphatic layer you start to have a

decrease in your lymph nodes you start to have less antibodies and antibodies

are those things that attach on microbes they don’t kill the microbes

they put a tag on them for other immune cells to kill them antibodies are very

specific to different pathogens and then you also have a decrease in the T cell

production and T stands for thymus because the thymus gland helps train the

T cells and you’re gonna have less of that the primary function of the thymus

gland is central tolerance able to tolerate your own cells that are

beneficial to you because if you do not have that function these soldier cells

they’re like special forces would not be able to tell the difference between the

good guys and the bad guys and they would end up killing both of them and

you end up with your own body cells getting

attacked that is a condition cold and autoimmune disease Auto antibodies or

antibodies that are basically attacking your own tissue but they’re not really

attacking they’re tagging your own tissue as being a bad guy and other

immune cells like t-cells are going in there and actually trying to attack them

and that creates inflammation and when you have autoimmune conditions you

always have inflammation and that’s really what’s happening you’re getting

this constant attack and because the microbiome is so heavily connected to

your immune system when you lose this you lose this and you lose the tolerance

and you lose the ability to learn to differentiate now we have a situation

where we have a lot of friendly fire and we have a lot of collateral damage in

the body and a lot of inflammation t-cells not only differentiate between

your cells and a pathogen cell it’s quite amazing that your body has this

ability to differentiate trillions of cells from pathogens that are not

necessarily your cell but they’re so intimately involved and there’s such a

helper to your body that your body has developed a system to keep them alive

and not attack and kill them and also there are certain t-cells that suppress

inflammation so if we lose that what do we get a lot of inflammatory conditions

if we also don’t have enough microbiome we get less small chain fatty acid and

one would be called butyrate and butyrate is not only helpful in

balancing your blood sugars and definitely improving insulin resistance

but it’s also there to help improve your immune system also you have less ability

to make b12 B1 vitamin K biotin and even lactic acid which makes the

environment for pathogens very uncomfortable also the microbiome are

hoarding the food and the space to also limit the amount of pathogenic bacteria

to exist and the less microbiome you have the weaker the intestinal barrier

and then you start getting leaky gut and I

really think and this is my own opinion that autoimmune disease starts in the

gut if you ever talked to someone who has an

autoimmune disease I’m talking about like Hashimoto’s

Crohn’s lupus MS they almost always have a gut problem and my other videos when I

talk about COVID-19 the coronavirus the way that that virus attacks your cell is

through a receptor called the ACE2 receptor well it just so happens that

your gut has way more ace2 receptors than the lung tissue so this is another

mode of entry into the cell that goes beyond just your lung infection which is

quite interesting if you want to know what to do to support the microbiome

check out this video right here