WHAT IS A MICROBIOME AND HOW DO I PROMOTE ITS HEALTH AND DIVERSITY?

Your microbiome are the little bacteria in your intestines, they are crucial to good health. Think about your microbiome like a little zoo.

What if you had the coolest zoo in the world?

Imagine you owned a zoo. It has all kinds of different animals. Land mammals, and sea mammals. You would want all kinds of carnivores and herbivores. You would want all the different species of birds and all the species of fish and amphibians. Insects and molluscs and plants and flowers are all here too! They all have unique and interesting abilities. And each species is housed in its own little terrarium, enclosure or field.

Now to keep a zoo like this healthy, you need to feed each creature the right food. You can’t feed all of the animals hay, because then your carnivores and your fish would starve and die! If you feed them all meat then your herbivores will die off. Plants need water and nutrients, and insects need decaying vegetable and plant material. So you know you can’t just throw in some loaves of bread and expect all the animals to live and thrive!

So you have to have all different kinds of food to feed all of these different animals, every day.

Now imagine that you have an amazing zoo in your intestines!

This zoo is just like the imaginary zoo above. It’s filled with all sorts of wonderful and diverse bacteria. They all look different and eat different things, and they also all have unique abilities, just like the animals in a real zoo. Those abilities are what they use to keep you healthy. And to keep this fantastic bacteria zoo healthy, you need to feed them the right food too.

But what do you feed bacteria?!

The answer is plant fiber! You need to feed each bacteria the type of plant fiber it likes. These plant fibers are what we call PRE-biotics. It’s the stuff your little bacterial zoo needs to eat, to stay alive and healthy. And guess what? They also keep YOU healthy by using their unique abilities to remove toxins, process nutrients, even help your brain make good decisions!

Eat a wide variety of vegetable fibers!

So for these bacteria to do their job to keep you healthy, you need to keep THEM healthy. According to Canadian Digestive Health Foundation, CDHF, they especially love leafy greens!

But it can be hard to make sure you have a healthy diet when you work every day, have kids, and responsibilities, or whatever takes up your time. So let’s look at an easy way to do this.

The Veggie Smashup

One of the easiest ways to feed all the little guys in your bacterial zoo is to eat a veggie Smashup everyday. This is simply a couple of teaspoons of a veggie mix you eat daily. You can make them yourself and freeze in an ice cube tray.

Veggie Smashup Basics

In a blender, add at least 30-40 different vegetables and fruits in whatever combination you want! If you want to add it to fruit smoothies, use mild vegetables and some fruits. If you want to dissolve a Smashup cube in a cup of hot broth for a Thai-flavor explosion, consider adding cilantro, lime leaves, and lemongrass to your Smashup.
The possibilities are endless!

Examples of different greens

Your Gut Feelings – Healthy Bacteria Help You Make Decisions!

Did you know that those little bacteria even help you make decisions and read the world around you?

We rely on our gut feelings and our instincts when we don’t have sufficient knowledge to overcome or handle certain situations. Have you ever had a ‘bad feeling’ or felt like something was ‘not quite right’? That is your gut giving you unconscious cues to steer you towards safety and good decisions!

And another benefit is that when those bacteria are keeping us healthy, our hormones are also in sync with our body. This keeps our instincts sharp and accurate.

This is why animals rely on their instincts; to keep them from harm, to tell them when to mate, to tell them which foods are safe. We are animals too. And although we have a more evolved brain so that we can reason and react to artificial stimulus, if we listen to our gut, it KNOWS the real intentions of people or situations around us.
And it steers us subconsciously towards our best interests.

(Whether a corrupt politician believes their best interests is lying and cheating for their own gain is another matter.)

Studies Show…

So eat plenty of different types of fruits and vegetables. Fresh herbs mixed in your salad. A handful of spinach and or greens and an avocado in your fruit smoothie. Make the veggie Smashup and toss it in a smoothie or soup. These will ensure that your little microbiotic zoo stays happy and healthy, and keeps YOU happy and healthy too!

To learn about detoxing pesticides from your body, read Hepatic Bio-transformation! AKA detoxing!