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I want to learn more about gut/brain health. If probiotics can be used to improve mental health and depression issues, which probiotics would those be? Any healthfags here have information on this?
A neuroscientist here talks about repairing gut health without needing probiotics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1UmNBlGp0 — Dr. Scott Sherr, M.D.
A good kefir with lower amounts of sugar compared to brands that have high sugar might be good. I drink about 3 gallons a month, maybe a bit too much! https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-health-benefits-of-kefir
Also you can do an oral probiotic — a cardiologist taught me this, as nitric oxide formation for good cardiovascular health takes place around the gums. Solaray has a more expensive one, and Swanson has budget ones, I switch around, but like both. Article from an integrative health dentist https://stsmiles.com/blog/nitric-oxide-and-the-oral-microbiome/
Thanks for the info. There are two people dear to me who are dealing with severe depression. One is obese, so I have no idea what the heck he eats. A dear friend, but I've never met hi in-person.
Welcome,you are a true friend for your friends. Obesity and depression can also include thyroid and hormone issues. I think M.D. docs can do tests for that. Barbara O’ Neill nutritionist, whom I’m 99% sure is great awakening Q friendly because she said in one of her videos, “And remember, the best is yet to come.”
Anyways, O’ Neill covers both female and male hormone imbalance. This and gut health hopefully will help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uATPC-7CY
P.S. I just remembered noni capsules and noni fruit leather (not the fruit juice because that’s too high in added sugar and potassium) have great qualities for digestionand mood and energy. https://realnoni.com
Brain health = Eggs and Meat, cholesterol
Gut health = Sauerkraut, Jarred preserved dill pickles, Kimchi, preserved Radish juice
+1 this is important, you reminded me of a nutritionist who shared on radio that fermented foods, as you write here, are important for gut health, espcially so for elderly people
I listened to alot but put them into practice and see improvement in my own health..i used to have body ache as well and that's from oxalates. Look up oxalates.. and you can flush them out w/ fermented food. I also notice a spoon of raw wildflower honey in your tea or coffee daily help with gut health and digestion too and especially for the elderly.
Thanks Bibloop! 2 years ago I had to cut back on foods high in oxalates. That’s great too know youwere successful in flushing them out with fermented foods. I’ll try the sauerkraut and then also raw wildflower honey with tea, sounds great!
I have listened to several videos from experts in metabolic psychiatry. The latest I heard was that probiotics only last a few hours in the gut, they are expensive, and it's a lottery because they cannot target them for an individual's own biochemistry. One metabolic health practitioner I respect a lot says he hasn't seen great results clinically with probiotics.
There are so many different variables and no single consensus on gut/brain health, with many scientists working at this cutting edge. Targeting diet is the foundation in my opinion, supplements are secondary. The people working full-time in this field that I respect the most seem to lean more and more to carnivore (and paleo). Dr Georgia Ede is a great place to start for purposes of learning - there are many interviews online, and she has written a few books, also check out Dr Rachel Brown (Carnivoreshrink) on Instagram. Dr Brown is a vaxx refusenik - I am not sure about Dr Ede.
That's good to know. At the end of my time in high school and into college, I had become terribly lactose intolerant which led to debilitating colitis/IBS. At times I would be bedridden for days in intense pain, unable to eat any food. I am convinced that this was the result of Monsanto beginning their antibiotic injections in the early '90s thanks to the Clinton administration. Years later I learned about yogurt providing the necessary bacteria to digest lactose, and about organic dairy. Now I can drink lots of milk every day and won't have any problem.
That's a very frightening experience. Conditions like this can be very difficult to root cause, particularly if you are relying on allopathic medicine. You can end up worse than before. How did you get this treated so that it went away?
I wasn't really "treated" per se. It was something i did on my own. I just ate organic yogurt daily and after a while I was able to digest regular organic milk.