Ping
Now, we have GUT! As in "I feel it in my gut".
It's quite a remarkable extension.
Brenda Watson has been teaching about the connection for years and the part probiotics play
Amazing information! Thank you for adding me!
I could tell them a BOATLOAD. If you look up side effects of florquolones like Cipro, Levaquin, and Avelox, you will find that some common to all three are depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, hallucinations, and a feeling of impending doom. And since they are powerful antibiotics, the kill a great deal of the good bacteria in your gut and that is why you get diarrhea and loose stool when you take antibiotics.
Just recently I went to the doctor with a sinus infection and he put me on Avelox ($15 PER PILL). By the second day, I was feeling bad. By the 7th day, I was feeling AWFUL with many of the symptoms listed above (except hallucinations) and then I read the side effects. I quit taking the Avelox and within 24 hours I was feeling MUCH better, but since I haven't had time to regrow a health bacterial culture in my gut, I still feel like something is amiss.
I had a similar but much more serious event a few years ago that put me in the hospital and I started talking to my wife (a pharmacist) about it and she remembered that I was on Cipro then, too!
Coincidence? No way in hell!
Also, the whole time something literally in my gut was telling me that something was wrong.
This is turning into a big field of research. Here’s the situation.
The typical human GI tract has between 300-1000 different kinds of bacteria, other microorganisms including fungi and protozoa, and a vast (and unknown) number of different kinds of viruses, most of which are the dominant form of viruses on Earth, called “bacteriophages”, that prey on bacteria, not us.
Of these bacteria, only 30 or 40 different kinds take up almost all the space, so they are what we typically think of as our “gut flora”.
These 30 or 40 kinds of bacteria vary considerably between people, but they are very interactive with our immune system, each other, and even many of the parasites that used to, and some still do, live in us.
We are even learning now that our immune systems are so tuned to interact with many of these things, that they become imbalanced when they are absent, and our immune systems turn on us, producing a number of severe diseases.
For example, it has been shown that some individuals with severe, life threatening asthma, can become nearly asthma free if they become infected by hookworms, which used to be common in the US but today have been almost eradicated. Other worms have been shown to stop other diseases.
Some protozoa, such as Toxoplasmosis, which are typically found in house cats and undercooked meat, are known to establish themselves in the brains of rodents, and alter their behavior to make them self destructive, because they reproduce in the guts of cats.
However, it also infects about 11 million Americans. And because our brains are not entirely different from those of rodents, people who are infected may suffer from indeterminate mental illness.
...the "cross-talk" between bacteria in our gut and our brain plays an important role in the development of psychiatric illness, intestinal diseases and probably other health problems as well including obesity...This sounds like the germ of an idea. Probably the research was conducted by Dannon.
“The voices in your head are bacteria?” At last, I have somebody/something to blame!
That could be what makes me feel nausea when I am frightened.
The gift of fear.
God is pretty cool!