16/03/2021
Even more relevant as people are now banking on a “miracle vaccine” to save the day.
PREPARING YOUR GUT TO GROW AN AMAZING IMMUNE SYSTEM
Did you know that your immune system is based in the gut? 80 percent (if not more) of your immunity is in the gut. When I say gut, I’m not saying a hollow intestinal tube but instead a garden full of bugs - microbes!
Your gut has its very own brain - not needing your actual brain to function (other than the fact your main brain keeps your heart and lungs going to provide oxygenated blood)
There are more neurons in your gut than in your spinal cord! So it’s important, more now than ever, that we support our gut microbiome in order to be healthy.
In a time where antibiotic resistance is a very real threat and our own protection against the viruses and bacterium, adverse to antibiotics, is poor. Our gut microbiome are lacking due to the overuse of antibiotics, medications, processed and poisoned foods. Our essential bacteria struggling to survive amongst the likes of candida, SIBO, and just due to the fact the their numbers are dwindling.
The real concern here is not corona virus, or the flu, or the next pandemic. The real concern is what we are made up of. The saying goes - you are what you eat. Unfortunately, it goes deeper than that. You are what you are made up of. Homosapiens (humans) are technically only 10% human DNA. We are actually a flourishing ecosystem- 90% various different microbes. Unfortunately for the majority of our population, young and old, we are in very poor health.
In order to thrive through this and the next flavour of the month we need to be looking at supporting the friends in your gut. THEY are your best protection and hand sanitizer is NOT going to save you. Far from it. Sanitizer is the worst for feeding the problem.
Stop the hysteria. Stops loading up your pantries on processed and canned foods. Toilet paper isn’t going to save you.
Is there such thing as common sense? When did we stop listening to our bodies and trusting in our immune systems? The contradictory advise - even from fellow nurses - encouraging the use of antipyretic medications - paracetamol and nurofen. Inhibiting the very best defence your body has! Fever!!!
Promoting the use of cough medications that dry up your mucous membranes. The next best thing to smother the viruses in secretions containing millions of white blood cells that FIGHT invaders in your body!
Please. Stop. Think. Listen.
Your body is the most amazing, intricate, intelligent thing in this world.
Support it to thrive.
Eat real food.
Save the supplements for actual illness or deficiency.
Sunlight! Vitamin D.
Wash your hands with soap and water! And dry throroughly.
Keep away when sick.
Cough and sneeze into your elbow.
Rest and listen to your bodies.
Come and see me for real, sensible advice!
-Zelia
Image sourced from https www.bbc.co.uk.
