HOW TOXINS AFFECT THE MICROBIOME & OVERALL HEALTH
The amount of toxins coming into our body every day, from the environment and our food and water sources, grows every year.
And it is affecting us in many ways.
But one area it affects us quite severely is in our microbiome, where these toxins kill off the beneficial bacteria that help to produce key calming neurotransmitters like GABA and serotonin.
We covered the microbiome in the last article: a colony of trillions of bacteria in our colon, and how it affects every aspect of our health, our hormones, our longevity and the ability to build muscle, lose body fat and stay fit.
As these bacteria produce or help to produce neurotransmitters such as Serotonin and GABA, which calm and relax us, de-stress us and allow us to fall asleep, when it's harmed, we can have higher levels of stress, cortisol, feelings of anxiousness or being depressed, poor sleep, and poor recovery.
We also covered how some of these bacteria eat the foods coming in such as amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients, and some actually produce amino acids and vitamins that the body can use or that other bacteria feed off of.
It’s actually a miniature circle of life down there, with whole food chains, and bacteria consuming food and then making food for other bacteria, producing neurotransmitters for the body to use and even consuming them when too much are produced.
So keeping these in balance is very important, and knowing what harms them, and what we can do, is even more important.
In this article we’re going to cover how the number of toxins coming into our body, which increases every year, affects these bacteria.