tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post4851100401900189679..comments2024-03-19T01:16:17.501-06:00Comments on Cooling Inflammation: Constipation, Gut Flora and HealthDr. Art Ayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-55796529551150874682014-05-22T17:33:00.131-06:002014-05-22T17:33:00.131-06:00+++++ QUOTE ++++++
Krissie said...
Dr. Ayers,...+++++ QUOTE ++++++<br /><i>Krissie said...<br /><br /> Dr. Ayers,<br /> Great about chlorine, thank you.<br /><br /> I don't mean to harp on this but...<br /><br /> Fecal transplants are given by enema...whey is all 'good' bacteria, so why couldn't it work in a similar fashion?<br /></i><br /><br />Not true. Some Faecal trannsplants are give as freeze dried (triple gel-capped) ORAL courses, and studies indicate they work just as well. Of course this is all moot now that teh US FDA has regulated the entire field into non-existence (so unless you have ONE disease, you can only get it done at home using donor faeces that has not been tested, as a doc testing your donor would get them in legal trouble). The FDA has also totally outlawed "brown banks" in the USA, right after the first one finally opened.<br /><br />So if you want the safety of a faecal transplant via colonoscopy with a tested sample (so you know that person is safe to use as a donor) - and you do NOT have the ONE form of bacterial infection the FDA allows for .. or even if you do have that infection but have no close family member willing to donate for you ... you can no longer legally get help from a doctor in the USA (making what is a SOLID SCIENCE based approach, which has even cured late stage MS, into a 'back room' DIY medicine).Random Ponderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07018003177638022672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-78032114319613149512014-05-22T17:21:48.144-06:002014-05-22T17:21:48.144-06:00Dear Anonymous,
re: coffee enema
I was trying to...Dear Anonymous,<br /><br />re: coffee enema<br /><br />I was trying to look for the 700% increase in glutathione following the coffee enema. <br /><br />I used PUBMED and the only reference I found was this:<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=22249393<br /><br />Hum Exp Toxicol. 2012 Jul;31(7):643-51. doi: 10.1177/0960327111432499. Epub 2012 Jan 16.<br />Antioxidant effects after coffee enema or oral coffee consumption in healthy Thai male volunteers.<br />Teekachunhatean S1, Tosri N, Sangdee C, Wongpoomchai R, Ruangyuttikarn W, Puaninta C, Srichairatanakool S.<br />Author information<br />Abstract<br />We designed an open-label, randomized two-phase crossover study to investigate the antioxidant effects after single and multiple doses of a coffee enema versus coffee consumed orally. Eleven healthy subjects were randomly assigned to either receive a coffee enema (3 times weekly for 6 visits) or consume ready-to-drink coffee (2 times daily for 11 days). After a washout period, subjects were switched to receive the alternate coffee procedure. Blood samples were collected at specific time points for the determination of serum levels of glutathione (GSH), malondialdehyde (MDA) and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC). The findings showed that either single or multiple administrations of the coffee enema or orally consumed coffee doses seemed not to produce any beneficial effects to enhance serum GSH levels or to decrease serum MDA levels over the study period of 12 days. In contrast, mean serum TEAC levels at day 12 after the coffee enema and at days 6 and 12 after oral coffee consumption were significantly reduced from their corresponding baseline values. Thus, no beneficial effects with respect to an enhancement of serum GSH and TEAC levels or a decrease in serum MDA concentrations were demonstrated after coffee enema or orally consumed ready-to-drink coffee.<br /><br />Could you please cite some sources? I do not mean to discredit what you're saying. I am open to the idea but I would like to see something more positive than the abstract posted above.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-6175962369248665522014-05-22T17:20:30.392-06:002014-05-22T17:20:30.392-06:00- Now my note on chlorine -
Chlorine is a terribl...- Now my note on chlorine -<br /><br />Chlorine is a terrible and dangerous method for the treatment of water. There are several others that work better, many of which are less expensive and are also not dangerous at all. Chlorine does it job (stopping water born diseases) via a chemical reaction that produces both Dioxins and PCBs (two very potent carcinogens). The small amounts of plant matter in *all* water always reacts to the presence of chlorine by producing dioxins - in the EXACT same manner that dioxins are produced by bleaching paper with chlorine, or using chlorine bleach to whiten your clothing.<br /><br />Chlorinated water (from any method - chlorine gas, chlorine salts, chloramine or Chlorine Dioxide generators) is just a bad idea for any living thing. Exposure to chlorinated water (internal or external) is bad. Humans absorb far more chlorine from treated water, through their skin from bathing and showering (and through our lungs due to the steam of a shower aerosolizing the chlorine) than we so from our drinking water.<br /><br />HUMAN SKIN IS NOT AN IMPERMEABLE BARRIER. Anything that is on our skin, is also in our bloodstream. This is even more true for our colons.<br /><br />Exposure to chlorine (from drinking treated water and bathing in it) causes much higher rates of spinnabiffida, miscarriage due to "failure to implant", and also from cancer. It is also linked to a variety of mood disorders including suicidal ideation. Our local water district even had a web page up telling people about ALL of these issues for a while - and - announcing their efforts to switch to a less dangerous treatment method. <br /><br />The LA Water district stopped using standard chlorination about a decade or so ago. <br /><br />It is also a fact of the rapid evolution of microbes, that Crytosporidia, Giardia and Amoebic Dysentery have ALL adapted to chlorine and so using it against them against is useless (just as it is useless to try and kill cockroaches using DDT ... because to them it is FOOD).<br /><br />Crypto and Giardia have been immune to chlorination since the 1950s.... yet for the sake of appearances (and politics) city water suppliers STILL react to unacceptable levels of crypto & giardia levels by raising the level of Chlorine in the water; often to levels so high that the chlorine contaminated water burns peoples skin on contact.<br /><br />For example, in 1999 the Sydney Australia area had rather high levels of Crytosporidia in the town water supply. Officials eventually released the information to the TV news outlets to warn warn people (especially those with compromised immunity) to use only bottled water. The officials then RAISED the chlorine levels so high that the water was unusable, ad caused obvious and rapid chemical burns on contact with human skin. This is 'normal' behavior for city officials.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-60035604195272460102014-05-22T17:15:45.022-06:002014-05-22T17:15:45.022-06:00*) Also, lying on your right side for the enema h...*) Also, lying on your right side for the enema helps it flow backwards up the colon, making it easier for it to reach optimal positioning for <br /><br />effective osmosis of the bile across the bowel walls.<br /><br />*) If using any enema for detox purposes, it's important not to introduce toxins with the enema process; so, just as you SHOULD NEVER ingest or <br /><br />bathe using chlorinated water (it's just crazy - more later) don't !!!EVER!!! use chlorinated tap water, or coffee filled with pesticide and <br /><br />herbicide residues. Use only pure water and organic beans. Doing otherwise can seriously hurt you.<br /><br />You also want to avoid using enema kits that will leach toxins into the coffee (and then into you). This particularly applies to the old rubber <br /><br />hot-water-bottle style of enema kit. These are made out of 100% artificial petrochemical rubber these days. The things *reek* of volatile organic <br /><br />petrochemicals. Anything made of vinyl or rubber is best avoided for this purpose. We each use a dedicated 60cc hard plastic syringe (the same <br /><br />kind used for giving shots, only large), which can be out-gassed before use, and re-sterilized between uses with boiling water (* SEE NEXT POINT). <br /><br />The tubes we use are phthalate free. You can buy the tubes and syringes on ebay at much lower prices than you can get it at most enema supply <br /><br />shops. There are also metal bucket-style enema systems available as well; these tend to be gravity fed, using a long tube with a stopcock, <br /><br />allowing even a person with less hand strength to control the amount they're receiving, and how fast. This can be important because the syringe <br /><br />enemas (implant kits) require have a 60ml syringe. This mans having more than one filling of the syringe (probably 10 syringes full, once you get <br /><br />used to the volume), This requires using EITHER : a technique of bending and pinching off the tube (up near the nipple connection) in order to keep <br /><br />the coffee inside of you while you work the syringe with one hand... or obtaining a quality tube clamp. <br /><br />*) NEVER sterilize ANY enema equipment using anything poisonous, like bleach. Some enema supply houses (Wilson's included) carry a special <br /><br />cleaning product. We use boiling water. If you do choose to use a soap or other cleaning agent (one made for the purpose) make sure you remove even <br /><br />the slightest trace of the soap residue from the enema equipment before use, because soapsuds damage the epithelium. **Remember**, anything on <br /><br />your enema equipment, it's in your enema will wind up in your colon and in your blood.<br /><br />If these basic precautions are followed, coffee enemas are a remarkably safe and effective method of treating stored toxic load, acute toxic <br /><br />reactions, and chronic pain.<br /><br />- continued<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-28723990669409099502014-05-22T17:14:44.146-06:002014-05-22T17:14:44.146-06:00Last but not least, there are a few important thin...Last but not least, there are a few important things to bear in mind about how you USE the coffee enema:<br /><br />*) it's important to make sure that you're holding the enema long enough to do you good, but not so long that you're reabsorbing the coffee and <br /><br />the toxins it now contains. A good guideline is to aim for at least 15 minutes (your entire blood supply circulates through any given point in <br /><br />your body once every 3 minutes, so this gives the coffee time to pull the toxins out of your blood through osmosis, as well as out of the toxic bile you've released), but never keep it more than an hour or two (which may sound like a long time, especially if you're new to enema use, but the pain relief can be so great that you fall asleep with the coffee in you).<br /><br />*) It's important to make sure that you're not dehydrated when you start; if you are, you'll absorb liquid out of the coffee, and it won't have as much volume in which to absorb and carry away the toxins.<br /><br />*) And, for the same reason, it's important to make sure that you're using an appropriate enema volume to start with; most people have to work their way up on this, from a smaller volume when they first start using enemas, to a REASONABLE volume -- bigger is only better up to a point. <br /><br />After years of doing this, we tend to use anywhere from 0.6 to 1 litre (normally about 650ml). MY wife's volume tolerance started out higher, and actually went down over time, as her bowel function improved as a result of the detoxification.<br /><br />*) By the same token, if you're having problems with constipation, retained fecal matter, or slow bowel function, you may need to do an initial clearing enema before your main coffee enema session. We tend to use a more dilute coffee enema for this; it will gently stimulate bowel function, helping you clear out the solids, but shouldn't cause cramping or use up your coffee as fast.<br /><br />*) Administering the enema as high up in the colorectal area as possible is the best option for home users, who can't use commercial colonic equipment; instead of just using an enema bulb, which puts the liquid into the rectum, we get good results using a 60cm tube to place the enema higher up, past the top and bottom rectal sphincters, into the sigmoid colon. The tube is highly flexible, and will NOT cause damage to the colon walls if used with common sense (as with anything, don't try to force it if it seems to be running into something). These tube tips can be purchase fairly cheaply online, and are compatible with many different kinds of enema administration systems.<br /><br />- continuedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-79470410313447069412014-05-22T17:11:56.222-06:002014-05-22T17:11:56.222-06:00Part 1: Detox stimulation -- While it *IS* ther...Part 1: Detox stimulation -- While it *IS* there, the coffee is increasing your glutathione output (a 700% increase, according to the research <br /><br />I've read), which increases the activity of your biochemical detoxification system, AND it stimulates the output and release of bile, by the liver <br /><br />and gall bladder respectively. Because bile is one of the primary output pathways from the liver, it is one of the primary places the liver has <br /><br />available for storing and ridding itself of the toxins that it cleans out of your blood. This means that the more toxic you are, the more toxic <br /><br />your bile is (and, given the high rate of gall bladder illness in people with toxin-related illnesses, my wife and I have suspected for years that <br /><br />this is one of the primary reasons that gall bladder failure occurs in highly toxic people -- storing toxic bile poisons the gall bladder more <br /><br />directly and in a more concentrated form than almost any other organ in the body). <br /><br />Part 2: Toxin removal -- However, with the coffee enema, you are pulling the toxins from the released bile directly from the small intestine into <br /><br />the coffee-laden large intestine, by way of osmosis; once there, the coffee is able to carry the toxins out of your body when you void the enema. <br /><br />This means that each coffee enema can be held for only so long before it is "full", having reached the maximum amount of toxins it can absorb <br /><br />without "re-uptake", which just means re-absorbing the toxins out of the coffee into the bloodstream, by way of the large intestine. As soon as <br /><br />you start experiencing any sudden urgency, or any of the above symptoms, it's time to void that enema... ...but in our experience, if you ARE <br /><br />experiencing any of these symptoms, either during the enema, or within a short time thereafter, it's a good idea to follow it up with at least one <br /><br />more. Your body can only make and release so much bile in a given period of time, so additional coffee enemas won't just keep restarting the detox <br /><br />process, but they WILL keep absorbing the toxins from the bile you've already released, so that you can get them out of your body before they get <br /><br />reabsorbed and make you sick.<br /><br />In our case, my wife is so toxic that the only way she can tolerate things like Milk Thistle, alpha lipoic acid, l-glutamine, and neblulised <br /><br />glutathione, is to take them WITH her coffee enemas.<br /><br />- continued<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-13719884095411587572014-05-22T17:09:22.331-06:002014-05-22T17:09:22.331-06:00Long version (read this if you can, there's a ...Long version (read this if you can, there's a lot of valuable information here):<br /><br />The coffee enema causes detoxification, but it MUST be made the right way in order to be safe. This means using ORGANICALLY-GROWN coffee, and pure untreated water (MUST BE CHLORINE-FREE -- either buy distilled water (and even then, it's good to filter out any plasticizers that may have leached into it if you buy it in a plastic jug), or use filtered or boiled rainwater if you live in the country or have reasonably clean rain where you live -- I wouldn't do this in the city, at least not without more than just a simple dedicated Brita filter).<br /><br />Taking the coffee enema will force your body to to begin dumping toxins rapidly -- that's the main reason for using it for many non-pain-control purposes -- but it also means that if you have a high toxic load you can occasionally have nasty symptoms. My wife used to call hers the 'going to die shits', before we learned about the more technical terms "dumping" and "Herxheimer reactions", but there are several ways this symptom set can manifest -- nausea, sweating, headache, gut cramps, and thermal dysregulation (being too hot or cold for the room temperature) are the most common ones.<br /><br />The answer to this is to have MORE coffee enemas. I know it sounds wrong -- or at least counter-intuitive -- but the REASON for the reaction is that you no longer have any coffee in your bowel. The coffee enema's detox action is in two parts, and understanding this is CRUCIAL to avoiding problems from it if you're toxic. It TRIGGERS detoxification -- and it SUPPORTS it, allowing you to pass the toxins out of your body without being made sick by them. <br /><br />- continued Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-70471168692722268782014-05-22T16:21:26.896-06:002014-05-22T16:21:26.896-06:00Short version:
The nausea you get after a coffee ...Short version:<br /><br />The nausea you get after a coffee enema is a healing crisis/herxheimer reaction. A Coffee Enema (ALWAYS use pure chlorine-free water and organic <br /><br />coffee) cause the glutathione detox pathway to produce about 7 times your normal glutathione levels, and pushes your body to make and release bile <br /><br />(which carries toxins out of the liver). This can have consequences if you are toxic (high body burden of toxins). Since the coffee also carries <br /><br />the toxins away, immediately renewing the coffee enema can relieve the symptoms; it may take 2 or 3 to get through the amount of toxins you've <br /><br />triggered your body into releasing. This won't hurt you. My wife and I both have severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (with a VERY high toxic load - hers far worse than mine) and we do at least 3 long-retained coffee enemas at least every other day... and the reduction in PAIN is wonderful as well.<br />--------------------<br />(From barleySinger) - to be continuedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-66603221682166561232014-05-22T10:59:09.784-06:002014-05-22T10:59:09.784-06:00Triclosan is not alone either, It is very LIKELY t...<br />Triclosan is not alone either, It is very LIKELY that many other common agro-chemicals are also bocidal, and our killing off our internal flora (bacteria that we still do not understand and won't for many many decades). It just amazes me that with 9 out of 10 cells in a human being NON human, nearly all scientists and doctors have been acting as if we were 100% human... as if 90% of the cells we "port around" with us, were meaningless.<br /><br />For an example of a common NON TRICLOSAL agent that *is8 biocidal, here is a very common one. Take RoundUp (glyphosphate) as an example. The company that first sold the stuff claimed it degraded rapidly in dry conditions & was not harmful. Neither half of that statements is true.<br /><br />RoundUp (glyphosphate) is a biocide which kills soil bacteria (the plants need that bacteria) and contrary to the manufacturers statements, Glyphospahte does *not* degrade rapidly (not even on dry soil with full sun in a desert). <br /><br />The wide-spread use of RoundUp /Glyphoshphate has caused a number of vital soil bacteria to come quite close to extinction in North America. It has also been very well proven to cause serious disease in humans (it causes over a dozen illnesses).<br /><br />Glyphosphate is also a persistent organochlorine. The few biologists left that LOVE "DDT" are scared to death of RoundUp and consider it to be far more dangerous. You see, SOIL is not just non-living dirt. It is filled with bacteria, fungi and many things that are not quite either one (prions, etc). Using this stuff makes it easy to farm (for a while) but glyphosphate kills the bacteria in the soil indiscriminately - including bacteria that plants REQUIRE for absorbing minerals from the soil!<br /><br />This means that food raised using RoundUp is going to be very low in minerals... and it also means that the soil that it is repeatedly used on becomes a "low microbe" desert over time. The food raised using glyphosphate will also CONTAIN the actual because ALL agro chemicals get inside of the actual plant. The huge trend toward the use of MONSANTO's "RoundUp ready" crops has only made this worse. <br /><br />Keep in mind here that Agro-chemicals (including Roundup/Glyphostphate) are also not just on the OUTSIDE of plants. They are absorbed INTO the plants cells, and cannot be simply washed off and it stays in the soil and water and gets into the entire food chain.<br /><br />If this was not bad enough, there is NEW tre3nd even worse that "RoundUp Ready". There is also a new effort to produce "2 4-D" 'ready' crops and remember that "2 4-D" was one of the major ingredients in the highly toxic substance "Agent Orange" which was used in Vietnam and caused a lot of soldiers to die long after they came home.<br /><br />**** PROBIOTICS ?? <br /><br />Unfortunately we CANNOT use probiotics to fix an ailing gut because the bacteria in probiotic mixes are **NOT** the same bacteria that exist in a normal healthy gut.<br /><br />We also cannot do a nice *sterile* bacterial transplant into a sick person using *only* bacteria that is fully understood and vetted via hard science. Why not? Because we have no idea which bacteria in the gut are meaningless... which are vital for our health and which are bad for us. We do not know this because there are hundreds of thousand of species of bacteria JUST in the gut! That number (which already seems huge) is rising as the (very new) investigation continues.<br />Now think about all those other bacteria that live in a human's body.<br /><br /><br />The investigation into the bacteria that live inside of us has only just started. It was utterly ignored by medicine and by hard science until quite recently.<br /><br />*** ODD HEALINGS<br /><br />Among illness that have gone into total rapid remission from a faeces based gut flora transplant (our only current choice) - are total remission from<br /><br />* Chrones<br />* Ulcerative Colitis <br />* Advanced M.S.<br />* late stage CancerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-87727079024979109172014-05-22T10:41:55.926-06:002014-05-22T10:41:55.926-06:00Meanwhile for the last 20 years advertisers have b...Meanwhile for the last 20 years advertisers have been trying to make us all scared to death of germs so that we will buy their unnecessary AND DANGEROUS, with the result that kids have terrible immune systems, having not been exposed to the innocuous bacteria (the majority), a small amount of harmful bacteria to bolster their immunity (which MUST be done in early childhood when the thymus is still working), and also having ben de-populated of the bacteria we need for HEALTH (the ones that cooperate with us, regulate our inflammatory response system & immunity, and are a part of our epigeneitcs .. RUNNING the systems that keep us healthy). <br /><br />Keep in mind that those anti-bacterial hand wipes and soaps usually make use of Triclosan; a PESTICIDE which is listed with the US EPA as a serious danger to human health. It is not picky about which bacteria it kills (like the nice ones we need in our gut) and *YET* the manufactures are putting it into all sorts of items without even listing it as an ingredient.<br /><br />Triclosan isn't even limited to soaps and hand wipes either. They put it into kids plastic toys, and many of the plastic item in kitchens, like kitchen cutting boards. As a result of the anti-bacteria hysteria fostered by advertising, Triclosanis now fills the entire western worlds basic ecology. It is in our water and our soil (which means it is INSIDE OF our food too). Every time a person uses Triclosan, the stuff absorbs into the blood stream through the skin (skin is *not* a water-proof membrane).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-82165594204091908102014-05-22T10:40:24.131-06:002014-05-22T10:40:24.131-06:00Probiotics from yogurt and pills are all very well...Probiotics from yogurt and pills are all very well and good, but they are very temporary. They simply can't repopulate our gut bacteria and heal up a bad gut.<br /><br />Why? Because they do not contain the right flora. The right flora exists in OTHER healthy peoples guts, and surrounds us (air, soil, even in insects). In point of fact the people who have the healthiest and most diverse flora in the world live in Africa, and westerners (with their advertising based cleanliness obsession) have the lest healthy gut flora.<br /><br />Now scientists have know for quite a while that the gut has about 3 pounds of bacteria in it. They have also known that the entire body is filled with bacteria - in fact there are 9 non-human cells in the human body for every 1 human cell. Despite this, there has been little to no interest in understanding the cooperative nature of our internal biology, and doctors (as always) lag the furthest behind and are the most resistant to taking this on board. For ages I have said that nobody ought to be allowed to BE a doctor unless they have a PHD in microbiology or genetics - otherwise we get what we have now ; doctors who don't even know what the scientific method *IS*, never read science and who base their decisions on 'tradition'.<br /><br />Keep in mind that the human gut is only *one* part of the body where the cooperative nature of human life comes into play.... and making treatment choices on these facts, is being regulated out of existence by the FDA.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-31552521412676013492011-10-03T02:47:16.773-06:002011-10-03T02:47:16.773-06:00@Alison said...
DR, I see you recommend a high fa...@Alison said...<br /><br /><i>DR, I see you recommend a high fat diet to re-establish good gut flora. How does this gel with the research that showed a return to a high fat diet from a low fat diet in mice with healthy flora (more bacteriodes than firmicutes)resulted in a swopping of the ratios to an efficient gut flora for weight gain with a few days.</i><br /><br />Nutrition studies on mice and rats are utterly irrelevant to humans. These rodents naturally eat an ultra low fat diet (<5% fat) diet based mostly on seeds. Rats and mice require a very low fat, very high carbohydrate diet with a lot of insoluble fibre. This is the exact opposite of humans. <br /><br />Rodents also have a gut that is basically the reverse of the human gut. They ferment their food in the fore-gut rather than the hind-gut (colon) fermentation that occurs in humans.blogbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18029519906193388609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-27318716164119968972011-08-21T03:16:45.084-06:002011-08-21T03:16:45.084-06:00DR, I see you recommend a high fat diet to re-esta...DR, I see you recommend a high fat diet to re-establish good gut flora. How does this gel with the research that showed a return to a high fat diet from a low fat diet in mice with healthy flora (more bacteriodes than firmicutes)resulted in a swopping of the ratios to an efficient gut flora for weight gain with a few days.Alisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-7826896781522671172011-08-17T07:24:53.096-06:002011-08-17T07:24:53.096-06:00P.S
Also, what about snogging, as we call it in E...P.S <br />Also, what about snogging, as we call it in England? If you kiss someone with good gut flora, do they pass some of these bacteria into u?<br />I am curious because I've spent my entire life being super clean. So much so that I don't even kiss my husband on the lips (to his chagrin). I have hideous gut flora with constipation issues, esp since going on low carb. He on the other hand is quite healthy.Candicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-47316884261180232322011-08-17T07:18:46.909-06:002011-08-17T07:18:46.909-06:00Dr. Ayers,
How are you supposed to eat the bacteri...Dr. Ayers,<br />How are you supposed to eat the bacteria on unwashed food while at the same time avoiding pathogenic bacteria and parasites? I contracted Toxoplasmosis 2 years ago (perhaps an underdone steak?) and had the leading Toxo specialist in London "worried" because there was the possibility I might at the time be pregnant-I was not, but the issue for my doctor and the specialist was big. The advice you give is good and valid, but for those with lousey immune systems to begin, exposure to soils etc, will also put them at risk for other potential problem like Toxo, and a child with birth defects as a result. It would seem this situation is a catch 22. That is unless there is something I am not seeing that I ought. Is there some way of ensuring the passing of intact useful bacteria into the gut, while keeping out the pathogens? Is there such a food that might supply this ability, such as Horseradish? Vinegar? Mango? I mention these three since I have read that Mango can destroy viruses in test tube, Horesradish kills bad e-coli and other bacterias and Vinegar has a similar ability. I would assume however that if this were true then these foods might also kill the good along with the bad, No?Candicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-59554028142837186672011-06-29T15:49:00.154-06:002011-06-29T15:49:00.154-06:00Gavin,
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are just anoth...Gavin,<br />Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are just another soluble fiber to feed gut flora. It would seem to be a waste of money to buy purified FOS, when a leek or onion would be a better source of FOS for pennies.<br /><br />Also, you need to eat both the soluble fiber and the bacteria that you are missing.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-81340743078377035682011-06-29T15:42:30.126-06:002011-06-29T15:42:30.126-06:00Monavie,
I eat full fat, live GreekYogurt, because...Monavie,<br />I eat full fat, live GreekYogurt, because it is as tasty as ice cream, low in carbs, high in saturated fats, and provides some probiotic bacteria.<br /><br />Probiotics are helpful for transitory stimulation of the immune system and to supply some genes that may be useful for my established gut flora. (Gut biofilm bacteria scavenge genes from other bacteria, such as probiotics.)<br /><br />To really help your immune system via a healthy gut flora, you should concentrate on the gut flora in the colon, which are not the probiotics, but rather the anaerobes that digest and use soluble fiber. That means eating, for example apples for pectin and leeks for inulin.<br /><br />Remember that diet cannot help to develop your gut flora without also eating the bacteria that you are missing. You also need to eat the bacteria clinging to vegetables and avoid killing the beneficial bacteria by heating/cooking or washing. You also need to be reasonable to avoid parasites and pathogens.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-51354764692318879132011-06-29T09:41:56.801-06:002011-06-29T09:41:56.801-06:00Dr. Ayers - I could listen to you talk sh*t all da...Dr. Ayers - I could listen to you talk sh*t all day...<br /><br />I'm curious, what are your views on fruictooligosaccharides and would you recommend supplimenting with FOS to improve intestinal flora?<br /><br />Thanks in advance,<br /><br />GavinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-87754036133981284712011-06-24T10:29:24.240-06:002011-06-24T10:29:24.240-06:00Interesting post. I can't help but ask whether...Interesting post. I can't help but ask whether yogurt can improve gut health. Is there any truth to this?MonaViehttp://monaviemediacenter.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-73617746350099679482011-06-14T02:43:57.154-06:002011-06-14T02:43:57.154-06:00Oh, and what about candida (yeast)?Oh, and what about candida (yeast)?Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222137373184605217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-83344445530577777612011-06-14T02:40:56.376-06:002011-06-14T02:40:56.376-06:00Dr. Ayers - people squat on the toilet seats in Si...Dr. Ayers - people squat on the toilet seats in Singapore (and elsewhere in Asia) not for health reasons but because the seats are filthy. I live in Malaysia and I've seen one being cleaned where the cleaner dipped the mop into the water in the toilet (which still had faeces floating in it), then mopped the floor, dipped again and mopped the toilet seat. (Sorry, did I just make you puke?)<br /><br />Interesting observation about fecal transplant. In animal husbandry, they give cows and pigs lots of antibiotics because this increases their weight, although they said they didn't know why. How does that work? The animals are constipated and hence more of the food is absorbed because it sits in the intestines longer?<br /><br />Magnesium deficiency can be caused by too much mercury, as mercury binds to the binding sites of magnesium (and other metals). Mercury also causes inflammation on its own.<br /><br />I read that Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease triggered by the proteins in cow's milk.Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222137373184605217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-75234286473088089482011-04-23T08:56:40.421-06:002011-04-23T08:56:40.421-06:00Dr Ayers,
Thank you very much for this blog!
I ha...Dr Ayers, <br />Thank you very much for this blog!<br />I have IBS and don't tolerate red meat, coffee, orange juice, chocolate among other things. When I eat /drink this I produce a lot of stomach acid and get diarrhea. So I have avoided those for 3 years, and now I have been on your anti-inflammatory diet for 3 months. And I am beginning to wonder if things like red meat can be made tolerable for me again, maybe by re-introducing it slowly (like maybe just put the fat from the bacon on my food in the beginning). It's a little constrictiong being on the Anti-inflam. diet when I'm only eating fish and poultry, and they're not very fatty, mostly.<br />What are your thoughts, can I make my self re-tolerate red meat (I can do without the coffee and orange juice), will my gut have to go through some processes, or will it never happen, you think? <br /><br />Thanks again, <br /><br />- AlexanderAlexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05575413732939319352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-81111992532048368732010-08-12T13:51:10.058-06:002010-08-12T13:51:10.058-06:00Kath,
I think that Anna is on the right track. Mo...Kath,<br />I think that Anna is on the right track. Most M.D.s don't read the biomedical literature and aren't aware of more than the guidelines for their specialty, which are not based on science or even their own literature. I don't know how to find physicians who are up to date and try to make sense to cure, rather than just treat their patients.<br /><br />I don't think that avoidance of foods that trigger intolerance makes sense, because it ignores the cause of the problem and pins it on some vague idea of personal genetics or history. Food intolerance based on defective gut flora makes sense and responds to simple changes of diet and acquisition of new bacteria.<br /><br />I hope that you can follow the suggestions on this blog and comments like Anna's to mend your gut flora and get passed constipation and eliminate intolerances.<br /><br />Keep me informed of your progress.Dr. Art Ayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01727664149735013259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-76443816513385442192010-08-05T15:22:33.583-06:002010-08-05T15:22:33.583-06:00Thanks for your thoughts, Anna. I had been followi...Thanks for your thoughts, Anna. I had been following the diet for a while... was following Mark Sisson's primal blueprint for about 10 months, but when I was told I had all of the food intolerances (20), it greatly limited what fruits & veggies, and proteins I can eat. I'm also not supposed to eat anything more than 2 times per week. I don't know if gut issues are causing the intolerances or if the intolerances are causing the gut issues. Either way, I walk around looking pregnant, have no energy, and am trying to figure out what is causing what.Kathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196334975274806517.post-27351356147680990102010-08-05T13:02:45.178-06:002010-08-05T13:02:45.178-06:00kath,
The beauty of what Dr. Ayers suggests is th...kath,<br /><br />The beauty of what Dr. Ayers suggests is that you can try it yourself without much, if any risk. And you don't need a practitioner's blessing. My experience is that few practitioners are really interested in learning about novel approaches from their patients even if seemingly intractable conditions improve dramatically or reverse - they put it down to placebo or spontaneous remission for the most part. We hear a lot about "taking charge of our health" from the powers that be - this is an excellent area to put that into practice and it's probably far safer and more beneficial than even OTC drug remedies. <br /><br />I know I had worse results (than no treatment) when I followed the conventional advice of my doctors: bran and other grain fiber supplement, etc. - the insoluble fiber simply increased bulk (& stool width), which cause painful fissures and more difficult elimination (possibly due to my pelvic prolapse condition). I did not want to take the prescription Rx that were then suggested. I've had very good results so far with my efforts to "tend my inner garden" using Dr. Ayer's recommendations. <br /><br />Given the low risk of adverse effects, consider trying the non-bran/non-grain, soluble fiber approach to improve the number and quality of your colon bacteria (i.e., regular consumption of inulin and pectin-containing foods or even using supplements of inulin & pectin; consumption of a wide variety of local/seasonal leafy greens & herbs to provide beneficial soil-borne bacteria such as lactobacillus; a variety of spices; the anti-inflammatory lower carb diet of saturated fat, high quality protein, and varied produce he describes on his blog; and so on). He has mentioned the details on numerous blog posts as well in quite a few comments, though this will take some time to find and read thoroughly, but it's well worth it.<br /><br />I think there is very little risk to such an approach (esp compared to OTC and Rx drug therapies) though the inulin powder supplements and some of the high inulin-containing foods (Jerusalem artichokes/sunchokes for example) can initially create a lot of intestine "noise" and gassiness until the bacteria adjust in species and numbers - it's best to go slow with those items to build tolerance until the beneficial bacteria population catches up.<br /><br />Hope that helps.<br /><br />Annaagainstthegrainhttp://www.againstthegrainblog.comnoreply@blogger.com