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    Evidence Based Detoxification: Fasting Mimicking Diet & Supplements To Avoid During Detox!

    April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

     What is a fasting mimicking diet? It is a low carb – low protein (calorie deficit) diet that you do for 4-5 days out of the month (not a way of life and not meant to be eaten forever). It is not just ANY foods you consume. It has to be foods that are going

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    • Have you heard of the GI Maps stool test? 💩💩💩💩💩💩 The estrobolome is the collection of microbes capable of metabolizing estrogens (in the gut microbiome). The estrobolome modulates the enterohepatic circulation of estrogens and affects circulating and excreted estrogen levels. 👩🏻‍🦰 After estrogens are detoxified in the liver, they go into the GI tract through the billiary system (gallbladder and liver ducts) 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Gut Dysbiosis inhibits the body's ability to remove old estrogen: When there is dysbiosis in the gut, this can cause an increase in beta glucuronidase. 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 Beta glucuronidase is a marker that shows if your body is successfully eliminating your estrogens, or if they are being recirculated back into your body. 😱 This can be high in both MEN AND WOMEN. 👆🏼 How can we see if our gut and liver are succesfully removing old estrogens? A GI Maps stool test encompasses many markers of gut and intestinal health. One of which is beta glucuronidase. 💩 In this picture, the beta glucuronidase is extremely high which indicates that old estrogen is being reactivated and recirculated in the body. Total estrogen breaks down into three types of estrogens: 2 OH, 4 OH, 16 OH. 2 OH is protective estrogen against breast cancer and 16 OH is the proliferative type estrogen that we do not want to be the highest. Its quite possible that the 16 OH form of estrogen is high in this person. 🥦 Foods that can help with lowering beta glucuronidase: flax seeds, broccoli, broccoli sprouts, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, asapragus, leeks, cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, turnips, kale, kohlrabi. I3C, DIM, calcium d-glucarate. 🥬 If you are somebody who has concerns about Estrogen metabolism or you have a family history of estrogen related cancer, check that your gut and liver are functioning properly so that you’re not recycling old estrogen. Everything in the body works together, it amazes me that an imbalance in your gut flora can cause a problem with your ability to let go of old hormones. #betaglucuronidase #estrogenmetabolism #estrogen #gimaps #diagnosticsolutionslab
    • Another important marker to determine your gut immune function is called Secretory IgA. This is like the security guards of your stomach, the first line of defense against pathogens or food sensitivities. 💪🏽 When the SIgA is LOW this is saying that this person is more likely to get sick when they come into contact with pathogens and they have a weak immune system. This is EXTREMELY common. 🤢 What causes a low SIgA? Chronic infections, often times sub clinical. Stress profoundly lowers the intestinal immune system, this is huge. Also, eating foods that suppress the immune system: particularly wheat. 🥖🥞🥨 As you can see, this person had anti-gliadin antibodies, which is saying she is allergic to wheat. And they do not have celiac disease (wheat can affect anyone). 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The interesting thing about measuring wheat antibodies in stool is that, these antibodies can appear ONLY in stool, way before they would be detected in blood. 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 #GIMaps #DiagnosticSolutionsLab #antigliadinantibodies #wheat #glutenfree #siga #immunesystem
    • Many studies have reported abnormal gut microbiota in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), suggesting a link between gut microbiome and autism-like behaviors. Modifying the gut microbiome is a potential route to improve gastrointestinal (GI) and behavioral symptoms in children with ASD, and fecal microbiota transplant could transform the dysbiotic gut microbiome toward a healthy one by delivering a large number of commensal microbes from a healthy donor. 💩 Autistic children were administered a fecal microbiota transplant, and observed significant improvements in GI symptoms, autism-related symptoms, and gut microbiota. 💩 2 year follow up with the same 18 participants after treatment was completed. Notably, most improvements in GI symptoms were maintained, and autism-related symptoms improved even more after the end of treatment. Important changes in gut microbiota at the end of treatment remained at follow-up, including significant increases in bacterial diversity and relative abundances of Bifidobacteria and Prevotella. 🌼 These observations demonstrate the long-term safety and efficacy of MTT as a potential therapy to treat children with ASD who have GI problems. 🌼 Kang, D., Adams, J. B., Coleman, D. M., Pollard, E. L., Maldonado, J., Mcdonough-Means, S., . . . Krajmalnik-Brown, R. (2019). Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota. Scientific Reports,9(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-42183-0 . #fecaltransplant #autism #autismawareness #microbiome #thehealthymelissa
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