tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post3648334875340541574..comments2023-11-30T00:29:08.106-08:00Comments on Animal Pharm: Phylogenetic Tree of Caecums, Appendectomies, Microbiota Maintenance, and Anecdotal Failure of Fecal TransplantsDr. B Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-1957368332996323022013-09-17T16:13:32.476-07:002013-09-17T16:13:32.476-07:00You were deeply tied to the earth as a child. Mush...You were deeply tied to the earth as a child. Mushroom foraging is quite a skill! That sounds so wonderful. I received a lot of antibiotics growing up -- and no fermented foods/probiotics. Obviously children now have gut-damaging factors that we never grew up (besides hyper-hygeine, whole grain madness).<br />--GMO crop products with DNA transfer to human gut microflora to produce gut-toxic Bt lectins<br />--antibacterial (triclosan, etc) in the water supply<br />--ubiquitious environmental heavy metals, pesticides, chemicalsDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-70019945374034946742013-09-17T09:47:58.711-07:002013-09-17T09:47:58.711-07:00It is what I used to do while collecting mushrooms...It is what I used to do while collecting mushrooms or berries with a group of children several decades ago. It was normal for my grandma to sent me to find and harvest wild sorrel or mushrooms if she wanted to use it for cooking. We(a group of children) also liked to stick a grass stem into a ant mound and lick the traces of acid resulted from ants bites, we chew pine sap, knew which flower parts had tiny drops of a nectar, and basically put one thing or another into mouths all the time while being outdoor.<br />I wish I wouldn't be made to eat everything with bread since early age, because over-wise my environment was very healthy, except my grandma, who was rising me till I turned 10 yo, being a neat-freak.<br />Now I managed to convince my mother to stop eating bread and drop a good portion of carbs from her diet, which dramatically improved her heath.Galina L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09156132815504279615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-58030090907582914212013-09-17T09:21:44.787-07:002013-09-17T09:21:44.787-07:00Yes microbes appear to colonize the whole plant! T...Yes microbes appear to colonize the whole plant! That's so FUNNY. I do exactly the same thing!!! I pull (organic) plants and nibble on them... It is like sampling our 'ecological niche' in more intimate ways -- plant DNA, microbes and all... haa Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-14255883949230425232013-09-17T09:03:46.655-07:002013-09-17T09:03:46.655-07:00Well,yes, we can't rely on a dirt in concrete ...Well,yes, we can't rely on a dirt in concrete jungles. I use some herbs that grow around my house and I also try to chew some eatable plant parts when outdoor, as we did as children when went in a country-side. Young new growth is eatable, also , if you pull off the top part of a grass with seeds, the site which is opposite to the seed part is eatable. I hope it gives me a little bit of natural microbes.Galina L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09156132815504279615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-61211516827589962962013-09-17T07:59:29.530-07:002013-09-17T07:59:29.530-07:00Also I think that is fantastic how you cook 'o...Also I think that is fantastic how you cook 'old fashioned'! There's a Chinese saying 'if you live by the shore, eat from the shore; if you live on a mountain, eat from the mountain.'<br /><br />The problem nowadays is that many of us are urbanized living in concrete towers... We cannot eat from concrete jungles or dirt. I have to admit I soak my organic vegetables in vinegar water to kill any possible pests, remove pesticide residues and parasites... probably not a good idea! I struggle with how to incorporate good dirt. I'm considering making the next 'kraut batch with adding SBO probiotics. Some people make yogurt using a probiotic as a starter...<br /><br />Many bacterial/fungal symbionts live near the roots and shoots of plants, providing them with protection, hormones, stimulus, nutrients, amino acids and other benefits. Guess what? Soil based organisms are among them including Bacillus subtilis and others which are found in traditionally fermented vegetables and sourdough.<br /><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiome<br />"A huge range of bacterial symbionts colonize plants. Many of these are pathogenic, but others known as plant-growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) provide the host with essential services such as nitrogen fixation, solubilization of minerals such as phosphorus, synthesis of plant hormones, direct enhancement of mineral uptake, and protection from pathogens.[24][25] PGPBs may protect plants from pathogens by competing with the pathogen for an ecological niche or a substrate, producing inhibitory allelochemicals, or inducing systemic resistance in host plants to the pathogen[26]"Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-18746102955678458192013-09-17T05:28:46.787-07:002013-09-17T05:28:46.787-07:00Galina,
I'm sorry to hear about the potential...Galina,<br /><br />I'm sorry to hear about the potential link for Rh compatability. Yes -- I don't how the pollution is in Moscow but it seems major cities tend to share more because of the density of people, living away from life-sustaining farms, high energy demands, etc.<br /><br />China and USA produce most of the world's mercury and arsenic emissions from coal-burning. USA still has coal plants and 30-50% of the energy still comes from coal. <br /><br />Unfortunately the downstream effects can no longer be ignored. It has been recently observed that wetland birds have changed sex, no longer mate with song and mother birds fail to care for eggs and hatchlings properly due to environmental poisoning.<br /><br />http://discovermagazine.com/2013/march/4-mercury-songbirds#.UjhH6tI3A2g<br /><br />http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1525/auk.2011.11106?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102646574217<br /><br />http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0107-isaacs-varian-ramos.html<br /><br />graceDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-25028071961051029462013-09-15T10:54:30.272-07:002013-09-15T10:54:30.272-07:00I am from Moscow, Russia. Of course, there are a l...I am from Moscow, Russia. Of course, there are a lot of pollutants in a big city. I also blame some health issues on me having negative rhesus factor while my mom is positive.When I was born at 1960, no one was screen for that. Well, Hashimodo is one of my autoimmune conditions as well.<br />My cooking is very old-fashioned, I always have at least a gallon of a self-made sauerkraut in my fridge all the time. Fermented foods and soups are staples in my family.Galina L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09156132815504279615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-64179455050062331902013-09-14T23:50:33.994-07:002013-09-14T23:50:33.994-07:00(cont)
Until health is totally reclaimed, I suspec...(cont)<br />Until health is totally reclaimed, I suspect people need to totally outsource many organ functions for digestion and immunity...<br /><br />Stomach -- betaine HCl, acidity, digestive enzymes, coating herbs (marshmellow, slippery elm, mastic gum, etc)<br /><br />Duodenum, pancreas/GB, brush border, commensal bacteria -- SBO, probiotics, raw live 'kraut and fermented drinks/food, pancreatic digestive enzymes (lipases, proteases, carb-ases), 'elemental diet (e.g. predigested liquid diet/babyfood)', ox bile, coating herbs (marshmellow, slippery elm, mastic gum, etc)<br /><br />Vagal innervation -- yoga, calm, qi gong, laughter, cholinergic and dopaminergic herbs, rest/repose/REM/sexxx<br /><br />Peristalsis -- extended mild-mod exercise<br /><br />Large colon -- probiotics, SBO, butyrate supplements, coating herbs (marshmellow, slippery elm, mastic gum, etc), extra (sublingual) B12, methylated B vitamins, fat soluble vitamin ADEK2 (the gut microbiota conjugates a lot of these to make them bioavailable), calcium d glucurate, etc<br /><br />When the gut is still damaged, cortisol is typically dysregulated. If so, then tissue damaging auto-antibodies and immune complexes continue being produced and circulated. Immune support means adrenal herbs, lifestyle, qi gong, yoga, acupuncture, massage, and etc to bring cortisol back into controlled, normal regulation. This is a big problem for a lot of people, especially when the toxin burden/toxome is high because toxins are endocrine-disruptors and cause redox mitochondrial problems/death.<br /><br />This is an integrative physician on immune recovery. Thoughts? Would love to hear your insights....<br />http://www.drkaslow.com/html/immune_restoration.html<br /><br />GDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-63730342626074059352013-09-14T23:35:25.227-07:002013-09-14T23:35:25.227-07:00Galina--
I hear ya.
I almost eradicated my thyr...Galina--<br /><br />I hear ya. <br /><br />I almost eradicated my thyroid and brain into vestigial organs... LOL ahaaaa (Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis during college years). I was lucky that it healed gradually with exercise, sunlight, and eating less processed foods (wheat).<br /><br />Toxins in our environment trigger most autoimmunity I believe. YES -- wheat and gluten certainly are gut immunogenetic factors, however the toxome has reached a limit. For many with more 'ancestral' type genomes and SNPs, the threshold is far lower than the average human. My kids and I have these genes but so do many; the incidence is 40-60% for some of these SNPs.<br /><br />Where is your home country? This is for the USA -- EVERYONE TESTED has an extremely HIGH level of toxins.<br /><br />http://www.ewg.org/sites/humantoxome/participants/index.php?country=USA<br /><br />http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.jp/2013/04/babies-and-mapping-pollution-in-people.html<br /><br /><br /><br />I feel that in healthcare we don't bridge the immune system well or adequately. Too many unknowns, no drugs, no quick fixes... Broadspectrum antibiotics, NSAIDs and halogenated high potency corticosteroids are all handed out like candy. All potently disrupt the gut, even after a single course.<br /><br />So many things hyperstimulate or severely depress the vast, elaborate immune system. <br /><br />Definitely eliminating immunogenic foods works -- SCD, GAPS, Feingold, anti-FODMAP, Paleo diets all work for many. These are all essentially hypoallergenic diets because the body has developed an intolerance via immuno-triggering to undigested food parts and the gut inhabitants (yeasts, enteric commensals, pathogens, anything including good stuff). <br /><br />Sometimes the thyroid, gonad and adrenals perk back up to normal. Sometimes they don't because continued immuno-dammage is ongoing. Heavy metals, pthalates, PCBs, plastics, and pesticides are the worse immuno-triggering factors. Even low doses synergistically will damage for many....Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-43520369905079866742013-09-14T19:59:20.483-07:002013-09-14T19:59:20.483-07:00I live my life without tonsils, appendix and gallb...I live my life without tonsils, appendix and gallbladder. I guess nothing could be done about it. My issues are mostly autoimmune ones except a tendency to have migraines. I am LCarbing for last 6 years, exercising and cooking all my food and holding on so far...Galina L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09156132815504279615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-8159779601147378562013-09-14T14:40:17.280-07:002013-09-14T14:40:17.280-07:00So glad you enjoyed it, Tess. I've heard it...So glad you enjoyed it, Tess. I've heard it's called edu-tainment.<br /><br />I love your comments and paleo blog for a while<br /><br />Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-42108672334445834042013-09-14T07:57:33.136-07:002013-09-14T07:57:33.136-07:00very interesting indeed -- both article AND conten...very interesting indeed -- both article AND contents! thanks, BG.tesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04254045589639201707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-21626448281393732672013-09-14T05:58:36.471-07:002013-09-14T05:58:36.471-07:00Post-natally
--never introduce gluten (barley bab...Post-natally <br />--never introduce gluten (barley baby food, goldfish crackers, cereal) or GMO corn<br />--not excised so hard (I lost 20lbs quickly I believe induced my first to wean at 8months-- toxins are excreted from fat during weight loss apparently and go to breastmilk or re-distribute unless good fiber/chlorophyll/detox)<br />--held the baby more<br />--introduced ferments early (or SBO probiotics) and continuously as they grew up<br />--let the kids play in dirt more (they did! Certainly not enuf though) in the sunlight (vitamin D)<br />--avoided all antibiotics, vaccines until older and no mercury/aluminum containing ones<br />--avoided all amalgams <br />--avoided sugar and gluten grains<br />--avoided all toxic suncream, Vaseline and body lotions (carrot seed and raspberry seed oils have SPF of 20-30)<br />--fed the kids organic pastured lard and pork, butter oil and CLO for cavity protection (my kids stopped having all cavities 12-18 months after Paleo but before annually or more)Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-80738585869228112242013-09-14T05:44:48.379-07:002013-09-14T05:44:48.379-07:00#10-- add Organic Asian/rice-based Paleo (~70% pla...#10-- add Organic Asian/rice-based Paleo (~70% plant based) + homemade fermentsDr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-62465620416155932382013-09-14T05:42:11.054-07:002013-09-14T05:42:11.054-07:00Pre-reproduction I would've
1. Tested all to...Pre-reproduction I would've <br /><br />1. Tested all toxins (GDX/Metametrix CORE -- pesticides, solvents, PCBs, prophyrins (mercury) and hair Toxic Elements (heavy metals)<br />2. Rid all the toxins over 1-2 yrs safely and gradually<br />3. Test minerals, vitamins <br />4. Replete them all<br />5. Test markers of dysbiosis (organic acids -- GDX ION or Nutri Eval)<br />6. Test status of digestion, gut function, parasites, pathogenic overgrowth, worms (GDX/Metametrix GI fx stool)<br />7. Fix the gut (which requires #8, 9, 10)<br />8. Hormone panel -- fix any defects <br />9. Adrenal and thyroid panel -- support and optimize. New data shows low thyroid increases autism by 4-FOLD<br />10. Barefoot yoga, cardio (improves GI promotility and supports the gut), Vegas and lots of good SEXXX (because there's not much after babies)<br /><br />Help? Thoughts? Dissent?Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-38623847855991160022013-09-14T04:49:30.201-07:002013-09-14T04:49:30.201-07:00"...I would certainly do a million things dif..."...I would certainly do a million things differently from the gut and gut microbe perspectives..."<br /><br />Short list of 10 things you'd do differently??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-58150826998819161992013-09-14T01:29:59.045-07:002013-09-14T01:29:59.045-07:00Thx for the comments. Confused? More questions tha...Thx for the comments. Confused? More questions than answers? Would you like more opinions or just more explanations? I don't spoon feed. The links are provided for background. Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-64666388828706512922013-09-14T00:50:10.392-07:002013-09-14T00:50:10.392-07:00Geat information, too much to digest in one post,...Geat information, too much to digest in one post, would benefit from beaking down into several segments and more detailed review of the literature. Good if you already know the background, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com