Why make your gut healthy

Welcome to Active Human’s 7th newsletter.

Today’s newsletter is in continuation with last week’s newsletter “How to make your gut healthy”. if you missed reading it, the link is here.

In the last 1 week, I made 4 mistakes, Eat little peanuts one time, eat processed sugar food one time, and missed night gut cleanse tea 2 times.

But I am happy I did not eat gluten, dairy, egg and soy. I am taking my moringa and neem tablets and eating cold rice and simple wholesome food. 2 fruits, 2 raw salad vegetables, and 2 cooked vegetables are also maintained.

As such, there is no major difference for me but my stomach is calmer and stomach tension is less due to simple food.

How is it going for you and what has been your experience, please let me know in the comment sections.

Today’s newsletter is “Why make your gut healthy?”

GI tract length is 33 feet approx. (from tongue to anus). The small intestine and large intestine together are called The Gut. Almost 30-40 trillion microorganisms live in our gut. There are almost ~1000 species of them.

Contrary to popular belief, regular non-veg eaters are becoming B12 deficient.

Regular green leafy vegetable eaters are becoming magnesium, Calcium, Iron, and Zinc deficient.

Many people are getting Vitamin D deficiency even though they have good sun exposure.

Mostly because of an irritated Gut which can not support the good absorption of these nutrients. Irritated gut remains inflamed and becomes weaker and Leaky. Because an irritated Gut doesn't absorb nutrients effectively, it does not matter how much and what we eat.

1. Low Iron is linked with paleness, fatigue, hair fall, skin bruises, and dark circles.

2. Low Calcium is linked with weak teeth, nail brittleness, muscle twitching, and weak bones.

3. Low Magnesium is linked with weak nails, muscle cramps, heart health, insomnia, and weak bones.

4. Low B complex is linked with fatigue, anemia, poor memory, sore tongue, cracked lips, muscle numbness, and joint swelling.

5. Low Omega 3 is linked with dandruff, scalp flaking, brittle hair, skin dryness, artery health, and Joint inflammation.

6. Low Vitamin D is linked with depression, low motivation, poor memory, hair thinning, weak bones, and poor vision.

Scientists are now able to link a bad gut with symptoms like anxiety, depression, irritation, and heart rate because of a direct physical connection through the Vagus Nerve. They are saying because of a leaky gut, toxins which supposed to leave the body are getting absorbed and reaching the brain and causing inflammation.

Inflammatory Autoimmune diseases are now getting linked with a high number of Pathogens like Epstein–Barr virus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Citrobacter freundii, and Proteus mirabilis bacteria present in patients’ gut.

I am not suggesting you will develop some sort of disease or any sort of deficiency, The idea is to just tell you that a weak gut can cause so many symptoms that we would not even know the root cause and we may keep on eating supplements or we may keep wondering for own symptoms. Sadly there is no shortcut to making our gut healthy. Only your diet and habits will dictate which kind of bacteria you will have in your gut.

With this, Hope you and I are again enough motivated to keep our gut healthy and continue doing what we started last week. This is very important for us to become Active Humans again.

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See you, Next Saturday,

Manish Bhagwani,

Human → Active Human

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Research papers:

Humans have ~1000 species in our Gut: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13102818.2018.1481350

Gut and neurological disorder connection: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1225875/full

Sleep quality is linked with Gut health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668369/

Gut health is linked with Neurological disorders: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8729913/

Obese people builds up changed microbiome: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23482058/

Vagus nerve in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00044/full

EBV virus and autoimmune diseases: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.587380/full

Klebsiella pneumoniae and autoimmunity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3290812/