Free webinar series on the gut immune system is on now

[Sampsie]

Hello,

Following a recent post about the link between gut health, immunity and chronic diseases like RLS, I thought some members might be interested in a set of 10 webinars being aired now. Each one is available for 24 hours, the first went live several hours ago.

Go to gutimmunesolution.com/ to join up.

I'm on the first one, which is all about why our gut health is critical, but I'm looking forward to the others that hopefully will explain how to fix issues. There is a bit of advertising in there (well it is free!) but it's mostly experts talking.

I hope it turns out to be useful.

[Joolsg]

Thanks for posting. The gut is the second brain and contains neurons. I read a brilliant book by a German doctor called 'Gut'. We take 'Symprove' probiotics. I'll watch it later.

[Sampsie in reply to Joolsg]

I'm learning heaps. It's fascinating.

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I love the intro. I don't think they have the "solution." If there is a "the" it would probably be to go and live with a group of very primitive people (that have little to none of our modern day ills) for a while or fecal transplants from healthy donors.

I have low level chronic fatigue and I was thrilled to read about a recent and wide research project (actually there's been several) analyzing the poop of CFS sufferers. What emerged was that we are significantly low on the Firmacutes line of bacteria (which produces that great butyrate), high on the bacterioides and low on d-tocopherol (vitamin e). I'm taking steps to change that, if that's even my case, and the researchers drew no conclusions nor made any recommendation. The paper was just an FYI.

I don't think there are 1 or 10 or 18 superfoods that will perfect everyone's gut microbiome. Here's an article about the microbiome of the very primitive Hazda tribe. It draws no conclusions, no opinions, no solutions - just a take it for what it is worth. No researcher or scientist worth their weight in saw dust would ever even attempt to say one microbiome is better than another or to eat this specific diet. It seems pretty unanimous that more fiber is good, but that's about it. You shouldn't even really take probiotics until you've had your poop analyzed. It's all such a strange and intricate balance of trillions of bacteria, virus' and fungus.

forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat...