❌ The ugly truth about Probiotics
Most people suffering from gut health issues turn to probiotics first.
After all, probiotics are touted as a way to rebalance your gut flora, restore your intestinal wall, and decrease inflammation in your intestines.
Sounds great right?
Guess what? For the most part, they’re complete junk!
Out of the thousands of probiotics available on the market today, there are only a couple of brands that actually
work - and they’re very expensive and difficult to find.
Here’s the thing... most probiotics don’t actually contain any active bacteria.
And if you do happen to buy one that does, the bacteria actually die as it makes its way to your gut.
👉🏽 They’re a waste of time – and money!
Probiotics are incredibly sensitive to temperature, become inactive in storage, and the bacteria in each capsule aren't in high enough quantities to have any sort of effect.
Recent studies have shown that using probiotics when your gut function is already compromised is actually quite risky.
👉🏽 In fact, taking probiotics can actually increase the inflammation in your gut!
Studies from respected medical journals have demonstrated that after using probiotics there are delays in normal healthy bacteria re-establishing themselves in your gut.
In other words, you’d be better off doing nothing at all over trying to use the majority of probiotics to repair your digestive system!
❌ Antispasmodic Pills are a band aid fix
Next up we have antispasmodic pills, primarily used to treat IBS and calm down the spasms in your colon. The problem is, this is a band-aid solution.
Dizziness, drowsiness, weakness, blurred vision, dry eyes, dry
mouth, nausea, constipation, and abdominal bloating may occur.
Sure you might have some temporary relief from your symptoms, however the root cause isn’t being addressed.
In fact, it’s not recommended to take these pills long-term as they may end up doing more harm than good. They definitely won’t cure your IBS either.
❌ Anti-Inflammatory Pills simply mask the symptoms
But let’s say you don’t have IBS, you might have Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's instead and you’re dealing with bleeding ulcers.
In that case, the pharmacist is most likely going to give you anti-inflammatories to ease your symptoms.
But again we run into the same problem, these pills are just masking the issue, they’re not doing anything to actually treat the root cause.
❌ The awful side effects of steroids
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The next medication most folks with gut issues turn to is steroids.
While steroids might be good at reducing inflammation in your gut, they’re not recommended for long-term treatment due to their lack of effect in preventing flare-ups and their side effects.
Those side effects include…
Insomnia, acne, growth of facial hair, stretch marks, retention of salt (which can lead to ankle swelling and raised blood pressure)...
Mood disturbance, indigestion, appetite stimulation (which can cause weight gain), cataracts, osteoporosis…
Problems with blood supply to the top of the thighbone, and myopathy (muscle weakness).
And that’s just while you’re taking them!
Then there are the side effects…
You might experience this when you come OFF the steroids.
These include…
Fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, headache, joint pains, dizziness, and fever.
And these are meant to make you feel better??!!
❌ One of the last resorts: Immunomodulators
If the steroids are a no-go, Doctors may prescribe immunomodulators to help you go into remission or help you if you do not respond to other treatments.
reduce immune system activity
Basically, these medicines are supposed to reduce immune system activity, resulting in less inflammation in your gut.
Immunomodulators can take several weeks to 3 months to start working.
They also come with these unpleasant side effects: a low white blood cell count, which can lead to a higher chance of infection, fatigue, nausea and vomiting and potentially pancreatitis.
Again, even if the medicines do work for you, you still have to suffer with more ill health. It’s like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
So what the heck are you supposed to do?
Where do you turn next?
For me, my only option was surgery, and that was because…
👉🏽Traditional drugs treat the symptoms… NOT the root cause
When it comes down to it, all of these gut health issues; IBS, Chron’s, Ulcerative Colitis…are caused by essentially one of two conditions…
Leaky gut or dysbiosis in the gut.
If you’ve never heard the term before, leaky gut syndrome is a condition where intestinal permeability develops independently.
It’s caused by an imbalance of good bacteria and bad bacteria in your gut.
How does this imbalance occur?
It’s a mixture of poor food choices, too much alcohol, excessive stress, and a lack of sufficient nutrition when you were an infant.
👉🏽All of this leads to your gut lining being destroyed.
So if your intestinal barrier is impaired, it may be letting toxins into your bloodstream every time you consume food, which in turn is causing all those nasty symptoms you’re experiencing.
And here’s the thing, for decades scientists denied the link between leaky gut syndrome and Ulcerative Colitis…
But
new research published in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases proves a clear link between the two.
And while the scientists are frantically searching for a wonder drug to fix gut leakiness and cure chronic gut conditions (which are likely to cost thousands of dollars when they are available)...
I found a much simpler, all-natural, and cheaper solution...
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