On most Wednesday evenings, I host two-way Zoom conversations with wherever between 70 and 100 people who find themselves members of my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Internal Circle. Conversations are vigorous and wide-ranging, as we discuss points as diversified as coronary calcium scores, NMR lipoproteins, blood sugar monitoring, and breath testing for hydrogen gasoline.
However our conversations are more and more centered round points related to the microbiome. The science surrounding microbiome points is booming, coming at us at lightning velocity and yielding thrilling new classes just about day by day.
It’s changing into clear that the microbiome is an extremely fertile space for citizen scientists (as many within the Internal Circle are), because the instruments for exploration have develop into so highly effective. Lecturers, enterprise individuals, engineers, mothers, dads, grandparents—an incredible number of individuals with completely different backgrounds are discovering simply how a lot energy they’ve over well being, functioning, and temper. Now we have, as an illustration, the power to propagate microbes of particular species and strains by way of yogurt and different meals to yield lots of of billions of bacterial counts for higher organic impact, actigraphic gadgets comparable to Apple Watch or Oura ring to make measures of sleep phases and coronary heart price variability, the AIRE machine to measure breath hydrogen and methane gases, fingerstick and steady glucose displays to trace blood sugar.
Among the many distinctive observations which have been made by citizen scientists following my applications:
- Nearly all of individuals making excessive bacterial depend “yogurt” with a mixture of strains of Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus reuteri, and Bacillus coagulans have transformed from H2-positive SIBO to H2-negative by AIRE breath testing with out using antibiotics.
- 20 non-diabetic individuals ingested a “collaborative” consortium of probiotic microbes that had been identified to vigorously metabolize sugars within the human GI tract, a combination that included strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus acidilactici, Lactobacillus plantarum and some others. These individuals diminished fasting blood glucose by a mean of 9.8 mg/dl, a magnitude of impact on a par with diabetes medicine with not one of the side-effects. (They achieved this with a business probiotic known as Sugar Shift with in vitro-proven synergistic impact in consuming sugars within the GI tract. I’ve no relationship with the corporate, BiotiQuest, besides that the founders, Martha Carlin and Raul Cano, PhD, are mates of mine.)
- Many people now get pleasure from deep uninterrupted sleep with roughly 20% lengthening of REM durations by way of actigraphy with numerous strains of L reuteri and the ME-3 pressure of L fermentum. REM is the part of sleep that’s important for emotional and psychological well being.
- Individuals who have eradicated their SIBO (e.g., with “SIBO Yogurt’) report reductions in resting coronary heart price and enhancements in measures of coronary heart price variability, HRV, an vital signal of improved total well being.
- By partaking in a joint cartilage rebuilding program that mixes L reuteri (that stimulates chondrocyte manufacturing of joint lubrication) with collagen hydrolysates and hyaluronic acid—restoring a microbe and vitamins that you must have been getting all alongside for those who ate like a hunter-gatherer—persons are reporting reductions in arthritis joint ache.
Did you discover that we’re reaching results that aren’t almost-as-good-as what medical doctors and prescribed drugs obtain? We’re reaching results which can be SUPERIOR to what medical doctors and prescribed drugs obtain. That is the brand new theme that I shall be pursuing: advocating well being practices which can be superior to standard strategies, a lot of them involving purposeful administration of the microbiome.
That was considered one of my intentions in writing my new ebook, Tremendous Intestine: to empower citizen scientists in exploring all of the incredible issues we will now obtain by way of administration of our microbiomes.
