iofilm, heavy metals, and bacterial infections worse
- I can see why low fat works. Fat may be used to generate biofilm. But carbs can feed bacteria. And fish are high in mercury. So, should we just eat red meat, drink water and call it a day? Like I said, all food is poison in high quantities.
- Biofilm may utilize fat, but without some fat in our diets, our hormones will suffer and our joints will start to hurt (every time I’ve tried going extremely low fat, my hips hurt within 24 hours).
- Bacteria may utilize sugar, but without carbs our glycogen stores become depleted and our body has to look for fuel elsewhere (which usually means your muscles will start catabolizing so your body can use them as fuel). And although I am SO guilty of fearing dem’ sugar-eating buggers, some studies suggest that if we completely remove sugars from our diet, the bacteria in our guts will look for fuel elsewhere and start burrowinto into our gut lining. Ingesting a bit of carbs or sugar to “keep them happy” might be a good thing. Not to mention, that if we remove carbs from our diets completely, the “good” bacteria will die, too.
- Some research supports that the gut should be sterile, meaning that fermented foods and non-enteric coated probiotics could worsen our condition. Other research compares “germ free” rats to normal rats to see how they differ. The germ free rats have weaker immune systems and get fatter. This would suggest that our 4 pounds of gut bacteria (our microbiome) help metabolise antigens, keep us lean, and support healthy immunity. Because I’ve experience gut-hell from antibiotic use (clindamycin, now THAT was a mistake), I have a bias toward the latter argument.
Infections leech important nutrients from our bodies
- Iron, collagen, sugar, calcium, magnesium, manganese…these are just some of the things that spirochetes feed on or use as building blocks for biofilm. I can tell you that much. But I CAN’T tell you whether you should avoid these so that you end up losing some battles but winning the war, or if you should increase them so that you don’t end up magnesium-deficient and having seizures, or collagen-deficient and having heart attacks. Everything feeds bacteria. Personally, I avoid inflammatory foods but I don’t avoid bug-foods. I feel like I need to have enough magnesium, sugar, etc, for them and for me.
Now that’s a question. With Lyme Disease, should collagen, magnesium, fat and sugar be eliminated because they feed bacteria and biofilm…or increased, so that we can make our bacteria and our bodies happy?
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