Can a Healthy Gut Help Protect You from COVID-19?COVID19, GUT HEALTH, IMMUNITY, PROBIOTICS AND THE TEA

Several of you have sent me interesting articles to look at wondering about gut health and immunity.  Of course that connects with us, being that our product does such a good job of of establishing and maintaining gut health!  It turns out that this surely cannot be overrated these days!

Many doctors do recommend adding a probiotic for improved, balanced gut health.

But do we really need prebiotics or probiotics?  If we’re using the tea? And does the tea flush good bacteria out of our bodies?

I called Dr. Miller’s office and asked that question several years ago.
Their answer was that the tea will not do ANYTHING to flush good flora. It will help the good flora to grow and thrive!

Most people do not need a probiotic when using the tea, but Dr. Miller’s wife, who is extremely health conscious and knowedgable, indicated that she thinks it’s a very positve thing to do and personally does it every day, along with drinking the tea.

This was LONG before COVID-19, and it matters now more than ever. (She’s in her 70’s and her own health — and beauty — is remarkable!)

Did she have one to offer or recommend? She says there are many good ones on the market and to shop at Amazon or your favorite pharmacy.

I have done that shopping for us and found an excellent one that should serve us well.

CLICK HERE FOR PROBIOTICS at Amazon.com

While we ourselves have never used probiotics and feel great, at this time of health concerns for all of us … better safe than sorry! We have ordered this Probiotic and will add it to our supplement regime each day.

So! while we’re all waiting for the vaccine (and deciding how we feel about it), it’s our duty to ourselves, family and fellow citizens to stay as healthy as possible!

Here are two articles that are of great value:

Article 1.  Can a Healthy Gut Help Protect You from COVID-19?

In the article, Dr. Martin Blaser says: “We all know that some people have mild COVID-19 infections, whereas it is very severe in others. What are possible explanations for the diversity in outcomes? One idea is that the nature of the inflammatory response that a person mounts against the virus is an important determinant of what will be their outcome.

In other studies, it has been shown that the status of the microbiome influences characteristics related to inflammation. Changing the characteristics of the microbiome, ideally with a probiotic or prebiotic, could be one solution. The jury is still out, but this is an active area of research that we and others are exploring.

Learn more and the role of probiotics in the full article at the link below. It’s pretty fascinating!
READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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Article 2.  Poor Gut Health Connected To Severe COVID-19, New Review Shows

Microbiologist Heenam Stanly Kim is researching emerging evidence suggesting that poor gut health adversely affects COVID-19 prognosis. Based on his analysis, Kim proposed that gut dysfunction—and its associated leaky gut—may exacerbate the severity of infection by enabling the virus to access the surface of the digestive tract and internal organs. These organs are vulnerable to infection because they have widespread ACE2—a protein target of SARS-CoV-2—on the surface.

“There seems to be a clear connection between the altered gut microbiome and severe COVID-19,” Kim said.

DIET RELATED TO GUT HEALTH!

GET THIS:  Kim said he started analyzing the studies after realizing that wealthy countries with a good medical infrastructure—including the United States and nations in Western Europe—were among the hardest hit by the virus. The “western diet” that’s common in these countries is low in fiber, and “a fiber-deficient diet is one of the main causes of altered gut microbiomes,” he said, “and such gut microbiome dysbiosis leads to chronic diseases.”

Let’s here it for www.ForksOverKnives.com and a whole-food plant based diet!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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That’s probably WAY more information than you were bargaining for today, but …. anything we can do to help each other is the order of the day!

Have a good week and I’ll be back NEXT WEDNESDAY, January 20!  Who knows what will happen in Washington, but here at our home in Utah, we’ll be drinking our tea, thinking of you and saying prayers for our great Country.