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www.AbbysHealthFood.com | # 55| Page 17 From the microbial cloud that surrounds you to your gut, you host a dazzling multitude of tiny allies—bacteria, protozoa, archaea, to name just a few. Your companions are invisible co-pilots and essential partners in immune function and so much more. The densest population is in your gut—your body's microbial Grand Central Station. While they are small, their influence ripples into every corner of your body. Along with gut microbes, your GI tract hosts a vast proportion of your immune system with gut-associated lymphoid tissue making up the largest immune network in your body. In short, there's a lot going on down there. So, how can you support this vast universe of collaborators (so they can support you)? It's easier than you might think... 1. Protect Your Gut Barrier Imagine an intelligent, multilayered barrier coated in mucosal tissue—this is in essence your gut barrier, and all that separates your bloodstream from food particles, toxins, and pathogens. A healthy gut barrier is a gatekeeper and stops undesirable compounds from going where they don't belong. It also helps your gut microbes properly metabolize nutrients to produce gut-protective compounds, which in turn help maintain your gut barrier. Symbiosis for the win! You can help fortify your gut barrier in these simple ways: • Feed your microbiome its fav treats. • Promote gut microbiome diversity. • Take a gut barrier-friendly probiotic, like our Gut-Lung Therapy. Stay with us—more on all these ahead! 2. Feed Your Gut Microbes What do your gut microbes like to eat? You've no doubt heard that fiber plays a crucial role in your health (beyond regularity), including heart and metabolic health and healthy cell growth. At the risk of repeating something you've heard a hundred times, we can't sing the praises of fiber enough, both for you and the health of your microbiome. Fiber is considered a prebiotic, which means it's non-digestible to you, but feeds and stimulates the health, growth, and activity of your gut bacteria. For your microbes, prebiotic fiber is high-octane fuel, which they ferment into byproducts. These byproducts are called postbiotics and include important things like vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). Postbiotics like SCFAs not only modulate your immune system in the gut, but are also absorbed into circulation and taken up by organs for use as energy sources and housekeeping tasks (den Besten et al., 2013), including those involving immunity. So, what can you do? • Consume a diverse and colorful diet: varied beans, nuts, seeds, greens, root veggies. • Diversity of diet begets diversity in your microbiome, which is associated with better health for you. • Herbs are also prebiotics and offer a list of other healing benefits beyond fruits and veggies. 3. Healthy Gut, Healthy Lungs, Healthy Brain = Healthy You It might surprise you to learn that fiber is important not only for gut and immune health, but also for your lungs and brain. How so? It turns out your gut can "talk" to your lungs and brain, and they talk back—this is the gut-lung and gut-brain axes in a nutshell. What does it mean? For one, improving gut health can improve your lungs and nervous system. 4 As Mayo Clinic pulmonologist Dr. Joseph Skalski says, "'the [gut] bugs make drugs,' such that bioactive compounds are secreted by microbes, absorbed into circulation and directly alter lung function" But your gut can't make anything unless it's fed the right food: things like prebiotic fiber, polyphenols, fermented plants, mushrooms, and the right probiotics. Take away: fiber rich foods are the holy grail that supports the whole of you. If you want to support your gut, brain, and lungs: • Protect your gut barrier to keep toxins out of your bloodstream (see above). • Feast on diverse plants to help your gut microbes make gut-, lung-, and brain- loving SCFAs. • Get the only multi-tasking probiotic clinically proven to strengthen and support your gut, brain, AND lungs: L. plantarum DR7 (found in our Gut-Lung Therapy). 4. The Powerhouse Probiotic You've Never Heard Of You may already know that probiotics are live microorganisms you usually take in a capsule. Like your residential gut microbes, the fermenting action of probiotics can also produce beneficial postbiotics. But if you've ever scratched your head while trying to choose a probiotic, you are not alone. As for us, after 40 years of fermentation expertise, we're over the moon about one elite strain because it does so many things really, really well: L. plantarum DR7. Here's why we love it. First, L. plantarum DR7 has bested 115 other strains in clinical studies. It targets multiple systems in the body and is clinically proven to elevate mood and improve your gut, lungs, and brain (Chong et al., 2019a; Chong et al., 2019b; Liu et al., 2020). And not only does DR7 reinforce your gut-barrier, but it also enhances microbiome diversity—a key indicator of gut health (Liu et al., 2020). DR7's profound clinically proven multi-tasking abilities are why we've chosen it above all others for our Gut-Lung Therapy probiotic product. A First-To-The-World Fermentate Unlike ordinary probiotic products, which often contain only probiotics or include simple sugar prebiotics, Gut-Lung Therapy is in a class unto itself. Not only do you get the powerhouse probiotic DR7, but you also get nutrient-dense whole plants and mushrooms such as amla, moringa, aloe, chaga, and sprouted flaxseed. These prebiotic microbiome treats are abundant in real fiber and other protective compounds (you'd be hard-pressed to find these gems in the vegetable aisle). We've gone one step further and fermented these healing herbs on your gut's behalf (this is called a fermentate), so their postbiotics are delivered straight to your microbiome. After third-party testing (Jensen, 2021), Gut Lung Therapy's fermentate was found to significantly: • Reduce cellular oxidation by 83%, which can protect living cells from free radical damage (many health challenges can be supported by anti-oxidative action). • Increase cellular energy production by 25%, supporting greater resilience and cellular function. • Strengthen cellular immune response to immune challenges. Gut-Lung Therapy gives your gut a triple-whammy treat of whole-food prebiotics, protective postbiotics, and an elite, clinically proven probiotic to support your digestion, lungs, immune system, mood, and beyond—in just one capsule daily. Gut-Lung Therapy is part of For The Biome's Immune Therapy Collection, which reveres the complexity and connectedness of the human body, from the microbiome to the nervous system. For The Biome tests all ingredients to ensure you get the phytoactives you want and nothing else. Using organic and ethically wildcrafted herbs and mushrooms, products are vegan and gluten free without adulteration, caffeine, or sugar. SIMPLE WAYS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR GUT MICROBIOME AND REASONS TO START TODAY SIMPLE WAYS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR GUT MICROBIOME AND REASONS TO START TODAY