Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dysbiosis in the Gut & the Home

21 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube talk (by Aaron Hartman, MD) defines dysbiosis as an imbalance in the microbiome — e.g., bacterial overgrowth, yeast overgrowth, parasites, too many or too few native microbes, or microbes in the wrong location (example: SIBO). The speaker draws an extended analogy that homes can also have microbiome dysbiosis: when the wrong organisms grow they release biotoxins (speaker mentions “Actino”), penetrate skin or are inhaled, and can synergistically worsen each other’s effects.

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So the bugs in your gut, the microbiome, the probiotics, the good bugs, when they're imbalanced, the catch all term is dysbiosis. And that can mean that you have overgrowth of bacteria, could mean you have overgrowth of yeast, it could mean you have a parasite, could mean that you have too many of your own bugs, too few of your own bugs, they're in the wrong place. A zoning issue called sibo, which is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. So the same way that you have a microbiome that should be diverse and balanced and in harmony, so too does your home. And when your home has dysbiosis, essentially if the wrong things are growing and they're kicking out these biotoxins and you're breathing them in, in the case of Actino, when it gets on your skin, penetrates through the skin, then it becomes a problem and it doesn't need much and they tend to kind of synergistically in a negative way make each other worse.