Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-2 | Eat the Rainbow for Healthy Gut Bacteria

7 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD explaining that the colors of foods influence which gut bacteria grow and that many herbs (and concentrated essential oils) contain polyphenols and alkaloids with multimodal effects — antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory — based on his clinical/training experience.

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The colors you eat in foods actually will make different bacteria grow. So that aspect of that, a lot of the herbs have these polyphenols, these different plant alkaloids, all these things you learned about when you did your medicinal aromatherapy training about these things, how you can concentrate those in essential oils and whatnot. And I actually learned this when I was doing a lot of my lads, my chronic Lyme disease training, that herbals are multimodal, they do many things. And so it's not just an antimicrobial herbal. They also have these plant compounds of feedback here, and they're anti inflammatory as well as.