Trillions of gut microorganisms wage war inside your body. When chemotherapy destroys this microbial army, it triggers severe inflammation that spreads to joints, muscles, blood vessels, and skin, weakening your ability to fight cancer.
Every day, you're unknowingly feeding the invisible enemy of trillions of organisms inside your body. It's not a virus, and it's not genetics. It's a microscopic war occurring in your gut and your gut lining. And its ultimate outcome can play an important role in determining if you get cancer, or even more importantly, if you're able to fight cancer. Standard chemotherapy, particularly at the maximum therapeutic doses, which is what you'll get at all the top cancer hospitals across the country. It's known to severely disrupt and often destroy gut health, resulting in a significant dysbiosis. This is primarily the cause of severe gastrointestinal toxicities. Now, that's why we're studying the gut microbiome. A loss of this diverse protective army in our gut means weak immunity. It means inflammation. When the gut is inflamed, the rest of the body is inflamed. We've learned this over decades. If you have gut inflammation, it can affect everything from joints, muscles, blood vessels, to the skin. Gut inflammation is such an important part of health.
