Stress Can Wreck Your Gut Health! #shorts

As we develop through life, if we take antibiotics, if we take birth control, depending on, you know, how many times we've had children, all these changes in hormones can affect our gut. And so women, especially when we are having changes in hormone levels— so let's say maybe you got really stressed, right? You were super stressed in your 30s. Something terrible happens, a death in the family, or, you know, you go through a divorce, something like that where you're really stressed. Stress, chronic stress actually affects your gut because you are— your vagus nerve talks to your entire body, right? And so your brain, when your brain senses stress, your vagus nerve will sense that and it will tell your gut, oh my gosh, something wrong is— is something's wrong, right? And then that will affect your microbiome. And so when we are chronically stressed, we actually negatively impact our gut. And in doing that, we end up killing good bacteria and bad bacteria proliferate or overgrow. And when that happens, those bad bacteria send signals to our body, right? So when bad bacteria are overgrown and we eat food, the bad bacteria eat that food, they digest it, and they make something called lipopolysaccharide, which is a toxin. It's an endotoxin. So it's toxic to our body.