Mona Sharma's gut problems started with antibiotics in infancy. Repeated antibiotics, aging, travel, and hormonal changes destroy the bacteria diversity your gut needs. Eating whole, nutrient-dense foods can rebuild it.
My gut issues go back to like when I first got here as a baby and growing up, being put on antibiotics so many times over the years. So do we need to start all the way back there to maybe understand the lack of biodiversity that we have?
You can start to lose parts of your gut microbiome over time through taking antibiotics, simply through aging, through travel. Actually your circadian rhythm, when it changes, you start to lose some of these microbes. When we women go through menopause, we lose these microbes. And so when you're depleted in these microbes, when you have the right gut microbiome, all these cravings that you get, all these crashes that you get, those will go away too. Once you start replenishing your body with these kind of more whole foods or more ancestral foods, you'll start to have a more diverse, in a good way, microbiome, and then you'll find that all these other things will begin to resolve themselves. So you start to get benefit after.