Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Reverse the damage in your gut caused by pesticides, antibiotics, + others #guthealth #probiotics

26 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment (by Josh Trent) arguing that modern exposures—antibiotics and pesticides like glyphosate—are damaging the gut microbiome. The speaker recommends minimizing unnecessary antibiotic use (citing that ~50% of prescriptions are unnecessary), reducing pesticide exposure via organic foods, increasing dietary diversity (contrasting ancestors' 500–600 foods/year with modern 15–20), practicing meditation to support the microbiome, and taking spore-based probiotics to aid gut healing.

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Our guts are being attacked on a daily basis from antibiotics from the pesticides glyphosate. Is there a way to reverse the damage? There is good news. We can heal our guts. I mean there are things we could do to help that process by trying to minimize your exposure to antibiotics. You know there are times and a place then we all need that. But even the CDC will admit that 50% of antibiotics that are prescribed are actually unnecessary. I also think doing things like meditation are very, very important to helping you with your microbio and reducing our exposure to pesticides by trying to eat as organic as possible. Our ancestors used to eat 500 to 600 different types of foods in a year and we're eating like 15 to 20 different types of foods in a year. Just exposing yourself to different types of foods, those are all things that are really important to help that healing process in your gut. And of course taking a spore based probiotic is probably one of the biggest needle movers in supporting your gut health.