Why “Eating Right” May Be Killing You

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salad by John Schilling

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Destruction Throughout

You can eat nothing, but whole grain, organic, superfoods hailed by celebrity doctors and personally blessed by an actual talk show host, but if you aren’t considering your internal microbiome, you might as well be eating shards of glass. Either way, you could be tearing your insides apart. When your gut loses balance, 100 trillion microbes which were once beneficial citizens of your internal world begin to riot. They begin feasting on your intestines like a horde of microscopic zombies.

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This feeding causes intestinal lesions which have been associated with a host of the chronic diseases such as:

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD):

This autoimmune disorder takes the forms of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA):

RA is an autoimmune disease that often results in bilateral inflammation of the joints. 

Fungal infections:

This includes everything from toenail fungus to yeast infections. 

Fibromyalgia:

This disease is associated with fatigue, generalized pain and sensitivity to pressure. It is heavily correlated with depression and anxiety.  Continue reading

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