"BIO-HACKS" For Gut Wall Protection While Taking Antibiotics & Which Ones Damage Mucus Layer the Most.
Some times we need antibiotics to fight off an infection.
Especially if we do not have available IV’s of C and other nutrients like glutathione, ozone, to help fight off infections.
How to protect our guts when we need antibiotics?
As probiotics are NOT enough.
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University found - via a mouse model - that specific antibiotics can damage the protective “mucus layer” of the gut,
Potentially raising a person’s risk for IBS, IBD or gut pain and issues.
Or even causing “leaky gut” and thus raising a person’s risk for any autoimmune disease.
This research on specific antibiotics that damage specifically the protective mucus layer of the gut comes from Shai Bel, PhD, principal investigator at the Azreili Faculty of Medicine from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Bel and his team found that specific antibiotics such as ampicillin, metronidazole, neomycin, and vancomycin damaged the protective mucus layer in the digestive tract.
Damage to the mucus layer, then allows bacteria to penetrate and potentially increase gut inflammation.
“We always thought that antibiotics harm only bacteria (biome) but not us,
“But our new research has found that antibiotics directly affect the cells in our intestine,” Bel said.
“This effect prevents our cells from secreting protective mucus, which can lead to penetration of bacteria into our tissues.
“In time, this persistence of bacteria where they are not supposed to be will trigger the body to activate an inflammatory response, which is the hallmark of IBD.”
These scientists found these antibiotics directly damage intestinal wall cells responsible for mucus production,
More than just damage the gut biome diversity.
“We were very surprised that antibiotics can affect mammals directly,” Bel added.
“This is not common knowledge.
If you need antibiotics, what is a HACK to protect your mucous producing cells and gut wall? And oh my, very INEXPENSIVE! Yippee.