The Gut Healing Funnel

 
Gut healing depends on:
nutrients and movement IN
& infection and toxins OUT.

FUNNEL TOP:    Foundation of every cell in the body
​FUNNEL MIDDLE:    Organ systems that Support the Gut’s Digestive Process
​FUNNEL BOTTOM:   Kill and Replace: Microbiome Balance

This is more systematic and holistic than just trying to kill infections, which often does not work by itself.
 
The following points apply to infections in general beyond the gut, but the gut is where most of the problem often originates.
 
A funnel is an upside down pyramid with the foundation on top like water pouring in  that creates pressure to create the vortex spiral of a drain to flush waste out.
 
The funnel can be understood in three layers that narrow down.
 
FUNNEL TOP: Foundation of Every Cell in the Body
 
The broadest layer at the top is the foundation of every cell of the body that requires nutrients.
Every cell needs basic nutrients to function; fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins, etc, for every organ and function of the body.
This is level also provides a background of energy to help get through herxing and detoxing.  
General cellular functioning is a part of every functional system, the next layer down of the funnel that starts to target the symptom area of the gut or general infection.
 
FUNNEL MIDDLE:  Organ systems that Support the Gut’s Digestive Process
 
Liver Gallbladder Bile Flow
Bile flow from the liver and out the gallbladder is disinfecting for the upper small intestine that helps explain SIBO and can help relieve irritating diarrhea.
Bile flow also simulates gut motility to relieve constipation, which is often one of the first things to address to relieve brain fog and fatigue. Bile carries out toxins and helps digest fat to repair cells including in the intestines.
When bile is not flowing, toxins can back up into the blood to create “leaky liver” and this means brain fog, fatigue, irritability, and redistributing toxins.
Nutrients for bile include cholesterol and lecithin.
Bile is recycled by good bacteria in the small intestines.
 
Gut Lining and Leaky Gut
Repairing leaky gut involves nourishing cells there with all the nutrients all cells and mitochondria need.
The gut lining also has a protect layer that is renewed with the help of the good bacteria akermansia in particular although taking a supplement of that often does not work it requires pre biotics foods.
The gut lining also has more specific needs:
Colon cells utilizes butyrate fermented from fiber.
Small intestine cells rely on the amino acid glutamine.
 
Immune System
A strong immune system should be able to fight infectious exposures and needs to strengthen to prevent relapse at the very least and to help with killing pathogens in a more multifaceted and targeted way.
The work is done with white blood cells and immunoglobulins among other things.
The organs that produce white blood cells include bone marrow, thymus and spleen.
White blood cells concentrate some activity at lymph nodes that filter waster rremove and lymphoid tissues along the gut.
The immune systems is a complex set of organs that are limited by any nutritional deficiencies that bring the focus back to the top of the funnel for every cell in the body.
You might be surprised at how much stronger things to kill infections feel when the immune system is helping more.
 
Lymph System
The lymph system works with the immune systems as the carrier of waste, toxins, and pathoengs out from all cells and organs including the liver, to make way for cells to receive nutrients from the blood.
The lymph systems also processes fat and delivers it from the gut lining lacteal cells to the blood for processing in the liver.
Daily muscle movement helps pump lymph fluid flows and has noticeable affects on bowel regularity by seemingly supporting intestinal peristalsis or bile flow.
The lymph system also has its own pumping action when not moving major muscles that can be jump started with lymph node massages that own can find online to do it yourself.
 
Digestion
Extracting energy from food requires digestive juices from
The stomach acid.
Pancreas enzymes to digest fat, protein, sugars.
Bile to emulsify fats: break into smaller pieces for digestion by pancreatic enzymes, lipases.
Sometimes these can be supported with foods or supplements.
 
Nervous System
Calming the nervous system to help the body rest, digest, and immunize is an important part of healing as stress is a major cause of gut damage.
The importance of the vegas nerve to the gut is well known.
Another stress on the nervous system can be cranial and spinal misalignment.
Aligning bones with muscles can be tremendously relaxing, especially with correct posture in daily movement like walking that uses the muscles to align bones will moving the lymph system at the same time.
 
FUNNEL BOTTOM: Microbiome Balance
 
This the balance of pathogens, good bacteria and yeast and prebiotic fibers and sugars that feed probiotics.
This is what is being directly targeted, what fills the space of the gut.
There is no one way that everyone should follow
Some people can’t tolerate any prebiotic fibers or probiotics so they start with kill shots.
Some people only need probiotics to heal their gut.
Some don’t need to do anything but improve immunity and their symptoms like bloating go away.
 
The bottom of the funnels is where the spiral occurs of flush everything down.
That starts with momentum at the top.
Only taking things that kill infections can be like dripping water down rather than using higher pressure. Like trying to flush a toilet that has not filled the flushing tank yet.

Eat to energize, detoxify & immunize.
Move to circulate, align, & relax.

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