Antibiotics, leaky gut, edema, blood pressure, SIBO
Here is a schematic scenario to illustrate possible relationships among problems in different organs.
Antibiotics, ABX, in childhood wipe out key probiotics good bacteria in the gut especially the upper intestines. When this is noticed it is called SIBO as small intestine bacterial overgrowth, a direct result of removing the good ones. Most people have this in degree.
It has been studied that people in other countries with fewer ABX, have more gut bacteria and better moods due to the gut brain connection some have claimed. I think this is also a major factor in the superiority of African long distance runners.
Gut damage creates leaky gut of the gut lining with toxins entering the blood like LPS Lipopolysaccharides and aldehydes that are products of bacteria and candida.
There are many other sources of toxins that damage everything: gut lining, vessels, liver, kidneys.
Toxins do damage wherever they go, for some reason to the feet damaging capillaries to create leaky vessels that lead to edema and accumulation of fluid between cells, crippling circulation of waste out and nutrients into cells.
Leaks in vessels depressurize the blood leading to harder heart pumping to repressurize to keep blood flowing to capillaries. Higher blood pressure.
Toxins damaging kidneys can impair ability to balance sodium and potassium. Especially ability to excrete sodium leading to water retention and exacerbating edema to a system wide problem even up to the lungs (pulmonary edema) and thus huge blood pressure increases.
Strategy:
All nutrient deficiencies addressed to repair all weak links. (don’t ask how here)
Nutrients includes probiotics strains missing from antibiotic damage. (don’t ask which ones you need, I can’t guess.)
Gut bacteria are the engine of digestion and production of nutrients through fermentation to repair the leaky gut, leaky vessels, kidney’s and other organs.
Probiotics bacteria are also an important part of the immune system to both signal where pathogens are and in producing nutrients to increase white blood cell production and renewal in the spleen to attack pathogens of all sizes, include worms, eating them like piranhas surrounding their prey.