May 26, 2025 - Amazing Increased Understanding from Gut Bacteria to Fecal Transplant

May 26, 2025 Puzzle Piece

Amazing Increased Understanding from Gut Bacteria to Fecal Transplant

Super Seminar September 25-28, 2025, and January 2026 Homecoming will continue on with these life- and health-giving topics, with their many ramifications.
 
For all of history, we could not study the gut bacteria, like other bacteria, in a petri dish. However, there were breakthroughs in the 2000’s that changed our abilities to study and research these important substances. At this time, thousands of studies have been completed and published.  We now understand much of our health and wellness comes from the 39 trillion gut microbes in our intestines and on our body.
 
We now know every part of our body and mind are influenced by our microbiome. Some understood this for over a century by making and eating fermented foods such as sourcrout, kimchi, miso, tempeh, kombucha, Metchnikoff’s fermented milk and now OHS adding fermentation to many of their nutritional’s.
 
Each of our microbiomes are as individual as our fingerprint.  Everything that we eat causes our body to create gut bacteria that assist in the breakdown of those foods and also causes cravings for those same foods.  Each and every meal we eat changes the gut and its functioning for good or bad.   The more processed foods, sugars, vegetable oils, and the wrong fats we eat, the more unfriendly bacteria we produce.  Bad food causes bad bacteria growth in our gut.  Increased inflammation is caused by this Sad American Diet (Sad) diet, and we experience damaging chemicals like TMAO (trimethylamine N-Oxide), which further increases inflammation and conditions such as heart disease when we eat excessive animal proteins. 
 
Each person’s microbiome is unique and responds differently than others.  We truly have Bio-Individuality as Dr Roger Willams taught many years ago.  Much of the way we heal, feel, repair, and think comes from what we eat and supplement. The major point is what we eat is one of the main players in health or disease.  We eat approximately 3 pounds of food a day, which further creates the gut bugs that can heal or kill us.  No drug or vitamin can take the place of a proper diet of the 3 pounds of ingested food per day or approximately 1000 pounds of food in our lifetime.
 
To have healthy flora, we must eat plants as our food.  The more types and quantities of healthy plants we eat in our diet, the healthier the gut becomes and the healthier we become.  The healthiest people in the world eat up to 100 different plants per year. These plant foods break down into SCFA’s or Short Chain Fatty Acids, which make healthy and needed gut bacteria.
 
I continue to recommend the book FIBER FUELED by Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI and books by Jason Fung, MD, such as The OBESITY CODE and the DIABETES CODE.  These books and authors give you the research, facts and figures to assist you toward health and wellness.  No matter what the diagnosis or the complaints are, diet is a major player.  I use these books in my practice by recommending every patient to use them as a study guide and to live by no matter what they came to me for.
 
OHS has developed unique and effective products such as Optimal Flora Plus and the Flora Blitz.

We now have the FIBER GLP-1


and FULVIC MINERALS that help us to heal the gut and to produce a healthier environment for proper healing and overall body function, including our weight and emotional status.


 
I had two cases at the same time that had multiple symptoms, including diarrhea that would not subside for many months.  They were put on two of the Flora Blitz packs per day, one pack in the morning and one in the evening for 14 days.  They were also instructed to take ½ cap full of FULVIC MINERALS morning and night and one scoop of FIBER GLP1 in the morning.
 
Both of the patients responded rapidly, and the diarrhea subsided in 8 days for the one and by the 14^th day for the other.  They were both ask to follow the proper diet as stated in the Fiber Fueled book.
 
What about Microbiota Transplantation (FMT)?  When I was first told about fecal transplantation, I had a hard time accepting it.  My study revealed replacing a dysbiotic gut community with that from a healthy donor created miracles beyond expectation. FMT’s began in the early 2010s with spectacular success in treating antibiotic resistant Clostridioides difficile infections. By transferring processed stool from a healthy donor into a patient’s colon (via colonoscopy, enema, or capsules), clinicians achieved cure rates above 90% for C. diff that failed antibiotics (Khoruts et al., 2019). This was a revelation that non-responsive infection caused by too many anti biotics was cleared by microbial ecosystem replacement rather than trying another antibiotic. FMT wasn’t new, the first documented human FMT for severe colitis was in 1958, and reports of “transfaunation” date back to 4th-century China. But in 2019 we saw scientific validation.

It has been demonstrated that FMT can help improve a wide variety of diseases.  As early as 2010, articles were published to this fact. In mouse models, transplanting gut microbiota from one animal to another could transfer phenotypes.  Microbes from an obese twin made germ-free mice gain weight and develop metabolic disturbances, whereas microbes from the lean co-twin kept mice thinner, even when diets were the same.  These experiments showed that the microbiome can modulate weight and metabolism in ways we never imagined (Ridaura et al., 2013).
 
Other mouse studies went further suggesting links to aging and immunity. In one study, transferring the microbiota of young mice into old mice improved the older mice’s muscle strength, brain function, and inflammation markers, effectively reversing some markers of aging in the gut, eyes, and brain. The old mice got “younger” in certain respects after receiving youthful gut flora, highlighting how microbes can drive systemic aging processes (Parker et al., 2022).
 
This is just the beginning of the understanding our diet and microbiome have so much to do with ALL ASPECTS OF OUR HEALTH.

Get signed up for the Super seminar 25-28 in Las Vegas and Homecoming January 2026 in Tempe, AZ.  You are in for a wonderful gain of knowledge and ability to help complicated patients, including yourselves.