Donna Gates – Gives Digestive, Cleansing & Candida Tips For Those Who Have Done It All!

Check out my health protocols here >> Donna Gates is the head of bodyecology.com and primarily works on creating awareness of gut health. She's also the author of The Body Ecology Diet. Proper gut health is critical for life. We've heard it said over the years that all disease begins in the colon. People don't realize how important intestinal health really is. When we lose the ability to digest our food, it becomes impacted and caked onto the colon walls. Over time this "mucoid plaque" builds up and eventually impairs the ability for your villi to absorb the nutrients from the food. The nutrients from the food should be eaten by beneficial bacteria (gut flora) and then biologically trans-mutated into energy that should be able to pass through the intestinal villi. The villi are only so long and if they're gunked up (that's a scientific term) with mucoid plaque you simply cannot get any minerals or vitamins from the food you are eating (no matter how healthy it is for you). Over time it's possible to create a situation where larger molecules of food particles enter the blood stream and your body creates an inflammatory histamine response that can lead to food allergies. It really is true the saying from Squatty Potty, "happy colon, happy life". Cleansing (like doing coffee enemas or colon cleanses), detoxification, and rebuilding proper gut flora and the villi in your digestive tract is absolutely critical for living a long healthy disease free life. What I love about Donna Gates is that she focuses on bringing in proper microbiology in the form of fermented foods. We cannot live without bacteria. Eating foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, yogurt and kombucha is absolutely a must if you want to repopulate your body with friendly bacteria. She calls our bodies an ecosystem. Some people call the inner ecosystem a microbiome. Often when I'm at the gym or exposed to conventional information they simply refer to our bodies as a machine. I HIGHLY disagree with our bodies being a simple machine. Yes it has functional physical properties that are "like" a machine. But I believe referring to our bodies as a machine perpetuates the allopathic medical model which simply cannot recognize the energetics of the body. I refer to the body as a 3 dimensional holographic ecosystem surrounded by a plasma energy field. But that's a little bit too long for most folks. ;) Donna also mentioned something really great during this interview. She compared our internal gut flora to the external soil of a plant. The plant is stationary and cannot move. It is attached to the soil through its root system.