You Are What You Eat? – Not The Whole Story!
Don Chisholm, the guy who makes the probiotics I use in my top nutrition bars and powders, wrote the book ‘Have You Got The GUTS to Be REALLY Healthy?” wherein he improved that line, “You are what you absorb.”
The reason being that malabsorption is a major issue, I have seen a video from Gary Brecka (worth looking at his podcasts, search my blog – www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog for three of them) where he said a full 40% of people have the MTHFR gene mutation that prevents uptake of certain nutrients.
So if you have that gene mutation and you do not know about it and handle it, even if you eat perfectly you will be malnourished.
Considering there is more non-human DNA in our bodies (bacteria in our gut) than human DNA and as Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, allegedly said over 2,000 years ago that ‘All disease begins in the gut’, the current deterioration in the health of the average person would appear to indicate that we are paying far too little attention to gut health.
One easy to implement suggestion is to add a new fermented food to your shopping list each week. Sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha are some to start with.
Quite a few years ago now I had a guy test the level of inflammation/oxidation in my body. He said it was the second best he had ever done. Beaten only by a vegetarian who ate a lot of fermented foods.
Hope this helps.