Every time you eat conventionally raised meat, you are exposing your gut microbiome to the same broad spectrum antibiotics that are making farm animals grow faster and get fatter — and 60% of American chicken tested positive for them even though it is completely illegal.
What most people don’t realise is that avoiding antibiotics yourself is only half the battle. The gut microbiome is home to up to 10,000 different species of bacteria, and a single course of antibiotics can reduce that to just one or two surviving species. Stanford researchers have found that some of that diversity may never fully return — and without it, your immune system loses its ability to function properly, lectins and oxalates get a free shot at your gut wall, and leaky gut sets in. Your skin, your energy, your autoimmune health — all of it is a reflection of what is happening inside your gut.
In the full episode Dr. Gundry goes much deeper — breaking down exactly how broad spectrum antibiotics changed medicine forever and what nobody told us about the collateral damage, why your skin is a direct mirror of your gut health, how the loss of oral bacteria stops your body from producing nitric oxide, what the link is between childhood antibiotic exposure and adult autoimmune disease, and the exact steps you need to take to rebuild your gut microbiome including why most probiotics never even make it to your gut in the first place. If you have ever taken an antibiotic, this episode is essential.
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