01/11/2020
Do you suffer from gut issues?
Irritable bowel syndrome doesn’t describe a disease, it describes a symptom. If you look at how our gut, immune, and brain axis becomes inflamed, in diseases like these, you can’t go past vitamin D and sunlight.
Your digestive system is a light machine, it needs plenty of exposure to light, and also vitamin D via the diet.
•Vitamin D protects and reinforces the gut barrier by regulating tight junction proteins and inhibiting intestinal apoptosis. This stops intestinal leakage, or ‘leaky gut’.
• Vitamin D enhances innate immunity by inducing antimicrobial peptides and regulates adaptive immunity by promoting anti-inflammatory T cells and cytokines.
• In the literature the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in IBD is 30-40%. Predictors of vitamin D deficiency in IBD include non-white ethnicity, IBD-related surgery, BMI more than 30, female s*x, and pregnancy.
• Low vitamin D is associated with increased disease activity, inflammation, and clinical relapse.
However, new research is showing how powerful sunlight really is.
Research shows how exposure to sunlight/UVB light can change the human gut microbiome, particularly in people who are vitamin D-deficient.
Findings from the study in healthy human volunteers could help to explain the protective effect of UVB against inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Skin exposure to UVB light alters the gut microbiome in humans, and so affects what comes out in our p**p.
They indicate that vitamin D mediates UVB-modulated changes in gut microbiota, uncovering the existence of a skin-gut axis that could provide new insights into approaches to managing and improving intestinal health.
From what I’ve observed, in the mouth there are very few people with adequate vitamin D, that suffer from chronic inflammation.
Gum disease and inflammatory bowel disease are both long term degenerative result of a haywire communication across the digestive system.
Do you suffer from inflammatory bowel disorder? Do you notice similar symptoms in your gums?
