Test Bacteria & Protect Gut Health
Let’s face the facts: our bowels are full of an inner life. Billions of microorganisms inhabit the human gut and have a dramatic impact on the overall health of our bodies. If any uncomfortable symptoms begin to develop in your stomach, a timely response to a bacterial imbalance can save you from many painful symptoms or dozens of chronic conditions and illnesses. If you continue to put off identifying a gut imbalance and do not have a stool test completed, you may find yourself running from one doctor to another without a clear explanation for your long-lasting pain, weight loss challenges, food-borne illnesses, diarrhea, spontaneous bleeding, or unstable mood.
You can not continue to ignore any gut imbalance symptoms you may experience! This avoidance will perpetuate a cycle of frustrating doctors diagnosis! If you have found yourself in this avoidance cycle, it is time to consult with a professional who knows how to discern your gut bacteria imbalance and can identify the exact type of bacteria that is disturbing your gut environment and perform the correct stool test and screenings to help get your health back on track!
What Gut Health Tests Are Needed?
The expert analysis of your health condition must begin with an introductory lab-test to identify your inner bacterial community. The lab-tests conducted by Chen Ben Asher include a DNA and stool test analysis. These tests determine the main bacterial influencers within your body: bacterial pathogens, Helicobacter pylori, normal bacterial flora, opportunistic bacteria, parasites, and fungi/yeast. Each of these bacteria types has a specific effect on your body and need to be addressed with the proper nutrition or supplements that will jumpstart the process of eliminating the harmful bacteria.
Bacterial Pathogens
Most harmful bacteria get into your body through ingesting food or water contaminated with fecal remnants containing unhealthy pathogens. Even if you reach for a visibly clean fruit or drink clear water, it could still hold harmful microorganisms that travel into your body and change the gut flora drastically.
Most bacterial pathogens alone do not affect your gut health, but wait within your body for a vulnerable moment when you begin to experience a weakening of the immune system. A weakened immune system can be caused by a poor diet, antibiotic treatment, toxins, stress or the worsening of chronic illnesses. To identify the type of pathogen, it needs to be detected based upon the systems which are indicative of comfort conditions of the bacterial influence on the body. The findings from the stool test and DNA test will provide a more in-depth look at your gut health and what changes need to be done to strengthen your body.
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)
- pylori are one of the most ancient inhabitants within the human body. H. pylori have survived many circles of evolution dating back to 50,000 years before modern times. These primitive bacteria colonies have been known to cause the majority of gastroduodenal disorders such as gastritis, intestinal ulcers, and even gastric cancer. The danger of H. pylori lies in its genetics. This bacteria contains a cancer-causing predisposition depending on the region of the inheritance or the acquisition of these bacteria colonies. It can cause complications depending on its location, size and exact genotype match.
Normal Bacterial Flora
The normal bacteria flora is the most diversified in-gut community of gut health bacteria, and is the closest definition of what most people would consider a “normal.” This normal bacterial flora accommodates a broad range of bacteria that work together and do not overgrow into a dangerous scope. This diversified mix, commonly called commensal bacteria, includes a complete ecosystem that varies for each person. Generally, this mix participates in the transformation of food into energy, performs a gut barrier function, produces vitamins and prevents potential pathogens from dominating your gut. The commensal bacteria also establishes strict borders between other colonies. To remain healthy, this arrangement of bacterial influencers must be reinforced with an appropriate diet. If not taken care of, the balance will be disrupted, and then even these friendly bacteria could become risky aggressors within the gut.
Opportunistic Bacteria
The overwhelming majority of the bacteria within our bodies has an opportunistic nature. However, these opportunistic bacteria will only affect your gut health in a flash moment when the balance of the beneficial bacteria is disturbed. People who are always in contact with these opportunistic pathogens may not experience any symptoms until an overgrowth occurs. If this bacteria can overwhelm the rest of the gut as a result of a poor diet, parasitic infection, antibiotic treatment, stressful situations or an overall weakening of the immune system.
Unfortunately, standard medical professionals cannot recognize an opportunistic pathogen or even link its excessive population as the reason for your symptoms or illnesses. An ordinary stool test does not provide a clear picture regarding the imbalance of the gut flora. This analysis only includes a list of bacteria found in the sample. What is needed is an understanding of your whole gut bacteria population and if the environment is in the balance or not. For this purpose, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive stool test that investigates an abnormally high level of microorganisms in your gut that can cause disorder in bacterial behavior.
Parasites
Parasites or non-pathogenic bacteria usually do not cause illnesses by themselves because the process of their growth has limitations. However, some research shows a connection between parasites and gastrointestinal symptoms.
Fungi/Yeast
Fungal forms and yeasts are closely related to microorganisms. An overgrowth of yeast colonies can gradually transform into a fungal form. This abundance leads to a wide range of symptoms like itching, headaches, diarrhoea, bowel disorders, gas and brain fog. An excessive level of fungus can develop from a high sugar diet, the use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives and a stressful lifestyle. The most common diagnosis from a fungal overgrowth is Candida. The best solution to detect the risk of the Candida fungus is to take a food sensitivity delayed test. This lab-test measures how your gut reacts to 93 different types of foods. Based on the results of this test, you can identify what kind of diet does not suit you because it can cause an overgrowth of the Candida fungus.
It Is Time To Get The Right Professional
The biggest mistake you can make while seeking the cause of chronic poor gut health is a short-sighted underestimation of your inner bacterial consistency. Like many things, the very reason is not somewhere else, but it is right there, deep inside our bodies. So after that next empty hour at the doctor’s office that is filled with shrugs and a puzzling results, you should think twice. If this is a cycle that is on a perpetual loop for you, it is time to see a nutrition specialist who answers your health concerns instead of a tacit admission that you have “poor health.”
MEET CHEN BEN ASHER
Chen uses Functional Nutrition to help you find answers to the root causes of your illness and address the biochemical imbalances that may trigger your health and weight. She uses cutting edge lab testing and design the nutritional program to your specific needs as an individual. Food, supplements, lifestyle changes will have integrated to bring balance
If you are looking for personalized nutritional support, we highly recommended contacting Mor’s Nutrition & More Wellness Center in Cupertino, California today.
