(Part 2) Top products from r/HumanMicrobiome

Your biome is mostly influenced by what you eat. Its hard, but if you can give a low carb/ketogenic style diet a try, you should. There are a few variations but if you ate under 40g of carbs a day, and got them entirely from plants, that would be a great start. The hard part is that it takes about 30 days for your body to adapt to the new fuel so you have to toughen up and commit. Also be warned you may have a large die off of sugar craving bacteria within the first 2 weeks that may give you a rash or moodiness... its a good thing to get through it.. you can take charcoal pills if you want to help clear the dead bacteria.


Probiotics can help you transition, but you probably don't need them after a month or two. Probiotics are transient, your diet is what makes enduring changes to your biome and health.


Especially focus on getting lots of spinach, kale, chard mix in there as you are MTHFR. That is a great source of methylated B vitamins, especially methlyfolate which is what you need. Consider supplementing with glutathione as well to help the cycle. You're not producing SAMe which helps you control histamine, and that lack of production could be whats is giving you symptoms.


Also - if anything you're taking has Folate (not Methlyated) then get rid of it.. You don't want that sitting around in your body blocking the SAMe production.

Since you like supps. Here are some that may help.. but really its the plant heavy ketogenic diet thats going to turn this around for you.

Methylated B vitamins

Glutathione

Turmeric Circumin


On top of this, sleep at least 8 hours a night and make sure you're in bed by 10. During the day you need to break a sweat with some exercise. Both of these things have a dramatic effect on your microbiome. Failing to sleep well and exercise can cut your progress in half.


Go over to r/keto, its a great resource if you're serious about this. There are many people over there just like you seeing good results. And remember to get high quality, grass fed meats and fats!


Good luck!

Hey! That's great you gave it a try. Okay, so what you are eating now is pretty close to my old diet that I had pretty good luck on prior to ZC. The only thing you are missing that I did then was homemade yogurt. It was important to ferment longer than 24 hours to allow the culture to consume all of the lactose. The recommended starter was this one, not one of the more diverse "pro biotic" labeled varieties.

Not sure if that's something that's worth trying in your case, but....perhaps it will give you a lead. Best of luck!

Try the potato diet for prebiotic goodness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch

https://www.amazon.com/Potato-Hack-Weight-Loss-Simplified/dp/1530028620

(simplified: cook potatoes normally, cool them to 17deg f. turns startch into RS3 (see resistant starch article above)) reheat however you want and eat only that for 3 to 5 days. Feel the weight loss and tasty goodness!

Of course they are reporting me.... This is the problem with scientific research worship and complete lack of critical thinking outside of reading a study abstract and conclusion. There is a study conclusion that can be misinterpreted or weaponized for LITERALLY any nutritional position, be it high fiber, low fiber, high fat, low fat, etc etc etc. We've been completely inundated with bad research and corruption from the food industry trying to sell their products, and people will cherry pick their confirmation bias to no end.

This place is full of plant based ideologues that think we should eat 100g a fiber a day based on controversial blue zone study interpretations, or garbage epidemiology, with absolutely 0 understanding of actual pathophysiological mechanisms or knowledge of evolutionary dietary history. They haven't read about any other culture like the Nords, Swiss, Gaelics, Eskimos, Indians, Polynesians, Maori, or any other African or Middle Eastern tribe that got 70-90% of their calories from animal foods with minimal fiber eaten through seasonal restrictions and lack of preservation methods, and thrived might I add.

The reason our brain grew so quickly is pretty obvious. We were apex carnivores that busted skulls and bones open and ate brains high in phospholipid forms of EPA and DHA, and marrow rich in growth factors and saturated fat. We also ate a lot of fish and red ruminant animal meat high in those same omega 3 fatty acids, along with a metric fuckton of fat soluble vitamins essential for cell differentiation, hormone production, and general growth. Then there are the nutrigenomic methylation factors that influenced our epigenetic expression and allowed for the better propagation of our species through more consistent DNA replication.


Here are a bunch of articles, books, and studies to satisfy subreddit rules so I don't get banned or my comments be deleted.

Books

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html

http://www.highsteaks.com/the-fat-of-the-land-not-by-bread-alone-vilhjalmur-stefansson.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Body-Mind-Beyond-Health/dp/1594774137

Articles

https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/brain-evolution-fat/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150525120451.htm

https://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter

https://www.livescience.com/24875-meat-human-brain.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fats-in-the-brain-may-help-explain-how-human-intelligence-evolved/

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-fat-human.html

https://www.futurity.org/brains-evolution-fat-1976792/

Studies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53561/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20329590

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728620/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4404917/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53561/

Some info on this probiotic:

http://www.bioxyne.com/site/PDF/1577_0/BioxynePCCandImmunityReview

http://www.bioxyne.com/site/wellbeing-hub/why-pcc

Seems primarily available in AU: https://bioxyne.myshopify.com/collections/all

Found 1 product on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/NuSkin-Pharmanex-ProBio-Bottle-Capsules/dp/B004TSB5IU

RepHresh Pro-B Probiotic Supplement for Women, 30 Oral Capsules https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FOPQQS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_5zZjDbR73EX67

Ignore what it says on the packaging.

I was a bit confused on this as well. From the recommendations section, here's what I'm ordering:

Nature's Way Primadophilus Reuteri Pearls, 60 Count


Culturelle Daily Probiotic Formula, Digestive Health Capsules,30 count


Align Daily Probiotic Supplement, Probiotics Supplement, 42 Capsules


Bi2Muno Prebiotic Food Supplement 30 Sachets


The total order comes to about $75.