Greetings.
Eric Bakker, the Naturopath.
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Let's talk about the five mistakes to avoid when restoring your digestive function after
an antibiotic.
The first one, should I do another round?
Many people who take antibiotics don't just take one round.
They take another round and another round and I mean, that's like doing four or five
rounds with Mike Tyson.
You're going to get smacked around really bad.
Alright, one round is bad enough.
What do you have to want to be king hit it in KO'd multiple times?
That's what happens when people go on antibiotics recurrently.
It really wacks them around.
So one round should be enough.
You should never have to go in for two, three, four, five rounds.
Some people I see stay on this crap for six months or more.
It just trashes them.
There's like napalming your garden time and again and then wondering why the hell nothing's
going to grow there?
All right, so not a good idea to keep doing multiple rounds of all of antibiotics.
And the doctor will say, "Well let's try this on.
Well, let's try that one."
Well, have you ever had a plumber coming around your place saying, "Let's try this to see
if the taps going to leak this time?
Well let's try this time.
You know, make sure that your pipes aren't leaking."
You get the guy the hell out of your house and get a professional person.
Right?
So don't fall for the trick of multiple rounds.
All right.
Second one.
Not eating the right kinds of food to support that gut health when you're trying to build
that gut back up again after antibiotics.
So if you're trying to restore your gut function and you've taken a round of say, Cipro, ciprofloxacin,
not a really good idea to go to Pizza Hut there for a big pizza feed is it that night.
You're better off going home and having some bok choy and brown rice, it's probably going
to support your gut health a lot more.
So be careful what you eat for these several weeks after the antibiotic but jumping straight
back into some sugary food again is almost going to guarantee that you're going to get
a yeast population that will come up, especially if you start really wanting sweet stuff after
antibiotics.
As some people have this craving really bad.
They'll go on one or two rounds of antibiotics and then they'll want sweet stuff and they'll
have this driving desire to go out and get it.
That's a sure fire sign of the developing CBO or a yeast problem.
So just watch out for that rising sugar craving, all right?
Third one, not long enough treatment.
So people don't take the probiotic long enough after the antibiotic.
Okay.
They may stay it for say a week or 10 days, and then they'll go off.
The doctor may clearly say to the person, "Look, I've given you a 10 day prescription
for Cipro and I want you to go on a probiotic after that for a week or two weeks."
I would recommend you go on a probiotic until the gut function is good again.
So if you stop the probiotic and your tummy regresses, it goes backwards, go back on the
probiotic or switch to another one so the gut function is really improved.
All right?
Don't listen to the doctor.
Well, in this case, if you taken the antibiotic, don't listen to the doctor regarding the probiotic
advice.
Stay on it longer, all right?
Many people make this mistake and it's a key mistake not to make.
All right.
What's the fourth one?
Not resting enough in a high stress lifestyle.
So some people who get sick unfortunately stay sick because of their kind of lifestyle
they're living.
It may be their relationship, it may be their job, it could be the family dynamics, but
something may need changing, right?
Because if the person stays high stress, they're going to get recurrently sick, requiring more
antibiotics, and then their gut will never recover.
I can tell you 500 patients I have seen like that just in the last several years with ridiculously
high stress lifestyles.
They could not recover.
They got after antibiotic.
And the last but not least, taking too many dietary supplements.
Some people I see take 10, 20, 30 pills in a day.
When you're recovering your gut from an antibiotic, it pays to keep on a simple basic diet with
the low stress lifestyle, and preferably not peppering your digestive system with B vitamins,
magnesium supplements, zinc supplements, and you know what I mean?
So many pills that people take.
Try and back off a lot of these supplements and just let the gut restore.
It makes a lot of sense.
Try those tips.
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