Surprisingly enough, it has a lot to do with what you eat. Because, you may not know it, but your gut is the best friend your skin ever had.
Here’s how Dr. Gundry describes how a healthier gut will clear up your skin:
Click the image to watch the VIDEO.
We have about 25 trillion microbes in our body. Most are considered to be “friendly” bacteria — they help us digest food, fight infections, purify our air, the list goes on and on.
But we also have a certain amount of “bad” bacteria in our bodies. These bad bugs include fungi, yeast, and all sorts of nasty stuff.
While some bad bacteria is normal, the problem is when we let the growth of our bad bugs get out of control.
How does that happen? Bad bugs thrive when we feed them bad food. They love starches, lectins, sugars, fats — all the stuff that tastes great but is actually terrible for us.
When we feed the bad bacteria, they hijack our whole bodies. They slow our metabolism, they mess with our hormones, they cause cravings for those horrible foods that the bad bugs love.
And, when the bad bacteria growth gets out of control, that bacteria can leave its normal home in our digestive system and move to other parts of our body… like the inner layers of your skin.
That bacteria irritates our inner skin and our bodies sent white blood cells to battle the bacteria on the outside of our skin. Ever wonder where pimples come from? THAT’S WHERE. (I had no idea.)
So how do you stop the bad bacteria from ruining your skin?
By feeding the good bacteria.
If we feed our good, healthy microbes, they regulate the growth of bad bacteria and they take care of our bodies. When our good microbes thrive, we get more energy, we lose weight, and, YES, our skin clears up.
As Dr. Gundry makes clear in his video, the best way to encourage good microbe growth is to feed them foods rich in POLYPHENOLS.
Our healthy microbes LOVE polyphenols, which can be found in a variety of different berries, roots, vegetables, and extracts.
Leafy vegetables (like kale or spinach) are high in polyphenols and so are things like exotic berries, plant extracts, mulberries, bitter melon, fennel seeds — there are a lot of options out there.
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