Best Probiotic For Autoimmune Conditions

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system attacks its own tissues. It is typically characterized by low regulatory T-cells and high Th17 and Th2 cells. T-reg cells prevent autoimmune diseases by supporting an appropriate immune response.

There are natural ways to support your immune system so that it operates at an optimal level. Poor gut health and gut inflammation can block the function of vitamin D3. Without enough vitamin D, T-reg cells do not work properly.

The majority of the population is vitamin D-resistant. To support the immune system, you need 8,000 to 10,000 IU of vitamin D daily, but even more to overcome resistance.

Poor gut health, inflammation, and low vitamin D are a perfect storm for developing an autoimmune condition.

B. infantis and L. reuteri are vital for your immune system, but many people don’t have them because these probiotics are very sensitive to antibiotics. These two important microbes help prevent autoimmune diseases, greatly affect T-reg cells, and suppress inflammatory immune cells.

L. reuteri helps increase oxytocin, one of the most potent anti-stress hormones. High cortisol levels mean high stress, which suppresses the immune system. The best way to consume l. reuteri is to cultivate it in a dairy product.

If you’re low in selenium, you will have higher amounts of inflammatory immune cells. Selenium helps lower Th17, Th2 cells, and auto-antibodies involved in autoimmune disorders.

Prolonged fasting can improve your immune system by increasing T-reg cells and creating new stem cells.

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0:00.0	Today, let's talk about the number one best probiotic for autoimmune conditions. So the question
0:05.5	is, what is an autoimmune condition? It's a condition where your own immune system is attacking
0:09.7	its own tissues. It's really happening with the immune system is we have two parts of the immune
0:14.2	system that are out of balance. We have either a very low amount of this thing called regulatory T cells. And then at the same time,
0:23.1	we have high amounts of these other two immune cells. All you really need to know to make this
0:27.6	really simple is that these T-reg cells prevent autoimmune diseases. So it's all about calming
0:33.8	down the inflammation. After your immune system is done its job, the T-Reg cells turn it off.
0:40.6	So the T-Reg cells are all about appropriate response. But the problem is, in the flip side,
0:47.3	it can sometimes get out of control and attack the wrong thing. The best way to understand this
0:53.4	is to look at a thermostat. Autoimmune diseases
0:55.8	are running too hot. There's too much inflammation. The question is, how do we take an autoimmune
1:02.4	disease and bring it to an optimal level? It just so happens that there is a natural way to do this.
1:09.5	But I think it's important to understand the root problem
1:12.9	of all autoimmune diseases. One thing you really need to know is that when there's inflammation
1:17.6	in the gut, sometimes you don't initially feel it, but inflammation blocks the function of vitamin D3.
1:26.3	Vitamin D3 cannot work in the presence of inflammation. Vitamin D influences
1:32.3	over 2,500 genes. It's involved in every part of the immune system. So if the T-reg cells do not get enough
1:40.2	vitamin D, then they can't work. They can't grow. They can't function. They're going to be
1:45.7	dysfunctional. And many people, including a lot of doctors, don't realize that we have such a mass
1:50.8	problem with low vitamin D. There is a condition called vitamin D resistance. And vitamin D resistance
1:57.2	is at the cell level right at the receptors for vitamin D3. You see, you can actually
2:02.2	test someone's vitamin D in the blood and it can be perfectly normal. But if they have vitamin D
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