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Just wanted to give you your fast facts for today's episode on stress and the microbiota.

Stress has been shown to cause leaky gut in the short term enhanced gut immunity and the short term enhanced gut immunity, and the long term suppressed

gut immunity, which also correlates with a increased risk of infection.

Stress has also been shown to cause a decrease in the intestinal mucus membrane, decreased

blood flow to the intestinal tract, suppression of stomach acid, and slowing of stomach and small intestinal mortality.

We go through a real-world example of how this plays out using a case called name Susan.

We are chronic stress, then tips her into having SIBO and adrenal fatigue.

Stress has been documented to worsen the symptoms associated with IBS and also to

worsen IBD or inflammatory bowel disease.

Stress has been shown to decrease lactobacillus species in the gut in both human and animal models.

And in animal studies, we review a couple of fascinating ones that show that stress can induce

a pro-inflammatory shift in the microbiota.

And then antibiotics can actually undo this pro-inflammatory shift in the microbiota. So there's a little more

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