This is going to sound like a strange thing for me to say, but here it is.

If your gut still feels inflamed, sluggish, or like it's carrying a backlog of stuff it hasn't dealt with yet, please don't go and buy a probiotic. Not mine, not anyone's.

Here's the thing about probiotics that almost nobody tells you. They're only as good as the environment you're putting them into. If your gut lining is inflamed or there's still waste and buildup sitting in there, those beneficial bacteria don't have anywhere good to settle. Some people take a probiotic for weeks and feel nothing, then assume it doesn't work, when really it just never had the right conditions to do its job.

This is the order I always come back to:

1. Clean first. Clear out what's built up.
2. Calm the inflammation. A fired up gut lining can't absorb or function properly.
3. Protect and restore the lining itself.
4. Then, and only then, seed it with good bacteria.

Skip straight to step four and you're working against yourself.

So before you reach for a probiotic, ask yourself honestly: is my gut actually ready for it? Or is there earlier work to do first?

Something to sit with this week.

Lee Holmes -Naturopath.

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