Gut Microbiome Attunement

Hippocrates— the acknowledged “father of medicine”—said all disease begins in the gut. Long ago, humans had a symbiotic relationship with the earth and specifically the soil. We ate foods rich in nutritional value, and these foods contained bacteria necessary for whole body health. Now, many food sources are cut off from that natural environment — as are we. Pesticides, hormones, and chemicals contaminate our food — and our bodies.

A healthy gut
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Often called the “second brain,” your gut is really the First Brain referenced by eminent researchers in the fields of Microbiology and Immunology. About 70% of our immune system is within the gut.  We have more bacterial cells throughout our body than human cells. Feeding them with highly dense and nutritional foods is paramount to a healthy gut. So whatever comes in contact with your GI tract is met with an immune response, no matter what.  That means even all the good things we eat encounter bacteria which are there to greet the contents and do a formal introduction to the immune system. 

​Gotta love your immune system!
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​These contents are considered foreign objects causing a protective mechanism via the immune system to go into overdrive and try to defend you.  Gotta love that immune system! It’s the Homeland Security of the body. Sherri’s mantra to patients is “Food is Binary: it’s Medicine or it’s Poison”. There is no “gray zone” when it comes to food.  Our microbiome evolved with the food sources supplied by nature.  Anything other than those sources will alter this delicate bacterial system.  Feed yourself Medicine or Poison, it’s that simple.

​Get your gut back to its original symbiotic nature
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Sherri specializes in microbiome rehabilitation and attunement. Through sophisticated GI stool testing, you can know what lives inside you and get on track with creating a diverse field of bacteria. This treatment takes your gut back to its original symbiotic nature. By balancing gut flora and eliminating leaky gut, Sherri can improve immune functioning, detoxification capacity, and the stress response.