What Causes Gut Imbalance?

There are many things can can cause an imbalance in your microbial colonies resulting in gut imbalance; the following are the most common:

Antibiotics & Medications

Infrequently used medications, especially antibiotics, tend to negatively affect one’s gut flora.

High Stress Levels

Stress, pressure and anxiety may weaken your immune system, making it harder for the body to fight off invasive bacterias.

Unbalanced Diet

Any dietary shift that increases the amount of sugars, proteins or additives will put the body at risk for gut imbalance.

How to Recognize Gut Imbalance?

Some symptoms of Gut Imbalance are mild and temporary, such as an upset stomach. Others are more severe, and will require suitable treatment.

Abdominal Pain

Discomfort in the abdominal region is a common symptom of Gut Imabalance. Severity can range from manageable to extremely unpleasant.

Bloating

A struggling digestive system makes one susceptible to excessive gas build up, which can often use the mouth to exit the body.

Diarrhea

Imbalanced microbiota will often make themselves known through regular, uncomfortable spells of diarrhea.

Gut Imbalance: Tips & Remedies

Gut Imbalance may be difficult to manage without the help of a health care provider, but there are a few things you can try.

Learn to relax

Many believe that adopting calming practices, such as meditation and yoga, will relieve stress and help the body better absorb nutrients, thus bringing relief to gut imbalance.

Avoid bacteria-killing products

Environments that are overly sterile may work against your own good bacterias fighting to correct the internal imbalance.

Consider antibiotics

Some cases of gut imbalance require the aid of an antibiotic. However, antibiotics can also trigger the gut imbalance in the first place, so it is vital you use a quality probiotic when taking this route.

How to Prevent Gut Imbalance?

Anyone who has suffered dysbiosis will tell you prevention is something to get on board with sooner rather than later.

You can try making regular use of a probiotic

Predisposing conditions may keep you at risk for dysbiosis, but a probiotic can prevent the onset when used consistently.

Cut down your alcohol intake.

Alcohol can cause systemic pro-inflammatory states within the intestinal tract, putting you at constant risk for gut imbalance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gut Imbalance is one of the most dreaded intestinal conditions. You’ve probably got a few questions for us; check out our FAQ.

  • Somewhere along the line, your gut microbiota likely became imbalanced as a result of antibiotic treatment, an unhealthy diet, or abuse of alcoholic substances.

  • Without treatment, Gut Imbalance can take months to heal on its own. Targeted treatment can help to alleviate symptoms of Gut Imbalance in just a few days.

  • A daily ritual of probiotics and prebiotics will work to restore balance in your gut microbiota, eventually eliminating the Gut Imbalance and its respective symptoms.

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Stay Informed

Getting to know your gut, and identifying your personal triggers, is the first step to better intestinal health. Stay informed as to how gut microbiota become negatively affected by everything from traveling to seasonal changes, and how to bring about internal balance to your life.

Traveling Could Negatively Impact Your Gut Flora
  • Gut Health
There are a few gut disorders that can occur whilst traveling; and there are ways of preventing them. Learning about why these digestive issues occur may change the way you travel for good. 4
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How Stress Affects the Gut: Our Second Brain
  • Gut Health
Science has long explored the relationship between the gut and brain, and has repeatedly found it to be quite codependent. Unfortunately, stress and abdominal pain seem to go hand in hand. 5
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Improper Nutrition Usually Leads to Gut Disorders
  • Gut Health
You are what you eat, and gut disorder thrives under a lousy diet. A traditional food pyramid may help us understand the role that our diet plays in the proper functioning of the body. 4,6
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How a Change in Season Affects the Body
  • Gut Health
If the change in season brings about anxiety, irritability, or various gastric disorders, one should consider taking the necessary precautions to delay or prevent the onset of these conditions. 4
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What are You Doing to Protect Your Gut from Antibiotics?
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Antibiotics help you fight infection, but they can wreck havoc on even the strongest gut. Using probiotics and prebiotics can help protect your gut from antibiotic-related gut disorders. 4
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    5. Stress and stomach pain: When should you see a specialist?; UChicagoMedicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Medicine; 2020 [quoted June 2021] https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/gastrointestinal-articles/stress-and-stomach-pain-when-should-you-see-a-specialist
    6. Healthy Eating Pyramid; Harvard University. Boston: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; 2008 [quoted June 2021]. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-pyramid/