How to Make Homemade Lacto-Fermented Foods and Drinks to Repair and Strengthen Your Microbiome During Flu Season

As I recently wrote, now that we are in the midst of the flu season, it is time to adjust our diets and consider certain supplements and vitamins to avoid the medical system, because Big Pharma’s flu products are highly toxic, and their number 1 product is the flu shot, which can injure, cripple, or kill you. In just this past year alone, 2024, over 6,000 cases of adverse effects from the flu shots have been filed with VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System), including 52 deaths, 70 life threatening adverse reactions, 80 permanent disabilities, 285 hospitalizations, and 666 ER visits. The other thing to consider if you live in North America and are now enduring cold, snowy days with very little sunshine, is how to repair and nourish your microbiome with fermented probiotic foods and drinks, so that your body can resist any attacks on your immune system, and keep the doctors away. The over-use of modern-day antibiotic drugs has destroyed most people's microbiomes, and so has the consumption of modern-day agricultural products, especially grains, that are contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate. An article we published in 2014 documents research showing how this herbicide is destroying the health of not only humans, but also cattle and other animals. Because of this research that came out in 2014, we have tested all the foods we sell on our online store, Healthy Traditions, for the presence of glyphosate, and if any foods test positive for it, we do not purchase or sell those foods. Most Americans, therefore, need to take special care to rebuild and manage their gut flora, or "microbiome". During this time, I hired Shannon Stonger, a Mennonite wife and mother living on a small homestead in Central Texas with a college degree in chemistry, to write some articles for us about how to make homemade lacto-fermented foods and drinks to help us repair and build up our microbiome, including recipes. I am highlighting her excellent articles and recipes today, because we need these kinds of nourishing foods in our diet today more than ever, especially during the winter months and "flu season." These articles, some of which are over 10 years old, show what a rich resource Health Impact News is to search for health information, with almost 9,000 articles now published since 2011, and all free of charge with no paywall.

Study: Roundup Weed Control Causes Changes in Gut Microbiome

An environmentally relevant concentration of Roundup caused changes in the gut microbiome of rats, according to a new study published by the group of Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen, France.

Microbiome Online Summit to Explore how Microbiome Orchestrates, Regulates and Heals Your Body

Your greatest ally in health is your microbiome — the trillions of bacteria that are the control center of your health! During the online Microbiome Summit from May 8th through May 15th, you will learn the lessons and methodologies of microbiome medicine, and how it could improve your health, longevity, vitality and assist with unresolved problems! The Microbiome Medicine Summit will explore how the microbiome orchestrates, regulates and can heal your body. It reveals the latest discoveries about a wide variety of health problems, and how the microbiome can help you heal at a deep level.

The Microbiota Crisis: How the Herbicide Glyphosate is Killing Microbiomes

The results of a study confirm many recent works showing glyphosate can wreak havoc in a mammal's intestine, affecting the microbiome. This epidemic is threatening the entire food system in the United States.

Probiotics and Prebiotics for the Microbiome

Whether we want to think about it or not, our bodies are actually largely made of up bacteria. One study found that we are comprised of ten times more bacteria than human cells. So it may even be an understatement to say that paying attention to our microbial makeup is critical. Defining probiotics is actually a bit tricky, as many see them as a supplement or a pill. Probiotics are not confined to something you have to purchase and swallow. In fact, some are finding that supplemental probiotics are not nearly as effective as naturally occurring beneficial microbes. Learn more about rebuilding your microbiome with probiotic and prebiotic foods.

500 Previously Unknown Microorganisms and 800 Bacterial Viruses Mapped in Intestinal Flora

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark report that they have identified and mapped 500 previously unknown microorganisms and more than 800 bacterial viruses in our intestinal flora. Researching gut flora and the "microbiome" is the new trend in research and medicine, as the age of antibiotics has passed. New antibiotic-resistant diseases present an enormous threat to global health. If you are not familiar with the term "microbiome", you soon will be. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into researching the microbiome to develop new drugs and therapies. But are we really going to trust in the modern pharmaceutical industry to provide a new class of "microbiome" drugs to solve the problems they created in the first place? Or are there natural ways of restoring one's own microbiome without the "help" of the medical system?