Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

by William Davis

We begin by eliminating factors that disrupted bowel flora in the first place: » Avoid sugars and sugar-containing foods. » Avoid the synthetic noncaloric sweeteners aspartame (and related acesulfame, neotame, and advantame), sucralose, and saccharine. » Avoid emulsifying agents such as polysorbate 80 and carboxymethylcellulose. » Choose organic foods whenever possible. » Avoid all wheat and grains and be prepared for the opioid withdrawal process that accompanies this dietary change. » Avoid or minimize drugs, including stomach acid–blocking drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, and statin cholesterol drugs. Of course, consult your doctor to do this or get a well-informed doctor to help you. » Replace essential nutrients, lacking in modern diets, that impact the microbiome and intestinal barrier: vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil, iodine, and magnesium. » Drink Clove Green Tea, which rebuilds a healthy intestinal mucus barrier. » Begin a four-week course of curcumin, 300–600 milligrams twice per day, to rebuild the intestinal barrier and address dysbiosis.