“Our bodies are under attack every second of every day and the invaders come with the ability to unleash every condition known to man and more, it is a lottery who ends up with what. We need our defences to be at their ultimate if we want less pain and discomfort. We will all ultimately lose the war, but the more battles we win along the way, the longer you will be around, and the less pain and discomfort will be experienced”

Introduction

In Mammalian Bacterium part 1 (MBP1), I had on a personal level, somewhat of an epiphany. After writing about human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), I had the opportunity to devise a program using all I had learnt and trial them for myself, and they did wonders for me.

Due to type 2 diabetes, the ball of my right foot was double the size it should have been, the pain at times was excruciating. From below my right knee felt alien, and at times I would have to drag my leg when walking. My toenails were falling off, and for three years prior to the diabetes, both of my middle fingers would lock closed and be extremely painful to open when I made a fist due to trigger finger.

Within two weeks of my initial program, these symptoms began to subside and reverse. The ball of my foot reduced to its normal size, my fingers unstuck, my toenails reattached, and my leg reunited. No part is perfect, and maybe never will be, maybe a certain amount of irreversible damage has been done, only time will tell, but I can live with this, going weeks without pain. Now the only time they bother me is if I drink alcohol like I’m 18, eat too much cack food, or don’t put the right ingredients into me.

After I had completed MBP1, I continued swatting up and be the experiment. Recording the daily results and altering the mix.

As the program continued, I began to question my results. Part of the mix I was taking had in studies been shown to have many health benefits, but really it is a gut reset mix, yet my extremities (fingers and toes), had been repaired or had shown signs of repair. There is a specific HMO, 3′‐sialyllactose (3’-SL), that in studies has been seen to reduce oxidation and inflammation, and even initiate repairs to the matrix in joint conditions, but that is not what I had taken, so how did my HMO/live culture high antioxidant mix do so much?

Then I stumbled across a game changer and became somewhat side tracked by biological compounds. Compounds that are so important to our health, that without them being balanced and in the right abundance, just as it is with the gut, whatever you take to improve your health will be in vain. But these are not compounds you can purchase over the counter., these are only available via our very own biological production line, the gut, and there is a formula that needs to be adhered to if you want them.

If you have ever had an illness, medication, especially antibiotics, an unhealthy lifestyle, bad diet, addiction to drug, excess alcohol, or smoking, worked in a bad environment, overweight or obese, you could be sat reading this in slight discomfort or pain, anywhere in the body. Even if you try to live a healthy life, diet, gym, whatever, you will need to get to the core issue. Because you can be sure whatever you are suffering, was either caused, able to happen – or your symptoms and pain are being magnified by the disruption of what could be likened to, a biological trinity. Three major key biological players, so entwined and bound by trilateral dependence on each other, functioning to their optimum level, that in singular form, they appear as almost inept.

This is no exaggeration, get these three in unison like the biological mother of nature meant, and you just might see a reverse to your condition, maybe the back of that pain, easing of symptoms, or at least some relief.

This is my story.

The Experiment and the Biological trinity

Prior to MBP1, my body was clearly already malfunctioning, but why? I had developed full blown diabetes one week after I had the Covid-19 jab in 2021, my blood sugar was through the roof, over 33 millimoles per litre (mmols/l), but why had my body succumb to it? Was it due to its preset processes, and my own ignorance with regards to how I work? No, and now I know why. I may still have developed diabetes, that will never be known, but one thing I do know is I was not firing on all cylinders, and here is why.

I knew I had been in a state of dysbiosis, unbalanced gut microbiota. I knew this because, over the years, I had taken antibiotics like sweets, a common occurrence in the 70’s and 80’s, these would have wiped out my good bacteria, and I had never addressed a repopulation. I also knew this due to the impact the HMOs had, they had balanced my gut microbiota (1 part of the trinity), I just felt so much better and across the board they blew me away, they had done everything I had read and written about, and more.

The HMOs hadn’t repaired my hands and feet, no, I now know that what they had done along with the other components of the mix was reinstate my biological production line. In doing so, I began to produce and balance the other two parts of this biological trinity, these being short-chain-fatty-acids (SCFAs) and balancing the oxidant to antioxidant ratio.

Oxidants, antioxidants, and SCFAs had featured since the start of my studies, some 30 years ago, but I had never seen their importance like this. As you read on, it may well be a lot to get the head around, but ultimately, if one component fails then shockwaves ensue to the others, in effect they will all then fail to some degree.  

The Biological Trilateral Conundrum, One Down, All Down.

The following are these components and their roles, but more importantly how a sequence of events can severely disrupt each other’s activity to our detriment.

Short Chain Fatty Acids

Short chain fatty acids such as, butyrate, propionate, and acetate, are all produced in the gut by bacterial fermentation between the gut microbiota and fibre from the diet.

For optimum production you need a balanced gut microbiota, an altered microbiota balance has been shown to reduce SCFA production

The roles of SCFAs are integral to the body’s regulatory systems and functions such as cellular metabolism, stability of the intestinal barrier, the site of our biological production line, and anti-inflammatory effects immune responses (our defences). All of which are vital to sustain a healthy life.

Oxidants

Bad oxidants, named free radicals we get from, food, lifestyle, health complaints, medication, to name just a few, are unstable molecules. Unstable as they have an odd number of electrons. This makes them aggressive, looking to steal an electron from another weaker cell, anywhere in our body in order to stabilise.

Antioxidants and Antioxidants that Become Oxidants

Antioxidants, stable molecules, unaggressive and able to give away an electron to stabilise aggressive free radicals, this can be for the protection of any of our cells. When this happens the once stable antioxidant due to losing an electron is now classed as an oxidant. In normal balanced circumstances they are no problem. However, if the body is under oxidative stress, this normally non problematic oxidant adds to the imbalance adding to the potential harm.

Oxidative Stress

Oxidative stress happens when the oxidant/antioxidant balance falls in the favour of the oxidants. When this happens, every single one of your cells is at risk and under attack. If cell damage is achieved, as the cell replicates, it will be deformed due to its interaction with the rogue free radical. The more replications, the more deformity, the more deformity, the more inflammation, the more inflammation the more pain, and so the vicious cycle continues. This can happen anywhere in the body, and over time in multiple places.

The Biological Domino Effect

An unbalanced gut microbiota will impact on the production of antioxidants from food and is even more likely to increase the production of dangerous free radicals. It will also impact on SCFAs production resulting in low numbers, leaving the body open to invasion as SCFAs guard us via our immune system.

A build-up of free radicals will lead to the unbalance of oxidant to antioxidant ratio leading to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress leads to painful inflammation with deformity being prone to ANY part of the body via our cells, from joint inflammation to chronic illness, and can, in the most chronic and worst cases such as cancers, lead to death.

Seemingly Unrelated Health Complaints are Related Via Oxidative Stress 

As soon as the body comes under attack or threat of invasion, it will go on the offensive. By way of design, via the macrophages (white blood cells/immune cells) it will send out antioxidants to destabilise any invader. These can come from injury, bacterial infection, viral infection, parasites, or diseases. However, just as important, it can also be due to ongoing conditions or illness, causing a manifestation of inflamed sites, literally because the body cannot process the oxidant/antioxidant balance that it itself is perpetrating. This state of play will need intervention. 

An ongoing condition or illness is one of the main problems where you can end up suffering from a series of seemingly unrelated complaints. The body will repeatedly send out antioxidants in order to keep fighting. If our biological trinity is out of sync, oxidative stress will only increase. This will mean even the slightest injury site where under normal circumstances you wouldn’t even notice, will become inflamed and a painful problem.

Over the years you can end up with many painful sites, maybe putting it down to old age, or general ill health. I will tell you now, the only way to see what is really wrong is to get this biological trinity in sync, clear up the production site, give the body time to repair, and then assess the damage. Remember any condition or illness will have either or a combination of both oxidative stress and a depletion of SCFA’s, get them in order and your situation could well look completely different. It might be hard to make some changes, there may be some irreversible damage, but a good reset has got to be worth a go, surly. DON’T just take it as read.

Just Lucky

As you can see, so many factors affect so many factors, but it just so happens that by chance, at the time I started the HMOs, I also started taking a high antioxidant fibre. I did this because I knew the fermentation process came from fibre in the diet, and the live cultures I was putting in needed feeding. It must have been like a feeding frenzy in there, I was taking a very high dose of fibre on top of the HMOs. HMOs are a prebiotic (source of food) to the gut microbiota.

This was exactly what is required for SCFA production, and the processes required to balance the oxidants/antioxidants. Thus, reversing the inflammation that was causing the pain and disablement, in effect fixing me, and it was all by chance. Fortunately, I had the science which afforded me the understanding of just how it worked, it is not failproof and I am always susceptible to all the potential invaders, only now I know how it works, and I know what to do and keep everything in balance.

I must add here, prior to MBP1 I was also three and a half stone over the low end of my safe BMI. Although my active lifestyle would afford me a little extra weight without concern, I was in effect carrying the equivalent of a large toddler around 24/7. Imagine what that was doing to my joints. I have shed just over two stone up to now, and that has made a world of difference just on its own. However, a good set of gut bacteria has been shown to initiate weight loss via metabolism of fat storage, and glucose metabolism. 

This information coupled with what I have learnt from and since MBP1 has set me free. I will never be back to the health I had in my youth, but I have control, understanding of how I work, I am the gatekeeper of not only the cakehole but all of me,  I now understand how I decide a major part of my destiny, diet, exercise, lifestyle, but mainly understanding how my body works. I haven’t conquered the diabetes yet, and I still have a stone and a half to shed, but there is always tomorrow.

To Conclude

Just to clarify, this program is not for any specific condition. It is solely to provide what your body needs to perform at its best for you in protecting you and dealing with existing conditions.

Over three years in and the mix has been so refined coupled with reams of data regarding the foods that provide the different fibre, vitamins and minerals we require has also been assembled. I hope it is tolerable to all. It is a potent restorer and needs to be introduced slowly. For some it will show instant results, but unfortunately as humans we don’t remember pain and discomfort, so for others, it may be a case of the mix slowly brings improvement, that you only see the benefits when you take a break from it.

For the very fortunate it may be a case that after a little of the mix you find the perfect diet for you, one that provides all you need, so maybe you will just need a little reset or boost here and there.

There are no guarantees, and effort is required, but you are under attack every second of every day and that requires reinforcements being provided daily. This is where this program could become the gamechanger.

If you are not already on the I am frank beard, The Key, get out of dysbiosis  and are interested in joining, contact us at info@iamfrankbeard.com and we’ll get you ready to go with all you need.

Nu-Tee