How to love your Microbes!
- rian933
- Mar 19
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 23
Terrain-Centred Nature-First Naturopathy
Did you know that the human organism is home to trillions of bacteria and fungi, and that we carry 10 X more microbial DNA than human DNA? Makes one wonder how we ever came to think that anti-biotics (def: anti-life) could be a good idea.
Obviously, we have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with our resident bugs, otherwise, if bacteria were as deadly as we've been lead to believe we would have died out long ago.
And why would our resident bacteria turn hostile all of a sudden and attack us.
It makes no sense, we are host to bacteria, and they know better than to kill their host.
Attract not Attack
You may not realise it but you determine your Terrain, and the unique microbial community you host.
Your Terrain is created by your :
inherited predispositions
nutritional inputs
physical alignments/obstructions
lifestyle and habits
undigested emotional events
...and is expressed through bodily functions such as circulation, temperature regulation, assimilation, elimination, digestion, metabolism and sleep.
Your daily life habits determine what bugs thrive on and in you.
As a carcass attracts microbes to decompose it, if you accumulate decaying/dead tissue or toxins, you will also attract microbes to help with decomposition.
Your Terrain chooses it's bugs
Let's look at bowel flora.
We know that people on high fat diets have completely different bowel flora than those on low fat diets. This is nature's adaptive intelligence at play.
Different species have different functions therefore different environments/conditions will attract different microbes.
Another example, if your Terrain is burdened by heavy metals you may attract fungi and parasites. Because they are SAPROPHYTES, they are actually 'attracted' to the heavy metals and one of their functions in nature is to clean up toxic environments.
Natures Clean up Crew
Bacteria are not good or bad, parasites are not good or bad, just like sharks are neither good or bad, they simply fulfill a function in Nature and within Natural cycles.
We need top predators as much as we need prey to maintain balance in ecosystems.
Similarly, we need parasites, fungi and bacteria to maintain balance in ecosystems. For example, imagine if there were no bacteria in the forest, we would be overrun with mountains of decaying animal and plant material.
What's more, bacteria's preferred food is dead tissue- they don't consume living tissue.
You Determine Your Terrain
Your inner ‘environment and its inhabitants’ can be seen as a reflection of your health.
Living beings in the dance of life are ever adapting, responding and adjusting.
Bowel flora can change dramatically in days and weeks.
Your greater Terrain, as a living dynamic system can also change dramatically.
The best kept secret is that you hold the power to create health; the knowing that you are not powerless and susceptible to random microbial attack can be truly empowering..
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