Hi Friend
Over the last week I have been writing to you, and explained the importance of a healthy gut, vagus nerve and brain link. Over the next 3 emails I will tell you how to fix this.
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If you live with chronic symptoms — fatigue that hits like a wall, bloating that makes you look 6 months pregnant, food reactions that appear out of nowhere, brain fog, unpredictable bowels, pain, anxiety — it’s not random.
Your gut isn’t “weak.”
It’s overwhelmed.
And for people with fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Long COVID, MCAS, IBS, or chronic fatigue, the gut is the central control system for:
inflammation
energy
pain
mood
immunity
nervous system regulation
microglial activation (brain inflammation)
⭐ Why Your Gut Is Struggling (The Real Reason No One Told You)
Research shows that in chronic illness, the gut isn’t broken — it’s in survival mode.
Typical patterns include:
low microbiome diversity
low butyrate-producing bacteria
weak vagus nerve signalling
leaky gut / permeability
overactive mast cells
high histamine-producing bacteria
microglial activation in the brain
stress chemistry that never switches off
These are not separate problems.
They are one loop:
gut → brain → immune → nervous system → gut → repeat.
And that loop shapes everything you feel.
⭐ Part 1 Is About the Foundation — the Reset Before the Rebuild
Probiotics and prebiotics are powerful.
But here’s the nuance:
👉 In a sensitive, inflamed, or dysregulated gut, the wrong types can cause flares.
👉 But the right types, at the right time, can transform everything — energy, mood, digestion, pain, inflammation.
So Part 1 is about preparing your gut so it can tolerate and benefit from probiotics and prebiotics in Part 2.
This approach works brilliantly for sensitive systems, histamine issues, MCAS, and chronic illness.
🔹 Step 1: Rebuild the Gut Lining (Your Foundation)
Your gut lining is your immune system’s front door.
If it’s damaged, everything becomes a threat — food, stress, supplements, even healthy bacteria.
So before we talk probiotics, we stabilise the wall.
Butyrate-building foods (gentle + evidence-based):
cooked & cooled potatoes
oats
green banana flour
flaxseed
root vegetables
Butyrate is proven to:
repair the gut lining
reduce inflammation
calm mast cells
signal safety to the nervous system
reduce microglial activation
This is the first step in getting your gut ready for microbiome rebuilding.
🔹 Step 2: Calm the Immune System in the Gut Wall
80% of your immune system sits behind your gut lining.
If those cells are inflamed, they trigger:
histamine
pain flare-ups
anxiety
post-meal crashes
diarrhoea or constipation
bloating
fatigue
You don’t want to overwhelm this system.
You want to stabilise it.
Evidence-backed supplements for stabilisation:
🟣 Quercetin
mast cell stabiliser
reduces histamine
strengthens tight junctions
🟢 Curcumin
anti-inflammatory
reduces gut + brain inflammation
supports healing
🟩 L-Glutamine
repairs intestinal permeability
reduces abdominal pain
🟡 Omega-3
reduces inflammatory cytokines
supports vagus nerve function
These are safe, proven, and ideal for sensitive guts.
🔹 Step 3: Stabilise Your Nervous System (The Hidden Gut Reset)
This is the part most gut protocols completely ignore.
Your gut is controlled by the vagus nerve, which means:
➡ your nervous system decides your digestion
➡ your stress level decides your microbiome
➡ your vagal tone decides your inflammation
➡ your microglia decide your pain
Chronic stress reduces microbiome diversity by up to 40%.
So rebuilding the gut without calming the nervous system is like planting seeds in dry soil.
Nervous-system resets that directly improve gut function:
slow nasal breathing
humming
extended exhale breathing
gentle post-meal walking
grounding/orienting
vagus nerve toning
These activate the parasympathetic system — the “repair and digest” mode your gut needs.
⭐ Want to Know How Stressed Your Gut–Brain Axis Truly Is?
Your gut symptoms are not random.
They’re a direct reflection of your nervous system state.
If your nervous system is dysregulated, the gut can’t heal.
If the gut is inflamed, the nervous system can’t regulate.
It’s a loop — and your score will show you where the loop is stuck.
It takes 60 seconds and gives you your personalised score across:
vagal tone
inflammation load
gut–brain axis
microglia activation
energy regulation
resilience vs burnout
Most people instantly understand why their gut feels the way it does.
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⭐ Coming in Part 2 — The Microbiome Rebuild
Now that we’ve laid the foundation, next week we cover:
the BEST probiotics for chronic illness
strains that reduce pain, inflammation, fatigue and histamine
prebiotics that increase butyrate without causing flares
how to rebuild diversity safely
supplements backed by human trials
This is where the transformation starts.
Stay Well
Dr Ahmed
