"One of the really important concepts of having a normal microbiome is: it is not just in your small intestine and your colon. I actually smell different since my microbiome was back. So it comes all parts of your body.

"The literature is really strong to make the argument that we are actually like Pig-Pen. We walk around with this cloud—bacteria, viruses and fungi—that cover us, in our nose, in our mouth, in our skin, in our hair, all over us. Those organisms are the ones that protect us from infections.

"Given a normal immune system (which is much more complicated than what we're talking about), but if you bring back the normal microbiome, our bugs are making antibiotics. They make chemicals that kill other competitors. They keep the Clostridium difficile under control in our body.

"One of the things that I've been able to see happen is, my clients can still take antibiotics, and they actually will reconstitute their microbiome normally, as long as they keep their D over 40, they will grow back.

"I personally believe that the appendix is where it is, and designed the way it is, to be a little tiny library of all the bacteria.

"So it's not that I don't believe that antibiotics change what's going on in there. They do. OK? They absolutely do. However I don't think we have to be as afraid of them." — Dr. Stasha Gominak with Dr. Mercola 53:43 – 55:22 https://youtu.be/MmuCKMRrCe8&t=3223