Muon,
Has that Kimchi actually got any living bacteria? It is manufactured and not refrigerated so it is perhaps pasteurised. Kimchi has chilli doesn't it? That can't be good for the gut.
Here's the sauerkraut I am trying, it has only 2 ingredients:
https://www.lovingfoods.co.uk/collections/cultured-vegetables/products/sauerkraut-classicHere's a Chris Kresser article about starting extremely slow with probiotics to let the gut bacteria adjust:
https://chriskresser.com/how-to-restore-healthy-gut-flora-over-the-long-term/I sometimes have palpitations. Since around aged 14, my symptoms were mainly chronic fatigue, depression/low mood, getting frequent colds/flu, occasional skin rashes like eczema and once maybe had granuloma annulare on my hands. I did once go abroad to Singapore and had some kind of gut upset, my symptoms got a lot worse and I developed pain in my neck but that went away after a few weeks, afterwards my food intolerances were permanently worsened.
Since I took the Ciprofloxacin, the pain in my neck came back and I developed like 50 other symptoms associated with "Fluoroquinolone Toxicity". Basically I have an issue with the collagen in my body breaking down (probably due to high oxidative stress which is worse during a flare), I get bruising on my legs after walking, my shin bones ache, get severe uncontrollable panic and inability to sleep, hypnic jerks, my gut lining hurts if I don't take inulin, my body odour smells weird and strong, vision is sometimes bit blurry, very dry eyes, now have tinnitus and there's more but it is easier just to read about the condition of fluoroquinolone toxicity (which I think is caused by gut dysbiosis and probably worsened my pre-existing dysbiosis).
What is interesting is that people with Fluoroquinolone toxicity and people who have withdrawal issues with benzodiazapines seem to have similar issues. One of the factors I think is low GABA, this is a neurotransmitter thought to be produced and consumed by gut bacteria such as Lactobacillus. There's a discussion in this forum here:
http://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=2774.msg25029#msg25029I have adopted a new theory now (still related to gut bacteria) that Low GABA is the cause of at least some our issues. People on this forum and in the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Facebook groups mention that Alcohol improves or cures their symptoms because it binds to the GABA receptors in the brain and reduces the body's demand for GABA. I have read that during an orgasm the body uses a lot of GABA and that semen contains GABA. We know that an orgasm caused a feeling of exhilaration so it makes sense that there is a big change in neurotransmitter levels. I actually find that my libido gets stronger after 1 week of abstinence and it takes 1 week for the symptoms to die down, so my symptoms must all be from a depletion of a chemical used during orgasm and I think GABA is maybe the only chemical or perhaps there could be others.
So, I think to cure us we can try a few things:
- Try some alcohol (or other GABA substitutes like maybe taurine) to fill the GABA receptors in the brain and reduce the demand for GABA (which will stop harmful glutamate release).
- Fix the gut bacteria that produce and consume the GABA, I am reading that Lactobacillus is a good group of bacteria for this. I read that Lactobacillus does a lot of the same things as Butyrate bacteria such as reduce interleukin-8 and maintain the gut lining. Lactobacillus plantarum is found in sauerkraut and there is another called lactobacillus rhamnosus which I think is found in dairy. I have an extreme reaction to any dairy so I will proceed with a small amount of fermented sauerkraut. I picked a sauerkraut that had only 2 ingredients which is cabbage and salt (see my above link if you want to view it).