In this interview, I sat down with Brehan Crawford to answer the most frequently searched questions about gut health, probiotics, the microbiome, and Gut Harmony. These are real questions people are typing into Google every day and the answers are often more nuanced than marketing headlines suggest.
This article will explain how fiber really works, how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) helps us understand fiber tolerance, and why formulas like Gut Harmony focus on feeding beneficial bacteria rather than forcing probiotics into an already stressed system.
Gut Harmony is made from plants. Probiotics are made from bacteria.
Most commercial probiotics contain bacteria that are dead by the time you ingest them, or they die quickly due to stomach acid and immune defenses. Statistically, the vast majority of probiotics do very little for most people.
Gut Harmony does not contain bacteria at all. Instead, it is a plant-based formula composed of sixteen herbs that act as prebiotics they feed and shape the bacteria you already have.
Rather than trying to “add” new organisms, Gut Harmony works by changing the environment of the gut so your existing, native flora can rebalance themselves.
Probiotics statistically help a very small percentage of people often cited at around 1% or less. They can also make a similarly small percentage feel worse.
If a probiotic strain happens to survive digestion and happens to match what your gut ecosystem needs, it may help. If it survives and is the wrong strain for your system, it can worsen symptoms such as bloating, gas, or inflammation.
Most of the time, probiotics simply pass through without colonizing.
Think of it like gardening. Dropping plants into frozen soil doesn’t create a garden. You must first prepare the environment.
Gut Harmony contains prebiotic plants, not bacterial organisms. Several herbs in the formula selectively feed beneficial bacteria:
In addition, Gut Harmony helps thin excessive mucus and biofilm, which allows healthy bacteria already present to thrive again.
This is ecological repair, not bacterial replacement.
First, people take the wrong supplement for their pattern. Gut Harmony is not appropriate for everyone. Tongue diagnosis used extensively in Chinese medicine can give important clues.
Gut Harmony helps, a thick tongue coating which often correlates with excess biofilm and stagnation. A cracked, dry, or peeled tongue suggests deficiency, where Gut Harmony is not be appropriate.
Second, people assume supplements alone will fix gut health.Even the best formula cannot overcome a diet entirely lacking fiber or overloaded with sugar, alcohol, and processed fats.
That said, perfection is not required. Gut health improves with consistency, not rigidity.
Inflammation itself is not inherently bad. Controlled inflammation is necessary for healing and tissue turnover in the gut.
Problems arise when inflammation becomes excessive or deficient.
Many culinary spices ginger, cinnamon, cloves, fennel naturally regulate gut inflammation.
Chronic over-restriction, such as long-term raw or cold diets, can suppress necessary inflammatory warmth and predispose to fungal overgrowth such as Candida.
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Because Gut Harmony works on motility, fluid secretions and enzymes, and intestinal environment, not just microbes.
Motility is one of the most underappreciated aspects of gut health. The gut is not static it must move rhythmically. Stress directly disrupts this system.
Bile secretion/bile acids as a “master gardener” of gut flora (bile strongly shapes microbiome ecology)
Clinically, Gut Harmony tends to help people who feel relief after bowel movements. If abdominal discomfort improves after stool passage, it suggests an excess pattern that Gut Harmony often addresses well.
If discomfort worsens after bowel movements, the formula is likely not appropriate.
Pressure testing can also help:
These patterns correlate with nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide signaling in the colon.
A healthy bowel pattern is typically 1–3 easy, complete bowel movements daily.
Tongue coating often changes before symptoms appear, acting as an early warning sign.
Yes, if they do anything at all.
Short-term bloating (3–5 days) can occasionally indicate microbial shifts. With Gut Harmony, temporary bloating sometimes occurs during early biofilm breakdown, but it typically resolves within one to two weeks.
Tongue changes and bowel regularity are better indicators than gas alone.
