While it is relatively easy to meet the body's requirements for niacin via diet alone, many people remain at least mildly deficient due to an imbalanced gut environment which impairs absorption from food and limits synthesis of B3 via
beneficial gut microbes (1).
Beneficial gut microbes including Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria «feasted» on chocolate, creating anti-inflammatory compounds that may reduce inflammation of cardiovascular tissue.
Antibiotic use wipes out
beneficial gut microbes, increasing the risk of intestinal dysbiosis.
These foods contain a special type of carbohydrate called resistant starch that nourishes and strengthens
beneficial gut microbes.
Repressing Candida and ingesting plenty of probiotics in the form of fermented foods and / or supplements will over time allow
beneficial gut microbes to regain control of the gut environment.
By regulating the immune system and producing short - chain fatty acids,
our beneficial gut microbes also work to quell inflammation that can result from muscle repair after a hard workout.
In a study out this week in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of
those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatment.
«Proteins secreted by
beneficial gut microbes shown to inhibit salmonella, invasive E. coli: Study finds that microcins help block illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.»
In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by
beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.
By not aiming to kill the pathogen with antibiotics, scientists were able to avoid wiping out sizeable numbers of
beneficial gut microbes.
Beneficial gut microbes including Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria «feasted» on chocolate, creating anti-inflammatory compounds that may reduce inflammation of cardiovascular tissue.
Not exact matches
I have been distraught for days, but I am looking up other labs where I might be able to do work in line with my obsession with
beneficial microbes in soil and in the
gut.
Hager and Ghannoum propose that giving Crohn's disease patients antifungal drugs and then adding
beneficial fungi, such as S. cerevisiae, could create a healthier
microbe balance in the
gut.
The hipster insects serve up
beneficial bacteria that may help baby bees develop a healthy blend of
gut microbes, researchers report online August 7 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
But in those with immune systems weakened by age, chemotherapy or antibiotics that wipe out their «lawn» of
beneficial intestinal
microbes, C. difficile can get a foothold and cause changes that damage the
gut.
Insufficient nutrients for our
gut microbes have been linked to a loss of certain
beneficial bacterial species in industrialized societies and are likely impacting our immunological and metabolic health, although more data is needed.
Already, he knows that most IBD patients have a far smaller range of microbial species in their
guts, compared to healthy people Stool transfers help restore that diversity and all the possibly
beneficial chemical compounds that those
microbes release into our bodies.
Our research will contribute to a better mechanistic understanding of the
microbes that live in our
gut, leading to the discovery of druggable small molecules, new targets for antibacterial therapy and
beneficial bacterial strains that can be employed for intervention therapies.
If you eat one meal with fermented foods every day, your
gut will be dominated by
beneficial probiotic species of
microbes, and they will start to build and make all kinds of essential nutrients like B12, vitamin B6, vitamin K2, and biotin.
Up to 80 % of the immune system battle against these
microbes happens in your
gut, and that
beneficial bacteria plays a major role in this battle.
But as we practice good eating habits to fertilize a healthy
gut microbiota, let's not forget that
gut microbes,
beneficial or not, are foreigners to our body's immune system and will elicit inflammation and disease if they aren't kept at a safe distance.
When there is an imbalance of
beneficial microbes in your
gut, this suppresses the immune system and allows the HSV to quickly replicate.
A healthy intestinal track is of paramount importance because the majority of our immune system is in our
gut, most notably the
beneficial bacteria that live symbiotically within the GI tract and fight off the harmful bacteria.Certain intestinal
microbes create organic acids (lactic and acetic acids) that tend to lower the pH of the intestinal contents.
In a healthy person with healthy
gut flora, this mass of
microbes is dominated by the
beneficial or «probiotic» species, which are involved in all kinds of functions in the body.
This is necessary while attempting to rebuild the
gut environment with
beneficial microbes and healing / sealing the
gut wall to put autoimmune disease in remission.
If you are trying your hand at home fermentation of milk in order to improve your digestive health and rebalance the
gut environment with
beneficial microbes dominating instead of pathogenic strains, kefir is going to be the more potent choice for you and your family.
Dr. Martin Blaser MD of New York University's Langone Medical Center who writes in the August 2011 edition of Nature, warns against harming the
beneficial microbes in the
gut:
«In parallel with
beneficial microbes in the healthy
gut, scientists have found thousands of different species of downright pathogenic disease - causing
microbes; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other
microbes.
It needs building blocks for them, because they're made out of certain nutrients (proteins, certain fats, vitamins, enzymes, and other active molecules)... Second, it needs the whole process to be orchestrated by the
beneficial microbes in your digestive system; by the
beneficial healthy
gut flora.»
Beer might not be the healthiest thing to drink, but San Diego scientists suspect various kinds of fermented foods and drinks could have
beneficial effects on the
microbes in our
guts.
This is because rebalancing of the
gut environment not only requires an infusion of
beneficial microbes to crowd out the pathogens, but also involves die - off of possibly large amounts of pathogens which can cause symptoms to flare up temporarily.
The unbalancing of the
gut that occurs allows pathogenic fungal strains like Candida to become dominant over
beneficial, friendly
microbes, get into the blood and infect other tissues.
The sugar source found in the coconut water, fructose, provides a
beneficial food source for healthy
microbes in the
gut.
As long the
gut is protected by
beneficial bacteria, these
microbes will pass through our digestive system without harm.
Microbes in the
gut break down many of the proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates in our diet and they produce
beneficial compounds like vitamins and anti-inflammatories that we can't produce.
In these case of the
microbes mentioned above, their known ability to assist in the degradation of plant matter — and thus the production of
beneficial short chain fatty acids in the process — may be contributing to our epidemic of reduced pathogen resistance and
gut permeability (think leaky
gut) in their absence.
These will help recolinize the
gut with correct populations of
beneficial microbes.
According to the researchers, when these
microbes grow in the
gut, they produce various by - products that are
beneficial to the host.
(Excerpt from How to Boost Your Child's Immune System: What you need to know to strengthen your child's health and prevent illness) Optimizing your children's
gut flora is not that difficult, once you know what to avoid and how to replenish and maintain
beneficial microbes.
They do not contain the strains necessary to re-establish a
beneficial balance of
microbes and heal / seal the
gut wall that is leaking toxins into the bloodsteam.
Researchers were shocked to learn that these undigested foods actually served as nourishment for the probiotics in the
gut, those
beneficial microbes that perform useful biological functions and are a critical component of a healthy immune system.
It must contend with stress, irregular circadian rhythms, gluten - based diets, sedentary indoor lifestyles, chemically processed and artificially preserved foods, hyperhygiene and antibiotics, which wipe out all the
beneficial microbes in your
gut!
Most poop - eating dogs limit themselves to fresh feces (less than two days old), probably because in addition to digestive enzymes, it also contains high levels of
microbes necessary to regenerate
beneficial bacteria in the
gut.