"Gut bugs" refers to the diverse community of microorganisms, including bacteria and other microbes, that live in our digestive system (gut). These bugs play an important role in supporting our overall health and maintaining a balanced digestive system.
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I won't call
good gut bugs a miracle, but if any aspect of healing comes close, it's these guys.
This may taste strong but it is a powerful way to use garlic to get rid of
bad gut bugs!
These healthy fats promote
healthier gut bugs, lower inflammation levels, and increased weight loss.
This is a very important issue but there's another aspect that's often ignored, which is the effect sugar has on our
friendly gut bugs.
These
helpful gut bugs can alleviate and prevent depressive symptoms (even when the depression is related to an unhealthy diet), reduce anxiety, and decrease stress.
Including the above foods daily will feed the
right gut bugs and encourage them to multiply, keeping the bad guys in check.
In addition to
testing gut bugs, this stool culture shows you markers for inflammation in the gut to gauge improvement of care.
Also it is very important to heal your gut and make sure you are free of parasites
other gut bugs.
We want to make sure that our microbiome is filled with more of the «
good gut bugs» as opposed to the bad.
The first matter of business is that we have
healthy gut bugs (bacteria) that live inside our digestive tract.
Although we don't know for sure, some studies suggest that having the right population
of gut bugs could help you better recover from a workout.
Also people with gut problems normally have nutritional deficiencies as food is not being absorbed properly and
friendly gut bugs aren't producing vitamins as they should do.
And when it does hit the large intestine, those good
gut bugs feed off the insoluble fiber, creating short - chain - fatty - acids — giving you energy and protecting the health of your colon.
In findings published this month in eLife, first author Xue Liang, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of senior author Garret A FitzGerald, MD, chair of the department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, found that interactions between
gut bugs in mice and the NSAID indomethacin (similar to ibuprofen and naproxen) inhibit the action of cyclooxygenases (COX)-1 and -2.
Fermented foods like kombucha are another beneficial way to increase your good
gut bugs when your gut is healed, primed and ready.
Researchers have found
human gut bugs such as Escherichia coli in ape droppings — not surprising, as these bacteria persist in the environment, where eco-tourists with diarrhoea deposit them.
As numerous clinical studies confirm the gut benefits touted by brands, probiotics» popularity with consumers has rocketed and the inclusion of these
tiny gut bugs in beverage has sent waves through the industry.
If this is the case, Love Your Gut Powder and Golden Gut blend can come in handy as they can help sweep out impurities, heavy metals, parasites and
nasty gut bugs without interfering with or wiping out the beneficial bacteria we need for our guts to thrive.
This article appeared in print under the headline «Dietary change sparks
rapid gut bug revolution»
The researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from the mouse droppings, studying a gene often used to distinguish bacterial species to find out
what gut bugs were present.
Ingesting billions of these
hardworking gut bugs day in and day out will create armies of immune - regulating bacteria that are ready to stand guard and go to battle for you.
Probiotics help to nourish our healthy
gut bugs so that we have a healthy intestinal lining (no leaky gut where toxins get out into our bloodstream) and so that bad bacteria, which can be dangerous to our health, don't proliferate.
Notice their serving size is 1tsp (5g) not enough to do
anything gut bug wise because they don't want anyone to say their product made them fart.
The amount we consume can be a big factor in the health of our microbiome and, as we now know, anything that harms our friendly
gut bugs harms us too.
It is particularly well suited for travel circumstances due to its unique anti microbial focus (so super helpful in combatting random
travel gut bugs) AND it is usually shelf stable / does not require short term regrigiration when traveling.
Second,
gut bug imbalance (aka dysbiosis) leaves your body a breeding ground for inflammation - which we already know is a big no - no for endometriosis.
In short,
gut bugs salvage energy from otherwise non-digestible polysaccharides — think dietary fiber — through special enzymes they encode and our genome does not, which in turn increases circulating glucose and insulin levels and thus weight.
The Oxford University Press Blog, home to much that catches my attention, has a piece on «
How gut bugs affect brain health.,» a trifle earnest for a Friday Fillip, I'll admit.
In some cases unbalanced or increased presence of
bad gut bugs are associated with ASD like behaviours and some recent evidence from various labs suggests that manipulating the gut microbiome can improve the symptoms.
Having the wrong kind
of gut bugs might help cause type - 1 diabetes.
Dennis Kasper at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that mice inoculated with Bacteroides fragilis — a
human gut bug that produces a molecule called PSA — were able to fend off colitis provoked by the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter hepaticus.
The good fats we mentioned earlier (like omega 3 fats and monounsaturated fats, such as extra-virgin olive oil) will help with decreasing inflammation, giving
healthy gut bugs a chance to flourish.
Moreover, a low FODMAP diet low in fermentable fibers (food for
good gut bugs) leads to local EXTINCTIONS of colonic microbiota populations — and it has been conclusively demonstrated in the literature that permanent re-inoculation of these species with probiotic supplements just does not happen (Staudacher et al., 2012).
In the case of some chemicals few scientific studies have been carried out or they are still controversial, but they are nevertheless strongly suspected to damage our
friendly gut bugs, including: