Sentences with phrase «harmful microbes like»

Seventy percent of the immune system is in the intestinal lining and an overgrowth of harmful microbes like yeast, bad bacteria and parasites can cause the immune system to «misfire.»

Not exact matches

Things like bacteria and microbes tracked in on your shoes and soot from scented candles can be harmful.

POWER PUNCH Certain sugar molecules in human breast milk act a lot like superheroes, fostering beneficial microbes and banishing harmful ones.

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

And, these genes are not random or trivial; they often have huge implications for disease and are involved in critical processes, like determining which proteins a microbe produces or changing a strain of bacteria from being safe to harmful.

And since the tissues in the anus are very thin, bacteria and other harmful microbes — like gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV, for example — can more easily enter through small nicks and abrasions and get into the bloodstream.

This is because shower filters are designed to remove chemicals like chlorine, not necessarily harmful microbes.