Conventional wisdom holds that herbivores, such as cows,
need gut microbes to break down the fibres in plant cell walls.
Not exact matches
For the first time, the World Health Organization has named which bacteria we most urgently
need new antibiotics to fight, and common
gut microbes top the list
We
need to understand the mechanism to see if it is direct or via our
gut microbes.»
Instead, certain
gut microbes might be
needed to protect children suffering from poor diets.
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.
To achieve long - term benefits for chronic conditions, adults would likely
need to constantly replenish their
guts with the relevant missing
microbes.
And with some data suggesting that susceptibility may be linked in part to past antibiotic exposure, perhaps no Western donor can provide the
microbes needed to fully reseed the
gut.
This variation in
gut microbes may explain in large part why people have such individualized
needs when it comes to health.
On the other hand, when you're lacking the numbers of good
microbes in your
gut that you
need to effectively keep your digestion moving along, one of the first places issues will materialize is on your skin.
That's why we
need a healthy barrier to keep the trillions of
microbes in our
guts at a safe distance.
Nourish Your Cells: A robust inner ecosystem that's teeming with friendly
microbes requires healthy mucosal tissue — in other words, the lining of the
gut needs to be strong.
that your
gut microbes need to flourish.
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.»
«In a healthy person, these
microbes in the
gut stimulate the immune system as
needed, and it in turn talks back,» Shulzhenko said.
(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.
This internal ecosystem living on your skin tongue, and throughout your
gut needs to be kept in balance — enough diversity, and the right mix of
microbes — in order to fight disease, digest food, and prevent obesity.
To do that everyone would
need to be tested for their
gut microbes and put into groups.
You want the
microbes that live in your
gut (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, etc.) to be diverse because 70 percent of the immune system dwells there, and you
need it to protect you when the light switches are on.
And not only is it not necessary, it is a serious health risk, for the same reason she
needs to have hay available all the time: If her
gut is empty, the
microbes which help her to digest her food will die.
«Overly clean living can be bad for our immune systems, which
need certain
microbes and
gut bacteria to function properly and to keep us healthy from the more dangerous pathogens.»