Lately you've probably been hearing a lot about probiotics because it helps mainly with digestion and maintains a good
balance of gut flora which is the good bacteria that strengthens your immune system.
Other research shows that
diversity of gut flora is an important factor too in preventing insulin resistance and inflammatory diseases.
Once you start understanding the
role of gut flora — the microorganisms living in your intestinal system — have you ever wondered how it all started?
In addition to avoiding artificial sweeteners, there are other ways to cultivate your inner
garden of gut flora to promote fat burning instead of weight gain.
There's new science showing that inulin can aid weight loss by supporting the right type
of gut flora in the colon.
From an article / blog post: «Unless one has suffered a major
disruption of gut flora by antibiotics or an intestinal infection — in other words unless one is symptomatic with diarrhea or bloating — I would suggest focusing on feeding the good bacteria we already have, by eating so - called prebiotics, such as fiber.
«Unless one has suffered a major disruption
of gut flora by antibiotics, or an intestinal infection — unless one is symptomatic — with like diarrhea or bloating, I would suggest focusing on feeding the good bacteria we already have, by eating so - called prebiotics, such as fiber.
All forms of insoluble fiber are digested through bacterial fermentation, but some of us don't have the diversity
of gut flora for this fermentation.
Each feeds different types
of gut flora including the key probiotic strain — Bifidobacterium — that helps with bowel regularity.
Because an imbalance
of gut flora causes digestive disturbances and absorption issues, it makes it difficult to correct any type methylation deficiency.
Also eat plenty of fiber to provide food for the good bacteria, and keep your sugar intake fairly low (about 50 grams per day or less), to avoid feeding harmful stain
of gut flora such as candida.
They were then given antibiotics, which wiped out
much of their gut flora, before ingesting a potentially fatal gut - irritating chemical.
As such, B. bacteriovorus might be more selective than the antibiotics currently in use, and anti-bacterial treatment might not require the widespread
extermination of the gut flora that is of importance to human health.»
Although the Flemish Gut Flora Project has enormously enriched our knowledge on gut flora composition, it only allowed to explain 7 %
of gut flora variation.
The Raes Lab estimates that around 40,000 human samples will be required just to capture a complete
picture of gut flora biodiversity.
We still do not know whether certain DNA variations can result in the assembling and perpetuation of specific microbiota profiles, and this may bear important implications for the potential to treat common diseases through therapeutic
modification of the gut flora.»
Just as cholera is an extremely mild
constituent of gut flora in hygienic Texas, but creates acute disease in unclean Guatemala, so we can expect that germs that created acute disease in (unclean) 1900 will have evolved to create mild chronic infections in (hygienic) 2011.
In this module, Dr. Shah will fill you in on microbiome, and explain the ins and
outs of gut flora.
Especially with all the emerging research about the
transfer of gut flora and immunity from mother to baby during delivery, it would definitely be preferable not to take antibiotics if it can be avoided (especially if testing positive for GBS can be avoided in the first place).
Science is now beginning to acknowledge the profound effects that the
state of your gut flora has on your overall health.
When it comes to rebuilding and taking
care of your gut flora, variety is actually a really good thing so I'm sure my body appreciates the supplements, and with this fun recipe, your body can appreciate them too!
Meanwhile, we now have the latest discoveries in microbiology that have recognized the
contribution of gut flora, which functions like a «second brain».
Not in the wholesale, everything - is - caused - by - yeast strategy that I see among some practitioners in the alternative medicine world, but in having a healthy suspicion that some or many of my patients» most nagging symptoms might be due to dysbiosis, an imbalance in the
microbes of their gut flora, including overgrowth of yeast.
«There are studies showing that what we eat can alter the composition and
products of the gut flora — in particular, that people with high - vegetable, fiber - based diets have a different composition of their microbiota, or gut environment, than people who eat the more typical Western diet that is high in fat and carbohydrates,» [senior author Dr. Emeran] Mayer said.
Research has confirmed a strong connection between the
makeup of our gut flora and the functioning of the immune, nervous and endocrine (hormonal) systems.
More inflammation, more bacterial overgrowth, maybe a bout of antibiotics thrown in for good measure which wipes out the bacteria, leaving a clean slate and prompting another mad dash by microbes to fill the vacancies, and the result is — potentially — a permanently altered / disrupted
distribution of gut flora both supporting and supported by chronic systemic inflammation.