A Look At The Human Gut And Microbial Cells - Dr. Kristine Blanche

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A LOOK AT THE HUMAN GUT
The human gut has about 100 trillion microbial cells, which is about 10 times more than the rest of the human body. These microbial cells include bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and eukaryotes, and are collectively known as the microbiome. Researchers are studying these microbes to see how their genes may affect the human Immune System Function Health.

Your microbiome starts to develop after you’re born. By the age of 3, a toddler’s microbiome is similar to an adult. Your gut is composed of helpful and harmful microorganisms, specifically bacteria. Some of the bacteria are good, helping to breakdown food and some are harmful, causing illness. The digestive tract can handle a certain number of microorganisms at a time. By eating foods with live, active cultures that act as probiotics, you can add gut-friendly bacteria and reduce the number of harmful bacteria. Probiotics are fueled by prebiotics that is derived from carbohydrates that can’t be digested by humans. To maintain gut health, ...
... you should eat a combination of foods that provide both prebiotics and probiotics.

The Gut Liver Connection
The intestinal tract and the liver are anatomically and physiologically connected. This relationship between the two has been called the “gut–liver axis,” and the effects of intestinal metabolites on the liver are considered very important for the onset and progression of liver diseases. The gut microbiota, in particular, has recently emerged as an important gut–liver axis-mediated factor. Attenuation of the gut barrier function by excessive intake of tissue-damaging foods, such as alcohol and/or a high-fat diet (HFD), renders large amounts of gut microbial components (so-called microbe-associated molecular patterns [MAMPs]) and bacterial metabolites or even the gut microbiota itself susceptible to transfer to the liver.

This can promote serious liver diseases, such as hepatic inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer. Therefore, these gut microbial components and metabolites affect not only the intestine where the gut microbes reside but also organs distant from the intestine through their systemic circulation.

The Gut Heart Connection
Good bacteria in your gut has been linked to a number of benefits, including immune health, better sleep, cancer prevention, and weight control. Now, recent research highlights that it’s also a potential boost for your heart health.

Another bonus: The microbes in your gut can alter how you store fat, balance your blood glucose levels, and protect against pathogens. Some experts have even noted it can help your exercise performance.
Improving gut health starts with food—consuming fruits, vegetables, whole-grain fiber, yogurt, and kombucha are all good options—but a healthy microbiome also depends on other healthy habits like regular activity, quality sleep, lowered stress levels, less sugar, and moderate alcohol consumption. Basically, all the tactics you’d pursue better overall health will also give that good bacteria in your gut just what they need.

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