Gut Bacteria Articles

Gut Bacteria Articles:

Major Breakthroughs on Gut Function

The National Institutes of Health is devoting $100 million in grants over the next five years to study how the trillions of bacteria and yeasts in your gut actually affect your health and risk for disease. After decades of denial, mainstream researchers now have the molecular tools to actually evaluate gut contents...

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More Than a Gut Feeling

A new study shows more clear evidence of the inseparable link between digestive balance of foreign cells and human health. In this study it was proven that specific bacteria provoke the human immune system into a pro-inflammatory condition, adversely influencing intestinal immunity and predisposing to inflammatory bowel disease.

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Foreign Gut Bacteria Strike a Deal for Peaceful Co-existence

Our digestive tracts accommodate as many foreign cells as we have cells in our own body. This relationship has existed since the beginning of human evolution. We now have tools to explore communication between gut contents and human cells, a truly new frontier in health. One way that gut health is maintained is through a negotiated peace arrangement between the various populations of types of bacteria and the human immune system. That agreement can be shattered by poor diet, too much stress, or antibiotics. The peaceful bacteria can then take on the attributes of a hostile gang, the human immune system responds, and an inflammatory battle ensues. This can lead to irritable bowel, obesity, diabetes, or colon cancer.

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Gut Bacteria Can Cause Fatty Liver

The plot thickens. There are many chefs in the human health kitchen, not the least of which is the foreign contents of your digestive tract. The accumulation of excess fat in your liver is a huge problem to your health for multiple reasons. The fact that gut bacteria imbalance is now linked to this problem, lends even more importance to the rapidly evolving science of human and gut genome interaction in health and disease.

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Gut Bacteria Promote Storage of Calories by Your Liver

The balance of power of the contents of your digestive tract has a powerful influence on your liver’s metabolic function, especially regarding the storage of calories and the potential malfunction of storing too many calories and causing health problems.

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Is Gut Bacteria More Important than Calories When it Comes to Body Weight?

A new Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is helping to clarify which foods contribute to weight gain – with some surprising results. The study includes 120,000 men and women from three large cohorts followed for 12-20 years. The study shows that inactivity is not a good thing and then sleeping less than 6 hours or more than 8 is also trouble. But the news-generating headlines have come from the foods that either did or didn’t cause weight gain. Regular consumption of yogurt turned out to the most helpful of all foods – not because of calories but because of friendly flora in the yogurt.

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