Nutrition & Gut Microbiome by Dr. Varun Khandagale
🌀 Why the gut microbiome is important for your health??
Our body is filled with billions of bacteria, viruses and fungus bacteria. They are collectively known as the microbiome.
While some are related to bacterial diseases, others are really very important to our immune system, heart, weight and many other matters of health.
🌀 What is the microbiome in it?
🌀 What is the microbiome in it?
Bacteria, viruses, fungus and other microorganisms that are referred to as microorganism or microorganism.
Billions of these microbes are mainly present in our gut and on our skin.
Most of the microbes in our gut are found in our large intestine ′′ pocket ′′ called Sikkam and called as the gut microbiome.
Although many types of microorganisms live inside you, bacteria is the most studied bacteria.
In fact, our body contains more bacterial cells than human cells. Our body has about 40 trillion bacteria cells and only 30 trillion human cells. It means you are more bacteria than humans!!
That's it, the human gut microbiome has 1000 species of bacteria and plays a different role in each body. Most of them are very important to our health, while others can suffer from disease
The total weight of these microorganisms can be about 2-5 pounds (1-22 kg), which is the average weight of your brain. Together, they act as an extra organ in our body and play a huge role in our health.
🌀 How does this affect your body?
Humans have evolved to live with microorganisms for millions of years.
During this time, microorganisms have learned to play a very important role in the human body. In fact, without the intestinal microbiome, it would be very difficult to live.
The gut microbiome begins to affect our body at the moment of birth.
When you go through your mother's birthway, you are first at risk of microorganisms. However, new evidence suggests that the baby may come in contact with some microorganisms while in the womb.
As we grow, our gut microbiome begins to diversify, which means it contains different types of microbial species. High microbiome variety is considered good for your health.
Especially, the food you eat affects the diversity of your gut bacteria.
🌀 As our microbiome grows, it affects our body in many ways, With this:
Breastfeeding Digestion: Some bacteria first grow in baby's intestines called bifidobacteria. They digest healthy milk..
Digesting Fiber: Specific bacteria digest fibers, producing short-chain fatty acids, which are important for gut health. Fiber can help prevent weight gain, diabetes, heart disease and cancer risk.
Helping control your immune system: The gut microbiome also controls how your immune system works. By interacting with immune cells, the intestinal microbiome can control how our body responds to infection.
Help control brain health: New research shows that gut microbiome can also affect the central nerve that controls brain function.
Therefore, gut microbiome can affect main functions in our body and affect our health.
🌀 Summary:
The gut microbiome affects the body from birth and whole life by controlling food, the immune system, the central nervous system and other physical processes.
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