From a young age most of us are taught how to be a great host to our guest. The 3 golden guidelines:
- Ensure they have food and drink.
- Create an environment that will nurture that comradeship.
- And remember to have fun.
What if I was to tell you that you have been hosting a daily party for a long while. Would that be a surprise?? What if I told you the number of guest overwhelmed the quantity of cells you have in your body? The friends you are hosting are healthy bacteria that reside in your gut. These pals of yours have been working for years doing vital roles that impact your health. This party represents a symbiotic relationship- a relationship where both the host and guest equally benefit.
Who are these buggers anyways?
According to the world health organisation (2001) "probiotics are live microorganisms, which, when administered in satisfactory amounts, confer a health benefit on the host."
Probiotic infomercial
"We've been providing security since your birthdate. We reduce your sensitivity to malicious foreign attackers by occupying your gut wall. When we are numerous and chilling on your gut wall we make it much harder for a foreign attacker to fit in with us. We literally crowd them out.
We are positive gossipers in contrast to the evil pathogenic counterparts. We send positive communications to your gut cells that in return start a cascade of events vital in regulating your immunological system, significant in decreasing inflammation as well as manufacturing important metabolites like vitamins and other protective molecules."
Are you aware roughly 70% of your immunological system resides in your gut?? Conceptualizing that probiotics can offer digestive benefits appears creditable. The systemic impact of probiotics on our health is far reaching and much beyond the bounds of the gut. Some can reduce the length of colds and flus, impact the skin, eliminate vaginal candidiasis, improve our capability to detoxify and handle allergies.
How does your gut talk with your immune system?? Thru an immune relationship between your gut-associated lymphoid tissue and your mucosal associated lymphoid tissue. What we understand is that influencing the immune cells in your gut also ends up in changes in mucosal tissue. This is the reason why sinus issues can truly be a manifestation of gut issues.
Hosting costs
There is a bit of problem. Generally, our society has developed and changed its eating habits with little regard for the influence it might have on our buddies. We probably did have a deal after all. They'd work around the clock defending against the superpowers of pure evil but we did need to supply them with a nurturing and flourishing environment.
For most of the time we haven't been excellent hosts to our inhabitants. Fatty and low fiber diets as well as acid suppressing drugs make it a rather harsh environment for them to prosper. Additionally, when we use antibiotics one of the side-effect is that some of the good bacteria get killed as well. These contributors combined with the actuality that our food is pasteurized and diet sources of probiotics have seriously been reduced results in a run down population. This will make us subject to dysbiosis or an unhealthy balance of bad to good bacteria. Remember we had a deal and if we don't hold our end neither will they.
Probiotic etiquette- take home message
- Increase your dietary fiber.
- Take proactive action after taking antibiotics with a strain specific probiotic.
- Unless you make your own unpasteurized sauerkraut your consumption of probiotics is likely at a minimum. Consider a daily researched strain specified probiotic like Lactobaccilus acidophilousNCFM.
- Ensure they have food and drink.
- Create an environment that will nurture that comradeship.
- And remember to have fun.
What if I was to tell you that you have been hosting a daily party for a long while. Would that be a surprise?? What if I told you the number of guest overwhelmed the quantity of cells you have in your body? The friends you are hosting are healthy bacteria that reside in your gut. These pals of yours have been working for years doing vital roles that impact your health. This party represents a symbiotic relationship- a relationship where both the host and guest equally benefit.
Who are these buggers anyways?
According to the world health organisation (2001) "probiotics are live microorganisms, which, when administered in satisfactory amounts, confer a health benefit on the host."
Probiotic infomercial
"We've been providing security since your birthdate. We reduce your sensitivity to malicious foreign attackers by occupying your gut wall. When we are numerous and chilling on your gut wall we make it much harder for a foreign attacker to fit in with us. We literally crowd them out.
We are positive gossipers in contrast to the evil pathogenic counterparts. We send positive communications to your gut cells that in return start a cascade of events vital in regulating your immunological system, significant in decreasing inflammation as well as manufacturing important metabolites like vitamins and other protective molecules."
Are you aware roughly 70% of your immunological system resides in your gut?? Conceptualizing that probiotics can offer digestive benefits appears creditable. The systemic impact of probiotics on our health is far reaching and much beyond the bounds of the gut. Some can reduce the length of colds and flus, impact the skin, eliminate vaginal candidiasis, improve our capability to detoxify and handle allergies.
How does your gut talk with your immune system?? Thru an immune relationship between your gut-associated lymphoid tissue and your mucosal associated lymphoid tissue. What we understand is that influencing the immune cells in your gut also ends up in changes in mucosal tissue. This is the reason why sinus issues can truly be a manifestation of gut issues.
Hosting costs
There is a bit of problem. Generally, our society has developed and changed its eating habits with little regard for the influence it might have on our buddies. We probably did have a deal after all. They'd work around the clock defending against the superpowers of pure evil but we did need to supply them with a nurturing and flourishing environment.
For most of the time we haven't been excellent hosts to our inhabitants. Fatty and low fiber diets as well as acid suppressing drugs make it a rather harsh environment for them to prosper. Additionally, when we use antibiotics one of the side-effect is that some of the good bacteria get killed as well. These contributors combined with the actuality that our food is pasteurized and diet sources of probiotics have seriously been reduced results in a run down population. This will make us subject to dysbiosis or an unhealthy balance of bad to good bacteria. Remember we had a deal and if we don't hold our end neither will they.
Probiotic etiquette- take home message
- Increase your dietary fiber.
- Take proactive action after taking antibiotics with a strain specific probiotic.
- Unless you make your own unpasteurized sauerkraut your consumption of probiotics is likely at a minimum. Consider a daily researched strain specified probiotic like Lactobaccilus acidophilousNCFM.
About the Author:
Doctor Melanie DesChatelets is a naturopathic doctor in Burnaby and Vancouver. She is passionate about digestive health and the writer of the The Minimalist Guide To Supplements.
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