Digestive Health
Our digestive tract is technically outside of our body, a long tube that takes in substances and sorts them for us so nothing harmful gets into our bloodstream. In addition to digesting food, our gut is also where 70-80% of our immune cells live. Bacteria and food are kept outside of our body, in the digestive tract, and are only aloud to pass the gut lining and into the bloodstream if deemed safe. A diversity of beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract helps keep proliferation of microbes in check. Immune cells in the gut lining, called Peyer’s Patches’, help identify harmful invasions.
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The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View
The human gut harbors diverse microbes that play a fundamental role in the well-being of their host. The constituents of the microbiota—bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes—have been shown to interact with one another and with the host immune system in ways that...
Understanding Gut Health
SUPERBUG at the 2016 OLYMPICS
What would you do if you were an Olympian, about to go to Brazil to compete in the 2016 Olympics, and there are warnings about a "Superbug"? Would you think twice? Some athletes are pulling out, although there is so much controversy in Brazil right now, it's hard to...
Understanding Prebiotics is Essential to a Healthy Microbiome?
Diet is an important determinant of disease risk in all population groups. There is emerging evidence that functional food ingredients can have an impact on a number of gut-related diseases and dysfunctions associated with changing lifestyle and age. The words of...
Is Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis Possible By Understanding The Microbiome?
The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating...
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