Every time you eat, you're feeding a host of microbes. And what they eat makes a huge difference in your health. Click the link to learn more.
There are more microbes in your body than human cells . And the particular makeup of your personal microbial community, known as the microbiome, is important to your overall health. With every bite you eat, you’re feeding the tiny critters that make up your gut’s microbiome.
A healthy microbiome can protect against metabolic disorders and inflammatory bowel disease, according to Chris Damman, a University of Washington gastroenterologist, who spent the last 20 years studying the microbiome and its effects on health. Through research at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that developed therapies for malnutrition, Damman discovered what the critters in our guts need to keep us healthy.
And he’s not happy with the state of our nutrition. It’s far less than optimal, he says, precisely because we’ve limited our focus to the macro- and micro-nutrients our bodies need, but ignored the needs of this unseen community within.The community of microbes in your intestines could compare to citizens in a big, diverse city. A network of workers that do important jobs to keep the body, like a big metropolis, running smoothly.
These workers are highly interconnected, and when they’re able to do their jobs properly, they provide our internal city with the things it needs to thrive: transportation , communication , defense and so on, explains Damman. In any city, there are some bad players, but in a healthy body, things generally stay in balance. The good guys do their jobs and the bad guys are, for the most part, kept in check.
Maintaining that balance is crucial, because those microbes do some important work. They create essential vitamins and proteins. They break down toxins. And they play an important role in the immune system. Well-fed gut microbes also take up room that dangerous bacteria might otherwise occupy, such as bad strains of E. coli.
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