Importance of Gut microbes for our well being

Health and diet

Importance of GUT Microbes for our well being

written by Koyel Pal Chowdhury | February 26, 2019

IMPORTANCE OF GUT MICROBES FOR OUR WELL BEING

INTRODUCTION-

GUT HEALTH BEGINS AT BIRTH: Our first ‘inoculation’ of good gut bacteria occurs as our eyes, nose, lips and mouth slide through our mother’s birth canal. This transfer of flora plants the ‘seed’ for the initial colonies that begin to populate the respiratory, urogenital, and gastrointestinal tracts. More and more babies are being deprived of this initial inoculation due to rising cesarean rates.

IMPORTANCE OF GUT FLORA IN ORDER TO PREVENT DISEASES AND DISORDERS

There is a summary of the advantages of gut flora in human brain.

It helps to enhance a healthy CNS development of cognition and child learning disorders. But the use of antibiotics in children influences the profile of microbiota.
Several studies have now reported changes in microbiota profile in patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The possible mechanisms for gut-brain communication in autism suggest that an altered metabolic phenotype in association with microbiota dysbiosis contributes to ASD, pointing to the importance of metabolomics in the study of how microbiota may influence the brain.
It takes part in case of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzeimer’s Disease(AD), Parkinson’s Disease(PD), Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS). These are all characterized by clumped, misfolded bacterial proteins Amyloid and inflammation in brain.
In world wide basis, the number of people with suffering from both Diabetes (Specially TypeII) and Obesity, are highly associated with new way of efforts to target the GBA to reverse these conditions.

DIETARY GUIDELINES ALONG WITH CLINICAL ESTIMATION- Brain sends signals to the gut which is why stress and other emotions can contribute gastrointestinal symptoms. According to UCLA’s study, the implication of the work, the old saying “you are what you eat” and “gut feeling” take on new meaning.

So, based on research, prebiotics and probiotics intake is the only way to sustain brain development in order to stay “Mentally Healthy”. High vegetable, sufficient carbohydrate, high fiber rich diet should recommended. And, in early days the sequence of this process was determined by stool samples but in developed modern science, mucosal samples from different parts of G.I tract are collected to estimate the health status related to microbiota on the well being of brain.

INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF CARBOHYDRATE- Bacteria feed on sugar particularly pathogenic bacteria. Yeast also feeds on sugar and it is beneficial in case of keeping balance of microbial flora under ideal circumstances.
ALTERED FATS IN FOOD PRODUCTS- Fats are necessary in producing and maintaining cell walls. Fat provide the barrier that keep many toxins, pathogens, and water soluble compounds from freely crossing into the bloodstream. A diet containing artificial or poor quality fats leads to permeable cell walls and resulting difficulties with allergies, toxicity and a chronic load on the immune and brain system.

conclusion- Neurologist Daniel Piomelli, University of California recently highlighted the communication pathways between the nervous system and digestive system in an attempt to treat metabolic disorder specifically. So, ‘HEAL YOUR GUT, HEAL YOUR BRAIN” is one of the important caption must be listed for being HEALTHY- PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY AND SOCIALLY.