#microbiome

#microbiome

Ultraprocessed foods are pervasive in the modern food system. It's estimated that around 60% to 70% of an average American adult's daily calories consist of these products. While convenient and tasty, chronic consumption eventually wrecks your health, and the first place that's affected is your gut. Eating ultraprocessed foods weakens your intestinal lining, allowing harmful bacteria to thrive and creating systemic inflammation. Moreover, your gut's balance shifts dramatically, crowding out beneficial microbes that normally keep your gut healthy

Rising ocean temperatures and increasing acidification are threatening coral reefs. Between 2009 and 2018, the world's reefs lost 14% of their corals. By 2025, 84% of the oceans' reefs have been affected by bleaching, meaning they've been so stressed by the changes to their environments that they've expelled all the algae living inside them, turning them white. As climate change worsens, coral loss is expected to speed up. Corals are also threatened by activities like fishing and tourism.

A Chinese study with mice found that playing music led to higher levels of Lactobacillus in their gut, which increased the acidity enough to deter Salmonella infections.

I don't want to give the message that microbes are the entire thing. But we know that there are significant correlations between how much we have of various microbes and cancer.

Microbes, short for microorganisms, are tiny living things like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. When scientists talk about the human microbiome, they usually refer to the trillions of bacteria that live in and on our bodies, especially in the gut.

Powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics that kill extracellular bacteria are seen as the most effective medication because physicians want to just kill the bacterium and don't care how.

Previous studies have shown that gut yeast - a type of fungus - can aggravate alcoholic fatty liver disease, but whether filamentous fungi such as F. foetens could affect liver conditions was unclear.

Armet's experience emphasizes the positive impact of high-fiber, minimally processed diets on gut health, showcasing how dietary adjustments can lead to significant improvements in symptoms.

Amati emphasizes that incorporating a diversity of foods into your diet can enhance the health of the gut microbiome, which is crucial for overall well-being.