Everything you eat or drink affects your intestinal bacteria, and is likely to ultimately have an impact on your health.
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Your Lifestyle Impacts Your Gut Bacteria – and Ultimately, Your Overall Health
We already know that inflammation is the likely cause of a multitude of health conditions, including arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic pain, headaches, depression, and heart disease.
Many experts believe that inflammation begins in the gut. Having a healthy digestive system is important because a healthy system filters out things that can damage it (like bad bacteria, toxins, chemicals, and waste products). It also helps us absorb and deliver the good stuff like nutrients from our food.
About 70% of our immune cells are in our digestive system, and they make direct contact every bit of food we consume. If the immune system is triggered by bacteria in food, flags a food as an allergen, or has an imbalance of important hormones such as insulin, it can cause inflammation.
As you can imagine, everything you eat or drink affects your intestinal bacteria, and is likely to ultimately have an impact on your health.
A new large-scale study led by RUG/UMCG geneticist Cisca Wijmenga into the effect of food and medicine on the bacterial diversity in the human gut, which is published this Friday in the research journal Science, provides more support for the gut bacteria-health link.
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