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Prologue
It will take a while to get to the main point in this thread but background information is required to understand what is really going on. When we are born, we are desterilized, and are flooded with tons of bacteria that gets all over our bodies. Your first thought may be that getting all this bacteria all over us isn't a good thing, but in fact, it is a very important part to human survival. Without bacteria on our bodies, we would all be more susceptible to diseases and other bodily issues. However, this is not the only thing bacteria can for do us.
Gut Microbiome
The gut contains it's own special microbiome. It's filled with many different kinds of microbes. Some help us digest our food and consume parts of food that we cannot digest ourselves. This is why when people sometimes eat inedible foods, they don't always receive negative effects. However, this depends on your gut health and the state of it's microbiome.
What Types of Bacteria Are In Your Guts Microbiome?
Your gut contains trillions of microbes, but you might wonder what kind of microbes are in there and what they do to you. The majority of microbes in your gut are good for you and you are basically in a symbiotic relationship with them. They take our food and shelter as enough to help us out, such as eating parts of food that we cannot digest ourselves as I mentioned earlier, but also taking out bad microbes that are only there to hurt us. You may think that there's a way to permanently get rid of bad microbes, but it's not possible. The number of them can be diminished but never completely destroyed. The good microbes in your body also provide enzymes that have the ability to help synthesize some types of vitamins.
There are also of course bad microbes in our body, which in the right conditions, can overpower the good and more neutral ones. Some cause diseases, while others are the reason why your teeth turn yellow when you don't brush them. All of these microbes are in your body right now, but if your in a healthy state, they shouldn't do much harm to you as they are in smaller numbers.
Tooth Bacteria Up Close
Your gut of course is a power house for bacteria to live, so intruders are going to present and make their way through digestion into the ongoing war in your stomach. However, your body has an immune system that is ready to take on intruders and other bad microbes. But you may be wondering how the immune system avoids attacking good microbes since they are all outsiders at the end of the day. It is believed that over the course of time, our immune system and good bacteria eventually found a way to communicate and make the immune system understand they are not threats. It can be observed that some send messages through substance and help your immune system regenerate faster. The immune system has also found it's own ways to distinguish between them through specialized cells that only respond to bad microbes and not the helpful ones.
Microbes Might Influence Your Brain
It has been observed by scientists, that the majority of our serotonin is produced in the gut. Serotonin is a messenger substance that is used by nerve cells. It is also known by scientists that there are gut microbes that produce serotonin. Our Vagus nerve is the main line of information in our body and uses serotonin as a way of communication. So microbes can use the gut-brain axis to communicate with our brain via use of serotonin.
Gut-Brain Axis
Bacteria may also stimulate the immune cells that are located in the gut to send a signal to the brain. But here comes the fun part.
How What You Eat Might Determine and Change What Food You Like Through Microbes
It has been observed through animals such as fruit flies, that the microbiome they are in influences what kind of food they like to eat. So, if that has been observed with them, the same could go for us. Our microbiome (that we start with) is determined by our mother. Each of the organisms in our gut feed on different types of food. Main ones being leafy greens, meat, sugar, and salt and/or butter (fast food). "What you eat the most will also breed the most" is the saying I've come up with here. More greens, more greens eating bacteria. More butter, more butter eating bacteria.
Conclusion (read the paragraph above to understand better)
This part right here will help you convince/force yourself to like a certain kind of food. Let's say you start eating healthy foods like leafy greens or meat. You may not like them at first, but overtime your gut microbiome will increase in the number of healthy microbes that like the foods that your eating in this situation. Thus, they will communicate to your brain that they want more of it making you think you want more of it. Increasing your want for intake and a healthier gut microbiome. In turn this gives you a healthier body and helps you want to eat healthy foods. These microbes are also on your taste buds too. People say that taste buds change, but it actually may just be what you eat changing the microbiome on your taste buds, as they can influence the taste of food by what they excrete.
It can also be observed in people that when someone sticks to healthy foods for a long time and then decides to eat a lot of sweets, they feel sick. Not a coincidence.
SO GO OUT AND EAT HEALTHY. The knowledge should be convincing enough, it may taste bad at first but it will be worth it.
EDIT: For the people in comments ranting about leafy greens being unhealthy. You missed the point of this thread, I'm using it as an example.
sources:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/25201-gut-microbiome
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/the-gut-brain-connection
https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-... part,bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09...so produce hundreds,both mood and GI activity
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6469458/#:~:text=Abstract,, cognition, and mental health
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7179820/
It will take a while to get to the main point in this thread but background information is required to understand what is really going on. When we are born, we are desterilized, and are flooded with tons of bacteria that gets all over our bodies. Your first thought may be that getting all this bacteria all over us isn't a good thing, but in fact, it is a very important part to human survival. Without bacteria on our bodies, we would all be more susceptible to diseases and other bodily issues. However, this is not the only thing bacteria can for do us.
Gut Microbiome
The gut contains it's own special microbiome. It's filled with many different kinds of microbes. Some help us digest our food and consume parts of food that we cannot digest ourselves. This is why when people sometimes eat inedible foods, they don't always receive negative effects. However, this depends on your gut health and the state of it's microbiome.
What Types of Bacteria Are In Your Guts Microbiome?
Your gut contains trillions of microbes, but you might wonder what kind of microbes are in there and what they do to you. The majority of microbes in your gut are good for you and you are basically in a symbiotic relationship with them. They take our food and shelter as enough to help us out, such as eating parts of food that we cannot digest ourselves as I mentioned earlier, but also taking out bad microbes that are only there to hurt us. You may think that there's a way to permanently get rid of bad microbes, but it's not possible. The number of them can be diminished but never completely destroyed. The good microbes in your body also provide enzymes that have the ability to help synthesize some types of vitamins.
There are also of course bad microbes in our body, which in the right conditions, can overpower the good and more neutral ones. Some cause diseases, while others are the reason why your teeth turn yellow when you don't brush them. All of these microbes are in your body right now, but if your in a healthy state, they shouldn't do much harm to you as they are in smaller numbers.
Tooth Bacteria Up Close
Your gut of course is a power house for bacteria to live, so intruders are going to present and make their way through digestion into the ongoing war in your stomach. However, your body has an immune system that is ready to take on intruders and other bad microbes. But you may be wondering how the immune system avoids attacking good microbes since they are all outsiders at the end of the day. It is believed that over the course of time, our immune system and good bacteria eventually found a way to communicate and make the immune system understand they are not threats. It can be observed that some send messages through substance and help your immune system regenerate faster. The immune system has also found it's own ways to distinguish between them through specialized cells that only respond to bad microbes and not the helpful ones.
Microbes Might Influence Your Brain
It has been observed by scientists, that the majority of our serotonin is produced in the gut. Serotonin is a messenger substance that is used by nerve cells. It is also known by scientists that there are gut microbes that produce serotonin. Our Vagus nerve is the main line of information in our body and uses serotonin as a way of communication. So microbes can use the gut-brain axis to communicate with our brain via use of serotonin.
Gut-Brain Axis
Bacteria may also stimulate the immune cells that are located in the gut to send a signal to the brain. But here comes the fun part.
How What You Eat Might Determine and Change What Food You Like Through Microbes
It has been observed through animals such as fruit flies, that the microbiome they are in influences what kind of food they like to eat. So, if that has been observed with them, the same could go for us. Our microbiome (that we start with) is determined by our mother. Each of the organisms in our gut feed on different types of food. Main ones being leafy greens, meat, sugar, and salt and/or butter (fast food). "What you eat the most will also breed the most" is the saying I've come up with here. More greens, more greens eating bacteria. More butter, more butter eating bacteria.
Conclusion (read the paragraph above to understand better)
This part right here will help you convince/force yourself to like a certain kind of food. Let's say you start eating healthy foods like leafy greens or meat. You may not like them at first, but overtime your gut microbiome will increase in the number of healthy microbes that like the foods that your eating in this situation. Thus, they will communicate to your brain that they want more of it making you think you want more of it. Increasing your want for intake and a healthier gut microbiome. In turn this gives you a healthier body and helps you want to eat healthy foods. These microbes are also on your taste buds too. People say that taste buds change, but it actually may just be what you eat changing the microbiome on your taste buds, as they can influence the taste of food by what they excrete.
It can also be observed in people that when someone sticks to healthy foods for a long time and then decides to eat a lot of sweets, they feel sick. Not a coincidence.
SO GO OUT AND EAT HEALTHY. The knowledge should be convincing enough, it may taste bad at first but it will be worth it.
EDIT: For the people in comments ranting about leafy greens being unhealthy. You missed the point of this thread, I'm using it as an example.
sources:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/25201-gut-microbiome
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/the-gut-brain-connection
https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-... part,bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09...so produce hundreds,both mood and GI activity
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6469458/#:~:text=Abstract,, cognition, and mental health
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7179820/
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