While gut health and heart disease may seem unrelated at first glance, it turns out that the friendly bacteria living in our intestines may offer more benefits to our health than we ever imagined.
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Parasites do not make for pleasant or polite discussion topics, as most of us do not want to even think about nasty protozoa (or, ick, worms) running amok in our digestive tracts.
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“What is a human being?” It’s an age-old question to which Justin Sonnenburg offers a unique answer. Each of us is, he says, “an elaborate vessel optimized for the growth and spread of our microbial inhabitants” – known collectively as our microbiome.
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In recent years, neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in the idea that there may be a powerful link between the human brain and gut bacteria.
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The digestive system is one of the most complicated organ systems in the body. That’s even before we mention the thousands of species and billions of individual micro-organisms that live there, eating the food we consume and excreting … well, whatever it is that they excrete.
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You have about 10 trillion human cells in your body and around 100 trillion microbial cells (meaning microbes, otherwise known as bugs).
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QUESTION: I need to take an antibiotic, and I know that this increases my risk of developing thrush. Is there anything I can do to reduce this risk?
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Microbes in your stomach support the multi-billion-dollar probiotics industry, your workout, and possibly even your sex drive.
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A few years ago, I wrote an article about the often devastating effects that antibiotics can have on the gut flora.
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Over the years I have searched the medical literature on our bacterial friends and how they and we have become intertwined over eons of time.
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