Crash Course Your Gut Mirobiome: Bacteria, Viruses Fungi Eukaryotes, Archae
Most of the organisms which live with us, live within the gut, some are bacteria, many are not. These organisms are hard at work producing vitamins, providing ways to harvest, process, and store food energy, and ultimately affects all aspects of our heath including brain, psychological, and immune system health.
The healthiest gut is the most diverse: so the more bug types, as a general rule, the healthier you are.
Most of what is in your microbiome is Firmicutes. Bacteriordetes and Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria ore the next most abundant bacteria. But almost 80% of our gut is Firmicutes and bacteriordies.
When you have a healthy gut, one fed proper fiber and nutrients, the lining tissue will both help support good bacterial ratios and prevent toxins from getting into your system.
Imbalances that are seen can be corrected as the disease is corrected. Diabetics, for instance, have more bacteriodetes as compared with firmicutes, an unhealthy ratio. But diet and metformin for diabetes helps correct these imbalances as the disease itself is brought into check.
Meat eaters have more Bacteroides and those who eat more carbs have Prevotella pattern. When you are fed antibiotics, or are ill with a variety of diseases in addition to diabetes, the bacterial patterns changes. What we don’t exactly know is which happens first: the change in the gut or the illness. We think either way is actually possible.
The wrong bacterial due to antibiotic treatments in infancy can cause so much havoc in our system it’s been linked to obesity!
Since the 1970s, it has been known that in addition to supporting proper food digestion, the intestinal bacteria that make up a woman’s gut microbiome influence how you process estrogen hormone. The colonies of bacteria determine whether estrogen and the fragments left behind after the hormone is processed continue circulating through the body or are expelled through urine and feces thus inactivated.
To learn about your diet, you gut bacteria, and your health, come see us at Women’s Health Practice.
