Today we'll explore a part of digestive health that many don't talk about Gut macrobiotics and how it affects a girl's health, through its effect on metabolism. Fitness Garage always cares about raising awareness for our health and how to take care of ourselves.
What is macrobiotic?
Macrobiotic refers to a group of genes inside microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes. But mostly it means all microorganisms in general. The largest group of microbes in the human body is in the stomach.
If a girl weighs 70 kilograms, the microbes in her stomachweigh about 200 grams. About the weight of a medium mango, microbes are similar in most traits but not identical. Microbes are affected by some factors in the human body which are:
- Feeding methods.
- Medications.
- Eating habits.
- Ways of cooking food.
- Environment and lifestyle.
- Body weight.
There are some other factors beyond our control, they are:
- Genetics.
- The anatomical part of the intestines.
- Pregnancy time.
- Age.
Although microbes don’t match exactly in everyone's stomach, they help humans in many stages of metabolism like digesting some nutrients humans can't break down, and making some useful vitamins, so they aren’t always bad.
What are the natural and beneficial microbes for humans?
There are some traits that benefit human health and they are:
- Having a variety of microbes in your body is healthy for your digestive system.
- The ability to handle digestive issues and flexibility in metabolism.
- The gut contains a certain number of microbes, which shows the digestive system is healthy.
Some specialists and doctors link diseases like obesity, diabetes, allergies, and even neurodegenerative diseases to problems with gut microbes, so many have started paying attention to them lately.
Where are these microbes found?
Microbes are found in other places in the body besides the stomach, but in the stomach they have a very big impact on the girl's health, that's why scientists care more about them than others. Microbes are found in the nose, mouth, throat, small intestine, lungs, vagina, and skin.
Gut microbes have many jobs:
1- Defense roles:
- It defends against microbes.
- It helps the immune system recognize harmful microbes entering the body.
- It breaks down toxic compounds that enter the body.
2- Nutrition roles:
- It helps digest some foods humans can't digest.
- It helps produce some fatty acids when breaking down some fibers in the gut.
- Helps the body absorb many minerals like iron, calcium, and magnesium.
- Some key vitamins like vitamin K and amino acids are made.
3- Behavioral functions:
- They can help shape mood and behavior.
When do gut microbes start developing?
Some doctors think microbes transfer right after birth, but later they found it happens during breastfeeding through the mouth, which is the first place microbes appear. Also The birth method affects the types of microbes the baby is exposed to early on, If born through the vagina, the baby gets vaginal microbes, but if born by C-section, it picks up skin microbes at first.
One factor affecting the types of microbes in a baby's body is how they are fed, whether from natural breast milk or formula. Breast milk doesn't just have live microbes but also contains some complex carbohydrates, and those carbohydrates help create antibiotics in the baby's body, so babies who get gut microbes develop them like adults do.
When kids move from breastfeeding to eating solid foods with fibers and protein, the variety of microbes in their gut goes up as they get older. By age 3, a child’s gut has microbes similar to those found in adults.
Here are some facts about gut microbes:
There are some facts you should know about gut microbes:
- Humans have roughly the same number of human cells as bacterial cells.
- The variety of microbes in your stomach shows your digestive system is healthy.
- Stomach microbes are like fingerprints, unique to each person.
- Many outside factors affect gut microbes like your diet and aging.
- Probiotics and fermented foods feed those microbes and boost gut health.
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