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Probiotics is a word that has been widely used but many of us do not know what we should do with them or how they benefit and can improve our physical and emotional health.
Probiotics
are good for
Gut Health
You may have heard the term ‘gut health’ and wonder what it means – surely a healthy gut is just one that digests your food effectively? While this is true, gut health has an impact on the health of your entire body, with increasing evidence suggesting a healthy gut microbiome is important for our mental health, as well as an effective immune system.
Our gut breaks down the meals we eat into a functional form that can enter the bloodstream and go where it is needed in the body. Unfortunately, things can go wrong at several stages in this process, from serious digestive diseases to food intolerances causing problems with how our body extracts nutrients from food.
Diet has a direct impact on the population of these colonies of micro-organisms, with diets high in fat or sugar encouraging bacteria that consume these nutrients, and diets high in fibre encouraging fibre-loving bacteria that generally live further along in the gut. When you eat you aren’t just feeding yourself, you are feeding billions of gut bacteria too, and your dietary choices impact which bacteria do well and which die off. From the oesophagus to the bowel, gut health covers the health of the entire digestive system – the parts of our body responsible for breaking down our food into individual nutrients we use to run our bodies. Each part of the gut has a different job and different colonies of micro-organisms do the job of breaking down food into more digestible formats.
Furthermore, our gut is not just a place where food goes. It in fact the gut microbiome and brain are in cahoots, constantly sending messages to each other. This is known as the Gut-Brain axis
“When our digestive system is well, our central nervous system is happy too. Probiotics are live bacteria that can help to improve your gut flora, and you can find them in fermented foods like plain yogurt, kimchi, and sauerkraut, or take them as a supplement”.
In fact, taking probiotics for just three weeks could help to restore your microbiome and reduce levels of depression, stress, and anxiety, according to a study published in the Clinic and Practice Journal.
The World Health Organization defines probiotics as ‘live microorganisms that when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host.’ A simpler way of putting it is that probiotics are live bacteria that are good for you – especially your digestive system.
Our gut bacteria develop from birth, and it not only helps with the digestion and absorption of nutrients from what we eat, but also provides energy and produces vitamins.
“While some bacteria can be harmful to our health, many others are extremely beneficial, and maintaining a harmonious balance between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria is crucial for our overall health”.
A variety of things have an impact on our gut microorganisms – sugar and refined carbohydrate diets, alcohol, antibiotics, stress, pollution, and toxins can all disrupt the equilibrium.
When our gut bacteria become imbalanced – occurs when there are more of the bad bacteria than the good. This causes something called ‘immunological dysregulation’, essentially knocking your immune system out of whack and making you more prone to colds and infections, reducing nutrient absorption, and decreasing your ability to synthesize some energy-boosting B vitamins, all of which can lead to fatigue and ill health.
The good news is that there are things we can do to enhance the environment for good bacteria to thrive, including dietary changes and taking probiotic supplements.