When you think about the word bacteria you may think of sickness and disease. Well in some cases bacteria is a very good thing. This is what keeps your stomach healthy and digesting properly. It is important to understand how stomach bacteria works to keep yourself and your gut healthy and functioning properly.
Key Takeaways:
- These highly diverse communities of microbes live in and on us in staggering numbers; researchers now estimate that a typical human body is made up of about 30 trillion human cells and 39 trillion bacteria.
- We now recognize they’re essential to our health, participating in many important physiological functions such as digestion and metabolism of foods, and immune responses and inflammation; disruption of the gut microbiota might then contribute to a variety of conditions including childhood asthma, obesity, colitis and colon cancer.
- New research is beginning to show that the composition and activity of the microbiota exhibits a daily, or circadian, rhythmicity, just like we do.
“Until fairly recently our various microbes were thought of as freeloaders without any meaningful benefit to our functioning as healthy human beings.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/health/gut-microbiome-circadian-rhythm/index.html