Human gut is resident to
hundred trillion micro organisms of one thousand five hundred species. What’s
the meaning of human? It’s a general question though its answer is complex.
Because our cells are not human at all. For staying alive we depend on a vast
army of microbes. A friendly microbiome break down food to release energy,
protects us against germs and produces vitamins.
Our digestive-system alone is home to roughly Hundred
trillion microbes – approx. Ten times the no. of cells in the major organs. A
team of the FIB- (Flemish Institute of Biotechnology) has found that we all
have 1 of 3 basic ecosystems of bugs in guts of us - but its strange that, the
type for each person is not related to their race, native diet or country. They
mark these “bacteriodes” the
“enterotypes”, “ruminococcus” and “prevotella”, to reflect the species of bug
that command in each. Human with a ecosystem of bacteriodes, as an example,
have a oblique toward bacteria that acquire almost of their energy from
proteins and carbohydrates.
This revelation has inspired very a lot of interest,
cause it could describe differences in our food digest ability. Few years ago,
a team of Washington University school
of Medicine discovered
that the guts of obese people bear a slightly other repertoire of microbes when
equated with thin people. In the Flemish analyze, research workers detected a
similar correlation between abundance and obesity of bacteria that express
energy rapidly from food.
Don’t think that it will be easy. The human
bowel bears about one thousand five hundred bacterial species, and so tinkering
on their ecology in a controlled way may be difficult. Though there are
products that claim to control bacteria, such prebiotics, like yogurts that
contain live becteria and microbes.Till now we realise insufficient to do this
faithfully.
Recognition of Micro biome’s importance is
growing. It’s already involved to our understanding of cancer, diabetes,
obesity and allegies. Few days ago, a study has approved that the levels and
types of bacteria in a human’s gut may be apply to predict the likelihood of
their heart attack too. To treatment and prevention of such attacks it’s a
revolutionary milestone.
As a part of experiment, the study team
separate groups of rats in three to induced heart attack. The 1st
one was a standard diet. The 2nd was antibiotic a bacterium to
suppresses the production of a leptin hormone that is linked to metabolism and
appetite.
Associate medical director at the British
Heart Foundation Professor Jeremy Pearson, stresses that lots of research may
be required to prove the dramatic changes in inflammatory molecules that seen
in the rats would use to human. But little doubt that, in near future we’ll
prove dramatic new insight on our health by studying our microbial passengers.
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