Your Microbiome
The gut microbiome is the term given to describe the vast collection of symbiotic microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal system and their collective interacting genomes. It performs numerous important biochemical functions for the host, and disorders of the microbiome are associated with many and diverse human disease processes.
Your individual gut microbiome is consisting of trillion bacteria and other microbes that lives in your gut. These microbes influence many aspects of your health, including your immune system, and they help digest the food you eat.
The medical importance of the human microbiome.
The human intestine carries a vast and diverse microbial ecosystem that has co-evolved with our species and is essential for human health.
This multigenomic symbiosis is expressed at the proteomic and metabolic levels in the host and it has therefore been proposed that humans represent a vastly complex biological ‘superorganism’ in which part of the responsibility for host meta bolic regulation is devolved to the microbial symbionts.
What does the gut microbiome do?
One key job the gut microbiome performs is to digest fiber from the food you eat, as your body can’t digest fiber on its own. Your microbes turn fiber into molecules, or metabolites, such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs).
These metabolites are important for a range of things, including gut health, blood sugar and blood fat control, appetite control, and the immune system.
Extracting nutrients from food
Digesting fiber and proteins from food
Making vitamins
B and K
Shaping the immune system
Protecting the body from pathogens
Why is the gut microbiome important for your health?
The precise mix of microbes in your gut directly influences your health. This is because some microbes are beneficial and others harmful.
Tipping the balance in favor of harmful species can contribute to a number of health conditions including:
Obesity Diseases
Obesity is a complex disease involving having too much body fat.
Obesity isn’t just a cosmetic concern. It’s a medical problem that increases the risk of many other diseases and health problems.
Obesity isn’t just a cosmetic concern. It’s a medical problem that increases the risk of many other diseases and health problems.
Autoimmune Diseases
A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and infection. But if the immune system malfunctions, it mistakenly attacks healthy cells, tissues, and organs.
Called autoimmune disease, these attacks can affect any part of the body, weakening bodily function and even turning life-threatening
Called autoimmune disease, these attacks can affect any part of the body, weakening bodily function and even turning life-threatening