Posted on 03/03/2010 3:22:06 PM PST by decimon
The mysterious part of this discovery is, how the little cages got in there.
Cheers!
Finally in the last line they are accurately called flora. Makes us more like a botanical garden than a zoo. This could be a case of “blame the headline writer.”
Stupidest comment ever.
Not at all.
Guesstimates would say the average adult human to be somewhere between 50-100 trillion cells.
But you have one hundred TIMES that many bacteria.
Guess it's time for a shower!
Many of them are good.
There are bacteria in the gut that make a chemical. A chemical that if you didn’t have it, your clotting ability would go crazy.
It was never at least early on identified as a vitamin, because just about everyone has enough of it from the bacteria, so deficiencies were unknown - but now they know.
Vitamin K.
Alot of the good bacteria pretty much are happy to just hang out, they crowd out any bad stuff from getting in.
Your immune system is constantly being refined and tuned - something like 70 percent of a humans immune system lives in their gut - where there is a possibility of being infected by something you eat.
I think I read something somewhere about bacteria having a positive affect on Vitamin E metabolism also.
So they’re not all bad!
I know bacteria in our intestines are necessary for life. But I did need a shower!
I eat lots of yogurt and sourdough bread to keep my intestines producing vitamins. And I've grown addicted to bran muffins, they clean out the intestines, cutting down the likelihood of getting those danm polyps, like Reagan had surgery for.
Now you remind me it's time to take my daily dose of vitamin E. Tx.
-- ARFAR
Yogurt feeds ON the little buggers.
Well, smart aleck, I cast my vote for the little guys that ferment my beer. They have performed a valuable service and have brought a lot of joy to all humanity.
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” Ben Franklin
Yogurt contains lots of little buggers on it’s own.
;-)
Was gonna tell ya last night. But I didn't want to interfere with your good night's sleep. They bring in the expurts from the penile colony...
Or maybe a Doctor of Proctology...
What are the symptoms of sterile gut, how does one get it and what is the cure? Thanks in advance, Sir.
Isn’t that the degree you have to get to practice law? Makes sense.
The symptoms of sterile gut are.....unpleasant. Diarrhea, gas, etc. It’s caused by the loss of intestinal flora, due to being killed of by something (in my case a course of antibiotics). This floral “shift” causes pH shifts, and other things that your guts don’t like. Now, as to the cure....it’s more of the good bacteria that likes to live in your GI system. Now some regimens involve actually ingesting pills with those bacteria in them (poop pills?). I hardly think that would be necessary as we are continually exposed to these bugs in our daily life. Your intestines will eventually be dosed with the proper bacteria to repopulate your system.
Now remember, you asked. A gastroenterologist (GI doctor) would give a better description no doubt, but what I’ve provided is “a quick and dirty”, so to speak. ;-)
Thank goodness for those little bugs. Without them, what would we do?
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