Posted on 11/16/2018 11:17:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Move over Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus. There’s a new health-promoting gut bacterium in town, and it’s called Akkermansia muciniphila.
You will not find its benefits at the bottom of a yogurt cup. But a new study has identified more than one way to nurture its growth in the gut, and offered evidence that it may maintain — and even restore — health as we age.
Published this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the new research found that in mice and monkeys whose metabolisms had grown cranky with age, taking steps to boost A. muciniphila in the gut reduced the animals’ insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance is the gradual impairment of the body’s ability to efficiently use food for fuel. It is best known as a way station on a patient’s path to developing type 2 diabetes.
But insulin resistance is also linked to a rogue’s gallery of ills, from obesity and inflammation to the sagging immunity and frailty that comes with advancing age. If a readily available means of slowing or reversing insulin resistance could be identified, it might have broad and powerful anti-aging effects (in addition to protecting some of the world’s 650 million adults who are obese against developing type 2 diabetes).
First identified in 2004, Akkermansia muciniphila inhabits the large intestine and is thought to account for between 1% and 5% of all intestinal bacteria in adults. Scientists suspect it helps preserve the coat of mucus that lines the walls of our intestines. It may also play a role in making the polyphenols we eat in plant-based foods more available to our cells.
Evidence is mounting that A. muciniphila is involved in obesity, glucose metabolism and intestinal immunity.
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They're really, really small................
You are absolutely correct. You simply cannot outrun your fork!
Bkmrk.
Don’t eat anything that’s white. Pasta is bad. Cheese is good.
Chocolate over 90% dark is not a sweet. It’s far, far less sweet than fruit. And you can eat it all day too... don’t ask me how I know that. Better than coffee.
I don’t think you can buy akkermansia. Too bad, huh?
“Shove it up your azz” just became a good thing.
Everyone has it.
Why thank you, thank you very much.
Growing up on a ranch in a family of natural living nuts, I ate that way from day one-not even processed sugar-only honey or raw brown sugar as sweetener, no white flour-so pretty much no bread or pasta, no packaged, boxed or frozen stuff purchased, only brown rice, no margarine, corn oil, etc. I never developed a taste for any processed food, so I don’t eat any-I’ve never been overweight-weigh what I did at 17-work just as hard and have plenty of energy for 3X weekly workout with weights.
In college, I did briefly succumb to the lure of the cheapness and convenience of dorm food/fast food for a few months-gained 7 lbs, had no energy and constant digestive problems-on a visit home, my mom read me the riot act, loaded up my truck before I left with veggies and herbs from the garden, eggs from the chickens, butter, and grass fed meat from the freezer. I kicked the dorm food/fast food habit and never ate that stuff again...
Poop transplant. Seriously. Works 98% of the time on the first try and 100% of the time if a second round is needed.
It’s input as a liquid during a colostomy like procedure. I know someone who was an antibiotics for over a month to cure a C-Dif infection and finally they had to resort to the transplant which worked in about 3 days.
Apparently you can make up to 13k/year donating poop...if you’re healthy.
I guarantee that their are some type 2’s out their in better shape than you.
None was found in the test.
What you eat is up to you-but as far as being healthy food-it isn’t-that pasta is made from bleached white wheat flour that has 0 nutritional value-nothing but empty carbs to mess up your system and make/keep your ass fat-food can’t be much more processed than that-and if you are making the mac and cheese with packaged cheese slices or that Velveeta crap in a brick or in a jar-read the label-it is “processed cheese food”-it isn’t even 50% cheese-it is solidified, cheese flavored vegetable oil and stuff. If you are using the packet that comes in the box, that is cheese flavored powder of unknown origin-yummm,disfrute mac and cheese...
Interesting article
Soon you’ll be seeing late night infomercials with these things being hawked for mucho dinero..............
I’m betting there is a product that enhances/increases it at one of the online health food retailers-there seems to be a product for everything else...
Mmmm...no.
You said above that those two you know with MS and RA have it. Do they or don’t they? Or was that a typo?
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