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.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
The easiest way to feed this bacteria is via resistant starch. It is a starch that passes through the small intestine undigested. When it gets to the large intestine the bacteria feed on it and produce butyric acid as a by product. The best food sources are potato starch and green bananas. You can buy the potato starch and stir in a few teaspoons into a smoothie. You shouldn’t heat it. Alternatively you can boil, steam or microwave potatoes (preferably whole). Allow to cool a bit and cool further in the fridge (overnight is good). Eat them cold. Green bananas are good but not that palatable. Rolled oats brought to a boil and cooled as per potatoes is another good source. Oats have a fair amount of phytic acid in them so eat a vitamin C rich food with them. Like cooled oats and orange juice. You can expect a little wind. Nothing out of the ordinary. Once the gut bacteria start cranking out the butyric you will sleep better. Dream better. Have more get up and go. I have been doing this for months now and I feel more alive.
It’s articles like this that make me laugh. Medical, or any other science, is still learning about insulin problems, both hypo and hyper. And the people that did, normally died of dehydration, not sugar problems. Diabetes mellitus is derived from the Greek word diabetes meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus meaning honeyed or sweet. This is because in diabetes excess sugar is found in blood as well as the urine. It was known in the 17th century as the “pissing evil”. They were sure scientific with that one.
In 1910, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer found that diabetes resulted from lack of insulin.
In 1919 Dr. Frederick Allen of the Rockefeller Institute in New York published his “Total Dietary Regulations in the Treatment of Diabetes” that introduced a therapy of strict dieting or starvation treatment – as a way to manage diabetes. That killed a few of the hypoglycemic experimental patients.
Type 1 is the only thing they knew until is was discovered in 1936 by Sir Harold Percival (Harry) Himsworth in his published work differentiated type 1 and 2 diabetes as different entities.
In wasn’t until 1982 the first biosynthetic human insulin – Humulin – that is identical in chemical structure to human insulin and can be mass produced was approved to market in several countries.
And finally, metabolic syndrome, that diabetes mellitus forms a part of was discovered by Dr Gerald Reaven’s in 1988. Banting was honored by World Diabetes Day which is held on his birthday, November 14 staring 2007. So clear into the 2ooo’s they are still finding things out about the illness.
When I was diagnosed, in 1985, I weighed 175 pound at 6’2,” had been in the military for fifteen years, and was running five miles daily. Sure doesn’t sound like I was out of shape or obese, does it?. My dad had it. Science is still practicing medicine. Maybe they’ll learn.
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Thanks for the info-I’m not into eating green bananas-but I sometimes put boiled, cooled new potatoes with cucumber slices fresh spinach and olive oil as a veggie combo-so maybe I already have the butyric acid.
Without getting too metaphysical, you could liken the body to the physical and spiritual plane. The good bacteria are akin to the good angels. The bad ones to the destructive demons. We should do everything we can to help the good ones against the bad ones and cultivate them as much as we can. God has His ministering servants assist us in the struggle against the powers and principalities of darkness. And these good guy bacteria dwell down amidst all the darkness and decay and death, shining as little beacons. Well I did get pretty metaphysical after all lol
metaphysical is okay, as long as you don’t get scatological...................
Excellent. Cold potatoes are delicious.Eggs and mayo etc etc
lol
I like eggs-and plenty of free-range chickens out here-nice, fresh eggs-but hold the mayo-not a fan of that...
This article was very good. Thank you for posting it. The bacteria in our gut is affected by what we put in our mouths and is one of the most important components and reasons for good nutrition.
But there is nothing like an article on nutrition to uncover the massive amount of wacky nonsense that people believe. I suppose that most of it comes from all the nonsensical advertising that they have been exposed to. The diet, health food, and supplement industries have really done a number on our national consciousness. But it also comes from the desire to believe in shortcuts or the easy way out.
I was talking to a very healthy person just the other day who just turned 101 and looks healthier than many 70 year old people I know. I used to do a lot of volunteer work in places that had a lot of healthy people who lived past 100. I used to ask them what their secrets to longevity were, and if they had any advice they wanted to pass on. There are a few core things that most of them seemed to have in common.
The number one thing that they all had in common was that they were people who stayed very physically and mentally active throughout their lives. They also didn’t let themselves get fat. Very few were exercise fanatics, but they did do things like walking and swimming and bicycling.
They didn’t keep their weight under control by restricting things like carbohydrates and eating lots of meat, or eating only fruits and vegetables, or any of the fruitcake nonsense that so many goof balls swear by. They just stopped stuffing their faces when their stomachs told them they had eaten enough.
When they were young they were taught by their parents not to make pigs out of themselves. And the portions served to people back then were not as big as they are these days. We just eat to much and when we are sitting around we snack all day. Busy people do not have time for that unless they are busy “working” in front of a computer or some other sedentary task like driving all day, or being on the phone all day.
I wouldn’t eat non heat treated mayo due to salmonella possibility from raw eggs. I do like a little store bought stuff on eggs. Most of the time I just eat boiled eggs without anything. I have eaten 6 boiled eggs everyday for years. And guess what. My bad guy cholesterol is in the normal range. The link between dietary cholesterol and levels in the body is bunk. It was started by the grain industry to get people to switch from dairy to margerine. No finer human specimens can be found like the traditional Massai in east Africa. They drink cow blood and milk as a staple. They walk heaps. They have no cholesteol issue even though their staple is high in it. Massai who are forsaking the old ways in favour of junkfoods are starting to exhibit all those issues which plague affluent western countries. I do my eggs in an electric kettle. Add cold water to kettle. Gently add eggs without cracking. Run kettle. Perfect hard boiled eggs everytime
Some good points there. Here is how I stay trim at nearly 60. I don’t graze or snack. I have breakfast. I have lunch. I have dinner. I avoid sugary drinks. Just water. Nothing between meals and overnite. Limit alchohol to occassional whiskey drunk neat or on the rocks.To preserve your teeth longer, chew sugafree gum. The act of chewing fights the enamel destroying bacteria. I have chewed gum for years which has kept my remaining teeth going strong after years of neglect. I do some challenging bodyweight exercises ( challenging for a near 60 year old. I walk uphill as much as I can and the terrain allows for. I find some stairs if no hills. Sounds pretty boring. But to my mind it would be more boring constantly being at the doctors, dentist or hospital due to lifestyle diseases.
We drink a lot of kefir, homemade and when we didn't have milk we brewed kombucha. Kefir is better IMO. No goats anymore but now we can get A2 milk. We always have a half gallon of kefir on hand for 2 people. Lots of health benefits.
I got my guy to go paleo and to stop eating margarine-I pointed out to him that if margarine had a couple more ingredients it would qualify as a plastic-and that he would likely get more nutrition from eating the box his favorite dry cereal came in than from eating the sugary, processed cereal inside...
My diet is organic paleo-I do include dairy products-natural yogurt-no added sugar or any of that stuff-some cheese, and butter. the nearest “real” grocery store is part of a small chain only found in rural areas that carries mostly local organic produce, grass fed beef, pork, chicken, etc, great selection of fresh ground and whole bean coffee, too They also carry organic packaged brands-Hain, Bob’s Red Mill, etc. Organic eating has been a big deal in rural areas for a long time, but since the paleo-low carb non-GMO diets became popular it is even more so...
The shift from a natural dairy, fresh produce and protein diet to a low fat high grain-and-processed food diet is what has gotten people obese, lowered natural immunity so they are sick and taking drugs all the time, etc-the only people who got a benefit from it have made big bucks-doctors, drug companies and food manufacturers like Kraft, Pillsbury, etc. My family was considered a little weird when I was a kid because of their disdain for drugs except as a matter of life and death-and the insistence on organic food-now all these years later people are seeing it was the healthy way to live all along...
Dunno. I read the other day that tequila is a natural pro-biotic. Think I’ll take up with Jose!
I don’t know. Here’s some help
A year ago, I had 6” of my colon removed and was on heavy duty antibiotics for a month. I wonder if I ave any left?
Johanna Budwig, 1950s: Oil-Protein Diet for degenerative diseases.
Flax Oil and Cottage Cheese.
Needed for gut lining, in butter (Butyr = Butter).
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