Executive summary.
Stop eating bread
Live on eggs and ilk and cheese and veggies and meat (not processed) for a month and see what happens
DO NOT buy expensive (and hideous) ‘gluten free’ foods from the store. Just stop eating bread and noodles and anything wheat for a month.
I snack on cottage cheese with peaches, pepperoni and cheese, dark chocolate, and have lost 20 pounds so far
Note: The bunch that puts out this journal is all in on climate change. Trust but verify.
Or... people could exercise. But, nope, we want to pop a pill, sit on the couch and eat a gourmet meal every time we feel a twinge of hunger. And then we wonder why diabetes is going off the charts and obesity is rampant in society.
Sounds like it won't belong before cultures of A. muciniphila start showing up on shelves.
What has been learned about the human gut in the last 20 years is really amazing. Our gut microbiota contains tens of trillions of microorganisms, including at least 1,000 different species of known bacteria with more than 3 million genes (150 times more than human genes), but only 150 to 170 predominate in any given individual. Microbiota can, in total, weigh up to 4.5 pounds. One third of our gut microbiota is common to most people, while two thirds are specific to each one of us. In other words, the microbiota in your intestine is like an individual identity card.
So Akkermansia muciniphila in our guts weighs 0.7 ounces to 3.5 ounces in total and we didn't know about it until 2004!
In a similar vein,Helicobacter pylori the a bacterium that colonizes human stomach and causes of chronic superficial gastritis, chronic active gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric adenocarcinoma was first identified in 1985. H. pylori is now recognized causes more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and up to 80% of gastric ulcers. I had H. pylori for years and my doctor could not figure out my stomach symptoms. Finally, after doing my own research, I got after my doctor to test for it and it came back positive. One regimen of antibiotics eradicated it in early 2018 and I feel so much better than I have in years.
Can't tell you how many tests using mice and monkeys fail to produce the same outcome in humans.
It would be interesting to see the results of double blind studies with humans with this supposed super bacterium.
Bkmrk.
Interesting article
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.
rwood
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
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.
Good news! Thanks for posting.
There is an explosion of studies related to the guts in the intestines. This bug is just one. Here is a good article:
The gut microbiota and host health: a new clinical frontier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752653/
and this is about the present bug:
Next-Generation Beneficial Microbes: The Case of Akkermansia muciniphila
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614963/
There are two clinical trials:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT02637115?term=Akkermansia+muciniphila&rank=1
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03547440?term=Akkermansia+muciniphila&rank=2