Smitha Hemadri
Natural Healing - Leader & Influencer
10:26 AM | 13-12-2019
If you love riding the giant rollercoasters, you will also love going through this journey through your GUT – Gastrointestinal tract. If you are tired of living with unexplained symptoms like migraines, brain fog, memory loss, tremors, bloating, constipation, auto-immune issues like Rheumatoid arthritis, Multiple sclerosis, skin disorders, hashimoto's, Vitiligo, IBS, Leaky Gut, Lupus, celiac disease, depression and a host of other issues with no answers from doctors, then join me to unravel the mystery of our friends- an invisible colony protecting us – the MICROBIOME.
Our wild ancestors
Our ancestors had a symbiotic relationship with microbes. They were generous hosts to multiple strains of bacteria, virus, parasites, worms and other unknown invisible creatures and evolved with them. This, in turn, contributed to their health. Their major threats were only wild animals or lack of food unlike the thousands of diseases that haunt us today.
Urbanization has definitely improved our livesbut also wiped out the symbiotic relationship of microbes with us. Overuse of soaps, detergents, antibiotics, steroids, chlorination and adding fluorides to water supply mains, processed foods with pesticides and hormones have super sanitized our lifestyle giving birth to newer diseases like asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension & obesity to name a few. It is a result of our wrong lifestyles that has led us to what we are today. Despite the luxuries we have created for ourselves, we live in a constant state of stress; we can’t rest well and diseases take a long time to heal.
Let’s know our friends – Meet your Microbiome (MB)
Back in the 1600s, Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered little microbes in his dental plaque under a microscope. But it has taken us a few centuries to figure out they were friends and not foe. There are 100 trillion microbes (Bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and worms) living IN and ON us in every nook and corner. We are majorly microbiome than humans. They play a role in our physical and emotional wellness and our fate is tied to their well-being. Hence, we can’t live without them.
We are a human-microbial ecosystem, a reflection of the human-microbial DNA mix that makes each of us unique. We are a part of the common ecosystem - EARTH. They cover our skin; they are in our GUT and they play a very large role in our emotional, mental and physical health. There is so much information exchange happening in the background between the MB and human cells in terms of gut health or hormones that science has only unravelled a small percentage of that.
The GI tract
Our gastrointestinal tract( GI Tract or GUT) is a long tube of about 25-30 ft long starting at the mouth and ending at the anus. About 70% of our health depends on the quality of the GUT.
Inflammation is the mother of all diseases and starts right in the GUT.
For the nutrients in the food we eat to reach the organs, the food needs to convert to a state where it can permeate through the walls(epithelial lining) of the tube and reach the carriers like blood. The internal lining of the GI tract filters what goes into the bloodstream.
Our entire environment gets filtered through this microbiome and gets transformed by these before they affect our human body.
Functions of the MB
In exchange, we play host, we give them what they need to eat and they depend on us for their survival. Hence it’s extremely important to keep ourselves healthy; we must keep them healthy.
Let's take an in-depth look at the role of MB in some important functions
In Part 2 of this article, we look at how our lifestyle can impact MB and in turn, cause ailments. In Part 3, we'll learn how microbiomes are guardians of human body.
(About myself: Formerly I was with the IT industry for 2 decades and also have my own venture on healthy vegan baking. I have suffered life-threatening allergies and survived twice. I learnt to heal naturally and applied the same on both my kids aged 13 &10. We as a family live a healthy, disease-free lifestyle. Based on my experience and what I have gained from reading, I help others in reversing their ailments naturally and holistically.)
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