Your Microbiome (Bacteria) Is A Wonder of Nature: Activate & Optimize Eating For Healthy Longevity

Only recently have we begun to appreciate the wide-ranging roles of microbiome in health and disease. Several factors, including principally the foods we eat, change of life style and active life together with exercise regime can direct impact and shape human microbiome. This, in turn, appears to modify gut bacteria function affecting nutrient absorption, electrolyte balance and inflammation. There are different approaches toward reversing imbalance of gut dysbiosis between good and bad bacteria and the strategies in our diets and what to avoid for restoring the balance between our bodies and their microbes. In this book, we made offer a great insight into the understanding of the mechanisms of microbial host interactions with diet and human diseases. We dealt with underlining causes of each of the epidemic diseases, associated with overweight and obesity, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases, heart attack, stroke, cardio-metabolic diseases, as well as acne, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, asthma/allergies, autism, autoimmune diseases, cancer, dental cavities, depression anxiety and allergies and great information increase awareness and understanding of what could be possibly done even before any chance to consult your physician or as you do so to reinforce quick recovery. As much as intestinal bacterial community constitute the main basis of the microbiome in the gut and on the body and discussion therein, but we also gave adequate attention to viruses, fungi and oral microbiome. The book provides an overview on this interaction and how the gut microbiome contributes to human health and thus profound knowledge on the connection between intestinal microbiota and immune defense systems. The book highlights and discussed great researches, especially human and placebo controlled study trials to support major contributions of microbes to human health. How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome A revealing look at how more 100 trillion microorganisms that keep us healthy and the type of the foods they needed to live to healthy longevity without so much illness that exist today. These include, foods rich in dietary fiber, probiotic yogurt and other fermented "gut-friendly" foods. So, you will find out best way to feed our all-important microbiome and the response of the microbes as reflecting in your health. Presented with with great research studies and meta-analyses review of a wide range of studiesto give better insight and understanding the ancient foods and their relevance to our gut bacteria in this day and age. This entails: • The make up of gastrointestinal microbiota and how it works; • Overall gut-friendly foods, including: fruits and vegetables, yogurt, kimchi, kefir, kombucha, olives, cocoa, and other whole natural foods worldwide. • The templates for healthy eating, This book offers a wealth of information for anyone interested in making healthy food choices. It highlights the standard Western diet and lifestyle are and they depleting and destroying the “good bugs” that keep us healthy and encouraging overgrowth of pathogens, exactly the wrong type of bacteria. Consequently, the resulting imbalance makes the human body more prone to obesity and associated diseases that negatively affects our metabolism, our hormones, our cravings, our immunity, and even our genes. Food Choices for Great Health and Longevity The book gives great insight into the food choices and lifestyle for longevity, drawing from the experience of centenarians in Blue Zone residents that lived healthy 100+ as well as how a local clan community of Uzuanunu to live healthily: 90 – 110. They did not count calories, take vitamins, whey protein, or even read labels. They don’t restrict their food intake. In fact, they all celebrate with food. The key for their lives starts with food choices. Most of the Blue Zones residents have easy access to locally sourced fruits and vegetables, largely pesticide free and organically raised. If not growing these food items in their own gardens or in the case of Uzuanunu, farms, they have found places where they can purchase them, and more affordably than processed alternatives. They have incorporated certain nutritious natural whole dense foods into their daily or weekly meals—foods that often are not even found on the shelves of convenience stores or on the menus of fast-food restaurants. They have inherited time-honored recipes or developed recipes on their own to make healthful foods taste good, a hugely important part of the healthy diet, because if you don’t like what you’re eating, you’re not going to eat it for very long. The list of a whole range of foods is something you can find handy in making your own foods choices. Microbiome and Brain Nexus Preclinical and clinical studies have shown bidirectional interactions within the brain-gut-microbiome axis as well as mouth-saliva-brain and gut axis. We offer insight to how gut microbes communicate to the central nervous system through interacting channels involving nervous, endocrine, and immune signaling mechanisms. The newly discovered pivotal role of the brain in affecting potentially the community structure and function of the gut microbiota through the autonomic nervous system, by modulating regional gut motility, intestinal transit and secretion, and gut permeability. This is fast developing area that will come under further focus as research studies through more light into the circular communication spheres among the brain, gut, and gut microbiome, and in which distress at any level can lead to disconnection throughout the circuit. So far, a series of largely preclinical observations show involvement in alterations in brain-gut-microbiome communication in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, and several psychiatric and neurologic disorders. Future research holds the promise of identifying healing targets and developing treatment strategies to address some of the most debilitating, costly, and poorly understood diseases. These therapeutic opportunities, derived from these exciting new discoveries: • The highly validated relationship between alterations of gut microbes and their metabolites, and risk for Alzheimer’s disease. • The important link between autism and intestinal dysbiosis. • Relevant studies in the assessment of the intestinal microbiome. • The potential role of fecal microbial transplant in neurological and autimmune diseases. • The influence of diet and lifestyle choices on the microbiome as it relates to brain and physiological health.