GASTROENTEROLOGY NERD ALERT: Healthy diet leads to healthy gut bacteria which leads to a HEALTHY COLON!
GASTROENTEROLOGY NERD ALERT: Healthy diet leads to healthy gut bacteria which leads to a HEALTHY COLON!
by Dr. Tara Troy, MD
Check out this article in Science Daily which highlights a Baylor study that helps to further clarify HOW a healthy diet helps to foster a healthy gastrointestinal tract, specifically the colon:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190715164650.htm
“It is well established that diet influences health and disease, but the mechanisms underlying this effect are not fully understood. Shedding light on the diet-health connection, a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reports today in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition an association between diet quality and microbiome composition in human colonic mucosa.
The researchers found that a high-quality diet is linked to more potentially beneficial bacteria; while a low-quality diet is associated with an increase in potentially harmful bacteria. They propose that modifying the microbiome through diet may be a part of a strategy to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.”
“Jiao and her colleagues found that a good-quality diet as the one recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to be high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and low in added sugar, alcoholic beverages and solid fats is associated with higher abundance of beneficial bacteria such as those with anti-inflammatory properties. A poor-quality diet, on the other hand, is associated with more potentially pathogenic bacteria, such as Fusobacteria, which has been linked to colorectal cancer.
The researchers propose that the effect diet has on the structure of bacterial communities in human colonic mucosa can lead to modifications of innate immunity, inflammation and the risk of chronic diseases.”
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