Ayahuasca is not a joke..How much do you know about doing or participating in Ayahuasca session? Why the pre-treatment in this ritual is so important? You can’t always trust your gut: it may be deliberately lying to you as part of the eternal microscopic war going on inside your body. Within the human digestive system lives a massive ecosystem of bacteria, known as gut flora or the gut microbiota, and recent research suggests that these microbes can manipulate your brain into eating unhealthy things and even into feeling stressed and depressed. This is all part of the schemes bacteria use to optimize their environment for themselves. In a recent meta-analysis published in the journal BioEssays, researchers from UC San Francisco, Arizona State University, and the University of New Mexico concluded that these microbiota can influence their hosts eating patterns through the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is a nerve that extends from the brain to the gut, and microbiota love playing with it. Microbes have the capacity to manipulate behavior and mood through altering the neural signals in the vagus nerve, changing taste receptors, producing toxins to make us feel bad, and releasing chemical rewards to make us feel good, said senior author Athena Aktipis in a statement. The researchers behind the current study looked at 120 different papers and research articles on gut flora published between 1981 and 2013 to come to their conclusions. Microbiota have “hijacked the nervous system” with “dramatic effects on behavior,” reads the new study. Besides hooking up with the vagus nerve, the gut is also connected to the endocrine system and the immune system, which means these microbiota can also influence those systems, but researchers are unsure of exactly how. To give you an idea as to how they can overpower and trick your body, remember that microbiota cells outnumber human cells 100 to one in your gut (though theyre much, much smaller). These manipulative bacteria can make their hosts crave unhealthy foods rich in sugar and fat and are therefore thought to contribute to obesity. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it turns out some of our gut flora is linked to the growth of tumors and may be responsible for some stomach cancers, and possibly other types of cancer... https://youtube/watch?v=JeXi8LfaB3o
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:03:16 +0000
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