{"id":7947,"date":"2018-11-27T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2018-11-29T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:13:40","slug":"interconnected-healing-secrets-of-the-microbiome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/interconnected-healing-secrets-of-the-microbiome\/","title":{"rendered":"Interconnected: Healing Secrets of the Microbiome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 8-part docuseries called Interconnected: Healing Secrets of the Microbiome<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0airs from November 27th and runs through December 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Prominent scientists, physicians, researchers, and patients come forward offering personal stories and the latest findings about the body\u2019s \u201cinterconnected\u201d pathway to good health.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called the microbiome<\/em> \u2013 the active eco-system of trillions of bacteria that live in our gut.<\/p>\n

The documentary series explores how the microbiome regulates our body systems, immunity, mental state \u2013 and how we can partner with our microbes to optimize health or destroy them and fall victim to chronic disease.<\/p>\n

In this paper, Fermented foods, the gut and mental health: a mechanistic overview with implications for depression and anxiety<\/a>, published just this month in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, <\/em>the important bidirectional relationship between mental health and gut function is highlighted, emphasizing and the role of fermented foods in modulating the microbiome:<\/p>\n

Mental disorders including depression and anxiety are often comorbid with gut problems, suggesting a bidirectional relationship between mental health and gut function. Several mechanisms might explain this comorbidity, such as inflammation and immune activation; intestinal permeability; perturbations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis; neurotransmitter\/neuropeptide dysregulation; dietary deficiencies; and disturbed gut microbiome composition. The potential of modulating the microbiome-gut-brain axis, and subsequently mental health, through the use of functional foods, is an emerging and novel topic of interest. Fermented foods are considered functional foods due to their putative health benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in this paper, Integrative Therapies in Anxiety Treatment with Special Emphasis on the Gut Microbiome<\/a>\u00a0they discuss how certain probiotics strains can help regulate stress and anxiety:<\/p>\n

Studies on probiotic supplementation in mice and in humans provides compelling evidence of microbial regulation over stress and anxiety induced neuroendocrine signaling. In particular, strains of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are found to exert a profound anxiolytic influence through the production of \u03b3-aminobutryic acid (GABA), 5-HT (serotonin), and SCFAs (short chain fatty acids), and by dampening HPA adrenergic reaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The researchers also discuss the link between dysregulation of carbohydrate digestion and metabolism to depression, hyperactivity, and autism. One example is the<\/p>\n

relationship between fructose malabsorption and circulating lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which could be abolished by administration of an antibiotic, thus implicating microbial activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And how fructose malabsorption is linked to depression and mood disorders and dysregulation of the tryptophan and therefore serotonin product (which also plays a role in the worry-type of anxiety.)<\/p>\n

If this new research excites you as much as it does me, then you don\u2019t want to miss this educational docuseries: Interconnected: Healing Secrets of the Microbiome<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the core topics that will be covered:<\/p>\n