When you eat a bad diet, bad bugs flourish. Your whole gut ecosystem is upset and the outside world “leaks” in across a damaged gut lining. Mark Hyman Researchers found that mice fed the equivalent of an American diet produced more of a bacterial toxin called LPS, which then leaked into the body through their leaky gut. In humans, these toxins then latch onto immune cells, stimulating them to produce a firestorm of inflammatory molecules such as , which in turn block your metabolism and produce insulin resistance, fatty liver, and obesity. Even more interesting, the researchers also found that even with a normal diet, injecting LPS into the mice led to the SAME problems—inflammation and obesity. These mice didn’t eat a bad diet. Just injecting toxins into them made them fat. In fact, when you eat a bad diet, bad bugs flourish. Your whole gut ecosystem is upset and the outside world “leaks” in across a damaged gut lining. The result is not just obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, but so many allergic, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases. The researchers explain how giving antibiotics to rats and cleaning out the bad bugs can prevent diabetes. They explain that by adding soluble fiber (prebiotics) to the diet, they can increase the population of the good bugs like bifidobacteria and decrease the bad bugs—leading to weight loss. drhyman/blog/2010/04/20/are-your-food-allergies-making-you-fat/#close
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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