How intestinal bacteria can affect your blood sugar and lipid levels

[Northerner]

Intestinal bacteria have attracted recent attention since they were discovered to influence various physiological functions and diseases in humans. Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan analyzing the influence of changes in intestinal bacteria on sugar and lipid metabolism have found that secondary bile acids produced by the bacteria can influence blood glucose and lipid concentrations as well as parts of their molecular mechanisms. This result is expected to lead to the treatment of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and dyslipidemia by targeting intestinal bacteria that produce secondary bile acid.

More than 100 trillion bacteria from an estimated 1,000 different species inhabit our intestines. It has been reported that the profiles of intestinal bacteria in obese and non-obese people tend to be different and involved with the health of the host. The bacteria may affect energy consumption and fat accumulation of host body. In addition, it is known that these bacteria are also associated with lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, nervous diseases such as autism, and intestinal diseases such as colon cancer.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180410100937.htm

Read 'Gut' by Giulia Enders! 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

Well, no surprise there. I wonder why they refer to diabetes as a metabolic disorder, which it is, throughout the article but for the one paragraph you quote, where it is referred to as a lifestyle disorder, which it isn’t.

 

[Northerner]

Well, no surprise there. I wonder why they refer to diabetes as a metabolic disorder, which it is, throughout the article but for the one paragraph you quote, where it is referred to as a lifestyle disorder, which it isn’t.

Yes, it's so misleading and inaccurate given that anyone with the wrong genes can get it, regardless of lifestyle