prebiotics – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com Tue, 24 May 2016 18:18:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 https://i2.wp.com/plumjoyful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-favorite.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 prebiotics – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com 32 32 101224769 Your gut Microbiome may be the key to happiness https://plumjoyful.com/gut-microbiome-key-happiness-ways-improve/ Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:08:46 +0000 http://plumjoyful.com/?p=577 The human body is mostly made up of bacteria. Gross I know. But scientists have speculated that the human body is made up of 10 trillion cells, but we are host to 100 trillion microbes. Basically we are 10 parts microbe and one part human. This was a figure deduced by a scientist in the 1970’s, and while it has been questioned, even the skeptics place the ratio at three parts microbe to one part human. Either way you get the point. We are the host bodies to trillions of bacteria, and the truth is, in the words of Beyonce, they run this motha. Research shows they may be responsible for obesity, autoimmune disorders, Type II diabetes, and allergies. As if that weren’t enough, the latest research is showing that they may indeed play a very large role in our mental health. Gut microbes not only synthesize vitamins and breakdown/digest our food, but they also make the same neurochemicals you find in the brain such as serotonin, GABA and dopamine to name a few. There is a very complex relationship between the gut and the brain scientists have coined the “gut-brain axis”. So far studies have only proven this in […]

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