Download or read book Guide to Cook For Gut Health For Beginners written by Vincent Bronson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In healthy people, there is a diverse array of organisms," says Dr. Gail Hecht, chair of the American Gastroenterological Association Center for Gut Microbiome Research & Education. (Most of those organisms are bacteria, but there are viruses, fungi and other microbes as well.) "In an unhealthy individual, there's much less diversity, and there seems to be an increase of bacteria we associate with disease." Hecht stresses the word associate because scientists don't know for sure which comes first-whether bacteria influence disease risk or whether existing disease influences gut bacteria. Most likely, she says, both are true. "We're still lacking specific proof of how this connection works, but we know it's there." Some bacteria fight inflammation, while others promote it. When the gut works as it should, these two types keep each other in check. But when that delicate balance gets skewed, inflammatory bacteria can take over-and they can produce metabolites that pass through the lining of the gut and into the bloodstream, spreading the inflammation to other parts of the body.