The Western diet is killing the good bacteria from our gut

    The Western diet is killing the good bacteria from our gut

    The Western diet is causing another incredible extinction: the microbiome of our gut. This is confirmed in a study comparing it to the simple diet of the Hadza, a small tribe in Tanzania.

    Don't Store Avocado Like This: It's Dangerous The Western diet is causing another incredible extinction: the microbiome of our gut. This is confirmed in a study comparing it to the simple diet of the Hadza, a small tribe in Tanzania.

    What do the Hadza, a small tribe from Tanzania, with ours intestine? Simple: their traditional and extremely simple diet preserves them from one last incredible extinction, that of microbiome. And we could learn a lot from them.




    In fact, if the microbiome is that set of the genetic patrimony and the environmental interactions of all the microorganisms that colonize our digestive tract, the Western diet is gradually putting it to the test, ensuring that that same rcollection of bacteria that influence metabolism and the immune system is disappearing.

    In short, for this very reason that tribe of about 1.300 hunter-gatherers, one of the last remaining in Africa, important studies have been carried out and, ultimately, it has been examined by a text published in the journal Science.

    Already in recent years, scientists around the world have verified that the western way of life is changing our microbiome and now, as Justin Sonnenburg, a Stanford University expert, states, there is less variety of microbes in the intestines of Westerners.


    Sonnenberg's team analyzed 350 microbiome samples from Hadza people - whose diet is based on what is found in the forest, including wild berries, fiber-rich tubers, honey and wild meat, for about a year. They then compared the bacteria found in Hadza with those found in people of 17 other cultures around the world, including hunter-gatherer communities in Venezuela and Peru and subsistence farming peasant communities in Malawi. and in Cameroon.

    The results showed that people who followed diets far from the western one, had a greater variety of microbes in the intestine. People living in Africa, Papua New Guinea, or South America, for example, have common gut microbes, the ones that no longer exist in the industrialized world, made up of low-fiber diets and high levels of refined sugars.


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    Our diet is basically killing species of bacteria from our intestines. Would eating more fiber be the ideal solution? Maybe yes, but also eliminate all refined and highly processed foods, observe a certain variety in the diet and eliminate junk food altogether.



    Germana Carillo

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