The other brain - a new book that i just finished (with special thanks to the lock-down)

And it is done, after almost one year and a half. I try to make it short and not very complicated, and i hope you will enjoy reading it. My book about the gut microbiome, our microbial intestinal flora. At the moment, as i just launched the book, you can have it at a discounted price.
Here is the link for:

Ebook

Paperback

''I will start the first chapter, talking about our microbiome, or in layman terms, our gut intestinal flora, the microbes living inside of us and how they are actively helping us. It is an interesting subject, and the latest researches seem to just start to discover how important our relation with our non-pathogenic bacteria and microbes is. These days we keep hearing different opinions about this elusive thing called microbiome. What is that and how it can help us? You are in the right place to find out about it, in the next chapters of this book.''

What it is about?

Here are the contents of every chapter:
1 Introduction
2 History and discovery
3 The life cycle of the gut microbiota
4 Food for thought
5 Is every gut microbiota unique?
6 Malnutrition and microbiota
7 Prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics
8 Inflammatory bowel diseases
9 Microbial diversity and their importance
10 Anatomical correlations with the gut microbiota

I really hope that you will find time to read it and learn a bit more about the latest researches related to health, microbiota and longevity.
Have a good day!
G.

Microbiota - Synbiotics

Synbiotics are a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host. By combining these tow in a food product, this will lead to a better chance of survival and activity of microbes in the gut.

The interaction for two or more things in order to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects it is called synergy. Synbiotics are a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host, with a better survival chance of the probiotics during the passage through the large intestine, avoiding to be made inactive by the high acidic environment present in our stomach, to increase the overall gut health. Once in the intestine, they can start fermenting right away, increasing the activity and growth or the microbiota. The prebiotic can also affect the stool consistency and the bowel movement. Probiotic strains of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria are combined with mixtures of fibers (FOS, GOS, inulin) to create a synbiotic. Synbiotics were tested to help different gut diseases like inflammatory bowel , irritable bowel syndrome, cancer, liver diseases and allergies.

My next post will be about personalized nutrition. See  you soon!

G.