There’s no doubt that there’s a problem with the Western diet. It’s high in processed food, sugar and salt. That’s led to a prevalence of obesity and related disorders like diabetes.
Food is meant to be fuel for our bodies. However, food is now a pleasure more than a necessity for most of us. This allows us to overindulge, and eat more sugary foods than we’d find in nature.
So the quality of fuel we put into our bodies has changed drastically in the last 100 years. And you’ll know that if you put different fuels into a furnace, you’ll get different amounts of energy (like heat) out.
The same happens with the human body. What you eat affects every aspect of your body, including your brain. You may think your brain lives in isolation from the rest of the body, but the nutrients your digestive system extracts are passed via blood to your brain.
And that means there’s every chance that what you eat affects your mood and how you think.
We’ve all come across products that contain probiotic supplements, but what’s not commonly known is that Probiotic bacteria have the potential to alter brain neurochemistry and treat anxiety and depression-related disorders.
Professor John F Cryan, at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) at University College Cork (Ireland), is following a line of research that is focused on understanding the interaction between the brain and the microbiota within the gut and how it applies to disorders including depression, anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity and autism.
Professor Paul O’Toole’s (also at APC) research aims to understand bacterial associations with the human gut, and how this impacts on health and disease.
So it appears that what we eat has a huge impact on the types of bacteria that live in the gut and they, in turn, have a significant impact on how we feel and think.
Check out this inofgraphic:
Via: Renewlife Probiotic Supplements
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