Age reverse – look after your gut to stay young

Regular readers of 40plusandalliswell will know that looking after your gut flora is good for your health but did you also know that a healthy gut flora will help you stay young?  Let’s look at some of the ways your gut flora contribute to keeping us young

A healthy gut flora with a diversity of gut flora reduces inflammation.  I believe inflammation underpins most, if not all disease including degenerative diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and even cancer.

Incredibly gut flora may play a role in gene expression.  Research is underway to understand more about the way this works.

Gut flora can boost immunity. This is because 90% of your body’s serontin, the ‘feel good’ stress reducing hormone, is produced by the gut flora.  Since stress zaps immunity, this helps boost immunity.  This is not just important to prevent colds, flu etc but if when your cells divide a mistake occurs, a healthy immune system will be onto it before the faulty cell divides and cancer results. 

A healthy gut flora can also improve nutrient absorption providing your body with everything it needs for a healthy immune system, strong youthful bones, and even younger looking skin etc. 

Your gut flora can even balance your blood sugar preventing insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. 

So how do you ensure a healthy gut flora?  I would recommend a good probiotic containing a variety of bacteria – this is especially important if you are taking antibiotics which deplete the gut flora.  Also try to ensure your diet includes plenty of fibre (at least 30g per day) and some prebiotic foods such as onions, garlic, leeks, artichokes,bananas etc.  Fermented foods are a good way of ensuring a healthy gut flora so you might want to include sauerkraut, vegan kefir etc in your diet. 

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