“Meet Your Human Microbiota: The Unsung Heroes Inside You” A new frontier in health – By Dr Harold Gunatillake “Hello, everyone! Today, we’re going on an incredible journey inside our bodies to meet some of the most important yet often overlooked inhabitants—the microbiota in our large gut.” Before we discuss microbiota, I must explain the difference between microbiome and microbiota. The microbiome refers to collecting genomes, which means the complete set of DNA (genetic material) in an organism from all the microorganisms in the environment. Microbiota, conversely, usually relates to microorganisms found within a specific environment, which is the gut in the present talk. However, microbiota can refer to all organisms found in an environment, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. So, what is Microbiota? “Imagine a bustling city with trillions of residents; this is what our large gut looks like under a microscope. The microbiota consists of bacteria, viruses, ...
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Dear Dr Gunatillake, Recently, while at the University of Hawaii, I came across an article by a surgeon Dr. Steve Gundrer of the Loma Linda medical school in California, who suggests that BUTYRATE is the key to repairing damaged gut lining which seems to be the main reason for lowered immunity. I wonder whether it might be worth your while to look at this aspect and let us know if it is the case, and if not how else we can look after the gut and hence raise the potency of our IMMUNE SYSTEMS. With best wishes, Dr. Hemal Jayasuriya Ph. D. How do you keep your large bowel free of chronic diseases?-by Harold Gunatillake In our gastrointestinal tract- large bowel accounts for most of the chronic disabling inflammatory diseases like Nonspecific colitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple polyps, including cancerous growths. There ...
