The oxygen-less confines of the bacteria-packed colon allows the bacteria to transform the glucose to energy, which results in the production of short-chain fatty acids, the ideal nutrients for colon cells.
Acting as a transporter expressed by colonic cells, which absorb the just-produced short-chain fatty acids, SLC5A8 is found to be the final piece of the model in both animals and human cells.
This finding has shown that the transporter, SLC5A8, helps explain why fruits and vegetables are good for you and antibiotics are not because they wipe out the good bacteria and disrupt the model. This could result in potentially making the colonic cells sick or cancerous.
The main function of the colon is to store waste from the diet until it is time to be eliminated. When the transporter was cloned in a study, it was reported that when colon cells became cancerous, the transport system got silent.
The path of the transporter in the body gives an idea of what it transports. The research showed the transporter was heavily expressed in the colon, which led scientists to believe that a healthy short-chain fatty cells transporter can keep the whole immune system healthy.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry February 13, 2004
I don’t know whether or not many of you know that the number of bacteria in your cells outnumbers the cells in your body by about 10 to one. There are about 60 trillion bacteria in our colon and we have about 6 trillion cells.
I’m absolutely convinced that one of the keys to keeping healthy is through balancing the bacteria in your intestine. This is one of the ways that eating sugar causes disease, by directing more of the disease-causing bacteria in the colon to grow.
I have discovered the great value of fermented foods that are loaded with good bacteria. They give the body similar benefits as consuming a whole bottle of good bacteria, but at a fraction of the cost. I have started using them for health benefits at nearly every meal. I am hoping to have regular articles in the near future on their benefits and to help explain why they are so useful.
Another way to balance the bacteria in your intestine is by taking probiotics. Remember that if your GI tract is not functioning at optimal health, then your overall health is being compromised. The purest and highly effective probiotic that I have found is Primal Defense. This is one of the few supplements that I highly recommend and urge nearly everyone to consider adding to their daily diet to eliminate toxic waste and improve the digestive tract.
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