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Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Shares Benefit of Vitamins to Gut Microbiome

Our bodies are hosts, hosts of our physical bodies as well as of microbial life. They are linked together and live on proper nutrition. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation helps our Tonawanda chiropractic patients find their way around the world of gut nutrition as it is tied to physical and microbial life.

THE GUT MICROBIOME: Vitamins

The gut microbiome is critical in keeping physical health and in breeding disease. Diet is central. Fermentable fiber and other nutrients play a role in the composition of the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal health. Vitamins A and D are key vitamins as they modulate the gut immune response or function as an obstacle to disease and thereby influence gastrointestinal health and the microbiome. Researchers report that vitamins help the gut microbiome by increasing the number of presumed commensals (A, B2, B3, C, K, beta carotene), microbial diversity (A, B2, B3, C, K) and richness (D), short chain fatty acid production (C), and the great quantity of short chain fatty acid producers (B2, E). (1) Making a quality multi-supplement part of your everyday routine is so important to be added to your Tonawanda chiropractic treatment plan!

THE GUT MICROBIOME: B Vitamins

Our bodies work together with microbial life to maintain health and to cope with disease. The gut microbiota are said to make hundreds of bioactive compounds including B-vitamins which can suppress competitive microbial species’ growth. B vitamins are mostly absorbed from the small intestine though excess B is sent on to the distal gut as needed. New studies are exploring the other roles B vitamins seem to take on there: nutrients for both the host and the microbiota, regulators of immune cell activity, mediators of drug efficacy, supporters of the survival of certain bacterium, suppressors of pathogenic bacteria colonization, and colitis modulators. (2) Your Tonawanda chiropractor knows nutrition, particularly how B vitamins are well valued by the body and its microbiota!

B VITAMINS IN GUT HEALTH & IMMUNITY & INFLAMMATION

Another interesting tie Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation wants to present is a link between the microbiota, immune cell activity, and inflammation. The gut-associated lymphoid tissue is explained as the largest immunity organ in the human body. Disturbances to the gut microbiome may lead to increased gut permeability and cause systemic inflammation as well as issues with the central nervous system. Proinflammatory cytokines (via the kynurenine pathway’s enzymes forming neuroactive metabolites – another topic for another time!) are linked with several psychiatric disorders (bipolar, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, autism, depression, alcoholism). Probiotics which can impact proinflammatory cytokines are suggested as potentially reducing the toxicity of the kynurenine-linked metabolites. (3) There is so much we are learning more about inflammation, immunity, and the gut. This link to psychiatric issues is another topic of interest to Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the possible benefit of nutrition for immune support.

Make your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment now. Combining nutrition with gentle chiropractic treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management is a great approach to taking care of your body!

 
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