Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time

[cardrona]

 

Just in a mulch pile that is  a year or two old will get you good starting material or around old large trees in nature ....heavily rotted ground material

Plants love it 

[cardrona]

All experiments showing the wonder-benefits of fungi are set up on sterile (or near sterile) substrate. Of course it works well, because the substrate is well dead. It contains very little bacteria, fungi etc. Then adding them from the magic flask [packshot!] works. But in real life applications your very soil already contains everything it is needed to grow fungi in symbiosis with the roots

The term 'beneficial fungi' is somewhat oversimplified. The real life is much more complicated than the picture: "good fungi helps the plant, and the plant helps the fungus'. Because of cosmopolitan character of soil fungi they can well reverse their habits to parasitic behaviour, or turn saprophyte. There is a lot of experiments that have shown no benefits of them (in some circumstances), or even harm, while showing benefits in other setups.

Every single cubic centimetre of old garden (or forest) soil contains millions of millions living fungi and nothing needs to be added. Old European (XIX century) books on forestry and orchards advised to bring some pounds of old soil from the forest or old orchard when planting trees on the entirely new place.

Mycorrhizal fungi need a host plant to grow....just like bacteria grow in our gut.....

I wonder if it is related to red or white blood cells being imbalance may throw the gut bacteria out of balance along with diet?Like the carbon nitrogen ration in a compost.And temperature like in nature slows down or speeds up in cycles...

Anyways Interesting

[itchybromusic]

cool stuff CD

 

here's a pic of my sip this year , under the plastic mulch cover 

[cardrona]

Another link they are finding which is partially gut related .....is worms......just like in compost ............

Previously humans helped control worms with the onion family garlic etc .....and we didn't worm ourselves...like people do these days .....

and in the most were not that affected.

Over time we are way to "clean"....washing and peeling food( which is how we got our minerals from small traces of earth ) not centrum? or swiss

(which was not done nearly as much back 150 years) 

They have found a link that not all worms are bad for you and help inside the gut of humans .......

there was a study linking the missing worms in our guts and the rise in gluten intolerance ....interesting link.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-10-22/worms-linked-to-coeliac-relief/1113232 

 

 

These are the seven best herbs for treating parasites naturally:

• Black Walnuts. Black walnut hulls and the nut itself have the ability to cleanse the blood and the intestines. ...
• Clove. Cloves have powerful antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties. ...
• Thyme. ...
• Wormwood. ...
• Garlic. ...
• Oregano Oil. ...
• Diatomaceous Earth.

 

Modern hygiene is well ............to clean

Edited April 20, 2017 by cardrona

[itchybromusic]

Another link they are finding which is partially gut related .....is worms......just like in compost ............

Previously humans helped control worms with the onion family garlic etc .....and we didn't worm ourselves...like people do these days .....

and in the most were not that affected.

Over time we are way to "clean"....washing and peeling food( which is how we got our minerals from small traces of earth ) not centrum? or swiss

(which was not done nearly as much back 150 years) 

They have found a link that not all worms are bad for you and help inside the gut of humans .......

there was a study linking the missing worms in our guts and the rise in gluten intolerance ....interesting link.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-10-22/worms-linked-to-coeliac-relief/1113232 

 

 

These are the seven best herbs for treating parasites naturally:

• Black Walnuts. Black walnut hulls and the nut itself have the ability to cleanse the blood and the intestines. ...
• Clove. Cloves have powerful antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties. ...
• Thyme. ...
• Wormwood. ...
• Garlic. ...
• Oregano Oil. ...
• Diatomaceous Earth.

 

Modern hygiene is well ............to clean

preaching to the converted , i was diagnosed with crohn's disease in 02 , a family history disease with no history of it in my family = imo too clean , too many chems 

the prob is a divers group of foods is good for us but if that divers group of food is grown with standard Government approved agricultural practice

is that food doing all you talk about above ?

 

have you heard of salvestrols a component of organic fruit & veg  , this stuff is a plants natural defense against  fungal attack but the more we spray 

the less the plants produces , it's important cos salvestrols fight fungi , cancer is now being considered in many circles as a fungus / fungal attack & we have long ago 

stopped getting components like salvestrols in our diet , keep in mind salvestrols are only found in any numbers , not necessarily big numbers , in organic

fruit & veg only  

[cardrona]

Yep ...that is why asians and most of asia eat bitter foods the salvestrols are higher ..

Green Banana...Bitter Melon.....green Coconut........there diet is the opposite in taste palate to western diets we wait till the starch gets turned to sugars ....hence we have an overloaded sugar high diet .....and what does cancer love or bad gut bacteria ....sugar and affects pH

 

http://www.orthokennis.nl/artikelen/bitter-is-better-an-introduction-to-salvestrols

 

Natural Fruit Sources for Salvestrols: (Organic)

• • Apples
  • Grapes (including organic wine)
  • Blackcurrants
  • Blueberries
  • Cranberries
  • Oranges
  • Strawberries
  • Tangerines

Natural Vegetable Sources for Salvestrols: (Organic)

• • Avocados
  • Bell peppers
  • Broccoli
  • Brussel sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Cauliflower
  • Chinese leaf
  • Olives (including stone-ground, cold-pressed olive oil)

Herbal Sources for Salvestrols: (Organic)

• • Artichoke
  • Basil
  • Parsley
  • Dandelion
  • Milk thistle
  • Mint
  • Parsley
  • Rosemary
  • Sage
  • Scutellaria
  • Thyme

[Thirstyman88]

Some of this is going over my head but a good read none the less. Thanks!

 

There was a good episode of Jamie Oliver's Superfood or something where he went to South Korea. The village he went to had some crazy statistic of people living over 100. Every single meal they eat Kimchi. And a larger portion of veggies compared to meat too..

Western diets suck

[cardrona]

Asian bitter diets definitely have a reduced amount of issues compared to western diets 

Japan is the great country to look at 

As the diet has changed since WW2 and hiroshima and become more fast food oriented in the bigger cities ....you are now seeing overweight asians ...whose bodies are not used to the diet and an elevated rise in health issues.......from an increase in sugar etc.

 

 

https://japantoday.com/category/national/western-diet-contributing-to-crohns-disease-surge-in-japan

 

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/11/national/science-health/obesity-on-the-rise-as-japanese-eat-more-western-style-food/#.WPmJ3UWGPcc

Edited April 21, 2017 by cardrona

[cardrona]

Check this site out ....great indicators of what diets work and what don't 

 

you can toggle the disease .......mainly look at who is top 3 ........they will indicate what diets work and what doesn't

 

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/diabetes-mellitus/by-country/

[Swftroml]

 

Article taken from http://www.healinglandscapes.org/blog/2011/01/its-in-the-dirt-bacteria-in-soil-makes-us-happier-smarter/

 

 

It’s in the Dirt! Bacteria in soil may make us happier, smarter

 

Many people, including me, talk about the restorative benefits of gardening (see last Tuesday’s post, for example) and the reasons why it makes us feel good. Just being in nature is already therapeutic, but actively connecting with nature through gardening is value-added. And why is that? All sorts of reasons have been posited: It’s a meditative practice; it’s gentle exercise; it’s fun; it allows us to be nurturing and to connect with life on a fundamental level.

 

And some recent research has added another missing piece to the puzzle: It’s in the dirt. Or to be a little more specific, a strain of bacterium in soil, Mycobacterium vaccae, has been found to trigger the release of seratonin, which in turn elevates mood and decreases anxiety. And on top of that, this little bacterium has been found to improve cognitive function and possibly even treat cancer and other diseases. Which means that contact with soil, through gardening or other means (see Elio, above), is beneficial. How did this discovery come about?

 

Mary O’Brien, an oncologist at Royal Marsden Hospital in London, first stumbled upon these findings while inoculating lung cancer patients with a strain of M. vaccae (pronounced “emm vah-kay”) to see if their symptoms improved. She noticed that in addition to fewer cancer symptoms, patients also demonstrated an improvement in emotional health, vitality, and even cognitive function.

 

Dr. Chris Lowry, at Bristol University, decided to explore O’Brien’s discovery. He hypothesized that the body’s immune response to the bacterium causes the brain to produce seratonin. Lack of seratonin is one symptom, or perhaps even cause, of depression. He injected mice with the M. vaccae (pronounced “emm vah-kay”) and then observed both physiological and behavioral changes. He found that cytokine levels rose – cytokines are part of a chain reaction, the end result of which is the release of seratonin. To test behavioral stress levels, Lowry put the mice into a miniature swimming pool, knowing that although stressed mice get even more stressed by swimming, unstressed mice don’t seem to mind. And voila! His M. vaccae mice did not exhibit higher stress levels after swimming.

 

Could M. vaccae be used as a sort of vaccination to treat depression? Possibly, and it is still being explored as a treatment for cancer, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. For a more detailed but still understandable summary, see this article in The Economist, “Bad is Good.”

 

More recently, Dorothy Matthews and Susan Jenks, at the Sage Colleges in Troy, NY tested the findings, again on mice, but this time by feeding the bacterium to them rather than injecting it. They fed the mice tiny peanut butter sandwiches with a little M. vaccae smeared on. Yummm.

 

Then they ran the mice through a difficult maze. Compared to those that did not ingest the bacterium, the M. vaccae mice “navigated the maze twice as fast and exhibited half of the anxiety behaviors.” Seratonin is also thought to play a role in learning, so it may have helped the mice not just by making them less anxious but by facilitating greater concentration. Once the bacterium was removed from their diet, they continued to perform better than the control group for about three weeks. As the bacterium left their system, the superhero effects tapered off and by the third week, the difference was no longer statistically significant.

 

This research is important because it indicates that the bacterium could potentially affect us through normal everyday contact and not just injection. Just how does M. vaccae affect people (as opposed to mice), and how much would be needed to influence us? We don’t know that yet, because that study has not yet been done. “Gardeners inhale these bacteria while digging in the soil, but they also encounter M. vaccae in their vegetables or when soil enters a cut in their skin,” says Matthews. “From our study we can say that it is definitely good to be outdoors–it’s good to have contact with these organisms. It is interesting to speculate that creating learning environments in schools that include time in the outdoors where M. vaccae is present may decrease anxiety and improve the ability to learn new tasks.”

 

Matthews and Jenks shared their results at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego and at the Annual Animal Behavior Society Meeting at William and Mary College. For a more detailed summary of this research, see the Cosmos Magazine article, “How gardening could cure depression.”

 

Horticultural therapy at Wesley Woods Hospital. Photo courtesy of Kirk Hines, HTR/Wesley Woods Hospital of Emoryhealthcare

Horticultural therapy at Wesley Woods Hospital. Photo courtesy of Kirk Hines, HTR/Wesley Woods Hospital of Emoryhealthcare

Interestingly, with gardens and horticultural therapy in healthcare facilities, practitioners often use sterile soil, in which all bacteria has been removed, to reduce risk of infection. This has been thought to be particularly important for people with immune disorders like cancer and AIDS. It’s certainly true that soil can harbor harmful bacteria as well (not to mention the occasional piece of glass or rusty nail, so make sure those tetanus shots are up to date!). But what if bacteria were found to have more of a benefit than a risk? Further research might change the types of soil that are specified for certain populations and activities.

 

In the meantime, gardeners have one more excuse to root around in the dirt, and parents and teachers have another incentive to let their kids play in the great outdoors.

 

Follow-up from March, 2011: A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children who grow up on traditional farms are 30% – 50% less likely than other children to develop asthma. Researchers correlated the high diversity of bacteria and fungi in household dust – from soil and farm animals – with the low likelihood of asthma. Even parents and teachers who believe in the joys of connecting with nature may hesitate to let their kids fully engage (in other words, get dirty). But perhaps a little extra soap and elbow grease at home is a fair trade for healthier, happier, and smarter kids?

 

Citations and further reading

 

Lowry C.A., Hollis J.H., de Vries A., Pan B., Brunet L.R., Hunt J.R., Paton J.F., van Kampen E., Knight D.M., Evans A.K., Rook G.A., Lightman S.L. (2007-05-11). “Identification of an immune-responsive mesolimbocortical serotonergic system: potential role in regulation of emotional behavior.” Neuroscience 146 (2): 756–772. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.01.067. PMID 17367941.

 

Susan M. Jenks (presenter) and Dorothy Matthews, “Ingestion of Mycobacterium vaccae influences learning and anxiety in mice.” Presented at the Annual Animal Behavior Society Meeting, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA July 25 – 30, 2010.

 

“Getting Dirty May Lift Your Mood.” Bristol University: Medical News Today. 2007-04-05.

 

“Dirt exposure ‘boosts happiness,'” BBC News, 2007-04-01.

 

Szabo, Liz (2011). “Farm living could arm kids against asthma.” USA Today, February 23.

 

Ege, Marcus, Melanie Mayer, Anne-Cecile Normand, Jon Genuneit, William O.C.M. Cookson, Charlotte Braun-Fahrlander, Renaud Piarroux, and Erika von Mutius for the GABRIELA Transregio 22 Study Group. (2011). “Exposure to Environmental Microorganisms and Childhood Asthma.” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 364, pp. 701-709.

 

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