Human beings are super-organisms, and they’re full of trillions of viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Collectively, this is known as the microbiome. The composition of your microbiome can help form a healthy immune response, or predispose the body to disease. The intestinal microbiome acts like a signaling hub, integrating environmental inputs such as diet and lifestyle, with out genetic and metabolic pathways. This impacts a myriad of systems, including the immune system.
Dysbiosis typically occurs when the bacteria in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which includes your stomach and intestines, becomes unbalanced. Most of the microbiome in your body is symbiotic, or beneficial to the body and microbiome, while some smaller parts are pathogenic, which promotes disease. When a body is healthy, pathogenic and symbiotic microbiota can coexist without problems. But if there’s a disturbance in that balance, which can be brought on by infectious diseases, specific diets, or prolonged use of antibiotics or other bacteria-destroying medication, dysbiosis occurs.
Maintaining a homeostatic balance between microbial activity and immune response is what allows the immune system to properly defend against infection. The health of your body and your microbiome are constantly changing, which means you always have the opportunity to improve. There are many ways that we can improve our microbiome health, but the most important thing to do is to have a plan that’s individualized to you, as we all have unique individual biochemistry and what works for some may not work for others.
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