World Health Day
April 16, 2015 at 6:00 PM
On World Health Day, to Dr. Iztok Ostan in a lecture entitled Blessing from the gut spoke about the importance of proper digestion and intestinal flora.
In the introduction to the booklet with the same title, Dr. Ostan wrote some time ago:
“Modern science confirms the old Eastern wisdom that disease originates in the intestines. Yet it is almost a taboo subject. A doctor once regularly asked a patient how his bowel movements were when examining him. Today, there is hardly any talk about that “down there.” We generally think of the intestines as a kind of “drainage channel” from which everything but good comes.
The first chapter of this text deals specifically with the dangers arising from an unbalanced intestinal flora.
The booklet "Blessings from the Gut" reveals that a properly regulated gut can be an important source of life force. The central part of the booklet presents the results of research on the exceptional positive influence of good gut bacteria on the course of various diseases. Unfortunately, there are significantly too few of them in the intestines of an ordinary civilized person. While researching this area, I was quite surprised to learn that there is almost no disease in which good gut bacteria would not significantly contribute to its cure. These are mostly the results of animal research. As scientists have noted, the field of studying gut bacteria is neglected (O'Hara, Shanan 2006), and there are too few much-needed clinical studies on their medicinal effects. Nevertheless, the studies presented are worth thinking about. They used lactic acid bacteria, i.e. microorganisms contained in probiotic yogurts and other probiotic foods. So why is there no news about anyone curing cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and other serious illnesses by eating yogurt?
"It's probably a question of the concentration of good microbes, which in scientific tests is higher than in probiotic yogurts; choosing the right types of good bacteria and their combinations also seems important, as not all of them have the same effect on all diseases."
The first chapter of this text deals specifically with the dangers arising from an unbalanced intestinal flora.
The booklet "Blessings from the Gut" reveals that a properly regulated gut can be an important source of life force. The central part of the booklet presents the results of research on the exceptional positive influence of good gut bacteria on the course of various diseases. Unfortunately, there are significantly too few of them in the intestines of an ordinary civilized person. While researching this area, I was quite surprised to learn that there is almost no disease in which good gut bacteria would not significantly contribute to its cure. These are mostly the results of animal research. As scientists have noted, the field of studying gut bacteria is neglected (O'Hara, Shanan 2006), and there are too few much-needed clinical studies on their medicinal effects. Nevertheless, the studies presented are worth thinking about. They used lactic acid bacteria, i.e. microorganisms contained in probiotic yogurts and other probiotic foods. So why is there no news about anyone curing cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and other serious illnesses by eating yogurt?
"It's probably a question of the concentration of good microbes, which in scientific tests is higher than in probiotic yogurts; choosing the right types of good bacteria and their combinations also seems important, as not all of them have the same effect on all diseases."
An interesting and topical lecture will be in the Levstik Hall.