Bacteria that have been found in human guts that a prominent expert has called 'the four rider of the lifespan' can help you live up to 100.
Doctor and Harvard University scientist Dr. William Li recently appeared on a podcast to discuss how bacteria living in the digestive system can contribute to 'super-agers' people who live up to 100 and then.
He also revealed the types of food that cultivates these bacteria in the body – possibly everyone she eats, a long -term boost.
About the Dhru Purohit show that Dr. Li an investigation in Italy emphasized that intestinal bacteria analyzed in volunteers, the oldest of which had reached 114.
These bacteria are part of the intestinal microbioma, an ecosystem of micro -organisms that live in the digestive system and are vital for a series of physical processes – from helping digestion to combat infection to stabilize mental health.
Dr. Li said that researchers thought that four types of bacteria were particularly abundant in the guts of centenary.
“These bacteria – Odoribacter, Oscillobacter, Christensenella and Akkermansia – are so high with these people that something is wrong,” he said.
Although bacteria have not been proven to increase the life of people, Dr. Li that there were a number of ways in which they were known to improve health in general.
Doctor and Harvard University scientist Dr. William Li recently appeared on a podcast to discuss how bacteria living in the digestive system can contribute to 'super-agers', people who live more than 100 years, long lifespan
“We don't know everything they do, but we do know that some of them like the Odoribacter improve your immune system against E. coli to other bacteria that can remove you as you get older,” he said.
He even said that there is a suggestion that Odoribacter could even protect against cancer, although this warned that this was still being investigated.
Research, from Japan, has also found Odoribacteraceae, the family of bacteria to which Odoribacter belongs, helps to stimulate the life.
Dr. Li went on and described Oscillobacter as 'Mother Nature Statin' because it helps to lower bad cholesterol and at the same time improve cholesterol, to protect the health of the heart.
He added that Oscillobacter helped to make your body more 'insulin -sensitive', which could have important implications for a long service life in combination with a healthy diet.
Having good insulin sensitivity means that your body reacts better to the hormone insulin and has easier access to sugar in the blood, as opposed to insulin resistance, the opposite means and is a risk factor for health problems such as type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Li said Akkermansia was linked to a series of health benefits,
'Lower inflammation. Improving metabolic health and helps you to combat cancer, “he said.
The microbiome is the ecosystem of micro -organisms such as bacteria that live naturally in the digestive system and are involved in a series of physical processes – of helping digestion, to combat infection to stabilize mental health
“It actually plays a role in the health of the brain and cognition that also protect cognition.”
Although Dr. Li the benefits of Christensenella not directly listed, research has suggested that it helps to support health metabolism, help prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity and possibly inflammatory bowel disorders.
But the expert has described the food that you may want to include more in your diet to 'cultivate' these types of bacteria.
For Akkermansia he said pomegranates, dried cranberries, concord grapes, whole or juice chilis, black raspberries and Chinese black vinegar were good options.
“These are feasible ways to actually cultivate these bacteria,” he said.
For the other three bacteria, Dr. Li that people store cooked carbohydrates, such as rice, potatoes pasta, in the fridge at night to change them in the resistant starch that the microorganisms needed to thrive.
He explained that this cooling process causes a reaction in the food that makes it slower to digest to the better of positive bacterial growth in your digestive system.
“That temperature change changes the chemistry of the starch the next day,” he said.
“If you have it, even if you warm it up again, it is resistant starch that breeds some of these healthy four players.”
Dr. Li said that fruit such as pomegranates, dried cranberries and grapes were a good way to cultivate the useful bacteria Akkermansia
Dr. Li added that this lifetime stimulates bacteria will probably only have a significant effect in the long term when a person is younger, which means that a person trying to cultivate them in their 1970s will probably not be a big boost of his lifespan to see.
Scientists suspect that a healthy microbiome keeps us healthy two mechanisms healthy.
The first is that certain bacteria produce chemicals that interact with the systems of our body, such as our immune response, brain, hormones, etc. in a positive way, improving their performance.
Secondly, the presence of such good bacteria prevents harmful microorganisms that can damage our health to root root by competing with space and resources.
About 15,000 centenary people live in England and Wales, according to the latest data.
The vast majority of British centenary, about four out of five, are women.
Although the number of hundred -year -olds in general has increased overtime, they still remain a fraction of the total population, but good for around 0.02 percent.
Scientists are still investigating which combination of factors such as genetics, lifestyle and aspects such as the composition of the microbiome contribute to the total lifetime.
