#gut and immunity

[starberry-cupcake]

I'm gonna be annoying about the immunity syndrome, please bear with me:

1. spock calling out humans

2. bones on his 'inject jim with something before asking' agenda

3. no peril gets in the way of jim being able to tease spock

4. mcspirk arguing about which of them is allowed to risk his life for the ship

5. jim going through it and me also going through it even if I know they'll be ok

6. spock might be risking his life but he's sure as hell gonna be a menace about having been chosen over bones to do it

7. AN-TI-BO-DIES (affectionate)

8. scotty is going through it as well

9. whatever the hell this was

[mindblowingscience]

A study conducted by researcher Juan Du's research group at the Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the capabilities of our gut microbes and their metabolites. The findings reveal potent inhibitory effects on the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and suggest interactions and signaling between gut microbes and pathogens. The study, published in the journal Gut Microbes, focuses on identifying key microbes within the gut microbiome that inhibit the growth of pathogens, particularly antibiotic-resistant strains. Strains from Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium butyricum, and Enterobacter maltosivorans and their metabolites were found to directly inhibit the growth of pathogens, including multi-drug-resistant ones.

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[elipri]

If I told yall that this is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series, would you believe me? As much as I love damianya, what REALLY makes SxF stand out to me is the political nuance and care that Endo puts into his work.

This scene in particular has stuck out to me because I know it could very well apply to me as well. If I was told that the guy getting punched was a nazi, I'd have the same "positive" reaction, even though there's no verifiable evidence for that. And I think it's important to acknowledge that, because propaganda exists to rob us from our very human feeling of empathy. It is a vile weapon in order to dehumanize and justify unspeakable acts of violence. All I ask is to please not fall for it and to be on the side of the civilians, no matter what.

Because it's a slippery slope otherwise.

[dragondusst]

He suffers

[willowreader]

A good article reminding everyone to eat healthy to protect your microbiome. There are foods everyone should eat to make your microbiome much healthier.

[eyeofthelama]

MORE LIFE 🍏🫐🍋🍊

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[bpod-bpod]

Brain Calling Bacteria

Psychological state is known to influence immunity by its impact on our essential microbiome – the vast community of microorganisms that share our body – but the details of how are unclear. This study in mice identifies nervous pathways that interact with intestinal glands that produce mucus which in turn influences the vigour of beneficial bacteria (the study looks at Lactobacillus)

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Hao Chang and colleagues

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in Cell, August 2024

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[pochapal]

seeing the spooky shit unfold and muttering to myself "real or witch narrative? real or witch narrative??????" and failing to reach an answer

[best-enemies]

Sure I have like a thousand wips but instead I just picked up my 2 year old wip that has over 10 chapters and nearly 100 pages worth of fic about Patience narrating how the Doctor was the worst husband she ever had (mind you. She married Rassilon) and picking up on clues that he might have cheated on her with the Master.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Gut check: You hear it all the time: Keep your gut healthy! Why? Because it can impact your digestion, immune system, and even your mood. But what exactly is the gut microbiome—and how can you keep it healthy? We let you know. (Above, a bacteria in the gut dividing into daughter cells.)

MICROGRAPH BY MARTIN OEGGERLI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

[dark-elf-writes]

Thinking about Venomous Naruto again and how anyone who showed interest in Naruto would get the most terrifying of shovel talks from all of his siblings and orochimaru

And then I realized

It’d be Shino. Man wouldn’t so much as flinch. He is so used to them after being Naruto’s friend for years that they could just straight up threaten him with the most fucked up shit and he’d be like “sick cool so can I go back to training or are we going to keep doing this?”

[probablyasocialecologist]

While it appears that individual products containing high doses of vitamins and antioxidants are unlikely to deliver a health boost, diets rich in these nutrients are linked to healthier immune function. The Mediterranean diet, for instance – replete with antioxidant and vitamin-rich cereals, fruits, legumes, nuts, olive oil and vegetables – dampens down harmful inflammation, whereas the so-called Western diet – rich in sugars and saturated fats, and low in complex carbohydrates, fibre and vegetables – seems to be recognised by the immune system as a threat and is linked with inflammation.

For example, a 2016 trial of 25 adults compared the immune response of a typical Mediterranean meal with a Western style one (pasta, salad, nuts and olive oil vs a burger and fries). The fast food meal led to elevated inflammation and oxidative stress in participants, whereas the Mediterranean one dampened these responses.

A number of factors could explain these effects. One is that the Mediterranean diet is rich in omega-3, a type of healthy fat found in dairy, fish, nuts, plant oils, seafood and seeds, and contains less omega-6 than a typical Western diet. “This ratio of omega-3 and 6 is associated with lower inflammation, but in Western diets, the ratio is usually flipped,” says Francisco Pérez-Cano at the University of Barcelona in Spain. Another factor is the way that many Western-type meals are prepared. Broiling, frying or roasting processed meat causes sugars to react with proteins, forming by-products that trigger inflammation.

At the heart of these immune effects is our microbiome, the vast bacterial community that resides in our gut. “These communities of bacteria form a delicate ecosystem,” says Fiona Powrie at the University of Oxford.

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What does all this mean for when you are in the supermarket faced with an array of supposedly immune-boosting products? To keep your natural defences in good shape, what really seems to matter is a healthy gut microbiome. For this, the most important factor is the nature of your overall diet.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 17

“DYWTYLM” by Sleep Token

[leonardoeatscarrots]

"You get sick a lot"

Bestie, I never got un-sick.

[quarantineddreamer]

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