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New Roads Chiropractic Center Shares Benefit of Vitamins to Gut Microbiome

Our bodies are hosts, hosts of our physical lives as well as of microbial life. They are connected together and live on proper nutrition. New Roads Chiropractic Center helps our New Roads chiropractic patients navigate the world of gut nutrition as it is involved in physical and microbial life.

THE GUT MICROBIOME: Vitamins

The gut microbiome is important in keeping physical health and in breeding disease. Diet is central. Fermentable fiber and other nutrients play a role in the composition of the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal health. Vitamins A and D are crucial vitamins as they modulate the gut immune response or act as a barrier to disease and thereby influence gastrointestinal health and the microbiome. Researchers report that vitamins assist the gut microbiome by increasing the number of presumed commensals (A, B2, B3, C, K, beta carotene), microbial diversity (A, B2, B3, C, K) and richness (D), short chain fatty acid production (C), and the great quantity of short chain fatty acid producers (B2, E). (1) Making a quality multi-supplement part of your everyday routine is quite beneficial to be added to your New Roads chiropractic treatment plan!

THE GUT MICROBIOME: B Vitamins

Our bodies work together with microbial life to maintain health and to cope with disease. The gut microbiota are reported to produce hundreds of bioactive compounds including B-vitamins which can quash competitive microbial species’ growth. B vitamins are mostly absorbed from the small intestine though excess B is supplied to the distal gut as required. New studies are exploring the additional roles B vitamins seem to take on there: nutrients for both the host and the microbiota, regulators of immune cell activity, mediators of drug effectiveness, supporters of the existence of certain bacterium, suppressors of pathogenic bacteria colonization, and colitis modulators. (2) Your New Roads chiropractor understands nutrition, especially how B vitamins are well valued by the body and its microbiota!

B VITAMINS IN GUT HEALTH & IMMUNITY & INFLAMMATION

Another interesting tie New Roads Chiropractic Center wants to present is a tie between the microbiota, immune cell activity, and inflammation. The gut-associated lymphoid tissue is explained as the biggest immunity organ in the human body. Disturbances to the gut microbiome may lead to increased gut permeability and trigger systemic inflammation as well as issues with the central nervous system. Proinflammatory cytokines (via the kynurenine pathway’s enzymes forming neuroactive metabolites – another topic for another time!) are linked to several psychiatric disorders (bipolar, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, autism, depression, alcoholism). Probiotics which can affect proinflammatory cytokines are potentially toxicity reducing of the kynurenine-associated metabolites. (3) There is so much we are learning more about inflammation, immunity, and the gut. This association to psychiatric issues is another topic of interest to New Roads Chiropractic Center.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the possible benefit of nutrition for immune support.

Schedule your New Roads chiropractic appointment now. Combining nutrition with gentle chiropractic treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management is a great approach to taking care of your body!

 
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