How to make your gut healthier

Preface: Friends often have bad gastrointestinal problems, but they just don’t know why. I checked the relevant information and combined my own understanding to talk about the topic of intestinal health.

Next, I will introduce the intestines, intestinal flora, intestinal microecology, factors affecting intestinal health, and how to improve intestinal health.

1. Intestine

First of all, let’s get to know our intestines, which are divided into large intestine and small intestine. The function of the small intestine is to absorb nutrients, and the main function of the large intestine is to remove waste from the body.

As you can see from the figure, the small intestine includes the duodenum, jejunum and ileum. The duodenum receives gastric juice, bile fluid, and bile, the jejunum secretes digestive enzymes, and the ileum absorbs nutrients.

The large intestine includes the colon, cecum, appendix, and rectum. The colon converts liquid chyme into semi-solid feces, which is excreted by the rectum.

2. Intestinal flora

There is a group of tenants living in the intestines. They are the intestinal flora. This group of tenants has beneficial probiotics and bifidobacteria. There are also the "green grass" E. coli and harmful Staphylococcus aureus.

These tenants usually live in peace and maintain the balance of intestinal flora and maintain intestinal health.

3. Intestinal microecology

Our large intestine, small intestine, and intestinal flora all live together, forming the intestinal microecology.

Just like the friendly coexistence between us humans and the natural environment constitutes an ecological environment.

4. Factors affecting intestinal health

The beneficial bacteria, neutral bacteria and harmful bacteria in the intestines originally lived peacefully, but one day guests from outside came. , such as antibiotics, which collude with harmful bacteria to make the intestinal tract dirty and messy.

In addition, overeating, intestinal aging with age, bacterial infections, long periods of inactivity, staying up late, irregular work and rest, excessive mental stress, etc., all reduce the number of beneficial bacteria.

As time goes by, their behavior affects the neutral bacteria. The neutral bacteria are just grass on the wall. Seeing that the harmful bacteria have the upper hand, they go to the harmful bacteria.

There are fewer and fewer beneficial bacteria left. They are helpless in the face of the huge number of harmful bacteria. The house in the intestines is becoming increasingly overwhelmed and will slowly collapse.

As a result, various symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort appeared.

5. How to improve intestinal health

Is there any way to improve it? The answer is yes.

First, maintain balanced nutrition, eat reasonably according to the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents", and avoid carbonated drinks and milk tea.

Second, exercise reasonably to promote metabolism, enhance immunity, and improve human body functions.

Third, adjust your mood, rest efficiently, and maintain a comfortable body.

Fourth, supplement nutrients, such as Euglena (containing 59 kinds of nutrients), dietary fiber, fructooligosaccharides (which are the food of probiotics), probiotics, etc.

If you do the above four points, I believe your body and intestines will not be too bad.

What matters is not that you know how to improve, but whether you can persist in improving.

That’s it for my sharing, I hope it can inspire you.