Bacteria + Probiotics
This process uses beneficial microorganisms to transform foods like yogurt, kimchi, and sauerkraut.
What is fermentation?
Chronic exposure to this condition can alter the composition of the gut microbiome.
What is stress?
These medicines are designed to treat bacterial infections, not viral illnesses.
What are antibiotics?
A healthy gut microbiome helps strengthen this protective barrier, reducing the passage of unwanted substances into the bloodstream
What is the intestinal gut barrier?
These complex sugars found in human breast milk are indigestible by infants but serve as food for beneficial gut bacteria.
What are human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)?
This fermented milk drink, similar to drinkable yogurt, is a well-known source of probiotics.
What is kefir?
Gut bacteria can produce or influence chemicals called these, which help nerve cells communicate. (the general term)
What are neurotransmitters?
Nondigestible food components that nourish beneficial gut bacteria are called these.
What are prebiotics?
A pill or food which contains prebiotics and probiotics is called this.
What is a synbiotic?
This beneficial bacterium is especially abundant in infants and typically becomes less common with age.
What is Bifidobacterium?
After gram staining, this bacteria is purple.
What is gram positive?
Although most of it is produced in the gut, this neurotransmitter is often associated with mood, sleep cycle and even appetite.
What is serotonin?
Diets high in these highly processed foods may be associated with lower gut microbial diversity.
What are ultra-processed foods?
Unlike simple sugars, these carbohydrates are digested more slowly and often provide a steadier source of energy
What are complex carbohydrates?
This scientist discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928.
Who was Alexander Fleming?
These bacteria have an outer wall which causes them to take up safranin color.
What are gram negative?
The 3 major ways gut influences brain.
What are gut metabolites, immune cells (inflammation), and neural/hormonal signaling.
Antibiotics which restrict growth of bacteria without killing them are called this:
What is Bacteriostatic?
Fiber is used by bacteria to generate metabolites. Name one we spoke about frequently.
what are short chain fatty acids?
This Russian-born scientist won the 1908 Nobel Prize and proposed that consuming fermented milk bacteria could promote healthy aging.
Who was Élie Metchnikoff?
In the name lactobacillus plantarum, this word defines the species name.
What is plantarum?
Name 3 mechanisms by which the brain influences the gut.
The nervous system, diet, behaviors, stress and hormone production.
These are considered "viruses" for bacteria, which are currently used in research for trying to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
What are bacteriophages?
These fats, found in foods like olive oil and avocados, are generally recommended in place of saturated fats.
What are unsaturated fats?
The first probiotic Mutaflor was made from this bacteria.
What is E.coli Nissle?