Do you know what’s inside your GI tract?
No, not that stuff. The GOOD stuff!
And what’s this have to do with insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity??
Much more than you might have thought, actually.
Individual bodies react differently to the exact same foods, and now we know one major reason why: the tiny organisms that live in our GI tract called the “gut microbiome”!
Did you know that these tiny fellows (the good bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, and eukaryotes) are considered so important to our health that scientists consider them collectively as a separate “organ” with its own metabolic and immune functions?
And did you know that inside a HEALTHY gut there are about 100 trillion microbes, representing over 5000 different species, and they weigh about 4.5 POUNDS???
We are just beginning to understand what role our gut microbiome plays in fat storage, insulin resistance, and weight loss, but what we DO know is that a healthy microbiome is incredibly important to all those functions!
