YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

We are familiar with the saying “you are what you eat” meaning, the food and drinks we take into our body have direct effect on our health and well-being. If we fuel our body with the right food, it will give us a better performance. Note, whenever we take in junks, strong drinks and lot of soda, our health suffers.

It was discovered that what we eat have major effects on our body composition and physiology. The genes in virtually all of our cells may influence by the nutrients available to them, according to a new study conducted in yeast cells. Yeast cells are simpler to study than animal models, but they display similar genes and cellular mechanisms to humans. The study unfolded that nutrients released from food led to changes in the way the genes function. The behaviour of genes and the protein molecules produced were influenced by the availability of nutrients to the cell. Certain foods, such as broccoli and some other vegetables, garlic, and onion contains substances that act as histone inhibitors, which essentially block the histone protein. It allows our tumour-suppressor genes to activate and in return fight cancer. Consumption of these foods regularly, naturally support our body’s ability to fight tumours.

The Type of Food We Eat Affects our Bone Strength

The food we take in determine the health of our micro-biome, which in turn shapes our health, influencing our risk of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity and also bone disease such as Osteoporosis etc. our body houses some 100 trillion bacteria and about 1 quadrillion virus (bacteriophages). These organisms perform various functions, and it perhaps they are not properly balanced and nourished with the right diet, it will affect our physical and mental health. Our diet is one of the easiest, fastest and most effective means to improve and optimize our micro-biome.  So, we should believe this that we have great extent of control over our health destiny, and you bone appears to be somehow linked to our gut micro-biome.

Drinking is Dangerous to the Liver

It is obviously known that alcohol is harmful to the liver, but it imparts its damage not only by destroying liver cells directly. The other reason why alcohol causes liver disease has to do with interruption to the gut micro-biota. Series of recent experiments showed that alcohol down-regulates two genes that produce antimicrobial molecules that have broad spectrum activity against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.

Eat Your Way to Good Health

The means to optimize our gut flora and overall health, is through eating the right diet. Fermented foods are the best route to optimal digestive health, as long as we eat the traditionally made, unheated foods. The key to begin gradually: try eating more vegetables every week. Use nuts as snack instead of potato chips. Cook yourself a healthy breakfast, lunch or dinner instead of going out to eat. Recall, “You are what you eat”, do endeavour to fuel your body with the right diet it requires, and it will pay you with amazing healthy appearance. The destiny to a health individual is in your hands, make choices, and eat your way to a healthy long life.