Nowadays, two approaches of diabetes, prediabetes, and other metabolic imbalances prevail. The first one, the ‘all-medical’ approach, chiefly deals with endocrine and metabolic processes: calorie intake, insulin metabolism, enzymatic processes and all the neurotransmitters involved in homeostasis, i.e. the regulation of our blood sugar level. It promotes a treatment aiming to ‘chemically’ restore these mechanisms. The second – and most…
- 7 October 2015
WE HAVE 2 KILOGRAMS OF BACTERIA INSIDE OUR GUT.
We have 10 times more bacteria in our colon and intestine than cells in our body and the total weight of this bacterial population comes close to 2 kilograms! Hence its being more and more commonly called intestinal microbiota, a genuine organ compounding a hundred thousand billion bacteria, endowed with its own life, that works as an amplifier or, on…