The Microbes Within Us: Their Effect on Our Health


	The Microbes Within Us: Their Effect on Our Health

bellapria

7-13-2008 10:58 PM

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            wash our hands, scrub the floors, sanitize our surroundings, and
            cook our foods, sometimes obsessive-compulsively, to destroy those
            dirty, nasty microorganisms we know as bacteria or bugs. But are
            all bugs bad for our health? Or have some evolved in a symbiotic
      way? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://juvenon.com/jhj/vol6no02.htm"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><B>100 Trillion Microbes
</B>  They are on our skin and in our mouths. In fact, the microbes outnumber
          the cells comprising the tissues and organs of our body, and contain
          a hundred times more genetic information than what’s in our genetic
          profile. And the bulk of them thrive within our digestive system. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://juvenon.com/jhj/vol6no02.htm"><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><IMG width="212" height="87" align="left" alt="Are all bugs bad for our health? Or have some evolved in a symbiotic way? " src="http://juvenon.com/jhj/images/0602_callout1.gif" />The gut is teaming with microbes that, under normal circumstances, do
        not produce disease. In fact, the genes contained within the numerous
        different species of intestinal bugs code for enzymes that are capable
        of digesting a variety of food materials, such as normally indigestible
        plant polysaccharides.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://juvenon.com/jhj/vol6no02.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/juvenon.com/img/6F4BBE4A-5C79-4D60-B11F-CD4951B06713" alt="Are all bugs bad for our health? Or have some evolved in a symbiotic way? " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5FD116E8-C8FA-4CAD-91B1-AF53AD682956/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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