{"id":19370,"date":"2024-01-16T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T02:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:35:03","slug":"gut-microbiota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gut-microbiota\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gut Microbiota?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gut Microbiota<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The human gut microbiota refers to the\u00a0trillions of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites,\u00a0that live in the human gut.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, people referred to the gut microbiota as the microflora of the gut.<\/li>\n<li>The gut microbiome is the environment they live in.<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of the human gut microbiota:\n<ul>\n<li>Infants inherit their first gut microbes\u00a0during vaginal delivery or breastfeeding (chestfeeding).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Later, your diet and other environmental exposures introduce new microbes to your biome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The gut microbiota\u00a0assists in a range of bodily functions, including:\n<ul>\n<li>harvesting energy from digested food<\/li>\n<li>protecting against pathogens<\/li>\n<li>regulating\u00a0immune function<\/li>\n<li>strengthening the biochemical barriers of the gut and intestine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Changes in microbiota composition can affect these functions.<\/li>\n<li>Disease:\n<ul>\n<li>While there are beneficial bacteria in the gut, there are\u00a0also harmful bacteria\u00a0that can enter\u00a0the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract and cause infection.<\/li>\n<li>These\u00a0infections include food poisoning and other\u00a0GI diseases that result in diarrhea and vomiting.<\/li>\n<li>Research suggests that\u00a0bacterial populations in the\u00a0GI system play a role in developing gut conditions, including\u00a0inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as\u00a0Crohn\u2019s disease and\u00a0ulcerative colitis.<\/li>\n<li>Low microbial diversity in the gut also has\u00a0links to obesity and type 2 diabetes.<\/li>\n<li>The status of the gut microbiota also has links to\u00a0metabolic syndrome.<\/li>\n<li>Disturbing the microbiota with antibiotics can\u00a0also lead to disease, including infections that become resistant to antibiotics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Crohn\u2019s disease?<\/h3>\n<p>Crohn&#8217;s disease is a chronic (long-lasting) disease that causes inflammation in your digestive tract. It can affect any part of your digestive tract, which runs from your mouth to your anus. But it usually affects your small intestine and the beginning of your large intestine.Crohn&#8217;s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/gut-microbiota-heart-health-cancer-explained\/article67740462.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Listen to your gut \u2013 it may be telling you something about your heart | Explained<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human gut microbiota refers to the trillions of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, that live in the human gut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}