Gut Imbalance: The Modern Plague and Hidden Epidemic by Gerard Mullin

Gut bugs. Why are they the buzz of the media and a hot topic of scientific research?The average human being has about 100 trillion gut microbes with most being located in your lower intestines and trillions more surrounding and coating your body surfaces and inner lining. Just like in the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix, the naked human eye sees only an altered reality. How would you feel if you could see every one-celled organism?We do not live in a glass bubble. We are constantly coated by a microbial bath.These microscopic microbes are not just passive hitchhikers -- they actually provide vital metabolic functions that keep us healthy when they are balanced in type and number.These microbes mainly reside in the gut and the evidence is now compelling that the digestive tract is an important body system in keeping us healthy or is the root cause of illness when dysfunctional.To many this may seem a revelation, but the importance of balancing the gut as a means to restore wellness and mitigate illness has a long historical tradition. For centuries, ancient healers using Ayurvedic medicine have regarded gut health as being central to wellness and believed that all illness begins with a breakdown in the gut.Read more at  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerard-e-mullin-md/gut-imbalance-the-modern-_b_7641358.html