The Gut-Brain Axis: how gut flora affects your brain!

What is the Gut-Brain Axis?

The connection between gut and brain is referred to as the gut-brain axis. Your gut and your brain are constantly communicating with each other through the nervous system and neurotransmitters produced by your gut bacteria.

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The Gut-Brain Axis and Imbalances in the Gut Flora

Studies have shown a connection between an imbalance in the bacteria in your gut and certain neuropsychiatric diagnoses such as ADHD. Whether such diagnoses are the cause of gut flora imbalances or the result of dietary and lifestyle factors has not been conclusively determined, however.

Researchers have therefore become increasingly interested in figuring out how we can work with gut bacteria and gut bacteria supplements to lessen the symptoms of different diagnoses, for example. Today, researchers are studying everything from ADHD to autism, depression, anxiety and sleep disorders.

Why a healthy gut microbiome is important

Besides the fact that your gut flora communicate with your brain, they also have a major influence on your health in a number of different ways. For example, balanced gut flora is important for a calm and well-functioning stomach, a strong immune system – in fact, a whopping 70% of your immune system is located in your gut! – and the production of different vitamins and neurotransmitters.

How to boost your gut flora

Your gut flora are influenced by a variety of factors such as your stress levels, sleep, what you eat, how much exercise you get and much more… One of the most important factors in strong gut flora is diet, and more specifically, an anti-inflammatory diet. An anti-inflammatory diet contains large quantities of plant-based fibre which provide food to the good bacteria in your gut.

Besides eating lots of plants and otherwise leading a healthy lifestyle, there are also dietary supplements specifically designed to improve your gut flora. Super Synbiotic’s synbiotica supplement contains a combination good bacteria that naturally occur in the gut, plus four different types of plant-based fibre. Super Synbiotic’s dietary supplement gives a boost to your gut flora and is based on many years of research by Professor Stig Bengmark.

Synbiotic Gut-Brain contains:
40 billion lactic acid bacteria from 3 unique patented strains. Synbiotic Gut-Brain also contains 8 grams of gluten-free dietary fibre as well as Vitamins B6, B9 and B12 which support normal mental functioning.

 

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References

BAMBA – Treatment of ADHD with probiotics

Effects of a synbiotic on symptoms, and daily functioning in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – a double-blind randomized controlled trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32497779/

Mind-altering microorganisms: the impact of the gut microbiota on brain and behaviour https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3346

Food for thought: The role of nutrition in the microbiota-gut-brain axis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235293931600004X

The microbiome: A key regulator of stress and neuroinflammation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352289515300370

Neuropeptides and the microbiota-gut-brain axis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359909/

Altered fecal microbiota composition in patients with major depressive disorder https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359909/

Psychobiotics in mental health, neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31324280/