Strangely enough, it might turn out you are
not the only one to blame for you bad eating habits. Chances are a little voice
in your head is telling you to eat, and you just can’t stop it!
It has been known and stated as a fact for
many years now by the scientific world that Man is a symbiotic entity. This
means you have a special relationship with some other living creature. And in
the case we are looking at today, these other living creatures are microbes. So
Man and Microbe have a symbiotic relationship, meaning some microbes depend on
us to live, just like we couldn’t live some of our microbial guests.
You may think that having germs in you is
plainly being infected, and that is not good. But it’s a little more complex
than that. Some infections are in fact benign, which means they are not harmful
to us. Actually, some infections are good, compulsory even, for the human body.
Not only do we all carry an impressive amount
of germs inside and outside of our body, but our good functioning depends on
some of them. Some help us digest our food, overs keep more hostile guests away
and therefore prevent help prevent harmful infections.
Some others only try to get to us in the hope
of damaging our system, sometimes in an irreversible manner. And others play on
both sides. If there are not too many of them, and they are in the right
location, then all is good. But when they multiply, or find themselves in a
sensible spot, they can be a real nuisance.
But some infections, that just go unnoticed,
or are just considered benign, can in fact affect you in a way that is very
different than what you could imagine. Everything in our body obeys the rules
of chemistry. All the signals your brains receives and sends are either
directly chemical messages, or electric message generated by a chemical
reaction. Our body absorbs, transforms and uses thousands of different
chemicals, resulting in thousands of different messages, and these message
themselves can result in many different actions in the brain. One of those actions
is the sensation of hunger.
But the thing is, the bacteria in our body
transform and reject chemicals too. And some times, the chemicals from the
microbes can interact and affect the messages your brain receives, and the
actions that result from it. Having that in mind, a group of scientific
researchers has started wondering if the sensation of hunger, and for some
foods in particular, could not be increased by the presence of high
concentrations of a specific bacteria.
The future studies will bring us proof to tell
us if the theory is correct or not, but it may well turn out that your weight
and overfeeding problems are the result of an infection by…hunger!
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