The Bacterial Impact: How Microorganisms Shape Our Eating Habits
Have you ever wonder how gut bacteria can control your cravings and eating habits?
You may consider yourself a chocolate lover, a cereal person, or someone that cannot live without eating a good fillet mignon once a week. But how would you feel if the cravings, or the feeling of fullness and satisfaction we get after a meal, were being manipulated by small organisms living inside our body?
There are many reasons we feel cravings or satisfied, and one of those reasons is the bacteria living in our gut.
There are approximately 40 trillion bacteria in our bodies; most of them live in the large intestine.
Bacteria can control our feeding behavior through a variety of mechanisms. For example, gut bacteria can make us crave the type of food containing the nutrients they need, change the flavor of the food we eat making it tastier, make us feel good after eating certain dishes, and even induce the feeling of fullness or satiety after absorbing the nutrients they needed. In this video, I’ll share some ways for controlling which bacteria gets to live inside our bodies.
Hosted and scripted by: Victor Lee
Animations: Luis Lee
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