As long as you look at the size of the stool, you can know the number of intestinal bacteria. There are more and more people with less stool, which is worrying.

The intestinal bacteria are very healthy, so I think everyone can understand how important the intestinal bacteria are. In order to know the amount of intestinal bacteria and the quality of intestinal environment, daily excreta can be used as a big index. Shit is not just the residue from the food you eat every day. Of course, food residues will be excreted, but most of the components in the stool are intestinal bacteria. Of course, dead intestinal bacteria will be excreted, but living intestinal bacteria will also be excreted. Living bacteria will metabolize a certain amount with excretion, so as to maintain a proper balance in the intestine. In other words, the number of intestinal bacteria can be roughly seen from the size of stool. By the way, there are about 1,5 grams of intestinal bacteria in healthy human intestines.

It is a serious problem to have less stool. Recently, the number of people with less stool is increasing, which is actually a very nerve-racking thing. This proves that the number of intestinal bacteria is reduced and it is impossible to keep the intestine in a healthy state. Before the war, the Japanese excreted about 35 grams of stool every day. Compared with Europeans and Americans, the amount is large, because the traditional Japanese diet is composed of foods rich in dietary fiber. Dietary fiber can help intestinal peristalsis and make the intestinal environment better. Recently, however, Japanese eating habits have been thoroughly Europeanized, and the intake of dietary fiber has also been greatly reduced. On the other hand, modern Japanese people become fond of and often take fast food containing a lot of food additives. As a result, the amount of defecation has dropped to about 15 grams, and even to about 8 grams for women. This phenomenon represents that the intestinal environment is deteriorating. In order to improve the intestinal environment, we should re-examine the advantages of traditional Japanese diet.

There is a big secret code hidden in the dishes in the traditional dining table

If you say "Please tell me the food containing lactic acid bacteria", most people will answer dairy products such as yogurt or cheese, but there are many other foods containing lactic acid bacteria besides dairy products. There are also many things containing lactic acid bacteria in traditional foods that are quite familiar to the Japanese. Representative foods include miso, soy sauce, natto, pickles, etc., all of which will appear on the traditional Japanese table. Among them, natto contains a lot of vitamin K and vitamin B2 which make bones strong, and it is quite recommended food. Obviously, there is not a lot of calcium intake, but Japanese people don't often break bones, which can be said to be a good influence caused by the habit of eating natto. In addition to good intestinal bacteria, natto also contains a large number of companion soil bacteria-conditional pathogenic bacteria. Moreover, "lactic acid bacteria production extract" can increase the above two kinds of intestinal bacteria and improve the intestinal environment.

Professor Yoo Miyazawa of Tohoku University and others' research team conducted experiments with mice to study the effects of "traditional Japanese diet", "European and American diet" and "modern Japanese diet" on genes. According to the results of the study, compared with the mice that ate the "European and American diet", it was found that the number of genes metabolizing lipids in the mice that ate the "modern Japanese diet" increased. This means that even "modern Japanese diet" is more effective in promoting metabolism than "European and American diet", while "traditional Japanese diet" is more effective than "modern Japanese diet". The favorite food of intestinal bacteria is oligosaccharides, and foods containing a lot of oligosaccharides include soybeans, burdock, onions, garlic and other vegetables. Children in the growing period must eat it, and it is recommended that they continue to eat it when they grow up. This article is excerpted from Life of Lactic Acid Bacteria Away from Doctors. Author: Jiichiro Fujita Translator: Guo Baowen Publishing House: Morningstar