I’ve been discussing how the microbe, Lactobacillus reuteri, is ubiquitous in mammals and in people unexposed to antibiotics and different microbiome-disruptive components reminiscent of meals components, glyphosate, different prescription drugs, and many others.
If we had been to look at the feces of squirrels, raccoons, or chickens, all of them have L reuteri. If we studied the feces of indigenous human populations in distant jungles of New Guinea or the Brazilian rainforest, in addition they all have L reuteri. A latest fascinating research of historic microbial DNA in southeastern Spain has recognized what’s believed to be fecal materials from Neanderthals who populated the area 45,000 to 60,000 years in the past—they usually had L reuteri. (Anthropologists have proof that Homo sapiens and this completely different species, Homo neanderthalensis, co-existed for tens of 1000’s of years earlier than they grew to become extinct.)
Even Dr. Gerhard Reuter, who found this microbial species in human breast milk in 1962, had no drawback discovering it at first. Over the following 40 years of his microbiology profession in Germany, he had rising problem in recovering this microbe. And, certainly, subsequent analyses have demonstrated that this species has virtually disappeared from the fashionable human microbiome.
The widespread lack of L reuteri ought to come as no shock, given its susceptibility to widespread antibiotics reminiscent of ampicillin, amoxicillin, and others. Mockingly, regardless of its susceptibility to antibiotics, it’s itself a producer of potent bacteriocins, pure peptide antibiotics efficient in opposition to stool species reminiscent of E coli, Klebsiella, and Campylobacter. L reuteri is such an efficient antimicrobial in opposition to gastrointestinal pathogens that my microbiologist pals inform me that they sometimes clear their fermentation vats with this species. However not solely is L reuteri a producer of a minimum of 4 types of bacteriocins, it’s also distinctive in that it colonizes the higher gastrointestinal tract, exactly the place the battleground for SIBO happens. Might the widespread lack of L reuteri from trendy human microbiomes be one of many causes that small intestinal bacterial overgrowth,SIBO, has grow to be epidemic, now afflicting a minimum of 100 million Individuals by my estimation? I feel it’s—restoring L reuteri might subsequently be a part of the answer and the explanation why I embrace this species in my recipe for “SIBO Yogurt” that, thus far, has eradicated SIBO, as detected by AIRE H2 breath testing, in 90% of people that have tried it. (See my Tremendous Intestine e-book for the SIBO Yogurt recipe if you happen to’d like to provide this a strive earlier than resorting to antibiotics to eradicate SIBO.)
Animals have it, indigenous human populations have it, even Neanderthals had it, and it is best to have it, too.
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