“#carbohydrates are the devil!” - said only the uniformed and fear mongers! 🤣🙄 . . LOL!! No, No! #carbs are not the devil and not the enemy. It’s truly amazing how all our body’s and our crazy #metabolisms are just that unique! Like how I have #insulinresistance due to PCOS. Some people don’t know I’m living a #ketogeniclifestyle for my health and not just #ketoweightloss 💗 . . . So for me, myself, and I, my favorite carbs come in the color green! As well as red, purple, white, and a little orange😛! . . . Eat more #greens everyone and #eathealthy and #behappy ❤️ #blessedbe #ketolifestyle #ketoweightloss #keto #ketogirl #ketomom #ketobreakfast #ketogreens #ketos #greenvegetables #vegetarian #ketovegetarian #ketovegan (at Sunnyvale, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRiR82BHKc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t8obw8gaexnz
Postbiotics: Novel gut microbiota-derived materials that promote our health and are useful as functional foods and pharmaceuticals (video 8m 44s)
Jun Ogawa
Professor, Laboratory of Fermentation Physiology and Applied Microbiology, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Professor Jun Ogawa covers the following areas of his research on gut microbiota.
Gut microbiota as a metabolic organ, and ‘postbiotics’ as novel materials promoting human health and useful as functional foods and pharmaceuticals.
Gut microbial food component metabolism
Lipid - Fatty acid
DNA/RNA – Nucleotide/Nucleoside
Protein – Amino acid (D-amino acid)
Polysaccharide - Sugars
Plant derived bio-active molecules – polyphenols, glucosinolates, urolithins, etc.
Function expression by gut microorganisms
Effects of bacterial cell components themselves
Function expression by interaction between microbial cell components (LPS, etc.) and host receptors (TLR, etc.)
Immunomodulation, etc.
Effect of fermentation product of microbes
Production of short-chain fatty acids by fermentation of dietary fiber (polysaccharides)
Metabolic control (anti-obesity) / anti-inflammatory action by acetic acid / propionic acid / butyric acid
Effects of microbial metabolic activity and metabolites (metabolites of food components, postbiotics)
Enhancement / suppression of host metabolism
Effects through metabolism not found in the host
Relevant publications by Professor Ogawa and his colleagues
Novel PUFA-saturation metabolism found in Lactobacillus plantarum
Ø Kishino, S. et al, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110, 17808-17813 (2013)
Enhancing gut hormone secretion & anti-diabetic activity
Ø Goto J. et al, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 459, 597–603 (2015)
Kim M. et al, FASEB J., 31, 5036-5048 (2017)
Ø Yonejima Y., et al, Prog. Med., 37, 1105-1111 (2017)
Ø Miyamoto J., et al, Nat. Commun.10, 4007 (2019)
Hypolipidemic effect
Ø Nanthirudjanar T., et al, Lipids, 50, 1093-1102 (2015)
Anti-inflammatory and immune controlling effects
Ø Bergamo P,. et al, J. Funct. Foods, 11, 192-202 (2014)
Ø Ohue-Kitano R,. et al, FASEB J., 32, 304-318 (2018)
Intestinal and gingival epithelial barrier protection
Ø Miyamoto J. et al, J. Biol. Chem., 290, 2902–2918 (2015)
The concept of resilience in ecological systems was first introduced by the Canadian ecologist C.S. Holling in order to describe the persistence of natural systems in the face of changes in ecosystem variables due to natural or anthropogenic causes. Resilience has been defined in two ways in ecological literature:
as the time required for an ecosystem to return to an equilibrium or steady-state following a perturbation (which is also defined as stability by some authors). This definition of resilience is used in other fields such as physics and engineering, and hence has been termed ‘engineering resilience’ by Holling.
as "the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks".
The second definition has been termed ‘ecological resilience’, and it presumes the existence of multiple stable states or regimes.
Becoming more apparent in academic writing is the significance of the environment and resilience in sustainable development. Folke et al state that the likelihood of sustaining development is raised by "Managing for resilience" whilst Perman et al. propose that safeguarding the environment to "deliver a set of services" should be a "necessary condition for an economy to be sustainable".
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‘’Now we are aiming our technologies inward where they will start to merge with our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny, and perhaps our souls’’
I had to take a second to be intrigued/entertained by the “bathroom problem” terminology. A bathroom is not an inherent thing that all sentient people can be assumed to have. And, though we try to ignore the subject in polite conversation, organisms produce waste in natural processes. They need not be a problem for anyone.
I understand what you meant, though, so hopefully I can explain adequately without offending any sensibilities.
The wood sprites have stairs on their trees. They generally use those or simply glide down from their home branches to an area outside the main thoroughfare of the village. There, they can dig a small trench, do their business, cover it, and be on their way (a stop by the stream to wash off certainly wouldn’t be amiss, but they have water basins in their homes, too). This is not so different from what humans generally do if there’s not a bathroom available. Sadly, we haven’t always had indoor plumbing.
That’s how it’s done in Wellwood. There are some wood sprite communities out there that might keep a sort of “outhouse” structure on their home trees for households to share. It’s a bucket of dirt in a closed room that gets refreshed every so often. Five stars.
As far as potential “emergencies” go (Spirit save me), I’ll add that gastrointestinal issues among wood sprites are astronomically rare. Their metabolisms are incredibly efficient and robust, and honestly they can be like tiny living compost bins. They are able to digest many things that other mammals can’t (sugars like cellulose, which humans can’t digest), making their lives much easier in times of scarcity (they are literally surrounded by cellulose). Conveniently, it means they can control things like their regularity with greater ease. They also don’t vomit involuntarily, the lucky little guys.
Faster metabolism does mean that chemicals like alcohol and caffeine get distributed very quickly. Bowman got hyper very fast in Lich because of this. In his canon, you can see in Bowman of Wellwood that a few drinks of beer made him wobbly, much to his chagrin. Drunken sprite. They’re all lightweights.
I digress, anon.
In short, the “bathroom problem” isn’t truly a problem (and nor does it have much to do with an actual bathroom). But, I mean, kudos for thinking to ask the awkward questions. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever have to go through answering that, but one big block of uncertainty has been removed from my life. Thanks, you’re a peach.
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