Gut Biome and Birthday Cake
So you want a healthy microbiome?
If you've had gastrointestinal problems, acid reflux, or lots of gas, you might have wandered into the maze of micros. Maybe you went on a FODMAP diet, like me. Maybe you researched gut health, also like me. Maybe you discovered popping probiotics daily isn't so good.
What is?
Diversity is key.
I've read it's good to have a dog so you share those invisible organisms from others around you. Pets protect your kids from allergies.
We know to get our hands dirty and garden to get local critters in our system.
Studies in mice show there is a bacteria in the gut for "skinny" mice that can be put in the gut of "fat" mice to change their weight tendencies.
And, why would anyone get a fecal transplant? These people - often due to antibiotics - have a horribly unbalanced bacterial biome. They know firsthand how other people's poop makes life much more manageable.
But now I have learned of another way, a small, surprising way, to encourage bacterial diversity, and I want to share it with you.
Caution: danger to germaphobes ahead
When a person blows out candles on a birthday cake, they transfer oral bacteria and micro organisms to the cake -- 1400% more than areas not blown on!
Now that's a reason to celebrate!
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It's a party!
Interesting post! Woah. And kids, still novices to the candle-blowing experience, probably transfer even more bacteria to the cake, and then other kids who haven't yet been exposed to that many bacteria are the ones eating the cake!
Yum!