INTRODUCING INVEST in your HEALTH
Invest in Your Health: Science-Based Approach to Restore Intestinal Function
At Invest in Your Health, our goal is to support your long-term health by providing a science-based approach to restore and maintain your gut function. We focus on balancing your gut microbiota and lipid profile, which play a crucial role in your overall health and wellness.
The gut plays multiple functions, including converting food into essential nutrients and producing health-promoting substances that help prevent diseases. The gut microbiota, made up of beneficial microbes, performs functions such as converting dietary components into protective compounds, maintaining the gut lining, and interacting with inflammation and immunity. A healthy gut microbiota composition helps suppress dangerous (pathogenic) microbes.
To maintain a healthy gut, we recommend avoiding unnecessary use of antibiotics and following a balanced diet. A high-fat diet (HFD) and low-fiber diet can lead to defects in the intestinal barrier and result in chronic inflammation, exemplified by irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and metabolic syndromes. To restore the gut microbiota composition and abundance, treatment should target the cause of chronic inflammation and not just suppress symptoms.
Studies are ongoing to determine the gut microbiota composition and identify the necessary probiotics and prebiotics for supplementation. Cultivating a healthy gut microbial composition can protect against metabolic syndromes and inflammatory bowel disease, and may also have implications for colorectal cancer. Nurturing your gut health and maintaining the right composition and abundance of your gut microbiota is essential to prevent multiple diseases.
Professor Godfrey Grech
Smart Health Ltd.