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Ellen G. White En Die Ingewande-Brein-Verbinding

Ellen G. White En Die Ingewande-Brein-Verbinding

Ek het onlangs na ‘n opgeneemde aanbieding geluister waarin die spreker die volgende aanhaling van Ellen G. White, een van die stigters van die Sewendedag Adventiste Kerk, gelees het:

As jy gevra word om ‘n raadsvergadering by te woon, moet jy jou afvra of jou waarnemingsvermoëns in ‘n behoorlike toestand is om bewyse te weeg. As jy nie in ‘n behoorlike toestand is nie, as jou brein verward is, het jy geen reg om aan die vergadering deel te neem nie. Is jy onrustig? Is jou ingesteldheid soet en aangenaam, of is dit so versteurd en onaangenaam dat jy gelei sal word om oorhaastige besluite te neem? Voel jy asof jy graag met iemand wil baklei? Moet dan nie na die vergadering gaan nie; want as jy gaan, sal jy God sekerlik oneer aandoen. Neem ‘n byl en kap hout of oefen totdat jou gees versag het en maklik bepleit kan word. Net so seker as wat jou maag ‘n versteuring in jou brein veroorsaak, sal jou woorde ‘n versteuring in die vergadering veroorsaak. Meer probleme word veroorsaak deur versteurde spysverteringsorgane as wat baie besef (Medical Ministry, bl. 295, geskryf in 1900).

My eerste reaksie hierop was dat dit ongelooflike wysheid is. Ek het ook besef dat ek soms in die verlede daarby sou baat gevind het as ek dit vroeër gelees en toegepas het, want daar was vergaderinge wat ek bygewoon het dat dit vir my verstandiger sou gewees het om tuis te bly. Gelukkig het ek deur God se genade geleer om ‘n lieflike, kalm en vriendelike gesindheid te soek wanneer ek vergaderinge bywoon; Ek het besef dat wanneer dit waarskynlik is dat ek ernstige meningsverskille in ‘n vergadering in die gesig kan staar, hoe meer moet ek my verstand en hart voorberei voordat ek gaan.

Maar die idee dat die maag en ander spysverteringsorgane die funksie van die brein kan beïnvloed, het my regtig getref – dat ‘n nie-mediese persoon in die jaar 1900 ‘n mens se spysverteringsfunksie met breinfunksie kan verbind, is ietwat ongelooflik, want eers onlangs het die mediese wetenskap die spysvertering-brein-verband ontdek en die groot impak wat die mikrobioom van die ingewande op breinfunksie het.

Die volwasse gastro-intestinale (GI) stelsel bevat ‘n diverse gemeenskap van verskillende mikroörganismes (1 tot 2 kilogram bakterieë), en die voedsel wat ons eet, het ‘n direkte invloed op watter organismes floreer en watter nie. En die organismes wat in ons ingewande leef, produseer verskillende neweprodukte van hul metabolisme wat ‘n impak op ons gesondheid het en eintlik met ons fisiologie kan kommunikeer, wat positiewe of negatiewe gevolge het.

Gesonde bakterieë verbeter ons dermvoering, verminder inflammasie, terwyl ongesonde bakterieë bydra tot ‘n lekkende ingewande en verhoogde inflammasie, wat bydra tot ‘n verskeidenheid gesondheidsprobleme. Gesonde bakterieë produseer brein-neurotransmitters soos GABS (gamma-aminobutiriese suur), serotonien en ander psigo-aktiewe verbindings wat dit na die brein maak en ons bui en veerkragtigheid verbeter, terwyl ongesonde bakterieë dit nie doen nie. Vrywilligers wat Lactobacillus helveticus R0052 plus B longum vir 30 dae ontvang het, het aansienlik laer stresvlakke gerapporteer as diegene wat ‘n plasebo ontvang het. En 124 vrywilligers (gemiddelde ouderdom, 61.8 jaar) wat drie weke lank probiotika-bevattende jogurt verbruik het, se buie het aansienlik verbeter in vergelyking met diegene wat ‘n plasebo ontvang het. [1]

Vier studies waarby 36,556 volwassenes betrokke was, het bevind dat die beoefening van ‘n Mediterreense diet, die risiko van depressie met 33 persent verminder het in vergelyking met dié op ‘n gewone Amerikaanse dieet. Aan die ander kant van die spektrum is die eet van ‘n pro-inflammatoriese dieet hoog in vet, suiker en verwerkte voedsel gekoppel aan ‘n hoër depressierisiko. [2]

Soos ons gewig optel en ons LMI (liggaamsmassa indeks) toeneem, neem die gesonde bakterieë Bacteroidetes af, en dit word geassosieer met groter depressie. [3]

Psigiese stres aktiveer die immuunrespons van die liggaam, wat inflammatoriese sitokiene verhoog. Dit vind plaas omdat die liggaam potensiële eksterne bedreigings waarneem, net soos wat sou voorkom wanneer ‘n beer aanval, en die immuunstelsel aktiveer om die persoon teen bakteriële of virale indringers te beskerm op dieselfde manier as ‘n mens fisies aangerand sou word en byt- of kloumerke het. Die liggaam ken nie die verskil tussen emosionele/geestelike bedreigings en werklike bedreigings nie – soos ‘n kwaai beer – en reageer dus met dieselfde immuunrespons.

Die toenemende inflammatoriese faktore is bedoel om te beskerm as ‘n mens indringende bakterieë of virusse gehad het, maar aangesien die toename te wyte is aan geestelike stres, veroorsaak hierdie inflammatoriese faktore eerder probleme vir die liggaam, soos insulienweerstandigheid, wat die risiko vir tipe II-diabetes, vetsug, hipercholesterolemie en ander metaboliese probleme verhoog.

Chroniese geestelike stres, wat die sein na die liggaam van ‘n bedreiging stuur, plaas die liggaam in krisismodus, wat nie net die immuunstelsel aktiveer, wat die inflammatoriese faktore verhoog nie, maar dit verhoog ook dermdeurlaatbaarheid, wat in tye van werklike bedreiging en besering die opname van water en natrium verbeter. As dit egter nie opgelos word deur die geestelike stres en bedreigingsein wat na die liggaam gaan te verminder nie, kan dit lei tot “lekkende derm” en ‘n toename in endotoksiene wat die bloedstroom binnedring, wat inflammasie verder verhoog, en die verhoogde inflammasie word na die brein oorgedra wat bydra tot verdere geestesgesondheidsprobleme, soos depressie en ‘n verhoogde risiko vir Alzheimer’s demensie.

Gesonde dermbakterieë kan help om die derm-epiteelversperring te verbeter en studies toon dat pre- en probiotika help om dit te bereik, met die daaropvolgende afname in inflammasie in die liggaam en verbetering in gemoedstoestand by individue wat aan depressie ly. [4] [5] [6]

‘n 2023-studie wat verskeie diëte en buie vergelyk het, het bevind dat ‘n plantgebaseerde dieet met positiewe bui geassosieer word.[7] Dit is heel waarskynlik as gevolg van ‘n kombinasie van faktore wat insluit die vermindering van inflammasie uit die voedsel, die verbetering van dermbakterieë en die neuro-oordragstowwe wat hulle vrystel, die verbetering van dermgesondheid met verbeterde dermvoering en vermindering van “lekkende derm” en daardeur verminderde inflammasie en daaropvolgende verbetering in metaboliese gesondheid en vermindering in vetsug.

Hoe verbasend dit ook al lyk, die raad wat meer as 100 jaar gelede gegee is, is nie net wys nie, maar ook wetenskaplik akkuraat! Ek moedig jou aan om te kies om in harmonie met die wette van gesondheid te leef en gesonde voedselkeuses te maak – jy sal jou algemene gesondheid verbeter en waarskynlik ook beter geestelike en emosionele gesondheid ervaar.


[1] Biol Psychiatry. 2013:74;708-709, 720-726

[2] Lassale C, Batty GD, Baghdadli A, et al. Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Molecular Psychiatry. 2018 September 26; [ePub ahead of print].

[3] Peirce, J., Alviña, K, The role of inflammation and the gut microbiome in depression and anxiety; The Journal of Neuroscience Research; Volume 97, Issue10; October 2019 p. 1223-1241. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24476

[4] Ibid.

[5] Improves CNS astrocyte function with decreased neuro-inflammation Peirce, J., Alviña, K, The role of inflammation and the gut microbiome in depression and anxiety; The Journal of Neuroscience Research; Volume 97, Issue10; October 2019 p. 1223-1241. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24476

[6] Kato‐Kataoka, A, et al., 2016 Applied and Environment Microbiology, 82(12), 3649–3658. https ://doi.org/10.1128/ AEM.04134-15.

[7] Food Funct., 2023, 14, 2326-2337 10.1039/D2FO02951K

 

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