The way we live in the 21st century is destroying our guts and health.

Original title: The 21st Century Lifestyle Is Destroying Our Guts and Health: Overdosing, Overeating, Undernourishment Modern Society, Advances in Civilization, and The Development of Science and Technology Have Given Us More Access to Healthy Capital; Many people are now plagued by various diseases, and some are even very young. They have a variety of digestive problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, reflow of stomach acid, chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating or constipation, usually several at the same time;we've made tremendous advances in medicine and we've invested more and more in health care, we don't seem to be able to stop the surge in disease rates. More and more people are overweight or obese, and we have more fat in our waists and buttocks;fact, most of the leading causes of death in modern times are lifestyle-related, including heart disease, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and kidney disease. These problems are caused by lifestyle, yet we completely ignore lifestyle as a treatment option and choose drugs as our primary treatment. If we ignore these reasons, we will never be able to solve them fundamentally.Modernization and the Origin of modern epidemics At the end of the 19th century, the average life expectancy was only about 47 years, and the main causes of death were infections, and infectious diseases such as small flowers, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and syphilis were rampant. Heart disease and cancer also exist, but that's a small comparison to infection.Louis Pasteur, the main cause of infection death was bacteria. As a result, bacteria became the number one public enemy, and Pasteur created what we know as "pasteurization". In the 20th century, in order to fight bacteria, we began to chlorine in drinking water, develop vaccines, improve sanitation, and start making canned metals and early preservatives. The good news is that this works: polio is almost extinct and many other infectious diseases are on the decline, including smallpox.discovered penicillin in 1928 and began production in 1945. Over the next few years, the rate of infection decreased significantly and our life expectancy increased rapidly. In 1969, William Stewart, the director of public health, even confidently declared to Congress that it was time to "put an end to infectious diseases".After The Second World War, we developed synthetic herbicides, fungicides and pesticides; we added fluoride to the water; we found that antibiotics and synthetic hormones accelerated the growth of livestock, so we started raising livestock with these two substances; and we developed antibacterial soaps and various industrial cleaning products.if bacteria are our enemies, then we're basically blowing them up with nuclear weapons," he said. There is no doubt that we won the war. Unfortunately, however, chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer occur in large numbers.At the same time, for better or worse, technologies are developing in every way, and it has to be said that our way of life has changed dramatically: the number offood additives has soared to more than 10,000, the vast majority of which have never been tested in humans.The pharmaceutical industry is growing so fast that more than 1,500 drugs are now approved by the FDA, so medical schools now spend most of their time learning about these drugs, their uses and their side effects, with little training in nutrition.plastics, which contain BPA and have estrogen-like effects, were invented and started to be used extensively.we invented airplanes, trains, cars and motorcycles, we were easy to travel, but it also greatly reduced our movement.inventions of television, computers, smartphones and video games have made it easy for us to give up exercise, hijack our brains and the daily sleep-wake cycle.all kinds of novels and stories have been made into movies, watching a movie for an hour or two, we no longer go to see books;genetically modified organisms enter our stores for the first time. Today, more than 80 per cent of all GM crops grown worldwide are genetically modified to be resistant to herbicides. This means that GM crops survive after being sprayed with herbicides, while all the other plants around them die. Monsanto, the main developer of genetically modified crops, for example, has adapted a range of crops that have genetic properties that protect them from glyphosate herbicides, especially soybeans and corn. This is good news for agricultural production, as corn and soybean production is said to have increased by 20-30% through genetic engineering. At the same time, however, the use of toxic herbicides such as glyphosate has increased 15-fold since gm crops were first introduced. In March 2015, the World Health Organization determined that the herbicide glyphosate could cause cancer in humans. One study found a 41 percent increase in the incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among people exposed to high levels of glyphosate. In a prospective cohort study of more than 68,000 French volunteers, those who ate mainly organic foods were less likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and post-menoanthory breast cancer than those who ate little or no organic food. What we fear is not genetically modified, but glyphosate, which may remain in these GM crops. , how have these lifestyle changes affected us? Let's go back to the larger context of human evolution and think about our modern life. from the beginning of human appearance, microbes became part of our story, and we evolved together, ups and downs. For most of these 3 million years, we lived in a world full of dangers, living to survive, and most of us died of infection, hunger or other physical harm at a very young age. We need to live long enough to reproduce and continue our species; our symbic microbes help us train our immune systems against infections, help the development of clotting factors to stop bleeding, and help us get and store more energy from food. Insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, for example, is actually a protective mechanism that helps maintain the energy the brain needs when hungry. As part of species conservation, we have evolved a preference for salt, sugar, and fat, which promote survival in famine, and we become hungry for these things. , think of us now, lying on the couch all day playing video games, drinking Coke and eating takeaways. In the past hundred years alone, the human experience has been completely different: we have been sedentary, addicted to electronics, sprayed with chemicals (including ourselves), and had unlimited food supplies. And the inflammation, clotting, and energy preservation that we once depended on are what causes cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes today. What once helped protect our species has become our Achilles heel. now, our microbes are evolving to adapt to new environments, and they play a vital role in human health. We can ignore the fact that gut microbiotics can quickly spiral out of control and ultimately harm ourselves in the destructive modern way of life, and, of course, we can get rid of the adverse effects of modern lifestyles on gut microbiotics and make them a "secret weapon" to help keep us healthy and long-lived. To do this, we need to pay attention to anything that destroys the gut bacteria. , how does what we eat in our mouths - medicine and food - affect our gut health? the drug is a three-point poison, don't let ourselves be over-medicated Advances in medicine have allowed us to have more treatment options, and now most people are using some kind of prescription drug, and in fact, the proportion of people who use five or more drugs has doubled in the last decade or so. It's true that modern medicine gives us some great treatment options, and when we get sick, we want help with certain drugs, but we can't ignore the negative effects of our love of quick-acting drugs and over-reliance on them." Most of the medications are only temporary relief or cover up the symptoms of the disease, equivalent to a patch on the wound. They do not prevent disease and certainly do not cure it at its root. 2014 alone, nearly 1.3 million Americans sought emergency medical assistance because of side effects of the drug, and about 124,000 died as a result, according to a U.S. report. Wrong medicine has even become the third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer, and the situation in our country is not optimistic. Many people think that antibiotics are a very reasonable treatment, in the face of some common minor problems in life, such as cold fever, throat inflammation and so on, the first reaction is to take some antibiotics to press down, they usually think that antibiotics to treat these minor problems have no side effects. However, there is no doubt that antibiotics will definitely destroy the gut microbiota. For example, just five days of cycloproxacin can wipe out about a third of gut bacteria, and most species recover within four weeks, but some species still disappear after six months; for kramycin and methazole, the effect on gut bacterium is still evident after four years of use; and just four days of three broad-spectrum antibiotics can permanently destroy nine beneficial bacteria. The result of all these antibiotics is a "new" intestinal bacterium with more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which makes us more susceptible to infection, allergies, osteoporosis and obesity. antibiotics are not the only ones causing trouble. Almost half of the commonly used drugs can severely affect our gut bacteria, according to a new study published in the 2019 European Joint Gastrointestinal Diseases Week. For example, proton pump inhibitors, such as omeprazole, reberazole, etc., can inhibit the secretion of stomach acid, may change the pH of the gastrointestinal tract, so that some otherwise unfit for survival of the intestine harmful bacteria mass reproduction, resulting in changes in the gastrointestinal tract tract difficile, which increases the risk of small intestine bacteria overgrowth, thyrobacteria infection and intestinal bacterios disorders. nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen and naplom, can alter intestinal bacteria, damage the inner walls of the intestines, cause ulcers, and increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease and colonitis under the microscope. oral contraceptives have been linked to crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. frankly, these are just the tip of the iceberg, and there are many other drugs that could hurt us. You can pay attention to the "adverse reactions" column of the drug instruction manual, many drugs can lead to nausea, vomiting and other adverse gastrointestinal reactions, which may have an impact on our gut bacteria and health. modern diet is slowly "killing" our drugs, but let's not lose sight of one of the most important changes of the past 100 years: our diet. most of the calories in our diet now come from a variety of animal products and processed plant foods, and only a small portion from whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables and nuts. This is in stark contrast to what the American writer Dan Buettner describes as people living in the "blue zone", where residents are healthy, live long lives, are not threatened by heart disease or cancer as they age, and have an surprisingly high chance of living beyond the age of a hundred, even in areas known as "forgotten by death." They are Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, Icaria in Greece and Roman Linda in California. It's five geographic regions around the world that are culturally completely different, but their diets share some common characteristics, with plant-based foods, more emphasis on season-oriented fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains and nuts, a measured intake of meat, a greater emphasis on fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, and little intake of processed foods. by contrast, our diet is heavily dependent on processed foods and meat, and we eat a severe shortage of vegetables, which can cause serious harm to our poor gut microbes. What the hell did they do to us? sacchargies and refined sugar water compounds we consume a lot of sugar and refined grains each year, and they get rid of fiber, allowing them to be absorbed quickly in the small intestine, rather than slowly digesting, such as the white rice noodles we eat every day. These are not healthy carbohydrates, and the result is a sharp loss of intestinal microbiobiobiocus and a significant increase in the number of inflammatory bacteria that love simple carbohydrates. Sal salt Dietary guidelines recommend daily salt intake should be less than 6 grams (sodium 2400 mg), but the average daily intake of salt in China's residents are about 10 grams, far more than the recommended amount. Any excess can have serious consequences, including the effects on the gut bacterium, and studies have shown that high salt intake can lead to a significant reduction in beneficial bacteria such as Lactobacillus lactobacillus in the gut, which can also drive autoimmunity by inducing auxiliary T cells, which can lead to a range of problems such as high blood pressure. (See more: "Salt" caution "sugar": they are white poisons that harm human health) chemical preservatives, additives, colorants there are now more than 10,000 additives in food processing, the vast majority of which have never been carried out.