Biologists from Cornell University decided to see if there’s any connection between chronic fatigue and a violation of the intestinal microflora.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a mysterious disorder that affects a significant part of the population. Fatigue that occurs after any exertion or effort and does not pass even after rest, the doctors explained the accumulated stress. However, the new data surprised the researchers.
It turned out, the causes of the syndrome does not stress or psychological problems. It’s all in the state of our body. Lately scientists are finding increasing evidence that the intestinal flora has a great influence on our health, including mental. Recent studies have shown that changing the composition of intestinal microflora may be one of the causes of such disorders as autism or depression.
Suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome often complain of discomfort in the stomach and intestines, problems with digestion. A disorder triggered by inflammatory processes in the body, which, in turn, can evolve due to changes in microflora.
Biologists from Cornell University decided to see if there’s any connection between chronic fatigue and a violation of the intestinal microflora.
The researchers studied the content of different bacteria in the intestines of 48 patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, and 39 healthy volunteers. It was found in the gut of suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome beneficial bacteria are much smaller than normal, and especially the little bacteria that help the body fight inflammation.
Bacterial balance is disturbed for various reasons – because of antibiotics or other drugs, poor eating habits and lifestyle, from Smoking, alcohol. To normalize the microflora is possible with the help of special preparations, Bifidobacterium, diet.
Women suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome more often than men and it usually develops in adulthood. Unfortunately, a reliable method for the diagnosis or treatment of this disease still does not exist.
A lot of doctors believe the disease is not physiological, mental disorder and do not treat it as “serious” or “real” disease. A new study refutes such theories. “We found violations at the biological level, which once again prove that chronic fatigue syndrome is not just a mental disorder,” says study author, Professor, specialist in molecular biology and genetics Maureen Hanson (Hanson Maureen).
“In the future we will be able to use the method of analysis of the composition of the microflora not only for the diagnosis of this syndrome, but other diseases,” adds study co-author, microbiologist Louis, Gelato (Ludovic Giloteaux). – And when we better understand what is happening in the gut processes, it is possible that we will be able to find new ways of treatment – for example, special diets or so-called probiotics, contribute to the normalization of intestinal microflora”.
