Gut microflora is known to be essential and beneficial for human gastrointestinal health and general wellbeing. A recent study shows that gut microbiota regulates antioxidant metabolism. Gut microflora includes a variety of microbes that aid in digestion. These microbes include both facultative and obligatory anaerobic bacteria. The bacteria digest various complex metabolites into simple compounds and glean the energy and benefit the host.
A recently published study shows that this gut microflora also helps in antioxidant metabolism in the host. They regulate glutathione and amino acid metabolism of the host. Glutathione is one of the most essential antioxidants found in each and every cell of our body. The glutathione deficiency has been evidently linked with oxidative stress that plays a major role in developing various lifestyle diseases. In a recent paper published in a renowned…
