In the last 30 years, it has become very fashionable to look for the connection of our native microbes with everything that is possible.
And recently there was such a new idea of the gut-lung connection. This was called the gut-lung axis. I am not kidding. They literally write "gut-lung axis". Like if there is inflammation in the stomach, then the lung can also get sick.
We have about the same number of bacteria living in our intestines as there are cells in our body. Imagine that you have your twin brother living in your belly. The mother gives it to us at birth, and very soon this pile of living creatures grows into us as a separate organ.
This whole pack of bacteria not only parasitizes there, but does a lot of useful work for us: it helps the intestines work properly, digests something, neutralizes something, produces vitamins and that's it such.
In addition to the intestines, microbes also live on our skin, in the nose, in various protected places and even inside the lungs. All these living creatures interact with our body in a cunning way.
And when it became clear that the microbes living in the lungs must somehow affect the immune system, the scientists who were doing this returned to the intestines. There are definitely more microbes there than in the lungs.
And if germs in your lungs affect your resistance to colds, why not assume that those pounds of germs in your gut will also affect your resistance to colds?
Scientists did not bother too much and decided that from problems in the stomach the intestines would become leaky, microbes would penetrate through it into the bloodstream, get to the lungs and start eating them.
Well, if the microbes from the intestines do not get to the lungs, then at least they can send there by a freight train through the blood vessels of many different chemicals harmful to the lungs.
And here the fantasy of scientists played out so much that they decided to associate the covid with microbes in the intestines.
Everyone has already heard that with covid there is diarrhea, and a stomach ache. And it was also noticed that those people who have stomach ache from covid, then the lungs suffer more.
No one knows exactly how covid harms our gut. It is believed that it harms through immunity and dysbiosis. And where there is dysbiosis, there are probiotics for its treatment. Is it logical?
It is logical. But no one seems to have checked it. How to check? Probiotics are not prescribed for disorders of immunity, because they themselves can do harm. With covid, it's definitely not all right with immunity. Can someone and check in scientific research. But so far these are only the fantasies of scientists.
Have you heard anything on this topic?
