Eating The Right Foods Protects Your Guts

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLIak6tsPC/Yea, yea, yea you say.  That’s nothing new.  What is new comes from integrative biologists at MIT who find that the amino acid cysteine helps your gut repair itself after damage. Their mouse studies, published in the journal Nature, show that cysteine activates immune CD8 T cells to release IL-22 healing signals that help intestinal stem cells rebuild damaged tissue after radiation exposure. They also find that cysteine has the strongest gut-repair effect of all 20 amino acids tested. So how do you get this cysteine?  Ok…I buried the lead.  Cysteine is naturally found in meat, dairy, beans, legumes, and nuts.eSo eating these cysteine-rich foods or taking cysteine supplements can not only help cancer patients recover from gut damage caused by radiation or chemotherapy. It can also help those among us with inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s Disease and/or Ulcerative Colitis.The references for this report are available on my website.#GutHealth #NutritionScience #HealthyAging #CancerResearch #MITGutHealth, NutritionScience, HealthyAging, CancerResearch