Let's talk a little about her origins and kombucha

The origin of the fungus was deleted, but it is assumed that was used in China in about the year 220 b.c., during the Tsin dynasty. Booze was appreciated for at least 2000 years and was called "Imortalitaţii Tea". Was it made and in Russia and Japan, and it seems that the Japanese gave it the name of kombucha, once in 415 AD. It is said that King Inyko was treated with tea kombucha by a physician called Kombu and apparently the name tea there is: Kombu and "cha" which means tea. The Russians were also renowned for their use of healing drinks and it is believed that "Tea Kvass" was tea kombucha. Their writings stated that "did with a special Japanese mushroom. The fungus has all been împărtită in all the countries of Europe but has been forgotten during World War II. After the war, Dr. Rudolph Skelnar started to remind people of kombucha, healing with her patients suffering from cancer, metabolic diseases, hypertension and diabetes.

What is kombucha?

It is a colony of at least 12 species of micro-organisms, bacteria and yeasts that live together in symbiosis, and result into a biological system fascinating complexity and its organization. Mainly, the colony is composed of "friendly" bacteria (Acetobacter xylinum) and yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Brettanomyces bruxellensis), living in a liquid medium green/black tea.

Kombucha contains several species of yeasts and bacteria, along with organic acids, enzymes and active polyphenols byproducts of these microbes.

Precise amounts of a sample can be determined only through laboratory analysis and vary depending on the method of fermentation, but may contain any of the kombucha following compounds: acetic acid, gluconic acid, glucuronic acid, lactic acid, usnic acid, butyric acid, oxalic acid, malic acid, ethanol and vitamin b.

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What is the secret healing power of this remedy?

Contains significant amounts of vitamin C, and vitamin B complex (B1, B2, B3, B6, B12), which justify its properties in good measure reintineritoare and stimulating the natural resistance of the organism.
Substances have been discovered very strong antibiotics and antivirals, which explain its successful use against infectious diseases.
Perhaps the most important property is the detoxifying, its uses in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, and skin diseases.
Kombucha reechilibreaza intestinal flora and thus improves the intestinal transit.
It also contains substances with hormonal effects, which is why it is recommended as a remedy for the third age, but also for children, for those who are in puberty and facing unpleasant phenomena specific to this period.

According to studies conducted, we all know that this culture of kombucha contains Prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotice.

Prebiotics = are substances that favour the development of beneficial bacteria (Lactobacilli and bifidobacili). If you want you can think of as a prebiotic food for probiotic bacteria. Most Prebiotics are carbohydrates that the body cannot digest, but are an excellent source of food for these bacteria. Therefore, prebioticele helps develop and maintain body probiotics (gut).

Probiotics = I'm living microorganisms that have a positive impact on the body, helping to restore normalizes the intestinal microflora of the intestinal transit and physiologically. The best known and most commonly used probiotic bacteria are Bifidus and lactobacilii. Foods containing probiotics are typically fermented products (yoghurt, kefir, kombucha, etc.) that have been added from these bacteria cultures ("selected bacteria").

Postbioticele = are non-viable microbial byproducts or secondary metabolic byproducts from probiotics, microorganisms that have biological activity in the host.

consumption of vegetable fiber has long appreciated. Epidemiological studies show an inverse relationship between dietary fiber plant and the risk of heart disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes and the consumption of dietary fibre is recommended by the American Dietetic Association and other health organizations. But biological mechanisms that accentuates the effects of benfice health of food fibres were determined. Intestinal microbes are presumed to be involved because they contribute to the digestion of fibers. Two recent papers in Nature1 and Cell2 they put in light of their roles, demonstrating that the ingestion of vegetable fibers induce rapid changes in the composition and function of the gut microbiota that gut microbiota metabolites produced by metabolic health help regulate glucose control. These findings can help guide efforts to design ' prebiotic ' dietary supplements capable to handle the intestinal microbiota to improves human health.

the fermentation of soluble fiber, such as fructo-oligosaccharides and Oligosaccharides of calcium galactogluconate-intestinal bacteria produce acetaţi fatty acids with short chain, propionate and butyrate. Although they are similar chemically, short chain fatty acids are different and metabolizaţi is engaged in the very different effects on the physiology of the host (fig. 1).

Acetate (the most abundant fatty acid with short-chain) is a substrate for hepatic liponeogeneza and propionatul for cholesterol synthesis, is a substrate for hepatic gluconeogeneza and butiratul acts as a substrate for energy enterocitelor of the colon.

Propionatul and butiratul also act as signaling molecules by binding to and activating the G protein coupled receptors and with the FFAR FFAR (free fatty acid receptors).
It is well-established that changing diet change the structure of the intestinal gut microbiota. David et al. 1 explored this phenomenon by measuring the rates at which the changes in the intake of dietary fibre is transformed into changes in the composition and transcription profile of gut microbiota in human gut.
To this end, ten healthy volunteers were fed either with a plant-based diet with either a meat-based diet for five days. At different moments in the study, analyzed samples of feces of 16S ribosomal secventand (to determine the relative abundance of different microbes) and RNA sequence (to determine the relative expression of microbial genes).
changes in microbial gene expression and community structure have been observed in a few days of starting the diet. Subjects fed with meat-based diet, these changes were correlated with a reversible physiological response (weight loss) and an increase in the abundance of bacteria tolerant and biliary-fatty acids with short chain which indicates amino acid fermentation.

In contrast, the subjects fed with plant-based diet had higher amounts of bacteria fermentation of plant polysaccharides and short chain fatty acids derived from fermentation of carbohydrates. After diets were switched off, these parameters are returned quickly to their original States. This study confirmed that intestinal microbiota may change rapidly in response to dietary changes and identified some of the molecular mechanisms that emphasize the health benefits of a plant-based diet.
De Vadder et al. have investigated the mechanisms in detail. In particular, they sought to understand exactly how the short-chain fatty acids, stimulates the production of glucose-gluconeogeneza-perhaps also stimulate metabolic health.
They knew that, unlike liver gluconeogeneza, which causes hyperglycemia in diabetes, bowel gluconeogeneza activates a glucose sensor from the porta, which sends signals to the brain, which affects the beneficial food intake and glucose metabolism.

Therefore, they asked whether fatty acids with short chain fiber stimulates intestinal gluconeogenezei and, if so, whether this explains the metabolic benefits of soluble fibre. Fructo-oligosaccharides with feeding, or butyrate propionate improve glucose tolerance and improve intestinal gluconeogeneza in rats. However, butiratul gluconeogeneza propionatul and stimulates intestinal in different ways.
While butiratul to act as a signaling molecule stimulates intestinal gluconeogenezei gene expression through signs, propionatul acted as a substrate, or as a fuel of intestinal gluconeogenezei. Propionatul also directly activated receptors on peripheral nerves FFAR in portal vein and periportala differentiates reliance indus propionatului hamper gluconeogenezei, suggesting that the effect of propionatului on the gluconeogenezei neuronala communication involves intestinal gut-brain. Thus, improving glucose tolerance induced by feeding with fructo-oligosaccharides or short chain fatty acids require both gut-brain communication how and intestinal gluconeogeneza.

Numerous studies have highlighted the potential to use supplements that stimulate probiotic intestinal bacteria to achieve the expected outcomes of health.
For example, ingestion of starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals ("resistant starch") leads to reproducible changes in intestinal microbiota toward microbes, similar to zaharolitici what David had noticed for a plant-based diet. Feeding with resistant starch may also improve insulin sensitivity to healthy adults. Supplement your diet with oligosaccharides, such as fructo-oligosaccharides and Oligosaccharides-calcium galactogluconate appropriately increase the proportion of reproducible Bifidobacteria in human. Bifidobacteria have been associated with health benefits in young and elderly, studies and clinical trials have demonstrated that calcium galactogluconate fructo-oligozaharidele and-oligozaharidele can prevent atopic eczema in children.

the findings of David and Vadder could "inform efforts" to design dietary supplements to promote health. Can be proposed several strategies of supplementation. Probiotica approach would provide specific groups of bacteria known to produce metabolites zaharolitice benefits. Prebiotica approach would supplement the diet with fiber, which fosters the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria "residents".

These two strategies are not mutually exclusive and could be combined. A third approach would be to exploit the mechanistic details highlighted in studies by providing direct metabolites microbiano as "postbiotic". This approach might be interesting for the pharmaceutical industry. The challenge will be to identify synthetic agonists FFAR, which have a more improved pharmacokinetic profile on the fatty acids. Probiotic, prebiotic approaches and postbiotice are not as distinct as well as it might seem. Bifidobacterium longum, when administered as a probiotic in a mouse model infected with pathogenic Escherichia coli, defends the host using a carrier of carbohydrates that allows it to produce acetate fatty acids with short chain, which improves the barrier function of intestinal epithelium, thus blocking the transit of lethal toxin, Shiga in the intestinal flow.
questions remain about the relevance of translation of new studies. For example, the contribution of intestinal health gluconeogenesis in various scenarios is still uncertain. Regardless, the work of David and his fascinating Vadder provides a breathtaking view of the effects of the diet derived from short-chain fatty acids to distant organs ("distant").

—Because acetate, propionatul, butiratul and izovaleratul are the most abundenti metabolites in human feces and-with the exception of butiratului, which consumed more than enterocytes are also released into the bloodstream, it is probably not surprising that the diet derived from short-chain fatty acids exert beneficial effects on tissues other than the gut and the brain. In a recent example, the existence of an axis intestino-lung was suggested by a study that looks into a mouse model with an allergic inflammation of the Airways that a high fiber diet reduced airway inflammation while a low-fiber diet emphasizes a. In particular, the ingestion of pulmonary inflammation decreases propionate in-dependent manner and reduce the capacity of the cells FFAR lung lymph drainage to provoke pro-allergenic phenotypes in T lymphocytes.
Although short-chain fatty acids were detected in the lungs, propionatul improves the production of dendritic cells in the bone marrow; Once in the lungs, the new generated dendritic cells activate T-cells pro-less allergenic.
with its versatile metabolic capacity, intestinal microbiota acts as a conduit between the diet and the physiology of the host. David et al. findings and Vadder et al. are a step toward understanding this complex ecosystem and provides additional support for the claim that intentional modulation of intestinal gut microbiota is a valid strategy for the improvement of human health.

Diseases in which is successfully used Kombucha:

Intern:

• Constipation, colitis putrefaction-the cure long term (minimum one month) with Kombucha, which reechilibreaza intestinal flora and thus improves intestinal transit and eliminate germs and diseases. Drink at least two cups a day, usually on an empty stomach. Is a valid remedy and digestive, candidiasis to mitigate the harmful effects of administration of antibiotics, to stimulate digestion.

• Hemorrhoids-every morning he drank two cups (approx. 600 ml) of Kombucha. In addition to eliminating constipation, this remedy has anti-inflammatory effects and venous tonic that will be especially helpful in this condition.

• Rheumatism, gout-a cure for two months, in which daily consume half a litre-a litre from this preparation, outstanding Detox effects. A particular compound produced by this fungus (glucuronic acid) helps inactivation and removal of toxic substances from the body, and is an invaluable aid in treating this disease.

• Preventing and combating atherosclerosis and hypertension-patients suffering from these diseases and who were treated in a hospital in Riga (Lithuania) with this fix showed improvement of their Brawl. It's given 3 glasses of prepared daily in the cure with a duration of not less than three months.

• Headaches of nervous origin-eating 2-3 glasses of Kombucha may stop migraines that occur from fasa amid nervous stress and overtraining.

• Flu, catarrh, epidemic diseases in general laboratory-recent studies have found that certain substances secreted by neutralizing the effects of Kombucha have viruses and most bacteria. Moreover, this remedy is a powerful incentive of long-term immunity. As a rule, there are cures for two weeks to strengthen natural resistance of the organism, in which it consumes half a litre a day of preparation.

• Debilitating anxiety, irritability-diminishes over time, when it is consumed regularly this remedy. Still do not know very clearly the effect which this generates, but is certain that beverage in Kombucha really calms the nerves, banish and play lust for life. Consume daily before each meal with a half glass of preparation.

• Adjunct in treating kidney and gall calculozei-drink it every day, one quart of Kombucha, preferably in the morning. A cure lasts 7 days and can be repeated on a monthly basis.

• Adjuvant cancer treatment-in the former Soviet Union have made the most studies regarding the effects of this fungus to treat and especially in cancer prevention. Since 1951, when they began the first experiments with nuclear power, which in some areas have unleashed a veritable epidemic of cancer, Oncology Research Unit and Central Academy of Moscow began to investigate how works "kwas tea" (as it is called in this country) in the cancerous disease.

It was concluded that the effects of his intense immune stimulation, depurative (inter alia, to stimulate the production of Interferon) and vitaminizante is an excellent remedy for protection against cancer. It can also be used successfully in the treatment of colon cancer in its early stages and has leukemia. As a rule, drink a quart of this remedy a day instead of drinking water, in long-term cures (minimum 45 days).

• Mitigating the effects of slow heavy metal intoxicatiilor, toxic gases, radioactive waste-all of them belong to the Soviets and the studies made in the regions of Beresniki and West of Solikamsk Mountains Urals, where he saw very few cases of cancer and other chronic diseases, despite the intense pollution in the area with industrial waste with mercury, lead, radioactive materials. The conclusion was that drink Kombucha used traditionally by the population of this area simply help to eliminate these toxic materials in the body and prevents disease. Consume a quart of prepared daily in the cure of 30 days with 7-day break between them.

External applications:

• Tonsillitis, sore throats-gargle with a glass of concentrated drink Kombucha. In addition, drink a daily half liter up to healing remedy.

• Ten loaded-looking to clean every night your skin with a cotton ball dipped in this preparation. It is also consumed in the morning, on an empty stomach, 1-2 glasses of Kombucha.

How do I get the Kombucha?

Getting this drink is quite laborious, but it can be done and, as we shall see below:

• in a bowl with one litre of boiling water 2 teaspoons black tea, cover and leave to infuse for 30 minutes, then strain and mix well with 100 g sugar.

• tea thus obtained is let cool completely until it reaches room temperature, then put into a jar with a wide mouth.

• Add a layer of jelly-jar of Kombucha (the culture itself) and a few (i.e. deposits on bottom) from an ancient culture, then covers the mouth of the jar with a gauze.

• tea with sugar will ferment immediately, but let stand 8-12 days, then filter. This time is needed for this colony of friendly microorganisms have time to consume sugar and turn it into substances with curative effects.

• After 12 days, it being filtered through gauze, and the liquid obtained is shoot bottles, which are held in a cool place (the period is 15 days), while the remaining gelatinous mass is used for new crops.
When you prepare your Kombucha, we must have in mind some essential things: firstly, all the dishes in that it makes the preparation has to be very clean, without a trace of food, which could hurt the crop. Also, macerating it should not be done in unhygienic places with heavy scents (like the prajeala) or with much steam as alter the quality of the preparation. Use only black tea (Thea sinensis), because this fungus does not grow in infusion other plants.