Right in the gut!

Your gut is filled with bacteria that helps protect you. Bacteria found in our gut can dramatically affect our glucose-tolerance levels and help us stay away from type 2 diabetes. The bacterium Bacteroides is fundamental in improved glucose-tolerance however, the bigger one is (as in body weight) - the less Bacteroides one has. We need to be informed of everything that goes on in our body. We need to be aware of what causes what and why. Why is this bacterium important ? It helps us be healthier and lowers the risks of Type 2 diabetes. Not only that but knowing how the bacteria in our gut helps us allows us to come up with methods to help prevent diseases. This is explored in the Nadja Larsen's article Gut Microbiota in Human Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Differs from Non-Diabetic Adults.

"In conclusion, our data suggests that the levels of glucose tolerance or severity of diabetes should be considered while linking microbiota with obesity... It is specially important for developing strategies to modify the gut microbiota in order to control metabolic diseases..." (Larsen). We want to help those suffering from Type 2 diabetes and prevent others from suffering from the disease, understand and analyzing our gut bacterium would allow us to come up with research methods to help those in need. 

Understanding how our body works is key in allowing us to stay healthy and helping those around us stay healthy as well. Hopefully with such knowledge of gut bacterium, we can work towards helping increase Bacteroides in people at risk of Type 2 diabetes. I would help people like my friends that are at risk live a healthier life.

As someone who has family and friends that are at risk of diabetes, it is important to me to educate them on the dangers of such disease and how they could improve their health. If the bacteria in our stomach is key in preventing Type 2 diabetes then I feel it crucial to be able to teach and inform others of it. Understanding why something is happening and how to prevent it is a step in the right direction to preventing others from suffering from Type 2 diabetes. The microbiota in our stomachs need to thoroughly studied in order to save others.

Although there will always be people who oppose to scientific research and its methods - the underlying result of helping others be healthy is what must push us to inform the public. Human research has helped us better understand how the human body is affected and how it reacts to certain things that can't be observed in research with the usage of animals. If we're able to increase the Bacteroides in a person's stomach we could be increasing their chances of not contracting Type 2 diabetes and hence live a healthier life. Scientists have been able to conduct thorough research on Bacteroides and how it varies with body weight as well as its effects on the the subject's health which is very important in determining how to increase the Bacteroides count in each individual person.

References:

1. Larsen, Nadja, Finn K. Vogensen, Frans W. J. Van Den Berg, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Anne Sofie Andreasen, Bente K. Pedersen, Waleed Abu Al-Soud, Søren J. Sørensen, Lars H. Hansen, and Mogens Jakobsen. "Gut Microbiota in Human Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Differs from Non-Diabetic Adults." Ed. Stefan Bereswill. PLoS ONE 5.2 (2010): E9085. Print.
2. Obesity and Gut Bacterium. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.