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“There are two absorption systems in your body. Food that is easily broken down is absorbed into your upper intestinal tract. If you cannot absorb a particular food, it goes to the lower intestinal tract (colon), where bacteria in your colon ferment it to smaller products that can be absorbed.

Your colon is loaded with good and bad bacteria. Bad bacteria such as clostridia that are kept in check by good bacteria. If you take an antibiotic that knocks off the good bacteria, the clostridia can overgrow and cause diarrhea.

The good bacteria break down soluble fiber to form chemicals such as short chain fatty acids that are absorbed into your bloodstream and travel to your liver where they block the liver from making cholesterol and help to prevent heart attacks. These short chain fatty acids also reduce inflammation, so they help to control the bloody diarrhea and ulcers caused by Crohn’s disease. They also reduce swelling and pain of arthritis, diabetes and psoriasis, and some studies show they may even improve your immunity to help you to kill germs.

If you wish to encourage the growth of good bacteria in your colon, you have two choices: probiotics or prebiotics. Probiotics are living microorganisms, the good bacteria, that live in the colon and reduce inflammation and help prevent and treat Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, arthritis, and perhaps even certain types of cancers. Prebiotics are nondigestible food ingredients that cannot be absorbed in the upper intestinal tract and travel to the colon where they serve as a medium to encourage the growth of the good bacteria.

Prebiotics are found in certain foods that are not completely absorbed in your upper intestinal tract pass to your colon and form the food that encourages growth of the good bacteria. Soluble fiber is the part of these foods that is most likely to encourage the growth of good bacteria. Prebiotic supplements are available, but it is easier and cheaper just to eat plenty of the foods that provide this benefit. Good sources of soluble fiber are seeds, vegetables and nuts.”

(Taken from: DrMirkin.com) Great website with a lot of good info on health from a Dr.’s point of view.

Also note that if you are eating Paleo you are getting tons of soluble fibers which helps to grow the good bacteria in the colon!

Keep up the good diet!

WEDNESDAY

TECH: Handstands and Walking on hands (practice it against the wall and if you are brave, on midfloor)

WOD: ANA’S SPAN

AMRAP in 20 min:

1 Rope Climb

10 Pushups

15 V-sits

20 Box Jumps

BRING YOUR LONG SOCKS and GOOD LUCK!

Fancypants and Sheppy

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Hi Everyone!

Just a note to inform you of our upcoming closures at CrossFit Vancouver.

For the Civic Long Weekend we will be closed this Sunday August 5th and Monday August 6th.
No classes will run on these days. All other classes will be running as normal.

Hope you all have a great week and the sun stays around for the long weekend! Get out and play!

Regards,
Your CFV Coaching Crew

The word antibiotic comes from the Greek anti meaning ‘against’ and bios meaning ‘life’ (a bacterium is a life form).’ Antibiotics are also known as antibacterials (compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria), and they are drugs used to treat infections caused by bacteria.

Before bacteria can multiply and cause symptoms our immune system can usually destroy them. We have special white blood cells that attack harmful bacteria. Even if symptoms do occur, our immune system can usually cope and fight off the infection. There are occasions, however, when it is all too much and our bodies need some help – from antibiotics.

The first antibiotic was penicillin. Such penicillin-related antibiotics as ampicillin, amoxicillin and benzylpenicilllin are widely used today to treat a variety of infections – these antibiotics have been around for a long time.

How do antibiotics work?

Although there are a number of different types of antibiotic they all work in one of two ways:

* A bactericidal antibiotic kills the bacteria. Penicillin is a bactericidal. A bactericidal usually either interferes with the formation of the bacterium’s cell wall or its cell contents.

* A bacteriostatic stops bacteria from multiplying.

Antibiotics can’t distinguish between the “good” and the “bad” bacteria. 

“And we don’t want to kill the good bacteria in the gut because:

1. They assist the enzymes in breaking down the food into basic elements.
2. Even more important they are a part of the mysterious “intrinsic” system that transports vitamin B12 into the portal vein . If too many of these friendly colonies are missing, the person can suffer from pernicious anemia. Women may become hypertensive from a lack of B12.
3. Also very important – friendly bacteria actually manufacture about 80% of the needed vitamin K directly in the gut. What’s so important about vitamin K? Well, vitamin K is a precursor (necessary part for manufacture) of both the blood hormones that control bleeding vs clotting. Hormone systems typically have two different hormones that control various body systems. One important body system consists of a pair of hormones – one hormone controls bleeding, and the other controls clotting. If you get a small cut, you want it to bleed first to get out germs, and then to clot, but you don’t want it to clot inside a blood vessel or it may cause a stroke or heart failure.“ (Dr Phil Bate)

One of the foremost concerns in modern medicine is Antibiotic Resistance.

“Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic.“ (Wikipedia)

Antibiotics were once considered the solution to most infectious diseases.  Unfortunately, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, combined with bacteria’s ability to resist treatment, mean that antibiotics are no longer as effective.  Antibiotic resistance is now a worldwide public health problem.

Everyone has a role to play in using antibiotics responsibly.

Now… if you are like me and don’t like to take “conventional medicine”, there are other natural options to kill harmful bacteria in the body without compromising the healthy flora.

They can be found in Health Food Stores or be prescribed by your Naturopath

TUESDAY

Tech: Deadlift

WOD: DIANE

21 – 15 – 09

Deadlifts

HSPU

HAPPY DAY!

Sheppy & Fancypants.

Everybody when thinking about bacteria, think about them being bad. Germs and illness comes to mind.
But bacteria can also be good and help our bodies and immune system to function better.
So throughout this week I’ll post a few things under this subject because it’s important knowledge to have if you’re seeking better health.

Bacteria are organisms made up of just one cell (prokaryotic).
They are capable of multiplying by themselves, as they have the power to divide (Binary Fission).
Some bacteria (those known as aerobic forms) can function metabolically only in the presence of free or atmospheric oxygen; others (anaerobic bacteria) cannot grow in the presence of free oxygen but obtain oxygen from compounds. Facultative anaerobes can grow with or without free oxygen; obligate anaerobes are poisoned by oxygen.

Their shapes vary and these characteristics are used to separate them into groups.
Most bacteria are of one of three typical shapes–rod-shaped (bacillus), round (coccus, e.g., streptococcus), and spiral (spirillum).

Bacteria exist everywhere, inside and on our bodies.

There are typically 40 million bacterial cell in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×10 to the 30th power) bacteria on Earth, forming a biomass that exceeds that of all plants and animals. (Wikipedia)

Humans have 10 – 100 trillion cells in their bodies.

There are approximately 20 bacteria cells for 1 human cell in the body.

That means 200 – 2000 trillion bacteria in human bodies!

Bacteria makes up 10% of our DRY mass. An adult`s body weight is about 60% of water. So if you are 150lbs your DRY mass is 60lbs. Since bacteria makes up about 10% of our DRY mass. The average 150lb adult has about 6 pounds of bacteria. (WHAAAT?)

Most of them are completely harmless (rendered so by the protective effects of the immune system) and some of them are very useful (beneficial).

Bad Bacteria: some bacteria can cause infectious diseases, like cholera, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy, tuberculosis, lyme disease either because they end up in the wrong place in the body or simply because they are ‘designed’ to invade us.

Good Bacteria: When you eat, enzymes from your intestines, stomach, liver and pancreas break down carbohydrates into their building blocks called sugars; proteins into amino acids; and fats into glycerol, fatty acids and monoglycerides that can be absorbed into your bloodstream. However, many plant foods contain undigestible starches that cannot be broken down into sugars, so they cannot be absorbed in the upper intestinal tract. When they reach the colon, bacteria ferment these undigestible starches to form other chemicals including short chain fatty acids that protect your intestinal lining. from irritation and cancer, and are absorbed into your bloodstream to lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks. (DrMirkin.com)

More to come tomorrow…

MONDAY

Warmup: 3 Rounds of:

10 Squat to Box Jump to squat

10 Pull Ups

Tech: LAST WEEK OF THE HANG SQUAT CLEANS!

3,3,3,3,3

WOD: Opens WOD 12.1

7 Minutes of burpees

Love,

Fancypants

Audrey Tannant Business Development Manager Crossfit Vancouver / Madlab School of Fitness

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