A Few Amazing Things Your Microbiome Does for Your Immune System:

1. Your good bacteria help maintain the integrity of the intestinal barrier. This wall helps prevent the bad bacteria from going across the wall and into other parts of the body.

2. The friendly bacteria help keep inflammation in check.

3. Your friendly microbes compete for space and food. They don’t let the bad bacteria have enough space or food to live.

4. Your good gut bacteria have the ability to directly kill pathogens.

5. Your good microbes can help enhance immunity. When they eat vegetable fiber, these microbes make short-chain fatty acids. Short-chain fatty acids alone can help reduce inflammation and support a healthy immune system.

6. There is an interesting link between your gut flora and your respiratory tract.

7. Your friendly bacteria help recycle and modify bile salts, which are antibacterial.

8. The microbiome has anti-viral properties.