Yoga Therapy on Digestive Function in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Pathogenesis Of Ibd

The imbalance of higher bodies, energy, mental, wisdom and bliss bodies alter biofeedback mechanism and the association of psychosocial factors, sociocultural factors, smoking, dietary habits and repeated use of drugs affects genetic predisposition which may lead to abnormal communication of gut-brain axis. Undseth et al. (2014) found that altered gut-brain activity resulted in significantly lower postprandial levels of total short chain fatty acids (SCFAs like Faecali bacterium prausnitzii and Roseburia intestinalis), acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid (Venegas et al., 2019). Bacteroidetes (gram-negative) mainly produce acetate and propionate while Firmicutes (gram-positive) mostly produce butyrate; both are abundant phyla in the human intestine. The main substrates for bacterial fermentation and SCFA production are resistant starch, inulin, pectin, cellulose, wheat bran, oat bran and guar gum from the non-digestible dietary fibres (NDDF). Anaerobic fermentation occurs in the NDDF produced which split into carbohydrate polymers with three or more monomeric units, that are neither digested nor absorbed in the human gut.