intestinal flora
Digestive tract microbes
Intestinal flora are the microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, and other microbes—that naturally inhabit the digestive tract.
These colonies aid digestion, produce vitamins, and help regulate immune function.
Also called gut flora or gut microbiota.
Antibiotics can disrupt your intestinal flora.
Fermented foods support healthy intestinal flora.
- microbiotaResident microscopic organisms
- prebioticsFood for gut flora
- archaeaThird domain of life
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
- digestionBodily food breakdown
digestive tract · Bifidobacterium · symbionts · anaerobes · fermentation · commensals · fecal transplant · fungi · viruses · leaky gut syndrome · dietary fiber · fiber intake · nutrient absorption · flatulence · stomach bugs · lactobacillus · colonization · mucosa
- digestionstomach acid, swallowing, digesting, chewing, digestion
- Intestinesintestines, bowel, gut, colon, ileum
- commensalsremora, remoras, pilot fish, oxpecker, oxpeckers
- gut anatomyintestines, bowel, bowels, gut, duodenum
- gut microbiome
- human microbiomegut microbiome, skin microbiome, probiotics, lactobacillus, bifidobacteria
digestive system components
intestinal florastomach acid
Digestive fluid in belly
gastric acid · digestive enzymes · bile · hydrochloric acid · pepsin