Secret Madonna

The secret of enduring beauty and vigor of the Madonna, perhaps surprisingly simple.

Gardening

That is what the pop star, has no relation to the ground or shovel. Thanks to dishes of fermented soybeans, millet and brown rice, which is preparing its own cook, Mayyumi Nishimura, Madonna is practicing a kind of internal "gardening" by cultivating their intestinal flora within actively developing an alternative approach to health.

Study of trillions of bacteria living on the body and inside the body, makes it possible to assume that the Material Girl fifty-three years of age interested in something worthwhile. Eating foods rich in fiber and full of so-called good bacteria, it helps beneficial microbes thrive in its digestive tract, which helps digestion and extraction of vitamins and possibly prevent diseases - from asthma to colon cancer

. "Diet, followed by Madonna, is very sensitive," - says David Topping, chief specialist of the department of food and nutrition research at the Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of the Commonwealth of Nations (Adelaide, Australia), who studied the biology of bowel for 25 years. - "Those who live in the human bacteria perform a very important function»

. While scientists are trying to understand the ecology of the bacteria and their interaction with diet and diseases, companies are looking for ways to learn from all of this benefit.

Good for health, which are intestinal bacteria that have caused that the global market is flooded with products that contain friendly bacteria, called probiotics, they vypusayutsya in the form of pills or food additives companies such as Danone, Nestle SA and Yakult Honsha Co.

According to Euromonitor International, made in April 2012, the market of dairy products with additives, such as Danone's Activia and fermented drink Yakult's yogurt, which six years ago was worth 14, 7 bln. USD., In 2016, is likely to grow by 32% and will cost 33, 5 billion.

Quinoa instead of coffee

According to studies published in the last year, some bacteria living in the intestine, associated with a strong immune system, whereas others are associated with autism and obesity. In an article published in the journal of Nature, the scientists showed that a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies, acquires its ability to resist infections only after some time she spent in the intestine.

Nishimura, who before it has hired Madonna prepared for people suffering from cancer, submits it as a main course Quinn and other whole grains as well as vegetables and soy sauce - it is told in a telephone interview from New York. Every two days, it offers the singer algae -. Sotirovannye usually boiled or

Pyatidesyatipyatiletnyaya Nishimura talks about Madonna's diet system known as macrobiotics "We eat minimally processed foods." Nishimura is not recommended to eat meat, dairy products and drinking coffee.

According to Mark Morrison, a microbiologist who, together with the Australian NPIOSN in Brisbane exploring means to improve the functioning of the intestines, whole grains and fiber are the same time as food and fertilizer to the intestinal bacteria.

"Horrible interest»

The number of bacteria in the human digestive tract is 10 times the number of cells in the body. As for the study of human makrobioma project coordinator Lita Proctor helps to organize collaboration of hundreds of scientists around the world who are trying to create a mapping of bacterial communities living on the skin, in the mouth, intestines and other body parts, and study them.

"It is very pleasing and healthy approach - to pay attention to diet like" - says Proctor, working at the National Human Genome Institute in Bethesda, Maryland

. Despite this, according to Proctor investigations are at an early stage, and products that are based on a partial understanding may not give consumers what the manufacturer promises.

"This state of affairs is not conducive to the stabilization of the industry", - says ona.- "This is a very mobile area where it is difficult to give clear definitions, but it is terrible to imagine interest»

. Flowers and Weeds

The term probiotic is quite vague, and there is no universally accepted definition of it. The measurement results can even be even more controversial, and some nutritional supplements stomach acid breaks down before they reach the intestine, according to Proctor.

Nishimura used as probiotics are fermented foods like miso, soy sauce and tempeh, and argues that the benefits of such a diet can be quickly noted.

"I feel better now than 20 years ago" - Madonna wrote in the preface to the cookbook, which Nishimura published in 2010. - "I am very grateful to her for this»

. "The analogy with the garden comes to our aid when we need to describe the complex ecology of micro-organisms living on the people", - says Julie Segre, a leading researcher, engaged in the topic of skin microbiome at the National Institute of Human Genome

. "There are flowers, the neighborhood which helps other flowers grow in the same soil" - says Segre.- "The most important thing - pull up the weeds, exciting territory»

. "Transplant»

When weeds seize territory, while the Australian gastroenterologist Thomas Beard radical approach to the issue of restoring the balance of intestinal flora of his patients: he transplants fecal bacteria healthy people directly in the upper colon department in ostomy pouching system, known as the cecum

. In the 25 years in his clinic in Sydney we have made more than 1800 procedures, which he jokingly calls "transfers ... poop." Shestidesyatidvuhletny Beard says that the treatment helped patients with disorders from autism to pseudomembranous colitis (allergic inflammation of the intestinal mucosa) - resistant infection that causes abdominal pain, and makes it difficult defecation leads to an increase in temperature

. "The next day, their diarrhea stops," - says the doctor. After the "procedure" he asks patients to avoid treatment and drugs that can damage their intestinal flora. These studies presented at the meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, show that fecal transplants can help to cope with bouts of diarrhea that is associated with the bacterium Clostridium difficile.

When weeds raise

head Maintain the health of microbes in the body is crucial, because otherwise they can capture not only the garden. According to Topping, if intestinal bacteria are unable to survive by eating food that absorbs their host, the bacteria try to eat what is available to them - "mucus and anything more." This can lead to intestinal inflammation and lead to colon cancer.

The victory over the disease - this is one of the reasons why people turned to cooking Nishimura. Japanese woman who cooked for cancer patients in Boston, says that this diet helps with constipation, menstrual pain and bad body odor. According to Nishimura, when she changed her diet, that among other things, managed to get rid of the allergic skin rash.

"Fresh does not happen»

Typically, Nishimura brings dishes, which she prepares from day to day, according to how it feels rabotodatelnitsa. According to Nishimura, Madonna prefers to cook personally bought in the stores products. Popular dishes include seaweed in miso soup; hidzhiki - brown seaweed - served with carrots and onions and seasoned with soy sauce; Nishimura prepares breakfast oatmeal.

Whole grains require intestinal bacteria more than hard work, that helps the body to extract from food vitamins and nutrients, because the insoluble fiber in them containing decays only in the lower areas of the digestive tract during the fermentation process - it fills a variety of body cells short chain fatty acids, resisting inflammation process.

There is "strong evidence" that microbes play a role in setting up the immune system - says Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Study of infection and immunity at Columbia University School of Public Health, where scientists have shown that children with autism and gastrointestinal disorders are in their bodies bakterialnlnye life forms that can not be found in children with disorders of the stomach, but not autistic.

Madonna and others who hold similar diets, may not be aware that they move the cutting edge of science. They just feel better.

"When a person refuses to animal products, white sugar and coffee for 10 days, he begins to feel the difference," - says Nishimura. - "I remember that when I started to eat well, my head is much clearer, I started to get up earlier and felt so fresh in the morning, I did not want to lie in bed»

. Madonna herself does not suffer from lack of power. His world tour, which started in Tel Aviv in May 2012 and will end in March next year, includes 75 concerts in Europe and North America. Her previous world tour took place in 2008-2009; at that time she has also published six books for children and became a director and producer of the two films.