What are antimicrobial peptides?
They are defense proteins that are used by the defense system to destroy bacteria before an infection happens. One assumes that they enter the membrane of the bacterial cell and destroy the cells by producing holes within. The antimicrobial peptides are little tornados, so to speak, which are sent out by body cells to destroy adversarial bacteria. How do the antimicrobial peptides know which cells to destroy? How do they distinguish between helpful and adversarial bacteria? That we don’t know for sure. We know that if the energy level decreases, the system gets activated and several peptides are produced. But how they work, if one stimulates the good bacteria and how the pathogenic bacteria gets destroyed, that’s not figured out yet. So you are saying that the less food I have eaten, the more on-guard is my defense system? Yes, you are more fit. Pathogenic bacteria that can be on or in your body at any time have less of a chance to overpower body cells and cross the barrier. Doesn’t it
