The Importance Of Health Food

If you have had recurrent infections and taken antibiotics repeatedly to treat them, you may need to repair your gut. Your gut contains around 70 percent of the immune cells active in your body at any given time, and gut flora play a role in your immune function. Antibiotics kill not only bad bacteria, but also good ones. Probiotics can help your gut recover from the abuse so your immune function can recover from having taken

Dietary fiber is a source of carbohydrate that has benefits for intestinal health. It plays a role in the prevention of disease in the intestine and even throughout the body, such as obesity, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (10). Furthermore, when the bacteria in the gut ferment the fiber, metabolites are produced, which benefit the body. Short chain fatty acids are one major end product of this carbohydrate metabolism, which act to lower the colon’s pH, inhibiting pathogenic bacteria from growing. Some other metabolites include lactate, succinate and formate. Lactate is converted to butyrate by the bacteria in the gut, which induces mucin synthesis, which is a glycoprotein that maintains the gut epithelium integrity. Butyrate also acts to prevent bacterial transport across the epithelium and increases tight junction assembly (11). What this means, is that the fermentation of fiber allows these beneficial metabolites to be produced, causing a cascade of reactions that promote health and gut integrity. This shows the complex beneficial interaction between gut microbiota and fiber intake and its role in promoting health.

Our formula also contains prebiotics. These guys are what feed the good microbes and help them repopulate. So, while the probiotic is kicking the bad microbes’ butt, our prebiotics, which use a unique combination of Mannan-oligosaccharide (don’t even try to pronounce it) feed the good guys helping them do their job more efficiently.

More than a century ago the notion of microbiota working as a regulator for health and disease was already in use. They realized that consuming large amounts of fermented milk helped with their longevity. This began the foundation of probiotics. However, the oral probiotics that are used today are at a lower amount than what is contained in the colon. After cycling through the digestive system it is

The use of the first form of microbe-based therapeutics, probiotics, is beneficial for preventing disease. These live microorganisms are known to strengthen the equilibrium of the gut flora by the development of healthy gut

The research in this article focuses on gut bacteria found in people from different cultures and how this can negatively impact us. At the end of the article, Zimmer explains that Americans, residing in a western society, have microbes in the gut that attack the body. He explains that this is because of the carbohydrates attacking the body when not given enough dietary fiber. This problem is not found in foraging cultures because of their seasonally changing food source which positively impacts their body. This is an important discovery of gut bacteria in western culture because now researchers can underscore the importance of dietary fiber in modern industrialized societies with enough evidence to back up their claims. This can also provide insight on how diets in western societies can adapt and change to improve the health and well-being of its people.

In this article I read that microbes and their colonies play a huge role in our immune system and are literally everywhere on us, a large and very important part are in our gut. The ones in your gut help with diseases and with your health conditions. The epidemic of CDI in Europe and the USA has caused many people to request the treatment of fecal microbiota transplantation because it eradicates CDI. The new interest has been awakened by the investigation into gut microbiota, which is very important in resistant and energy metabolism. Some diseases result from microbiotic related dysfunctions and that is why we should check into FMT for other disorders also.

The use of probiotics falls under the term “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), a term that encompasses a large number of different health care practices and products that are used with, or in place of, conventional medicine. CAM is the main focus of the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a center within the National Institutes of Health, which is itself an agency of the U.S. Department of Health. [1] The NCCIH’s role is to define the usefulness and safety of CAM and the role it has on improving health and healthcare practices. [2] However, the NCCIH does not provide any regulation on the use of CAM practices or products.

Probiotics are live microorganisms that live in the body and regulate the proper functioning of organism; in adequate amounts help maintain our well-being. This is about two kilograms of bacteria, which are responsible for protecting our body against pathogenic bacteria. One of many bacterial strains found in human body is bifidobacterium, which has a great impact on health of digestive and immune system. Bifidobacterium does interact with intestinal mucosal cells, and communicate with intestinal epithelial cells which help to maintain gut homeostasis physically and immunologically. By the communcation with intestinal epithelial cells bifidobacteria can improve its work and help in case of the inflammation.

5). Probiotics are bacteria that are native to your digestive tract, which means, they are normally found in healthy small and large intestines and can influence the mucosal barrier (the inner lining of the digestive tract), which in turn can affect immune system functions (EczemaFree.org par. 2). Lack of a sufficient mucosal barrier allows food and environmental antigens to cross over into the blood stream, activating the immune system and leading to hyperactivity, which is the hallmark of eczema conditions (par. 2). This is an example of how usage of probiotics can improve conditions within the intestinal tract, and in turn reduce eczema symptoms. Unaltered probiotics such as Lactobacillus GG, with its anti-inflammatory powers, may help prevent the development of eczema and other allergic disorders (Sachs 230). The first clue that gut bacteria could play a role in risk for developing eczema came in the discovery that breastfed babies have a reduced incidence, prolonged onset and decreased severity to eczema

Scott, Lara. (2016) Probiotics and health: Does the evidence support the clinical effectiveness of probiotics in line with current naturopathic prescribing practices? Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, 136-138. Retrieved from:

It is important to separate the adult from the pediatric population, as adults have more risk factors to consider as they get older related to co-morbidities (McFarland et al., 2016). Selection bias was controlled with all of the studies having random assignment (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). Validity was enhanced as three of the RCT’s used double blinding and the study conducted by Ouwehand et al., (2013), used triple blinding. Double blinding occurs when both the participant and the administrator are unaware of who receives the control or the intervention (Polit & Beck, 2017). The intervention of probiotic or placebo were consistent amongst all of the studies, although there were varying strengths of probiotics used. The varying forms of probiotics could serve as an extraneous variable. AAD was the outcome measure in all of the studies, though three studies also had an outcome measure of CDI or clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD).

Participants (n: 100-150) will be acquired for this experiment from various course sections as previously described. Participants will first be given a preliminary questionnaire in order to exclude those who did not meet the inclusion criteria. Participants will then be asked to sign a consent form, allowing the potentially use of any data obtained. All participants will then be randomly assigned into two groups in a single-blind fashion; the two groups are: control and experimental. The control group will be given a placebo probiotic supplement in pill form while the experimental group will be given the probiotic supplement in pill form. Participants will then be asked to ingest one pill/day for the following two-week period; they

As patients age they are at increased risk for complications of AAD due to more co-morbidities and increase in disruption in the gut flora leading to increasing susceptibility to antibiotic side effects and complications such as CDI. The intention of probiotics is to restore or maintain the balance of normal gut flora and reduce the incidence of AAD and CDI. Studies involving taking probiotics in conjunction with antibiotics and their effectiveness are on the rise (Xie, et al., 2015). Probiotics are becoming more readily available in various doses and forms. Further research is needed to test effectiveness of varying dose forms and their response to different age groups; especially adults and the elderly. Specifically, research is needed to test their effectiveness on treating various gastro-intestinal illnesses such as AAD (Chatterjee, et al., 2013).

Probiotics are ingestable microorganisms which gives the consumer a beneficial effect. First coined by the late eli Metchnikoff probiotics are described to be microorganisms which are ingested in small amount to increase the diversity of both flora and fauna inside the human body this reaction in turn affects the adaptation abilities for the human body to react to different surroundings, digest different things, or just improve the antibody or the mechanism that already exists in the human body.