Probiotic

chemicals that run rampant in today’s society, most people’s digestive health is dangerously out of whack. Probiotics restore the balance between good and bad bacteria in the digestive tract1. When the balance is correct, the good bacteria help breakdown and absorb food and feed off the toxins produced by it1. Bad bacteria produces excessive toxins that lead to health problems1. Probiotics also improve digestion, reduce symptoms of digestive disorders, prevent kidney stones, and improve general…

If you like the idea of eating natural foods, consider incorporating the following into your diet: Yogurt One of the best probiotic foods you can eat is live-cultured yogurt. If you can, try and find brands that are made from goat’s milk that contain extra forms of probiotics like lactobacillus, acidophilus, thermophillus, bifudus, bulgaricus. With any yogurt, make sure you look at the ingredients so you don’t buy a brand with artificial sweeteners…

The use of probiotics as an alternative therapy for treatment and prevention of bacterial infections has been reported (Bomba et al., 2006). Gorbach (2000) pointed out there is a growing interest in probiotics as a safe therapeutic agent through their ability to alleviate food allergies, enhance nonspecific and specific immune responses, suppress intestinal infections, and anticarcinogenic activity (Grajek et al., 2005). According to Doron and Gorbach, (2006) probiotics possess many mechanisms…

PATH2201 Processes in Disease Media Assignment – Can Probiotics Aid in the Treatment of Coeliac Disease? Elissa Jennifer Watt (z3463000) 21/09/14 Tutor: Melanie Walker Introduction Advances in medical diagnosis and screening have revealed that coeliac disease (CD) is a major health issue across the world, affecting all ages. In Australia, the rate of CD was previously estimated to be around 0.4% (Hovell, et al., 2001). More recent estimates suggest that around 1.2% in men and 1.9% in…

Another company, Evolve Biosystems, is looking to the correlation of respiratory, GI and hyper allergenic disorders with the existing microbiome in babies, which is directly obtained from their mothers. Evolve is looking to develop an effective probiotic bacterium that can be activated with prebiotic oligosaccharides to maintain healthy microbiomes in newborns3. Current microbiome treatment through FMT has been left to gastroenterologists. Because the microbiome has a substantial presence in the…

Probiotics are commonly used to aid in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders (Cryan and O’Mahony, 2011). However, recently, probiotics are being used as a clinical treatment for reducing anxiety and stress disorders and improving mood (Cryan and O’Mahony, 2011). In clinical trials involving rats and humans, using probiotics containing Lactobacillus helveticus and Bifidobacterium longum showed reduced signs of…

development of HCC. Probiotics have been suggested as a new, safe and cost-effective approach to prevent or treat HCC. There are many mechanisms by which probiotics exerts their anti-cancer effects, including their ability to bind carcinogens, modulation of gut microbiota, improvement of intestinal barrier function, and immunomodulation. This review summarizes the literature findings of the changes in gut microbiota associated with HCC, and the possible therapeutic implications of probiotics for…

onquer Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Heal From the Inside Out If you've ever been caught in the painful grips of gastrointestinal pain, there is hope, and it may be as easy as changing your diet. Irritable bowel syndrome can be mildly uncomfortable or completely debilitating. It affects nearly 20% of the U. S. population, and this health concern is right up there among the top causes of missed work. The good news is that there is a solution. Avoid Certain Foods Problems in the GI tract can begin…

and is described as very soothing and calming when dropped in the eye. Although irritation and burning are unlikely to occur, some kids have reported slight discomfort when cold breast milk was placed in their eye. Due to its rich antibodies and probiotic abilities, breast milk may be a great treatment for conjunctivitis. However, this condition is likely to clear up on its own in one or two weeks and does not necessarily require treatment unless it is causing intense pain and irritation. For…

preferred substrate increases the viability of the probiotic.51 In order for all the rats to begin the experiment with a “sterile” gut, they could have been given a round of antibiotics beforehand. Also, although LAC is not significantly higher in this study, it is trending higher. Therefore, it is possible that with a higher n, the result may have become significant. The hypothesis of the preliminary study was that the prebiotics or probiotics added to the soy protein could have some effect on…