Are You Getting Enough Probiotics?
Probiotics are the “good” or gobiofit video (globenewswire.com) maybe “healthy” bacteria that reside in the gut of ours and keep our gastrointestinal tract in health which is optimal. It’s estimated that this nice blend of microflora maturing in our intestines quantities to several hundred trillion bacteria–10 times more than the ten trillion complete cells making up the bodies of ours.
The World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations define probiotics as “microorganisms that, when administered in amounts that are adequate, confer health advantages to the host.” But just how a great deal of probiotics is “adequate,” and how could you work them into the diet of yours?
How much–or many–do you need?
You may well have seen TV advertisements featuring Jamie Lee Curtis touting a particular yogurt for the “healthy bacteria”–but of its is consuming an occasional carton of yogurt going to be sufficient? Hardly–research implies that in order to take in a “therapeutic” amount of germs, we need to eat a dollop of yogurt which contains roughly 10 billion “colony-forming CFUs or units” (aka “bacteria”). And since a lot of the yogurts you can buy in grocery stores, including the digital camera Jamie is holding set up for the camera, contain bacteria “only” numbering in the over a million, that’s not going to be almost enough.
Benefits while from run-of-the-mill yogurts having “active cultures”
But in spite of most yogurts’ fairly paltry bacterial numbers, even those merely containing “active cultures” can continue to assist with specific gastrointestinal illnesses, including:
constipation
diarrhea
lactose intolerance
inflammatory bowel disease
colon cancer infection with H. pylori (the bacteria that’s linked with peptic ulcer disease)
Researchers at Tufts University have cited extra benefits that can be had from yogurts with effective cultures:
enhancement of the body’s immune system
decrease in the time food takes to read through the bowel
positive changes to the microflora of the gut
Foods containing probiotics