Probiotics Why They're So Important for Our Health

Recent research shows that probiotics are important to good health. They have impact many vital body functions and are the secret to the anti-aging process. Many people take a multi-vitamin each day as a preventative. The truth is that probiotics are likely more important than your multi-vitamin.

Probiotics are the valuable bacteria that live primarily in your gastrointestinal tract (also known as the GI tract or gut), which goes from your mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, to the rectum. Your GI tract is a diversified bionetwork of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa called the intestinal or gut flora. There is a continuous battle going on in your GI tract between the bad and the good bacteria. If you have a strong GI tract flora, you have a robust defense force of good bacteria or probiotics. The GI tract barrier is your protective protection against unfavorable attackers, such as bacteria, toxins, and allergens, which enter our bodies on a daily via air, food, and water.

Supplement Immune Function

  • Probiotics are responsible for a majority of your immune response. When your body detects harmful intruders, probiotics can suppress their growth by excluding them and keeping them from settling and penetrating the GI tract.
  • Probiotics also encourage the immune system not to react excessively to intruders, like allergens, which are not always harmful to your body.
  • Probiotics can help fight viruses such as colds, flu, rotavirus, and ulcers.
  • Probiotics can help avoid and relieve many gastrointestinal problems, including constipation, diarrhea, Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel syndrome.
  • It has been found that some strains of beneficial bacteria create an anti-inflammatory response in the body.

Essential for Absorption of Vitamins and Nutrients

Probiotics increase the digestibility and bioavailability of many nutrients including vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Probiotics can help break down types of carbohydrates that the body cannot digest without the help of GI bacteria.

Brain Function Enhancement

It has been found that probiotics have an effect on brain chemistry. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, and ADHD may all be traced back to GI tract health.

Re-Balance GI Flora

Antibiotics can save your life if you have a serious infection. But the overuse of antibiotics changes and destroy the GI tract flora. Antibiotics kill both good and bad bacteria without difference. When your probiotics are eliminated, devious parasites, fungi, and harmful bacteria rush into your GI tract to fill the spot. This is why after taking antibiotics, some people develop oral thrush, yeast infection, or urinary tract infection. In addition, antibiotics can interfere with vital hunger hormones that are secreted by our stomach, causing enlarged appetite and body fat.

It is important to note that the foods we eat can also be a huge source of antibiotics in our bodies. To protect GI bacteria, buy meats from antibiotic-free animals.

 

Post updated on May 1, 2020