About Probiotics
Probiotics are cultures of beneficial bacteria that are normally present in a healthy digestive tract. Increasing evidence shows that the activity of probiotic bacteria in the human GI tract plays an important role in the dietary management of inflammatory bowel diseases. 3,19,20,66,44
Probiotic bacteria, specifically the Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria species, have been recognized as potential therapeutic agents for over a century but only recently has medical science attempted to use probiotics for the dietary management of serious GI disorders. This renewed interest in the use of probiotics is,in part, due to the recent publication of numerous clinical studies.
Not All Probiotics Are the Same
It is important to recognize that not all probiotics are equivalent in terms of efficacy. Different probiotic preparations have very different bacterial strains and concentrations. For any probiotic to be effective it must have a high bacterial count (in the hundreds of billions of cells), it must be living bacteria, and it must be able to survive the journey down the GI tract into the colon.
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