Prebiotics and probiotics

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• Prebiotics and probiotics

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Prebiotics

• Prebiotics are food substances that promote the
  growth of certain bacteria (generally beneficial)
  in the intestines.
• prebioticsnondigestible food ingredients that
  selectively stimulate the growth and/or activity
  of beneficial microorganisms already in people's
  colons.
• When probiotics and prebiotics are mixed
  together, they form a synbiotic

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• PREBIOTICS Prebiotics are the substances, which
  reach to colon in intact form i.e. without
  getting depleted by the gastric pH and digestive
  acids.
• These prebiotics also selectively promote the
  growth of colonel probiotic bacteria hence they
  act as fertilizers for these bacteria.
• These are collective term for non-digestive but a
  fermentable dietary carbohydrate that may
  selectively stimulates growth of certain
  bacterial groups resident in the colon, such as
  Bifidobacteria, Lactobacilli considered to be
  beneficial for the human host.
• inulin, which is soluble dietary fibres and
  resistant to digestive enzyme and thus reaches to
  large intestine or colon essentially intact,
  where it is fermented by resistant bacteria,
  Lactobacilli and feed themselves on it.

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• Prebiotics in the Diet
• Prebiotics that feed the beneficial bacteria in
  your gut mostly come from carbohydrate fibers
  called oligosaccharides.
• You don't digest them, so the oligosaccharides
  remain in the digestive tract and stimulate the
  growth of beneficial bacteria.
• Sources of oligosaccharides include fruits,
  legumes, and whole grains.
• Fructo-oligosaccharides may be taken as a
  supplement or added to foods.
• Yogurt made with bifidobacteria contain
  oligosaccharides

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• Sources
• Traditional dietary sources of prebiotics include
  soybeans, inulin source(such as chicory root),
  raw oats, unrefined wheat and unrefined barley .
• Some of the oligosaccharides that naturally occur
  in breast milk are believed to play an important
  role in the development of a healthy immune
  system in infants.
• No plant or food is a prebiotic Wheat, honey
  and many other foods contain prebiotics to a
  greater or lesser extent, ranging from fairly
  large portions (chicory root, Jerusalem
  artichoke) to only trace quantities (thousands of
  other plant-based foods).

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• Top 10 Foods Containing Prebiotics
• Food Prebiotic Fiber Content by Weight
• Raw Chicory Root 64.6
• Raw Jerusalem Artichoke 31.5
• Raw Dandelion Greens 24.3
• Raw Garlic 17.5
• Raw Leek 11.7
• Raw Onion 8.6
• Cooked Onion 5
• Raw Asparagus 5
• Raw Wheat bran 5
• Whole Wheat flour, Cooked 4.8
• Raw Banana 1

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• Probiotics
• According to the currently adopted definition by
  FAO/WHO (World Health Organization and the Food
  and Agriculture Organization of the United
  Nations),, probiotics are
• "live microorganisms, which,
  when administered in adequate amounts, confer a
  health benefit on the host." (Microorganisms are
  tiny living organismssuch as bacteria, viruses,
  and yeaststhat can be seen only under a
  microscope.)

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• Probiotics Dietary supplements containing
  potentially beneficial bacteria or yeast.
• Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and bifidobacteria are
  the most common types of microbes used as
  probiotics but certain yeasts and bacilli may
  also be helpful.
• Probiotics are commonly consumed as part of
  fermented foods with specially added active live
  cultures such as in yogurt, soy yogurt, or as
  dietary supplements.

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• Probiotics are thought to beneficially affect the
  host by improving its intestinal microbial
  balance, thus inhibiting pathogens and toxin
  producing bacteria.
• Today, specific health effects are being
  investigated and documented including alleviation
  of chronic intestinal inflammatory diseases,
  prevention and treatment of pathogen-induced
  diarrhea, urogenital infections,and atopic
  diseases.

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• Colon is the most densely populated region of the
  gastrointestinal tract and harbors an estimated
  500 different bacterial species.
• The various types of bacteria that are having the
  probiotics characteristics are-
• Lactobacilli
• (Lactobacillus rhamnosus Lactobacillus reuteri
  Lactobacillus casei )
• Bifidobacterium breve
• Streptococcus

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• Probiotics are available in foods and dietary
  supplements
• for example,
• capsules,
• tablets, and
• Powders
• Examples of foods containing probiotics are
• yogurt,
• fermented and
• unfermented milk,
• some juices
• soy beverages.
• In probiotic foods and supplements, the bacteria
  may have been present originally or added during
  preparation.

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• Most probiotics are bacteria similar to those
  naturally found in people's guts, especially in
  those of breastfed infants (who have natural
  protection against many diseases). Most often,
  the bacteria come from two groups, Lactobacillus
  or Bifidobacterium. Within each group, there are
  different species (for example, Lactobacillus
  acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidus), and
  within each species, different strains (or
  varieties). A few common probiotics, such as
  Saccharomyces boulardii, are yeasts, which are
  different from bacteria.

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• Uses for Health Purposes
• There are several reasons that people are
  interested in probiotics for health purposes.
• Friendly bacteria are vital to proper development
  of the immune system, to protection against
  microorganisms that could cause disease, and to
  the digestion and absorption of food and
  nutrients.
• Each person's mix of bacteria varies.
  Interactions between a person and the
  microorganisms in his body, and among the
  microorganisms themselves, can be crucial to the
  person's health and well-being.
• This bacterial "balancing act" can be thrown off
  in two major ways
• By antibiotics, when they kill friendly bacteria
  in the gut along with unfriendly bacteria.
• Some people use probiotics to try to offset side
  effects from antibiotics like gas, cramping, or
  diarrhea.
• Similarly, some use them to ease symptoms of
  lactose intolerancea condition in which the gut
  lacks the enzyme needed to digest significant
  amounts of the major sugar in milk, and which
  also causes gastrointestinal symptoms.

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• "Unfriendly" microorganisms such as
  disease-causing bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and
  parasites can also upset the balance. Researchers
  are exploring whether probiotics could halt these
  unfriendly agents in the first place and/or
  suppress their growth and activity in conditions
  like Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., ulcerative
  colitis and Crohn's disease)
• Infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a
  bacterium that causes most ulcers and many types
  of chronic stomach inflammation
• Tooth decay and periodontal disease
• Vaginal infections
• Stomach and respiratory infections that children
  acquire in daycare
• Skin infections

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• Another part of the interest in probiotics stems
  from the fact there are cells in the digestive
  tract connected with the immune system. One
  theory is that if you alter the microorganisms in
  a person's intestinal tract (as by introducing
  probiotic bacteria), you can affect the immune
  system's defenses.

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• What is it?
• Kibow Biotics is a proprietary and patented
  probiotics dietary supplement that has been
  scientifically formulated and clinically tested.
  Kibow Biotics metabolizes nitrogenous waste that
  has diffused from the bloodstream into the bowel.
• Nitrogenous wastes are utilized by Kibow Biotics
  as nutrients. As probiotics grow and multiply,
  they consume more nitrogenous waste and therefore
  effectively help maintain healthy kidney
  function.

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• Probiotics and Kidney Health
• When these waste products accumulate in high
  concentrations in the blood, they become highly
  toxic and can cause severe damage to many organ
  systems if they are not properly excreted.
• Due to the overloaded and impaired kidneys, a
  buildup of poisonous wastes occurs in the
  bloodstream. Certain probiotic microorganisms can
  utilize urea, uric acid and creatinine and other
  toxins as its nutrients for growth. They then
  multiply, thereby creating a greater diffusion of
  these uremic toxins from the circulating blood
  across the lining of the intestinal walls into
  the bowel. This increased microbial growth is
  excreted along with the feces (which is normally
  50 microbes by weight).
• Enteric toxin reduction technology uses probiotic
  organisms to transform the colon into a blood
  cleansing agent, which, with the aid of microbes,
  indirectly removes toxic wastes and helps
  eliminate them as fecal matter. Consequently, it
  is possible to maintain a healthy kidney function
  with the oral use of Kibow Biotics.
• The patented, proprietary probiotics in Kibow
  Biotics have been clinically tested and shown to
  be safe, effective and free of serious side
  effects when taken for as long as six months.

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