Benefits of Probiotics
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Probiotics are well known to be beneficial to one’s health. But surprisingly, few understand how important probiotics are to our health and preventing disease.
To name just a few of the benefits, probiotic bacteria are integral to fighting cancer, preventing cavities, reducing allergies, reducing blood pressure and helping you get better sleep!
Oral Health
- Reduce plaque
- Dental Cavities
- inhibit mutans streptococci in the mouth
- Gum Disease
- reduce gingivitis and peridontal disease
Organ Function/Health
- Spleen
- Liver
- decrease risk of cirrhosis
- reduce endotoxin levels among cirrhosis patients
- Thymus
Immune/Autoimmune Illnesses
- Allergies (general)
- reduce atopic dermatitis in children
- help prevent atopic eczema
- reduce eczma
- hypersensitivity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity)
- Inflammation
- inhibit severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome
- HIV/AIDS
- increase immune response in HIV/AIDS patients
- decrease symptoms of HIV/AIDS
Immunity Enhancement
- reduce postoperative infection
- reduce burn infections (topical)
- increase burn healing
- Mucosa
- inhibit viruses
- increase production of virus specific antibodies
- produce virus-specific antibodies
- Vaccination enhancement
- Polio Vaccination
- improve immune system efficiency
- increase immunity among the elderly
fighting acute illnesses
- Inhibit Tonsillitis
- Colds and Influenza
- reduce frequency
- reduce length
- Food Poisoning
- Respiratory infections
- reduce nasal cavity infections
- reduce lower respiratory infections
- Ear Infection
- Acute pancreatitis
- Dysentery
chronic diseases & conditions
- Lipids/High Cholesterol
- reduce LDL-cholesterol in overweight subjects
- reduce Blood Pressure
- reduce systolic blood pressure
- Stomach Ulcers
- Keratoconjunctivitis
- Kidney Stones
- Reduce Asthma Symptoms
- candida overgrowth
- reduce mouth ulcers
- reduce anemia
- reduce risk of atherosclerosis
Improve women’s health
- reduce mastitis
- Vaginosis/Vaginitis
- help re-establish the pH of the vagina
- inhibit vaginal candidiasis
Click here for an in-depth article on bacterial vaginosis and probiotics.
improve digestive comfort (general)
- Constipation
- inhibit and reduce diarrhea
- reduce vomiting
- reduce flatulence
- decrease nausea
improve digestive conditions
- reduce symptoms of Crohn’s disease
- Reduce and inhibit colitis
- reduce ulcerative colitis
- Reduce and inhibit IBS
- reduce bloating in IBS
- reduce abdominal pain in IBS
- Diverticulitis
- Dyspepsia (chronic indigestion)
- inhibit antibiotic-related diarrhea
- stabilize intestinal barrier function (decreased permeability)
- reduce flare-ups of chronic pouchitis
enhance nutrient absorption & production (general)
- increase absorption of dairy
- decrease/Remove Lactose Intolerance
- increase calcium absorption
- Improve glucose Metabolism
- produce B vitamins
- EFAs
- Fiber Digestion
- Iron Absorption
- Phytonutrients
- Protein assimilation
- produce B vitamins and other nutrients
infant conditions
- Colic
- Premature Births
- Low birth weights survival
- Rotavirus infections
- establish infant microflora
- Normalize gut colonization similar to breast-fed infants and formula-fed infants
- reducing necrotizing enterocolitis (tissue death in protions of the bowel, primarily happening in prematurely born infants)
- increase growth in preterm infants
- reduce lactose-intolerance symptoms
- reduce death among very low birth weight infants
fighting problematic pathogens
- clostridium spp.
- bacteroides spp.
- inhibit vancomycin-resistant enterococci (antibiotic-resistant)
- redyce risk of strep throat caused by S. pyogenes
- inhibit E. coli
- inhibit salmonella spp.
- inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Parasites & Fungi
- stimulating immune system to fight fungi (via Th1 cell stimulation)
- stimulating immune system to fight parasites (via Th1 cell stimulation)
general health benefits
- increased detox rate
- pH control
- mood & mental health
- increase sleep quality and duration
- increase general health perception
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Increase appetite
- Producing Antibiotic Chemicals
- Mental State
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