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Nutrition Corner
Damian Rodriguez, DHSc, MS
Probiotics / Prebiotics
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f you aren’t adding copious amounts of raw garlic to every
entrée or topping your scrambled eggs with kimchi, you are
behind the times. The latest market research suggests that
probiotics will likely be the fastest growing segment in the dietary
supplementation industry over the next decade, and it is easy to
see why. Research into the gut microbiome, that complex system
of bacteria and microbes that resides within our stomach, is
beginning to make it even clearer how important our diets are to
our health. And even more so, research is showing how important
dietary supplemen­tation, specifically of probiotics and prebiotics,
may be for lifelong health and vitality.
Your Gut Bacteria
and Your Health
The gut microbiome is progressively
becoming of more interest to nutrition
science researchers as we discover how
those bacteria, archaea, viruses, and
eukaryotic microbes that reside in our
digestive systems influence health. Some of
the hottest contemporary nutritional science
research suggests that gut microbiota may
of lifestyle-related factors in the composition
of your digestive ecosystem (especially
dietary behaviors), it is largely genetic and,
according to the latest research, may be
highly influential in how your body responds
to different dietary input and what dietary
behaviors may be best for you to reach
optimum health. Individualized probiotic and
prebiotic regimens may be the future of
dietary supplementation.
for the lactobacilli and bifidobacteria in
your digestive tract. Garlic, asparagus,
onions, artichokes and other whole,
roughage-dense foods are full of those
oligosaccharides that your gut bacteria
feeds off of to induce its health-benefitting
magic. Recent research suggests that
prebiotic intake is closely associated with
healthy inflammatory response, dietary
bioavailability (allowing our bodies to get
the most nutrition out of the food we eat),
and the support of healthy metabolism.
Of course, if you don’t have the intestinal
volume to handle a bowl of vegetables the
size of a large pizza for lunch, and if a side
of random fermented foods with dinner
doesn’t sound too appetizing, supple­
menting your diet 10 days a month with
PB Assist®+ Probiotic Defense Formula is
exactly what you need. For daily support,
PB Assist® Jr provides 5 billion live cells of
a unique blend of six different probiotic
influence how well we age, our emotional strains and prebiotic fructooligosaccharides
behaviors, cognitive function, and everyone’s in a strawberry melon flavor that your kids
favorite topic: weight management. It’s a
fascinatingly complex and diverse
environment, that gut of ours. According to
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Rumi nococcus. Although there are a number
fiber—that are the nutritional sustenance
Probiotic vs.
Prebiotic
will love, but it can also help you foster a
healthy balance of intestinal microflora.*
Nature, the International Journal of Science, Although often used interchangeably and There is more to a diet focused on whole,
healthy adults typically house over 1,000 working synergistically in the gut, unprocessed foods than nutrient density.
species of bacteria in their gut, and recent probiotics and prebiotics are vastly Those foods help provide the probiotics
research suggests that we all fall into one of different things. Probiotics are the healthy and prebiotics necessary to regulate the
three enterotypes (our genetically inherent bacteria that have everyone rushing to population of our gut microbiome, which
digestive population characteristics), which stock up on Greek yogurt and experiment has health implications that nutritional
do not appear to have any connection to with new fermented foods. Dense and science is just beginning to understand.
gender, age, nationality, or body mass index. active probiotic populations have been To support overall health and well-being, try
Type 1 is characterized by high levels of linked to digestive, endocrine, and immune a monthly gut health regimen that includes
Bacteroides, type 2 has a higher system health, and improved overall PB Assist+ Probiotic Defense Formula and
concentration of Prevotella, and type 3 shows well-being. Prebiotics are non-digestible don’t forget to complement your daily lunch
significant numbers of gram-positive carbohydrates—basically a classification of with a serving of PB Assist Jr.*
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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