But when probiotics decrease, it will destroy this balanced ecological circle, and the body may have diseases. About 800 million people in China suffer from gastrointestinal diseases every year, and more than 654.38+0 billion people often have diarrhea or constipation, which is closely related to the lack of probiotics in the intestine.
With the popularization of microecological theory, medicine has also moved from the era of bacteriostasis to the era of promoting bacteria, thus restoring the balance of flora and making the human body reach a healthy state. Do you know about probiotics? How to effectively supplement?
1. What is probiotics?
Bacteria beneficial to the human body are called probiotics, which can maintain the balance of intestinal flora and make the body healthier. So far, probiotics discovered by scientists can be roughly divided into three categories: including Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Gram-positive cocci.
Lactic acid bacteria: such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus jejuni and Lactobacillus Raman.
Bifidobacterium: such as Bifidobacterium longum, Bifidobacterium brevis, Bifidobacterium infantis, Bifidobacterium ovatum, Bifidobacterium thermophilus, etc.
Gram-positive cocci: such as Streptococcus faecalis, Lactococcus, Streptococcus intermedia, etc.
In addition, some yeasts and enzymes can also be classified as probiotics.
1, probiotics ≠ lactic acid bacteria
Many people confuse probiotics with lactic acid bacteria, but they are not. All bacteria that can ferment glucose or lactose to produce lactic acid are collectively called lactic acid bacteria.
Probiotics focus on health care, while lactic acid bacteria focus on lactic acid production. Only a few carefully selected special strains that are really beneficial to health can be called "probiotics". Not all probiotics are lactic acid bacteria, only a few lactic acid bacteria are probiotics.
2, probiotics ≠ prebiotics
Although there is only one word difference between prebiotics and probiotics, both of them can affect the balance of intestinal flora, but they are essentially different.
Prebiotics are sugar substances with no biological activity, and they are the "food" of probiotics, which can promote the growth and reproduction of probiotics, thus indirectly playing a role in treatment or health care. Common prebiotics include glucose oligosaccharide, fructose oligosaccharide, galactose oligosaccharide and xylose oligosaccharide.
Second, the efficacy of probiotics
The benefits of probiotics to the human body are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
1, relieve the symptoms of lactose intolerance
Probiotics are helpful for intestinal digestion of nutrients, which can decompose lactose into lactic acid and reduce lactose intolerance. Therefore, patients with lactose intolerance can easily have diarrhea when drinking pure milk, but they can drink yogurt.
2. Enhance human immunity
Due to the mutual restriction and balance between flora, if the number of probiotics is dominant, some harmful pathogens can be prevented from causing diseases, thus building a microecological barrier and improving immunity.
3, help digestion, relieve constipation
The proliferation of probiotics in the intestine can maintain the stability of PH value in the intestine, promote metabolism and the synthesis of vitamin B family, help intestinal peristalsis, improve the decomposition and absorption rate of food, help digestion and absorption, and make defecation smooth.
4. Help reduce blood fat
Probiotics can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids; Can combine with cholesterol and interfere with the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine; It can also promote the decomposition of cholesterol.
5. Help control blood pressure
Some probiotics can decompose milk protein (casein) and produce enzymes that can inhibit the increase of blood pressure.
6. Help control blood sugar
Probiotics can use glucose to reduce the body's absorption of glucose. At the same time, the study found that Clostridium butyricum can also reduce insulin resistance in obese people, thus helping to lower blood sugar.
Third, how to eat probiotics?
Probiotics are good, but if you don't pay attention to how to eat them, you won't be able to play so many functions.
1, not taken with antibiotics.
Antibiotics can't distinguish harmful bacteria from beneficial bacteria, which will hinder the beneficial bacteria from playing their roles and even kill them. Therefore, when taking antibiotics, it is best to use probiotics at intervals of more than 2 hours.
2. Don't take it with hot water.
As a living bacterium, it also lives in human body. The optimum growth temperature of probiotics is close to the normal temperature of human intestine, which is about 37℃. So don't take clothes with hot water, it's better to use warm water below 40 degrees. In addition, don't take it with coffee and tea, because caffeine in coffee and tea polyphenols in tea will reduce the efficacy of probiotics.
Fourth, how to supplement probiotics?
In daily life, it can be supplemented by some foods and probiotics.
1, yogurt, cheese and its products
Probiotics can be added to yogurt, including Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium lactis, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus Roy, but the quantity is generally limited.
2. Fermented foods such as kimchi, miso and lobster sauce.
Usually, you can also eat some fermented foods made of vegetables, water and grains, such as kimchi, miso, fermented beans and so on. But because it contains nitrite, we must pay attention to the dosage.
3. Probiotic preparation
The amount of probiotics supplemented from food is very limited. At this time, probiotics can be selected to supplement. Pinrentang Health is selected from "Baiyi Pure Probiotics" developed by Hengkang Biotechnology. It has the characteristics of high number of viable bacteria, high survival rate, multi-strain compound, prebiotics and so on, which meets the daily needs of the public for probiotic supplementation and opens a new era of probiotic health care!