Probiotics refer to all beneficial bacteria, which are active microorganisms with positive benefits, including lactic acid bacteria and yeast, among which lactic acid bacteria account for the vast majority. Probiotics can compete with pathogenic bacteria in the intestine, thus improving the balance of intestinal flora. In addition, it also helps to regulate immunity, which has been proved to inhibit carcinogens and assist in regulating blood lipid and blood pressure.

What are the benefits of intestinal beneficial bacteria?

1, improve diarrhea and constipation. Beneficial flora, after entering the intestine, will even adjust the flora balance in our intestine, thus improving the situation of people with symptoms such as diarrhea and constipation.

2. Improve indigestion. Digestive enzymes produced by probiotics can promote intestinal secretion, thus better promoting digestion.

3. Improve the immune system. As the regulating organ of human immune system, intestine is very important. The intake of probiotics can not only help intestinal peristalsis, but also stimulate the human immune system and enhance its function.

4. Reduce the side effects of antibiotics. As we all know, taking antibiotics will kill many beneficial bacteria that are useful to us, and timely supplementation of probiotics will help the body recover. Generally speaking, it is best to take probiotics two hours after taking antibiotics.

5. Suitable for people of any age. Probiotics can be said to be a health care product for the whole people. There are many kinds of probiotics, which can meet the needs of people of different ages.

What is the reason for the decrease of intestinal probiotics?

There are many reasons for the decrease of intestinal flora, but there are mainly the following reasons: age, with the growth of age, the number of probiotics in the human body will be greatly reduced, which will lead to many chronic diseases; Changes in eating habits, with the entry of fast food culture, the traditional diet has undergone great changes. Foods with high calorie, high sugar and high oil have become popular, leading to changes in the intestinal environment, so many probiotics are not adapted to the new environment and gradually decrease; Drug treatment, mainly taking antibiotics, antibiotics will kill any bacteria, so it will also cause a decrease in probiotics.

Five Common Lactic Acid Bacteria

1, Lactobacillus acidophilus

It can secrete lactic acid and acetic acid, enhance immunity, maintain the health of intestinal flora, and inhibit the growth of vaginal mold. For the health care of preventing vaginal infection, nutritionists also suggest that such probiotics or cranberry extract tablets can be supplemented.

2. Bifidobacterium

It can make the intestinal flora grow normally, which is helpful to improve viral diarrhea. Because Bifidobacterium has a bifid structure, it can colonize in the intestine, which can inhibit bad bacteria and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis.

For example, diarrhea and acclimatization during travel may be because the intestinal flora does not adapt to foreign flora, which makes the intestinal flora out of balance. Studies have shown that taking probiotics in advance before traveling can reduce the incidence of diarrhea.

3. Lactobacillus casei

Acid-tolerant and choline-tolerant, it is the strain with the largest number of viable bacteria, and can survive in the intestine for 15 days, which is helpful to protect the intestine.

In the related research between cheese lactic acid bacteria and health, it is found that cheese lactic acid bacteria have several main functions: preventing intestinal discomfort symptoms, enhancing immunity, normalizing intestinal flora and inhibiting the release of allergic substances.

4. Lactobacillus rhamnosus

Lactobacillus rhamnosus is one of the most widely studied probiotics. Lactobacillus rhamnosus can tolerate digestive tract environment and has good colonization ability, which can prevent intestinal infection, relieve lactose intolerance and regulate gastrointestinal peristalsis. It is reported that Lactobacillus rhamnosus can reduce the incidence of atopic dermatitis.

5. lactobacillus paracasei

Domestic research shows that it can resist allergy, so most products on the market that emphasize allergic formula contain lactobacillus paracasei, which usually takes 4-8 weeks to take effect.

How to choose probiotics?

1, preferred

Try to buy healthy, reliable, highly active and clinically certified products.

Step 2 be a target

Different strains, different strains and different proportions are likely to have different effects, so probiotics suitable for patients should be selected according to different effects. There are certain instructions in the instructions of general probiotic health care products. Of course, you can let the doctor or pharmacist choose to buy them.

3, the number of live bacteria

Different living bacteria have certain influence on the effect. Generally, there are 300,000,654.38+0,000,500,000 live bacteria in the market. For example, probiotics such as Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis have active functions only when the flora is alive, which can relax the bowels and enhance immunity. In addition, the intake of live bacteria should be carried out according to the manufacturer's instructions, not as much as possible. Some strains may compete or repel each other. For example, the waste produced by Bifidobacterium and lactobacillus paracasei in the intestine is just the food needed by Lactobacillus rhamnosus, so the cooperation of the three can be beneficial to the existence of viable bacteria.

4. Which is liquid, powder or solid?

Developing children or teenagers can choose liquid products such as yogurt, because it contains milk, which can absorb calcium while supplementing bacteria and is also helpful for development. For general health food, you can choose capsule or powder, which is also convenient to use. As far as troches are concerned, high temperature and high pressure may lead to the necrosis of strains in the production process.

When should probiotics be eaten?

Gastric acid will affect the activity of probiotics, so it is necessary to avoid the time when gastric acid is secreted in large quantities and let probiotics enter the intestine smoothly. Many probiotic formulations on the market have special embedding technology, which is acid and alkali resistant and not easily affected by gastric acid. Such probiotics are suitable for taking before meals, because fasting is beneficial for probiotics to reach the intestine quickly. If it is not a special acid-base resistant probiotic product, it is recommended to take it with meals or within 30 minutes after meals, because the acidity in the stomach is higher before and one hour after meals.

Although probiotics can be beneficial to health, for many adults, the intestinal ecology has reached a stable and balanced state, and it is difficult to compete with these strains in a short time. If you want to achieve the purpose of health care by taking probiotics, you will suggest continuous and stable supplementation to help the growth of good bacteria.