What are the benefits of acidophilus?
The other answerer is half-right… probiotics like acidophilus are the beneficial bacteria that live in your intestinal tract and are in some of the foods you eat (most prevalent in yogurt). However, when you cook food, process food, leave it for more than a few days before eating, or many other common instances of preparation or storage of food, the probiotics won’t survive long enough to give you any help. They have very short lifespans when they aren’t preserved, so heat and time are the biggest killers of these organisms. If you eat a lot of yogurt (which has a rich supply of probiotics added to it), you probably won’t need to supplement with probiotics unless you’ve recently been on an antibiotic (which will likely kill all the good bacteria with the bad bacteria). Now to actually answer your question, Acidophilus is very beneficial for regularity and the back end of digestion, specifically in helping your body to absorb the nutrients in your intestines. Because of the benefits i
