Why do we need probiotics for health?
Having the proper probiotic bacteria in your digestive system is essential for your health and wellbeing and being deficient can lead to severe health problems. Probiotics promote balanced gastrointestinal function and are essential for many metabolic requirements such as synthesizing vitamins and short chain fatty acids, digesting proteins and breaking down fiber. Probiotic bacteria are also important for immune function. They directly protect from infection by competing with the unhealthy bacteria, viruses and fungi we are exposed to each day.1 Due to deficient consumption of probiotic bacteria in our diets, deficient fiber intake to feed our probiotics, consumption of grains and sugar, reduced or absent breast feeding as infants, infant formulas, antibiotic and other prescription drug use, and increased overall stress it is now virtually impossible to have sufficient healthy bacteria without supplementation. 1. Bengmark, S. M.D. Ph.D. 1998. Immunonutrition: Role of biosurfactants, f
