prebiotics
How Prebiotics Can Affect the Gut and Brain
Prebiotics are used to foster the colonization of beneficial bacteria in the gut. These indigestible dietary fibers are found in plant-derived foods such as onions, leeks, artichokes, wheat, bananas, and in high concentrations in chicory root. They support gut health by promoting the growth and activity of beneficial gut bacteria. Researchers have now investigated whether ...
Introducing Enzy-biotics
Enzymes and supplemental biotics are growing, morphing and playing off each other. Many of your patients/clients know about probiotics and enzymes for digestive complaints and regularity. But yet many still look at these products as short-term tools, not quite understanding that they should be consumed regularly and long-term like multivitamins, especially as they get older. ...
Detoxification Support Nutraceuticals
In her 1962 groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote: “For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”1 Of course humans have always been exposed to potentially harmful chemicals from plants and other sources, but ...
Can’t Sleep? Prebiotics Could Help
Think dietary fiber is just for digestive health? Think again. Specific fibers known as prebiotics can improve sleep and boost stress resilience by influencing gut bacteria and the potent biologically active molecules, or metabolites, they produce, new University of Colorado (CU) Boulder research shows. The research could ultimately lead to new approaches to treating sleep ...
The Various Benefits of Pre- and Probiotic Supplements
Probiotics have been in the spotlight in recent years, with specialists touting the benefits of probiotics on gut health and much more. Prebiotics aren’t talked about quite as much, but definitely deserve recognition all the same, and we are starting to see more and more products on the market that include prebiotics. Both pre- and ...
Xylooligosaccharides: The Low-dose Prebiotic
By Prof. Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington University of Health Sciences Dietary prebiotics are typically non-digestible fiber compounds that pass undigested through the upper part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and stimulate the growth or activity of friendly, probiotic bacteria that colonize the large bowel by acting as substrate for them.1 In the world of dietary supplements, there are several prebiotics from which to choose—perhaps ...
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