For centuries, folklore suggested that fermented dairy products containing live active cultures are healthful. Recent controlled scientific investigation supports these traditional views, suggesting that probiotics are a valuable part of a healthy diet.

Research has suggested that probiotic bacteria can:

In addition to probiotic supplements, probiotic nutrition can be found in such foods as probiotic yogurt, fermented and unfermented milk, miso, and some juices and soy drinks. Dannon’s Activia yogurt, for instance, is an example of a probiotic food.

Probiotics may help:

Although you don’t need probiotics to be healthy, these microorganisms may provide some of the same health benefits that the bacteria already existing in your body do — such as assisting with digestion and helping protect against harmful bacteria.
While people do not require probiotics to be healthy, there is mounting evidence that probiotics can help people stay healthy in certain ways, such as improving immune function, maintaining normal GI function and preventing infection. Probiotics also have been shown to be effective in management of certain diseases, such as their being shown to reduce the development of atopic dermatitis in infants or reducing recurrence of pouchitis.

The ability of probiotic bacteria to support the immune system could be important to the elderly or other people with compromised immune function.

Prebiotics are non-digestible foods that make their way through our digestive system and help good bacteria grow and flourish. Prebiotics keep beneficial bacteria healthy.

Prebiotics in the Diet:

Prebiotics that feed the beneficial bacteria in your gut mostly come from carbohydrate fibers called oligosaccharides. You don’t digest them, so the oligosaccharides remain in the digestive tract and stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria. Sources of oligosaccharides include fruits, legumes, and whole grains. Fructo-oligosaccharides (buy direct) may be taken as a supplement or added to foods. Yogurt made with bifidobacteria contain oligosaccharides.

Probiotics in the Diet:

Probiotic bacteria like lactobacilli are naturally found in fermented foods like sauerkraut and yogurt. Some foods will have added probiotics as healthy nutritional ingredients, which will be evident on the label.

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Primal Defense is created using the following probiotic species of their enzymes:
Lactobacillius acidophilus, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus salvarius, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillius casi, Lactobacillius brevis, Bifdobacteria bifidum, Bifdobacteria breve, Bifdobacteria lactis, Bifdobacterium longum, Bicillus licheniformis. Saccharomyces boulardi.

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Recent tests have demonstrated that properly combining probiotic blends with certain varieties of chocolate have resulted in significantly higher survival rates of the probiotics in the stomach and small intestine comapared to milk and yogurt blends.
In fact one study by researchers at Ghent University in Belgium found that the survival percentage of probiotics coupled with dark chocolate was nearly three times higher than those teamed with milk and probiotic yogurt products.

The chocolate protects the micro organisms through the stomachacid and bile salts-consquently more probiotics survive and are able to colonize and thrive in the large intestine.

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I hope this has been of help to those seeking information on probiotic health
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