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What is Good Bacteria ?

Get To Know The Good Bacteria Inside Probiotics

Good bacteria or known as probiotics is friendly and beneficial microorganism that lived in your gut flora. Its main job is to keep you healthy.

Some of the good bacteria currently being studied include :

v Lactobacillus acidophilus

v Bifidobacterium

v Enterococcus

v Saccharomyces boulardii

Lactobacillus

Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are good bacteria that are most widely used in probiotics products.

Lactobacillus is a major part of the lactic acid bacteria group, named as such because most of its members convert lactose and other sugars to lactic acid. In human body, they live in the vagina and the gastrointestinal tract. There they are symbiotic and make up a small portion of the gut flora. The production of lactic acid makes its environment acidic which will inhibit the growth of some harmful bacteria.

Lactobacillus in Food Products

Some Lactobacillus species are used industrially for the production of yoghurt, cheese, sauerkraut, pickles, beer, wine, cider, kimchi, sourdough bread and other fermented foods, as well as animal feeds. Lactobacillus, especially Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus brevis, are some of the most common beer spoilage organisms.

Gut Flora

The gut flora are the microorganisms that normally live in the digestive tract and can perform a number of useful functions for their hosts.

Advantage & disadvantage of Gut Flora

Some of the advantages of gut flora are including :

v Fermenting unused energy substrates

v Preventing growth of harmful species

v Training the immune system

v Regulating the development of the gut

v Producing vitamins, such as biotin and vitamin K

v Producing hormones to direct the host to store fats.

Disadvantage of gut flora :

Despite of many advantages of gut flora, there is one thing that you must pay attention on. In certain conditions, some species of gut flora are capable of causing disease by causing infection.

But, don’t worry too much, as by including a significant proportion of prebiotic foods in your daily diet, you can support your healthy gut flora, that will help you to achieve the desirable health benefits promised by probiotics.

Well….

It’s quite nice to see your new friends, the good bacteria, isn’t it ? But…what will those good bacteria benefic you ? Anyway, that’s the point why you enter this site, to get benefits, right ? Calm down, you are just a step away to get the health benefits of probiotics.

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