A Beginner's Guide to Eating Probiotics

2025-01-08

Intestinal health is closely related to immunity, and the key to boosting immunity is to maintain intestinal health. However, the high work pressure and poor dietary habits of city dwellers have led to various intestinal problems. According to some studies, probiotics can effectively inhibit the growth of harmful intestinal bacteria, increase intestinal probiotics, and enhance immunity. There are various probiotic supplements in the market, but how to choose the best? What exactly are probiotics? What are their effects? And how to take it? This article will answer for you one by one.

What are probiotics?

Probiotics are also known as intestinal microbial regulators, and are broadly defined as any living microorganism that promotes the balance of intestinal flora and increases the health benefits for the host. Simply put, they are “good bacteria”. These good bacteria can multiply in the body and help to promote the balance of intestinal bacterial ecology to maintain intestinal health and enhance immunity.

Types of probiotics:

Lactobacillus genus: i.e. Lactobacillus, mostly found in the human digestive tract, urinary tract, and reproductive system, is beneficial to the human body and is a probiotic, and does not cause disease. In addition, fermented foods such as yogurt also contain Lactobacillus, which can promote intestinal health issues.

Bacillus: Bacillus is a short rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium that produces spores and is widely found in nature, such as soil, water and air, and is able to withstand extreme environments, such as high temperature, high pressure, low temperature, low pressure and dryness, and transforms into endogenous spores to enter a dormant state in unfavorable environments.

Lactococcus: Gram-positive bacteria, widely used in cheese, yogurt, yogurt, lactobacilli drinks and other food production, can ferment lactose into lactic acid.

Lactobacillus meatus: belongs to the family of Lactococcus acidophilus, which is mainly found in frozen food and seafood, and can grow and multiply at low temperatures or in environments with a high salt concentration, so it is widely used in the processing of food such as meat and fish.

Probiotics efficacy and benefits：

1. Promote digestion and smooth bowel movement

A diet high in oil, salt and sugar is likely to reduce the number of good bacteria in the intestinal tract, causing the bacterial ecology of the intestinal tract to be out of balance, leading to unsmooth bowel movements and abnormal gas emissions. Supplementing with probiotics at the right time and drinking plenty of water can improve the digestive tract function and lead to smooth bowel movements.

2. Gastrointestinal health

Our intestinal tract has both good and bad bacteria, we need to adjust the balance between the two in order to maintain health, and probiotics are also known as micro-ecological regulators of the gastrointestinal tract, which can promote the balance of intestinal bacteria and maintain the health of the gastrointestinal tract.

3. Adjusting body constitution and improving allergic body condition

As mentioned above, probiotics can increase the proportion of good bacteria and reduce the proportion of bad bacteria in the body, promote the health of gastrointestinal tract, adjust the body, enhance immunity, and improve the allergic body.

4. Reduce body fat

Various bacteria in the intestinal tract, such as Bacillus, Thick-walled Bacteria, Actinobacteria and Aspergillus, and other probiotic species, when the proportion of intestinal bacteria is out of balance, it is easy to lead to metabolic disorders. According to some studies, leaner people have a lower proportion of Bacteroides and a higher proportion of Bacteroides in their intestines. On the contrary, obese people have 20% more thick-walled bacilli and 90% less bacilli in their intestines, and thick-walled bacilli are more capable of retaining calories from food than bacilli, which can easily cause obesity. Therefore, probiotic supplementation can maintain the balance between gut bacteria.