Prebiotics
Prebiotics feed and promote healthy probiotic bacteria.
What are prebiotics good for?
- Prebiotics are foods that restore, nourish, and support healthy gut flora.
- For food ingredient prebiotic classification, it must withstand digestion, undergo intestinal microorganism fermentation, and trigger beneficial bacterial growth and/or activity.
- The most efficacious prebiotic nutrients are complex carbohydrate molecules.
- Prebiotics support digestion and vital nutrient absorption.
- They can counteract aging effects on digestive tract: primary immune defense
- Prebiotics can support comprehensive immune system function
- A prebiotic is demonstrated to decrease cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar
Prebiotics versus probiotics
Complementary: Prebiotics and probiotics function synergistically promoting optimal digestive wellness. Prebiotics enhance probiotic activity.
What distinguishes them? Prebiotics are indigestible fermentable fibers nourishing probiotic growth and activity. They aren't bodily produced but must be consumed. Your body cannot process prebiotics, yet your beneficial gut bacteria (probiotics) can. Probiotics are living microorganisms, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium naturally inhabiting your gut, plus fermented foods and supplements.
Prebiotic consumption: Product use can support maintaining healthy gut bacterial balance through promoting healthy probiotic development, supporting beneficial bacteria already colonizing the colon.
Probiotic consumption: Supplements harbor billions of these and additional beneficial bacteria in living form. They're consumed, eventually transporting bacteria to the colon, where they multiply and magnify their wellness-promoting effects.
