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31 Mar 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Heruvim78
There are application in the food industry. Prebiotic fibers and probiotic organisms are added to infant nutrition to modulate microbiota. Lately there is a transition from prebiotic approach to synbiotic approach ( combining prebiotic fibers with...
30 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Heruvim78
IBD is a group of conditions in which the colon and/or the small intestine becomes inflamed. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative diseases are the two main types of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In Crohn’s disease both small and large intestine are affecte...
29 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
This next generation probiotics can be helpful in new personalised therapies. They are made from microorganisms used to improve health, you can found them in foods and supplements. The ones sold today are mainly lactic acid producing bacteria like...
28 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
The faecal transplant os a very good tool to prove a causative role of our gut microbiome in curing different diseases. Because of this reason, the interest in faecal microbiota transplant is rising. We mentioned some research done on mice, but thi...
28 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78
Everyone knows that we should eat more fibers and less saturated fats, but personalized nutrition is more than that. We are talking about choosing the healthy nutrition that it is different for different people. You need to take in account diseases...
26 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78
Synbiotics are a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host. By combining these tow in a food product, this will lead to a better chance of survival and activity of microbes in the gut. The interaction for two or more th...
25 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78
Probiotics were originally introduced as the opposite of antibiotics, living microorganisms consumed to restore the microbiota that we lost after antibiotic treatments. A probiotic is a living microorganism which provide a health benefit to the hos...
24 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Heruvim78
What are the prebiotics, you would ask? They are fibres stimulating the microbial growth in the gut, when eaten, improving the gut health. These fibres can escape digestion in the small intestine, but once they reach the colon , they will be partia...
23 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Heruvim78
We all should know that regarding us and our microbes, we work together to harvest the maximum of energy from our food and to fight against pathogens. But which is the best way to keep our microbiota healthy? Everybody heard, i hope, about prebioti...
22 Mar 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
The term malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person intake or nutrients and energy and addresses to three groups of conditions: 1. Undernutrition 2. Micronutrient related malnutrition 3. Overweight. 1. Undernutrition...
