March 2018 Probiotics Keep Your Gut Healthy€¦ · Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for your health, especially your digestive system. Probiotics, which means

Although we think of bacteria and yeasts as germs to be eradicated, our bodies are full of bacteria, both good and bad.

Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for your health, especially your digestive system. Probiotics, which means “for life,” are often called “good” or “helpful” bacteria because they help keep your gut healthy. Research shows that 70 to 80 percent of your immune system is in your gut.

foods, such as yogurt.

How Probiotics Help• When you lose “good” bacteria in your body, for

example after you take antibiotics, probiotics can help replace them.

• They can help balance your good and bad bacteria to keep your body working the way it should.

Types of Probiotics

two groups.

• Lactobacillus. This may be the most common

fermented foods. Different strains can help with diarrhea and may help people who can’t digest lactose, the sugar in milk.

• . This probiotic lines the intestinal tract and can help improve immunity. Probiotics may help ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and some other conditions, according to an article on WebMD.

What Probiotics DoAmong other things, probiotics help send food through your gut by affecting nerves that control gut movement.

Research and experience shows that probiotics can help with a number of conditions that affect the digestive tract. There is also some research that shows they’re useful for problems in other parts of your body. For example, some people say they have helped with skin conditions, urinary health, oral health and allergies and colds.

(Source information from: https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/what-are-probiotics#1)

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or “results” and consuming the nutrients contained in the products described. Results are individual and will vary from person to person.

While enzymes and probiotics perform different functions in your body, both are essential for overall digestive health. This becomes increasingly important with the changes that come with aging.

Aging often is accompanied by reduced amounts of gastric, pancreatic and other digestive system secretions, according to Woodson Merrell, M.D. ScD (hc). “This, coupled with additional insults like poor dentition, inadequate diet and an unhealthy microbiome can set the stage for weak digestion and reduced nutrient absorption. This can lead to a weaker immune system and leakage of unwanted molecules into the circulatory system [aka leaky gut], all of which can ultimately cause adverse outcomes for every other system of the body that is served by the digestive system.”

Merrell practices Integrative Medicine in New York City. Integrative medicine focuses on all factors that

disciplines.

“Both enzymes and probiotics are essential for healthy,

The difference between probiotics and enzymes, according to Merrell, is that probiotics are living organisms, while enzymes are non-living proteins composed of amino acids.

“Probiotic supplements can enter the gastrointestinal tract and take up residence there, cohabiting with the body’s own cells,” Merrell said. “Enzyme supplements also enter the GI tract, but cannot function as a permanent resident.”

The body needs a steady supply of enzymes for that reason, and it’s also why enzymes need to be taken every time a meal or snack is eaten, according to Merrell.

Probiotics are similar to the good bacteria found in the human digestive tract and are associated with

immune system, according to Merrell.

“Probiotics make limited amounts of certain enzymes, such as proteases and amylases, which can support digestion,” according to Merrell. “However, the amounts of enzymes that probiotics make may pale in comparison to the amounts of enzymes that the pancreas releases or that enter the digestive tract through supplementation.”

According to Merrell, probiotics also play a role in helping the cells of the small intestine to absorb and uptake nutrients that the enzymes break free from the foods.

“They are very important to the production of many

and help to create a healthy immune system — 70 percent of which is located in the gut. As you can easily see, both probiotics and enzymes are critical for good gut health.

(Source information from an article online at AgingCare.com.)

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Research shows that the digestion of food would be virtually impossible without the microscopic molecular catalysts known as enzymes. Like all catalysts, enzymes increase the rate of chemical reactions by lowering the amount of energy needed to initiate a particular reaction. The digestive system produces numerous enzymes to power the biochemical reactions that transform food into the substances that nourish human life.

Food for LifeThe basic purpose of the digestive process is to break down food into small particles that can be absorbed by cells called enterocytes, which cover the interior surface of the intestinal tract, according to an online article by Joseph West, in the Education section of the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

This is accomplished through two general types of digestion: physical and chemical. Physical digestion, such as chewing, increases the surface area of food particles and makes chemical digestion more effective. During chemical digestion, which is dependent on enzyme activity, chemical reactions gradually reduce small particles of food into individual molecules that can pass through the enterocytes into the bloodstream.

Digestion BeginsEnzymatic digestion occurs primarily in the mouth, stomach and small intestine. Both physical and chemical digestion begin in the mouth: the process of chewing grinds up food and mixes it with saliva, which contains an enzyme called salivary amylase. Enzymes facilitate chemical reactions by binding to reactive molecules.

Digestive enzymes, along with most other enzymes,

to as substrates. In the case of amylase, the substrates are compressed packages of carbohydrates called starches; amylase helps to break down starches into individual sugar molecules such as glucose.

Protein to PeptideThe dominant enzyme in the stomach is pepsin. The stomach initiates the chemical digestion of proteins, pervasive organic molecules crucial to numerous biological processes. Proteins are long chains of amino acids connected by peptide bonds; consequently, proteins are sometimes referred to as polypeptides,

and small proteins are sometimes referred to simply as peptides. Cells in the interior lining of the stomach release pepsin and hydrochloric acid, both of which help to break down proteins into peptides.

Intestinal EcologyThe long list of enzymes present in the small intestine shows us how important this organ is in the overall process of digestion. The small intestine is home to a complex community of human cells, chemicals, enzymes and microbes, all of which work together to transform partially digested food into the nutrient substances needed by the body.

Important carbohydrate enzymes include maltase, which acts on maltose; lactase, for lactose; and sucrase, for sucrose. Peptides from the stomach are reduced to individual amino acids through the activity of trypsin, chymotrypsin and dipeptidase. Triglycerides, known as fats, cannot be absorbed into the bloodstream until they are converted by lipase enzymes into individual fatty acids and monoglycerides.


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