Prebiotics and Probiotics can restore the balance of bacteria in your digestive tract.
Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that can be found in various foods. When you eat probiotics, you will add these healthy bacteria to your intestinal tract. Common strains include Lactobacillis and Bifidobacterium families of bacteria.
Prebiotics are non-digestible foods that make their way through our digestive system and help good bacteria grow and flourish. Prebiotics keep beneficial bacteria healthy.
What are Probiotics?
Probiotics and its beneficial effects are an emerging area of medicine that has only recently come into the public eye in America. Experts have debated how to define probiotics. One widely used definition, developed by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is that probiotics are "live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host." (Microorganisms are tiny living organisms—such as bacteria, viruses, and yeasts—that can be seen only under a microscope.)
Probiotics and Probiotic foods have recently become popular in the United States, even though such products have been marketed for decades in Europe and Asia. The growth of probiotics emerges as many scientists are now focused on the role of beneficial bacteria to aid digestion, boost natural defenses, and fight off bacteria that could cause health problems. Most probiotic products can be found in the dairy case of supermarkets or as dietary supplements.
A normal human digestive tract contains about 400 types (strains) of probiotic bacteria that control and reduce the growth of harmful bacteria and promote a healthy digestive system. Probiotic organisms makeup 95% of the total number of cells in the human body. Some good bacteria are absolutely necessary for overall health and not just bowel health. In normal good health, some bad bacteria that cause disease are crowded out by good bacteria. Intestinal bacteria can benefit health by breaking down toxins, synthesizing vitamins, and defending against infection. They may also play a role in preventing such diseases as peptic ulcers, colorectal cancer, and inflammatory bowel disease.
What are Prebiotics?
Prebiotics are nondigestible nutrients that are used as an energy source by certain beneficial bacteria that naturally live in your intestines. Prebiotics are sometimes known as fermentable fiber. Prebiotics give the probiotic bacteria a chance to exert their influence. Eating a diet that includes prebiotics and probiotics may help restore these friendly bacteria.
Kibow® Biotics contains prebiotics, which is a Psyllium Husk (naturally occurring plant material).
Side Effects of Probiotics
Some live microorganisms have a long history of use as probiotics without causing illness in people. Probiotics' side effects, if they occur, tend to be mild and digestive (such as gas or bloating). More serious effects have been seen in some people. Probiotics might theoretically cause infections that need to be treated with antibiotics, especially in people with underlying health conditions.
The only side effects experienced by patients in our safety trials of Kibow® Biotics was minor bloating that disappeared in about a week while they continued taking the supplement
Probiotics and Kidney Health
Kibow® Biotics metabolizes nitrogenous waste that has diffused from the bloodstream into the bowel. Nitrogenous wastes are utilized by Kibow® Biotics as nutrients. As probiotics grow and multiply, they consume more nitrogenous waste and therefore effectively help maintain healthy kidney function.
When these waste products accumulate in high concentrations in the blood, they become highly toxic and can cause severe damage to many organ systems if they are not properly excreted.
Due to the overloaded and impaired kidneys, a buildup of poisonous wastes occurs in the bloodstream. Certain probiotic microorganisms can utilize urea, uric acid and creatinine and other toxins as its nutrients for growth. They then multiply, thereby creating a greater diffusion of these uremic toxins from the circulating blood across the lining of the intestinal walls into the bowel. This increased microbial growth is excreted along with the feces (which is normally 50% microbes by weight).
Enteric toxin reduction technology is the process of using probiotic organisms to transform the colon into a blood cleansing agent which, with the aid of microbes, indirectly removes toxic wastes and helps eliminate them as fecal matter. Consequently, it is possible to maintain a healthy kidney function with the oral use of Kibow® Biotics.
The patented, proprietary probiotics in Kibow® Biotics have been clinically tested and shown to be safe, effective and free of serious side effects when taken for as long as six months.
Probiotics and Immune Health
In 1994, the World Health Organization deemed probiotics to be the next-most important immune defense system when commonly prescribed antibiotics are rendered useless by antibiotic resistance. The gastrointestinal tract, the body's primary immune organ with 70-80% of the body's immune cells are located in the gastrointestinal tract. The immune system ensures an appropriate response to non-harmful components such as food and harmful components such as certain viruses.
Probiotics need to be consumed at least a few times a week, preferably daily, on a regular basis to maintain their effect on the intestinal micro-ecology. For instance, levels of bifidobacteria in the colon have been reported to decline with age 55 and lactobacilli concentrations may be negatively influenced by stress. Preliminary research has shown that supplementing the diet with several probiotic species can restore levels of important immune system markers comparable to levels in younger controls, and that probiotics may counteract stress-induced changes in intestinal barrier function.
The intestinal tract must be in good order and with a healthy balance of beneficial bacteria to maintain a healthy immune response. Research shows that the relationship between gut flora and a healthy immune system is not just an arbitrary co-existence, but is in fact a mutually beneficial, synergistic relationship.
Probiotic colonies work with the body's internal immune system to organize strategies that prevent toxins and pathogenic microorganisms from harming the body. Probiotics communicate and cooperate with the immune system to organize cooperative strategies. Decades of medical research has indicated that probiotics stimulate messages that promote specific immune responses.
Probiotics can quickly identify harmful bacteria and work to eliminate them. This process may not directly involve the rest of the immune system. Even still, the immune system will be notified of any probiotic offensives. The immune system will support the process by breaking up and escorting dead pathogens out of the body.
In summary, smart probiotic microorganisms work collectively and synergistically with the other components of our immune system. Our probiotic formulation, Kibow® Flora, work within the immune system to help protect the body from invasions boost the overall well-being of a person.