- Balance digestive flora
The main benefit of probiotics is in keeping the population of good bacterias in balance so that the bad bacterias and yeasts don’t take over.
Your levels of good flora can be decreased because of antibiotics, stress, antibacterial soaps or hand washes, chlorinated drinking water, foods treated with pesticides and herbicides, colonoscopies or colonics (colon hydrotherapy), or having surgery, radiation or chemotherapy.
Those are times when it’s important to take a probiotic supplement to repopulate your digestive tract with the good bacteria that keep you healthy.
- Help relieve infectious diarrhea
If you find yourself with a sudden onset of diarrhea (any time it’s brought on by a virus, bacteria or parasite), get yourself some probiotics. They’ve been shown to reduce the severity and duration of infectious diarrhea. For anyone who has experienced it, every minute you could reduce this experience by is worth its weight in gold.
- Prevent antibiotic-related diarrhea
After a course of antibiotics, a common reaction is diarrhea. Studies show that taking probiotics directly after can reduce the chances. This makes sense as the probiotics will help repopulate your digestive tract with the good bacteria that promote healthy digestion before the bad bacteria have a chance to flourish.
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- Alleviate symptoms of ulcerative colitis
Since the benefits of probiotics are primarily in digestive health, there’s been research on how they can impact various types of inflammatory bowel disease. So far, they’ve seen a positive effect on symptoms of ulcerative colitis.
- Ease bloating and gas in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
There’s also been some research into the benefits of probiotics on irritable bowel syndrome. Again, some of the symptoms (bloating and gas in particular) seem to ease when taking probiotics. This seems promising and hopefully there will be more studies to find out which have the most effects to provide relief.
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- Prevent urinary tract infections
A study on urinary tract infections found that women taking a supplement of Lactobacillus crispatus daily for 5 days, then weekly for 10 weeks, had a lower rate of getting a recurrent UTI in that time.
- Produce vitamins
The bacteria in your gut have a role in creating certain vitamins like vitamin K and some of the B vitamins.
- Reduce inflammation
Inflammation is the root cause of lots of different diseases, allergic reactions and immune response as well as linked to obesity and metabolic syndrome.
As probiotics are studied for their health benefits, researchers are also looking for the way in which they help us. One of those seems to be in reducing inflammation, by reducing the cause or reaction that triggers inflammation in several ways.
Moringa is a prebiotic - food for the good bacteria
- Help with lactose tolerance
Lactose intolerance is very common because so many of us stop producing the enzyme lactase that we would need to break down the lactose in milk and dairy products. The probiotics in fermented dairy products like yogurt break down lactose before it reaches our colon – and the bacteria used to make yogurt help us digest lactose better.[8]
Probiotics might also reduce the allergic reaction to dairy in adults, but studies haven’t shown for sure yet.
- Enhance the immune function
Getting the right community of microbes in our gut is an important part of early development for infants. It also affects the proper development of their immune system.
For adults, probiotics can boost the function of your immune system by promoting the production of natural antibodies and stimulating activity of certain immune cells like dendritic cells and T-cells.
- Help regulate the blood pressure
Probiotics are being studied for their effect on heart health and might have some impact in lowering blood pressure. So far, they’ve only found a slight effect though.
- Lower the blood cholesterol
Probiotics seem to have some beneficial effects on blood cholesterol as well, specifically lowering total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol.
- Promote skin health (get rid of acne, rosacea and eczema)
There’s been some research showing the benefits of probiotics for acne, rosacea and eczema. Study also shows that probiotic supplements (of Lactobacillus GG) by mothers prenatally, and then by infants for 6 months after birth, can reduce the child’s chances of developing eczema.
- Reduce anxiety and depression
The benefits of probiotics may extend to anxiety and depression by reducing those symptoms of stress. Any mental health issues should of course be treated primarily by a qualified professional, but probiotics may add a risk-free addition to a whole life approach to stress management.
- Prevent allergy development
Probiotics could be helpful in preventing the development of allergies in children, especially if the mother takes probiotics during pregnancy.
Reference: https://www.lifehack.org/766873/benefits-of-probiotics
