Obesity and probiotics

Why are probiotics essential to weight loss and general health?

1. Create vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, K, folate and Biotin
2. Make short-chain fatty acids that feed the gut lining and lower intestinal pH
3. Help digest food
4. Produce lactase to digest milk
5. Detoxification of harmful products
6. Helps to balance hormones
7. Will eliminate harmful bacteria and fungi and also produce bacteriocins and anti-fungals to fight them
8. Have a positive effect on cholesterol and triglycerides; boost immune cells; reduce inflammation and enhance cell repair
9. Help for diarrhoea: bacterial, antibiotic associated and rotavirus
10. Support the immune system and essential in development of child immune system
11. Enhance intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, potassium and zinc
12. Reduce irritable bowel syndrome
13. Reduce inflammation in Chron`s and ulcerative colitis
14. Helps with food allergies
15. Probiotics has an anti-cancer effect in the colon
16. Probiotics reduce insulin resistance

Major bacteria and archaea phyla and genera found in the human gut microbiota

Bacteria

• Firmicutes:   Ruminococcus , Clostridium, Peptostreptococcus, Lactobacillus & Enterococcus
• Bacteroidetes:   Bacteroides
• Proteobacteria:   Desulfovibrio, Escherichia, Helicobacter,
• Verrucomicrobia
• Actinobacteria:   Bifidobacterium
• Cyanobacteria:   Synergistes

Archaea

• Euryarchaeota:   Methanobrevibacter

If you are concerned about the bacterial health in your digestive tract, you should consider a stool test.