Healthy Gut plays an important role in our health and well-being. Besides ensuring digestion of food, absorption of nutrients, and help with waste excretion, the gut is also one of the core disease-fighting systems of the human body.
Our body is inhabited by millions of tiny living organisms like bacteria. The key to a healthy body is maintaining a balance among the different species of these bacteria. Each individual has his or her own unique set of bacteria. We acquire these bacteria during birth and the first year of life and they live with us throughout our lives. Some changes in the type of bacteria may occur during growth, depending on the type of food we eat, the environment in which we live or the medicines that we take such as antibiotics.
In this presentation we will learn how to maintain this balance by using Prebiotics & Probiotics.
Probiotics are live, good bacteria that can be eaten using fermented foods or supplements
Prebiotics are a type of plant fibre that human body cannot digest, but serve as food for good bacteria.
