If you are like me you have seen all the ads on media about probiotics. They used to tell us to eat yogurt and that would help because of the active cultures of bacteria. Many of the probiotics use the same strands of bacteria that you find in yogurt. Now they want you to take tablets that have the same bacteria multiplied 10 to 100 times. While there may be some evidence that this can help your digestive system, there are over 4000 bacteria living inside you digestive tract. Which ones are the ones you should increase, and how do you know?
I don’t think we know what all the benefits and functions of all the different probiotics found in your digestive tract. However, we do know how to feed the beneficial bacteria to allow them to flourish and prosper. The solution is to add a supplement that contains a prebiotic.
Prebiotics are soluble fiber which should not be confused with insoluble fiber which nothing can digest. When the media talks about the benefits of dietary fiber, they are discussing insoluble fiber which provides the benefit of cleaning out digestive tract. Of course when you consume insoluble fiber often get soluble fiber with it, but the best way to add a supplement that contains a prebiotic so that you can control the amount and quality of the fiber.
The supplement that I use gets its prebiotics from the skin of the kiwi fruit. This is the hairy skin that most people don’t eat and therefore do not gain the benefits. However, if you consumed two kiwi fruit that were at their perfect freshness and ripeness and you ate them skin and all, you could get the same thing as found in the supplements I take. The problem is finding the kiwi fruit in this ripe perfect condition is not something that can be done all year round and eating the skin is also not desirable by many.
The kiwi soluble fiber gives you all the benefits by helping the good bacteria in your system grow and flourish. That is when you start seeing the health benefits. The company I purchase my supplements from recommends that you take the product for thirty days to determine how it will affect your digestive system before trying to do anything like weight loss programs or other life changes.
When I started taking these supplements I started noticing the symptoms of IBS that I was diagnosed with started going away and completely disappeared after a month. After talking them for several months I got out of the habit and eventually things became unbalanced again. I say this because recently some of the systems like diarrhea and painful bloating have returned. I plan to get back to taking my kiwi soluble fiber supplements immediately so that I can correct this problem.
This is not medical advice and I can’t say what kind of improvement any given person may receive or not receive. However, since the human body cannot digest the soluble fiber at worst it just passes through you so you have very little to lose and everything to gain by trying them.
So you can see that prebiotics are the real solution to keeping a healthy digestive fauna growing inside you and the list of health benefits seems to keep growing as scientist and doctors discover more benefits provided by the beneficial bacteria living in your digestive tract. In fact some of those companies that sell the probiotics are now adding prebiotics to increase the improvements and keep the bacteria you are adding to your system alive. What have you got to lose other than digestive problems and disorders? To find out more about the supplements I take please visit by website found below and be sure to buy some and try them out.