Prebiotics, Probiotics, & Postbiotics and their Importance to health.

Your digestive gut (intestinal tract) is the largest immune system organ, containing up to 80% of your body’s immune cells. Therefore, the healthier your digestive system the healthier you generally are and vice versa. Factors like diet, exercise, genes, trauma, illness, lifestyle, medications, infections, and mental health all can influence the state of your gut microbiome. Prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics all play an important role in maintaining a microbiome, considered essential to the human body.

Everyone is born with a miniature microbiome (eco system) inside the intestines. This ecosystem is populated by trillions of microscopic organisms which include over a thousand species of bacteria, as well as viruses, fungi, and parasites. Most are good, some are bad.

According to the Mayo Clinic, “Probiotics are foods or supplements that contain live microorganisms intended to maintain or improve the good bacteria (microflora) in the body. Prebiotics are foods (typically high-fiber foods) that act as food for human microflora.” Postbiotics are healthy by-products after the probiotic strains digest the prebiotics.

 
Joining us today is Naturopathic Practitioner, Jane Jansen of the Tree of Life Wellness Center in Massachusetts. Jane has the unique perspective as a medical professional who, prior to becoming a naturopathic practitioner, spent years in Radiology and Ultrasound doing research and performing tests on patients with varying types of health problems.

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