Resistant Starch – The Surprising Prebiotic

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Prebiotics vs Probiotics What Is the Best Approach? Maintaining a healthy intestinal microflora is one of the key components of a good preventive care program. In fact, even treating some conditions can be achieved by restoring the beneficial gut bacteria. Most probiotic treatments don’t even target restoring the gut bacteria; they just use the microorganisms … Read more

VSL #3 vs Align – Best probiotic Supplements for IBS

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VSL #3 and Align are probiotic supplements designed to treat IBS, and other gastrointestinal problems. Although they are both very efficient, and they both have great reviews from buyers, they are different. They both have enough research to prove its efficiency, and they both come with some side effects. If you are looking for a … Read more

Hyperbiotics PRO-15 – A Great Probiotic Supplement

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I am very reluctant to products overly marketed in any way. Names with prefixes like hyper, super, the best, or the perfect will throw me off. So that was my state of mind when I first learned about HyperBiotics Pro-15, The Perfect Probiotic. Like it wasn’t enough that the named it Hyperbiotics, they also had … Read more

List of Probiotic Supplements

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How To Choose the Probiotic Supplements Probiotic supplements are one of the safest, and more convenient way to boost your intestinal microflora count. There is a wide range of probiotics, and choosing the right one might prove a little overwhelming. Which one to buy, which one is the most effective, which one is the easiest … Read more

Kiwi Fruit Powder – A Powerful Prebiotic, Actazin and Actinidin

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Kiwi fruit is packed with vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin C, (more than orange), vitamin K, Vitamin E, vitamin B, potassium and manganese. This makes it a very nutritious and healthy fruit, but its healing properties do not come solely from the vitamin and mineral content. Kiwi is a great antioxidant due to the … Read more

Pasteurized Foods List – Most Common Pasteurized Foods and Drinks

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Pasteurized foods are safer for people with low immunity, because pasteurization kills most of the harmful pathogens in foods at risk. Unfortunately, while this looked like a great finding a few decades ago, newer findings suggest that consuming unpasteurized foods and drinks might be healthier on the long term. In fact, the discoverers of the … Read more

Culturelle vs Florastor vs Align vs Fivelac – What Is The Best Probiotic Supplement

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When we compare probiotic supplements we need to define our comparison for a specific targeted condition, otherwise the comparison is useless. Moreover, taking the wrong probiotic can be in rare cases harmful. No reason to be scared though, the problems will disappear once the wrong probiotic is stopped, but who wants a few days of … Read more

How to Treat Candida at Home – Best Probiotic for Candida

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Candida overgrowth can be cured with probiotics at home. Probiotics can be bought over the counter, but you need to know certain things before you start on a probiotic treatment. For some severe cases additional measures have to be taken to kill the excess of yeast, but in most cases a temporary increase in the … Read more

What are Fermented Foods and The Role of Probiotics

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Fermented foods are foods that are transformed through controlled fermentation, by microorganisms. Food fermentation has various objectives such preservation, taste and aroma enhancements, or even obtaining absolutely new foods, or drinks, without any resemblance of the original ingredients. What is Food Fermentation? Fermentation is basically a process in which an organism converts a carbohydrate such … Read more