Category: Nutrition
5 of the best probiotic foods
Our society has become an antibiotic culture so intent on destroying bacteria — we often expect a prescription to cure even a minor infection — that in addition to eliminating harmful bacterial strains, we’ve eradicated much of the beneficial bacteria in our bodies.
Our gastrointestinal tract contains hundreds of different species of beneficial bacteria (intestinal flora). To provide a healthy environment, our body requires proper amounts of these friendly bacteria.
Probiotics are the key to helping our body maintain proper levels of friendly bacteria because they colonize the intestinal tract and crowd out disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and yeasts. Probiotics are living, direct-fed microbials that promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the intestines.
They occur naturally in several foods; here are 5 of the most popular.
