With the awareness of kidney health and cancer prevention, probiotic products have become one of the fastest growing products in the domestic and foreign health food markets. However, Lin Wang, the probiotic products on the market, are full of them....
With the awareness of kidney health and cancer prevention, probiotic products have become one of the fastest growing products in the domestic and foreign health food markets. However, Lin Wang, the probiotic products on the market, are full of them. Have you really eaten the right or selected the right one? Professor Tsai Ing-jeong from Yangming University, known as the father of Asian probiotics, started promoting the charity of kidney health since 2005, and found that people have many myths about probiotics, so they don’t know how to choose or even eat wrong probiotics, but they don’t get health benefits.
Myth 1: Is the more probiotics you eat, the better?
(X)【What to eat】is very important; Professor Tsai Ing-jee said that some products on the market that claim to be more than 100 billion bacteria per serving are mainly Enterococcus (coldococcus) with small size and easy to cultivate in large quantities. Such as Bifidella or Lactobacillus plantarum, which has real health benefits, account for less than 10% of them; therefore, it is better to eat more bacteria than to eat more than 90% of them. In terms of kidney digestive health care, 1-20 billion a day is enough; bacteria that regulate immune function can also be 20 billion a day, and you can see the effect after taking it for three months; while special functions such as mental and psychological, tribute adjustment, etc., you need to eat more than 60 billion a day.
Myth 2: Can all probiotics resist allergies, prevent constipation, and help sleep?
(X) The efficacy of probiotics should be based on the "strain" rather than blind choice; Professor Tsai Ing-jeong pointed out that there are thousands of lactic acid bacteria, and only a very small number of special strains that are beneficial to health can be called "probiotics". Different probiotic strains each have their own special effects, such as improving psychoactiveness, suffocating sleep, anti-inflammatory, allergic reduction, etc.; in fact, it is just like vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C each have their own completely different physiological effects, and probiotics are the same. They cannot be confused just because they see that they are all "probiotics". In the strain library of the Probiotic Research Center of Yangming University, Lactobacillus plantarum (Lactobacillus plantarum), it has different outstanding characteristics such as reducing stress hormones, reducing inflammation indicators, and inhibiting sterilization bacteria. It cannot be said that all Lactobacillus plantarum has these three functions.
Myth 3: Will you not get constipated after taking probiotics?
(X) Eating probiotics will cause constipation! Professor Tsai Ing-jeong explained that when he often encountered people in lectures, why did he get more constipation after starting to take probiotics? In the daily habits of these people, there are often problems such as "not enough water to drink" and "not enough food to eat from fruits and vegetables". Because it is not enough to relieve constipation problems with probiotics alone, and the commercially available probiotic products will mostly be added with water-soluble fiber "probiotics", so you should drink a lot of water to achieve better effects; if you think that eating probiotics can not supplement fruits and vegetables, drink water, which will make the constipation worse.
Myth 4: Can probiotics cure many modern people's diseases?
(X) Probiotics are just auxiliary products and cannot replace the regular treatment, and critically ill patients should be used with caution; Professor Tsai Ing-jeong emphasized that although probiotics are relatively safe health products, probiotics are only auxiliary products and will never "replace" drugs. For example, consumers will be tempted when they hear probiotics that can enhance happiness. Once a psychiatric patient stops the medicine without permission from the doctor, it is very dangerous. In addition, most probiotics are live bacteria. Severe patients or people with abnormally low immunity should reduce their dosage or stop taking them first, and ask doctors to ensure safety.
Myth 5: Can modern probiotic technology be preserved at a constant temperature when it is mature?
(X) Probiotics are afraid of heat! Professor Tsai Ing-jeong explained that the normal temperature/room temperature referred to as the common conditions in the laboratory generally refers to 25 degrees. Probiotics are born to be afraid of high temperatures. When the temperature exceeds 30 degrees, their activity will drop rapidly. For example, 25 degrees can be stable for half a year, 30 degrees may only be stable for one month, and 37 degrees may not be able to be damaged for a few days. In addition, probiotics can be refrigerated, but do not take them in and out. Although probiotics are not afraid of being refrigerated, they are afraid of repeated dissolution. In the cells, ice crystals form and dissolve, which damages the cell structure the most. Therefore, although it is said that refrigerated, do not go in and out.
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