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| Nutrition Part III: Probiotics |
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Dear All, This is my amateur bad attempt to
try to make my videos a little more fun.
It's a conversation starter -- not medical
advice.
If you'd like more information, please
check out my blog, where under the article
"probiotics" I posted more detailed
information:
www.bostonmedicalstudent.wordpress.com
here are some references:
The main point is that: 1) clostridium
difficile is a serious, bad, bacterial
problem in the U.S. that hits patients who
have taken antibiotics and patients who are
in the hospital. Just today, (4/30/07) our
professor told us that four patients died of
clostridium difficile at his hospital last
year.
The bad news is that conventional antibiotics
can fail to cure clostridium difficile. And
when they fail it could lead to death.
The good news it that they could be
potentially treated with probiotics (although
a funkier version of probiotics) when
conventional antibiotics fail.
It might seem ridiculous to try Dr. Aas'
probiotics -- but I want to bring his work to
your attention because conventional
antibiotics do fail with regards to c.
difficile. With Dr. Aas, he's reported
success with this form of treatment when
patients can't fight off C. difficile with
metronidazole or vancomycin (these are the
common antibiotic treatments).
Point #2: Von Niel argues that probiotics
should be considered a mainstream therapy
given the many positive results seen in
randomized controlled trials (see the Von
Niel reference). Unfortunately, it has been
slow to catch on in the U.S., possibly
because it usually takes 17 years for new
scientific discoveries to get widely
disseminated (Balas & Boren, 2000).
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For safety information on which strains are
safe and who can take probiotics:
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/
6/1256
The authors noted: "We found that probiotics
are safe for use in otherwise healthy
persons, but should be used with caution in
some persons because of the risk of sepsis."
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Probiotics (from Von Neil, 2005)
We definitely know it works for:
Acute infectious diarrhea
Prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Conditions that are potentially treatable by
probiotics:
Chronic diarrhea, Inflammatory bowel disease,
Irritable bowel syndrome, Food allergy
Conditions that are potentially preventable:
Traveler's diarrhea, Necrotizing
enterocolitis,
Urogenital infections, Atopic disease, Dental
caries
Future applications proposed for:
Cystic fibrosis, Rheumatoid arthritis,
Cancers
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What is clostridium difficile? (from JG
Bartlett, 2006) It's a nasty bacteria.
Who gets it? If you've taken antibiotics,
are of advanced age, or in the hospital or
recently came from the hospital.
What's the significance of this problem? A
new epidemic strain of C. difficile has
emerged that causes more frequent and more
serious disease.
What are some symptoms? "Clinical disease
and C. difficile toxin are present almost
exclusively in patients with recent
antibiotic exposure, with rare exceptions."
So if you've taken antibiotics, that
increases your risk.
Clinical expression of infection almost
always includes diarrhea, but symptoms vary
widely.
Common findings in patients with infection:
1) colitis (inflammation of the colon) with
cramps, 2) fever, 3) abdominal pain 4) fecal
leukocytes (white blood cells in the stool),
5) and inflammation on colonic biopsy (if you
do a biopsy of the colon).
The disease is almost always restricted to
the colon.
A recent report implicates gastric
acid--suppressive agents as a risk for
disease, but this has not been consistently
observed.
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How come probiotics seems really weird?
"Frequently, years or even decades are
required for laboratory discoveries to reach
clinical practice. It takes an estimated
average of 17 years for only 14% of new
scientific discoveries to enter day-to-day
clinical practice" (Balas & Boren).
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References
Aas et al., 2003. Recurrent Clostridium
difficile Colitis...Clinical Infectious
Diseases 2003; 36: 580-5
Balas EA, Boren SA. Yearbook of Medical
Informatics: Managing Clinical Knowledge for
Health Care Improvement. Stuttgart, Germany:
Schattauer Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; 2000
Bartlett, JG. Narrative review: the new
epidemic of Clostridium difficile-associated
enteric disease. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Nov
21;145(10):758-64. Review.
Savino et al., (Randomized controlled trial
talking about probiotics and cholic)
Pediatrics 2007;119;e124-e130
Van Niel Pediatrics 2005; 115; 174-177
Weisman et al., (randomized controlled trial
looking at probiotics and infections in day
care centers) Pediatrics 2005;115;5-9
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| Probiotics - Optimal Colon Health |
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Part 3: Probiotics Supplements Understanding
their importance - Optimal Colon Health
http://www.ph-ion.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI
EWCATS&Category=265
Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that
FLOURISH in a digestive tract that provides a
nice clean pH balanced environment. The word
probiotic actually means for life and when
your colon is loaded with them, IT will
experience the good life. But when theyre not
present in ample numbers, colon problems can
occur as a result.
Theres basically a microbe war that can occur
in your colonbetween good bacteria and bad
bacteria. Probiotics are the good guys. They
help to digest and absorb nutrients
especially minerals, they manufacture certain
vitamins like b6 and b12, help reduce
inflammation, and most importantly - they
prevent the growth and proliferation of the
bad guys.
The bad guys are anaerobic, proteolytic
bacteria. They ferment and putrefy your food
and the byproducts of fermentation are
carcinogenic, toxic chemicals. These toxins
cause self-poisoning or auto-intoxicationand
are cited as a primary cause for the
skyrocketing occurrence of colon cancerwhich
now ranks as the 3rd most common form of
cancer.
The game plan is to support & provide for the
good army in the war of microbesyour
probiotic bacteria. Supplementing with
probiotics CAN be a great thing, but theres a
right way to do that. If done incorrectly,
some research suggests that these GOOD
bacteria can actually morph into bad bacteria
if the ENVIRONMENT is bad. So its important
to give them a nice clean environment to live
in. We strongly recommend conducting a good
colon cleanse before taking any probiotic
supplement for the first time.
When choosing a probiotic supplement, there
are a few important considerations to note.
1. Get one with a wide strain of bacteria.
You want lactobacillus AND bifidobacterium
strains and the wider variety the better.
Some reside in your small intestine and
others in your colon.
2. Make sure that you are getting LIVE
bacteria. This can be hard. There have been a
lot of studies and audits performed on
different brands of probiotics and many of
the bottles tested contained dead bacteria,
or less live microbes than the label stated.
Probiotics are fragile heat and light can
destroy them over time.
3. You want to take them on an empty stomach
with either water or even better with
greens and / or prebiotic fiber. These drinks
dont induce the production of much stomach
acidwhich can harm MOST probiotic
supplements.
4. Take a LOT of them in the beginning! You
cant take too many. I recommend 10 15
tablets per daystart right after cleansing,
and continue for a few days. Once they begin
to colonize, theyll take over from there.
When theyre provided a nice, clean, pH
balanced environment.
pHion Orange contains 7 different
lactobacillus and bifido strains in a
patented tableting process called GABâ„¢ that
coats and protects these fragile bacteria on
the shelf AND even through stomach acid!
Remember when probiotics are present in large
numbers, it will be REALLY difficult for the
bad guys to get a foothold on your colon. So
make sure to supplement with probiotics -
like pHion Orange! Check out the complete
Colon Health Pack -
http://www.ph-ion.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI
EWCATS&Category=282
Also, visit our new site in beta!
http://www.phionbalance.com/categories/Probio
tics
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| Probiotics (University of Reading) |
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Food Chain and Health: Probiotics - part of
our Research Showcase series.
Bacteria are essential, and we could not live
our lives without them either in or on us.
They cover us and very importantly live
inside our gut, helping our digestive system
to degrade the food that we eat.
Probiotics and prebiotics can be used to
reduce the action of harmful bacteria and to
boost the numbers of useful bacteria inside
us. Research at the University of Reading is
looking at which foods are beneficial to the
useful bacteria inside us and which foods
have a negative effect. Studies are also
defining the health outcomes associated with
gut bacteria.
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