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Recently I blogged about Attune giving away free wellness bars on their website. Those wellness bars are advertised as “probiotic”, but what does that mean exactly?

Let’s have a look at what information they are providing:

The World Health Organization (WHO) officially defines probiotics as live microorganisms, which when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host.

The probiotics story begins with intestinal bacteria, which are a community of good and bad bacteria that live in the digestive system. We all have naturally occurring bacterial communities in our digestive systems. They help:

• Protect the body from harmful bacteria.
• Exercise the immune system to ensure it is ready to react to harmful bacteria.
• Strengthen the intestinal wall so it acts as a defensive barrier.
• Digest fiber in the diet, so we can absorb the nutrients from the foods we eat.

These digestive bacteria are essential to overall wellbeing. Probiotics act as a helper to these friendly bacteria, and that help can keep the digestive system functioning well.

The official definition is simply

“Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host.”

While it is still not completely researched how much those probiotic bacterial cultures can really help the human body, it is a generally agreed upon fact that probiotic microorganisms can and do help the body in many different ways.

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