Probiotics and prebiotics

No man is an island. You are inseparable from your microbiome from the day you are born. We are home to trillions of microbial communities, including bacteria, fungi and viruses, living on our skin, genitals, mouth and digestive tract. In fact, human cells are not the most abundant cells in the human body, and the number of symbiotic microorganisms far exceeds the number of human cells, among which intestinal microorganisms account for about 80% of the total microbial weight in the human body.

Probiotics come from the Greek "pro bios". It means for life -- that is, life-long meaning. Probiotics are defined by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as living microorganisms that, when ingested in sufficient quantities, have beneficial health effects on the host.

Probiotics are not one type of bacteria, but a group of bacteria, such as bifidobacterium, lactic acid bacteria, streptococcus coalis, etc. The idea of adding probiotics is that directly eating live bacteria is similar to airdropping some good bacteria to suppress bad bacteria. 

Prebiotics are known as the food for probiotics, and the idea of supplementing them is to suppress bad bacteria by providing good bacteria with foods they like to support them. As dietary supplements, prebiotics selectively stimulate the growth and reproduction of beneficial bacteria in the gut, enhancing their activity.

Prebiotics are not a substance, but a class of substances. Traditional prebiotics include oligosaccharides (or oligosaccharides), including oligosaccharides, isomaltose oligosaccharides, xylo-oligosaccharides, stachyose prebiotics etc.

However, the new prebiotic  such as stachyose prebiotics from Bon Natural Life has a single structural composition, and the amount of the same effect is much lower than that of oligosaccharides. Stachyose prebiotics has low gas production, reaches the colon, and does not participate in the carbohydrate metabolism of human body. Therefore, Stachyose prebiotics has become a safe prebiotic for people with obesity, diabetes and hyperlipidemia.