Probiotic Supplements

Lifting the Lid on Probiotic Supplements: the Good - the Bad & the Misleading.

'Public health issues arising from microbiological and labelling quality of foods and supplements containing probiotic microorganisms.' Department of Medical Microbiology
(one of many warnings on the quality of probiotic supplements from all over the world.)

Probiotic Supplements are not the only products health conscious consumers need to be aware of: according to the Food & Drug Administration - a substantial number of Dietary Supplements may not contain the amounts of ingredients that would be expected to be found based on their product labels (reference Dietary Supplements Risks).

Cutting through all the misleading natural and organic sales hype of companies that make probiotics is pretty easy really - for an Independent third-party guarantee of quality, and purity of ingredients - just look for these logos on genuine Certified Organic products...

       

The Certified Organic Probiotic Supplement is called In-Liven

The Company also have products with Organic Certification from the USDA (The United States Department of Agriculture), JAS & BFA (Japanese Agricultural Standards of Organic Agricultural Products), and IFOAM (International Foundation for Organic Agriculture), etc.

In-Liven is the result of over 20 years research and development. The bacteria are produced from fruits and vegetables - and not fast-tracked from faecal matter as many other probiotic formulations currently are:  ref A  ( note: health conscious consumers - may also be interested in obtaining certified organic skin and body care products being developed by the company. Customer, Distributor, Practitioner & Retail Store Inquires Welcome  ).

ref A. 'Continuous culture selection of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli from human faecal samples using fructooligosaccharide as selective substrate.' Sghir A, Chow JM, Mackie RI. Department of Animal Sciences, University of IL at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Checking Out the Benefits of Probiotic Supplements - select "Single Citation Matcher" from the  PubMed   Services menu and enter the title of the medical research paper you are interested in - and you can read brief abstracts and conclusions on the topics without all the added sales hype. Other authoritative studies we have sighted here can also be checked out in the same way.

'Evaluation in human volunteers of the potential anticarcinogenic activities of novel nutritional concepts: prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics (the SYNCAN project QLK1-1999-00346).'

'Protective role of probiotics and prebiotics in colon cancer.' Wollowski I, Rechkemmer G, Pool-
Zobel BL. Institute for Nutritional Physiology, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition, Germany.

'Enhancement of immunity in the elderly by dietary supplementation with the probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN019.' Gill HS, Rutherfurd KJ, Cross ML, Gopal PK. Milk & Health Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand.

'Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.' Kalliomaki M, Salminen S, Arvilommi H, Kero P, Koskinen P, Isolauri E. Department of Paediatrics, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland.

'Effect of probiotic Lactobacillus strains in children with atopic dermatitis.' Rosenfeldt V, Benfeldt
E, Nielsen SD, Michaelsen KF, Jeppesen DL, Valerius NH, Paerregaard A. Research Department of Human Nutrition and the LMC Center for Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

'The role of probiotic cultures in the control of gastrointestinal health.' Rolfe RD. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA.

'The use of probiotics in gastrointestinal disease.' Madsen KL. University of Alberta, Canada.

'Use of some pre-, pro- and synbiotics in critically ill patients.' Bengmark S. Department of Hepatology, London Medical School, University College, Liver Institute, London, UK.

'Probiotics and prebiotics in the elderly.' Hamilton-Miller JM. Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK.

'Benefits of oral supplementation with and without synbiotics in young children with acute bacterial infections.' Schrezenmeir J, Heller K, McCue M, Llamas C, Lam W, Burow H, Kindling-Rohracker M, Fischer W, Sengespeik HC, Comer GM, Alarcon P. Federal Dairy Research Center, Germany.

'Food allergy therapy.' Nowak-Wegrzyn A, Sampson HA. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA.

'Probiotics, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.' Floch MH. Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, USA.

'Probiotics and inflammatory bowel disease.' Kwon J, Farrell R. Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.

'In vitro studies on colonization resistance of the human gut microbiota to Candida albicans and the effects of tetracycline and Lactobacillus plantarum LPK.' Payne S, Gibson G, Wynne A, Hudspith B, Brostoff J, Tuohy K. Food Microbial Sciences Unit, School of Food Biosciences, UK.

'Urogenital infections in women: can probiotics help?' Reid G, Bruce AW. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario and Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics, Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada.

'An in vitro study of the probiotic potential of a bile-salt-hydrolyzing Lactobacillus fermentum strain, and determination of its cholesterol-lowering properties.' Pereira DI, McCartney AL, Gibson GR. Food Microbial Sciences Unit, School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, UK.

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