Probiotics and Health: A Brief Introduction

Probiotics and Health: A Brief Introduction With the entire buzz around probiotics, you’ve probably found yourself wondering more about them. If that’s the case, then you come to the right place. Here we are going to explore the relationship between Probiotics and health.

Getting to know them: what is a probiotic?

Probiotics are living organisms, more specifically microorganisms. This means that you need a microscope to be able to see them; they're so tiny.

Probiotics live on and in the human body. To some people this sounds scary, but they’re actually good for us. They play many different roles within the human body. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to function properly.

Most of you will think that Probiotics are only bacterial, but actually they can also be fungal, such is the case with certain types of yeast.

There are thousands of different types of probiotic. We haven’t got anywhere near identifying them and working out what they do, yet. Yes, we do understand what some of them are and what they do, but there are many that remain unknown.

Some of the ones that we already know about, we have cultivated and we now use as supplements.

Products such as Threelac have taken the initiative to use Probiotics as a health supplement. For many people, they are extremely beneficial as the supplement. This is because modern life can often deplete our own body fauna (the collective name given to all of our Probiotics) and we need to replenish it.

How many Probiotics live on and in the human body?

So you already know that there are thousands of different types of Probiotics, but how many of each type do we have? Well, we can’t know exactly, because they’re so small, but we can give you a rough estimate.

There are approximately 100 to 400 trillion Probiotics living on the average human body. That’s a lot, and the astonishment doesn’t end there. No, when you compare it to the number of human cells in the body, there are 10 times more Probiotics in the human body. We only have 10 trillion cells ourselves!

Where are all these Probiotics?

It seems strange that you can’t see them, but then you can’t see individual human cells either.

Probiotics are everywhere but they are found mostly around the mouth, in the mouth, nose, under the armpits, in the lower digestive tract, in genitourinary system, within the joints, underneath the toenails, under the fingernails, and between our toes.

Why do we take probiotic supplements?

Probiotics help us with our health. They might fight off our bacteria, help us to break our food down, and keep our joints supple. However, sometimes we might lose Probiotics. This can happen for a variety of reasons, for instance taking antibiotics can kill off Probiotics. We take probiotic supplements, like Threelac, when our own Probiotics are diminished. These supplements help to boost our immune systems. In short, we take them for health reasons.